This performance is for a pregnant woman. During the performance, the woman inflates plastic bags with her breath. By inflating the bags, the sound of heart beats becomes audible. The woman’s heart beats as well as the heart beats of…
Song No. 3
Song No. 3 is a performance during which I use arm gestures normally used by singers as a byproduct of their singing performance as a means to control electronic sound. I am not making any noises with my voice. Instead,…
Klangverordnung
Many sounds have been forbidden during the last centuries, like singing and shouting in the streets, motor noises, carpet beatings, car hooping and even the barking of the dogs. I bring these forbidden noises, that have been silenced by law, back in the city. Evidently by not having…
Music Stands
What normally stays silent during a musical performance—a music stand—is creating the sound in this performance. Two music stands are unfolded at the start of the performance. Both are amplified using a contact microphone glued onto the stand and a…
Groene Ruis
This performance takes two simple every day objects–a plant and a hair dryer–to investigate in our relationship with our “natural” environment. Looking for transitions between human, plants and machines, the story of the nymph Daphne, who transforms herself into a…
In blik
In in blikinstead of musicians, five tin can towers are performing. The tin cans are humming softly, singing aloud or just breathing . At certain times though, they also try to break out of their tin cans: they start to…