Double bass and electronics duo Holgersen & van der Loo have done a gig at the Wonderwerp series at Studio Loos in The Hague on the 25th of April. There is a recording of this gig and we will put it on our soundcloud as soon as it is mixed!
Thanks to everyone involved and attending, it was a blast!
It has been a while (again!). Totally forgot to mention that my duo with Aslaug Holgersen is fully up and running again. We have a 21 minute long track up on soundcloud (listen below!) and are performing it on a regular basis. In oktober we had a concert at the 2nd edition of Kate Moore’s Handmade Homegrown concert series at Theater Dakota in The Hague. There is a little interview up on their site also.
Coming up next is a concert at Muziekkamer Assen concert series on the 9th of December. I will also be handling the electronics for the other pieces on that concert. The as yet Untitled piece at Assen will be a shorter version of what you hear below. It is rather funny though that the piece has been credited to me alone, there is as much of Aslaug’s input to the piece. Untitled(oct2012) by Holgersen & Van der Loo
On the 8th and the 9th of november 2012 the first edition of the Prix Annelie de Man will be held. Organised by the Annelie de Man Foundation this concours is a means to promote modern repetoire for the harpsichord. I will be doing the sound on both days and also the audio technical coordination will be in my hands. This year the prix will be supported by the November Music Festival which is held in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. More info can be found HERE.
Last week I participated in two nights of Fruitpower performances at De Parade theaterfestival in Rotterdam. Event was organized by the excellent Todaysart people! More info about the fruitpower project can be found here
I will be doing a small Dutch Tour with my friends from The Electronic Hammer this month.
The Hammers and I go back for quite a while and it is nice and exciting to work with them in this setting.
The dates:
Nov. 7 De Pont Museum @ 14:30- Tilburg
Nov. 11 November Music @ 19:00 – Den Bosch
Nov. 12 Kikker Theatre @ 21:00 – Utrecht
Nov. 20 Zeebelt Theatre @ 20:00 – The Hague
Plus on Nov. 21st they will perform an improv set in Venlo’s museum Van Bommel Van Dam @ 15:00. (Which I won’t be a part of unfortunately)
Check for more info on the Hammers HERE
For the second time Todays Art Festival in the Hague has programmed the Structret performance. A project from the Art Science department of the KABK art academy in the city. I was invited to join in again because I was involved in the first performances in 2006.
Last time I took my analogue Doepfer suitcase synth. I however came up with another setup.
This time it’s digital synthesis vs. feedback loops.
The set up consists of a Clavia Micromodular synth played with a midifader box. Processed by a TC Electronic Nova Delay pedal. The feedback loop back into the Clavia synth goes via an Electro Harmonix Bass Big Muff. The Clavia patch consists of four individually controllable fm synthesis networks involving some ring modulation too. Pretty complex stuff (there are 12 sine oscillators & 4 ring modulators involved in total!). So I added some global paramaters to make nice ‘sound mass’ changes possible.
This soundfile is the first test with the final setup. I did a tiny bit of trimming at the end and I compressed it a bit.
Not my best playing I guess, but what the hell….. enjoy.
Structret SetUp Test1(cut) by Ernst van der Loo
Performances on the 24th and 25th of September check time and location here
It has been a while since I posted here. In the meantime the year has become 2010.
I decided to get a Soundcloud account for my music.
This means that all audio on this site now is hosted there. With the easy to embed players it is a breeze to use.
Check out my profile on soundcloud and you can see the player on the music page of this site.
For the rest I am busy with loads of stuff, on which more laterrrr.
BTW also check Ungrund’s new remix album on bandcamp!
Here is the piece I did for the Worm Workshop.
Or here:
Study #1 for field recordings by Ernst van der Loo
About the piece:
“Study made for the field recording workshop at Worm in Rotterdam in December 2009.
The piece is constructed with 2 field recordings that I made in 2007 in Bærum, Norway. I used a cinematic approach (as in referring to camera techniques used in the cinema) focusing in and distorting the sound world of that specific spot in several different ways.
Part I is an (almost) untouched recording from the spot. Part II is an untouched recording of an extreme focus on one of the elements of that specific spot. The nice part is that the extreme focus on one part actually reveals a lot of other stuff happening at that spot.. Part III is an artificial reconstruction of the sound world of that specific place. Part IV is a reconstruction of the spot how it might be as remembered after years, or basically a second view on recreating it artificially. At the end there is a small Coda refering back to part II.”
To my own surprise I am participating in a workshop field recording at Worm in Rotterdam. (thanks Derek!)
The aim is to finish the workshop with a short piece that will be presented next friday (dec. 18th) @ Worm. My composition is well on its way and on tuesday I will have some time at Worm’s excellent studio to tweak some more on the piece.
Time and place of the friday night presentation can be found here..
Doepfer A100 Patch: changing behaviours from Ernst on Vimeo.
Working on some new patches again. Decided to make a short video on one of the more intricate ones..
Hope my filming doesn’t make anyone seasick.
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