Ernst van der Loo.com
Sound Designer, Engineer, Composer & PerformerBiography
Born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (1974).
Has been involved in the more extreme forms of popular music culture since his early teen years. Played in several bands and started to develop an interest in audio engineering. Went to study sound engineering at the SAE, Amsterdam from 1992-1994, the time that tape machines were still ruling the scene and hard disk based recording was still a commodity for the exorbitantly rich.
Around this time he became interested in electronic forms of music and slowly started to drift away further and further from the norms of popular music.
In 1999 he embarked on a study of electronic music composition and performance at the institute of Sonology of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Teachers: Richard Barrett, Kees Tazelaar, Konrad Boehmer, Paul Berg, Peter Pabon and Joel Ryan. Graduating with a bachelor’s degree in June 2003. During his studies he started a longlasting collaboration with Léon Spek, performing on the edge live electronic music. Resulting in the formation of Ungrund and the CD-r label Processed Recordings in 2006.
In the summer of 2008 he has been working at NOTAM, Oslo, Norway together with Aslaug Holgersen on a new live electronics piece for double bass and laptop.
Next to this he is building up a, more or less, traditional voltage controlled studio. Mostly by use of the Doepfer a100 system. In 2009 this system will be expanded and some new ‘tape’ compositions are planned for the near future.