last week was the premiere of Killing you softly, a multimedia dance theatre piece by Tikka Tibrewala, featuring projected video, interviews and a soundtrack i composed. Tikka is energetic and boistrous. In her work, she uses this in-your-face personality strategically: dissarming you with tongue-in-cheek, but then she clearly puts social tensions on the table like
It finally happened, we made our debut performance. May this be a fire that starts many more. In the last months, I invited 5 talented performers of musical and visual instruments to play together in an ensemble for extended storytelling. In order to acquire some funding for AV gear, I wanted to enter into a
Last year i won the Young Artist Award. I used the prize to rent on a sound studio which I have been slowly forming my new band in. Having this space and time has been invaluable.
Here is the ticket page:https://www.concertgebouw.nl/concerten/3509904-magie-van-de-maan-kunst-en-muziek-verenigd-in-unieke-kunstcompetitie (Contact me for a discount code if you need one) Its been a year since I dragged my teacher’s gong up 5 stories to my bedroom and produced a sketchy demo of a concept album. 2 months since pulling The Olloman Ensemble together, we’ve had our first mix produced by
Photography by Hermien Buyse Perdu Poetry Foundation is a theatre, bookshop and gem of Amsterdam that gives a stage to poetry, readings and occasionally weird things like this live jam session between me and various poets from the public. This time the show opened with a colab with Billy Morgan (@billymoregone). The idea was to
1/10/23 The Olloman Project got into the semi-finals! We’ve into the semi-finals of the Goodmesh competition! Theatre maker Naomi Collier Broms will help transform the venue with light scenography and projections. If we pass into the final round of this competition, we will be in the absurd situation where our first gig will be Het
LYRICS This is your world and this is your time There’s a whole economy in your smile Dopamine levels label every isle Welcome boys and girls to you digital life And every moment you could change your skin Simplified surgury, reach right in The ziplock starts beneath the chin Remember to pull yourself back up
the sound featured is a super ruff cut of what’s coming i am fascinated by the folklore that troubadours and bards sang about and am working on a series of story-songs which are becoming something of a futuristic epic ballad. its tells about characters over the ages and devices they used to keep track of
Thank you skèr for organising *grote glazen en kleine lettertjes* we need more nights like this in amsterdam, so warm and open to experimentation. there is a voku dinner (volks keuken) and a cozy community vibe with people of all ages. one of the organisers is rots (ig: @upperkutje), a poet who used to go
6 months ago, after graduating, i was invited by experimental noise artist, xhrs galarreta, to join the melismas residency for a week. i travelled to the south coast of turkey to dedicate some attention to the topic of time while exploring ancient ottoman and roman ruins. 04:30 in the morning i’d walk down to the
The earth here is fertile once more. Grass and weeds grow in a field that grows secretly in the presence of the roaring sound of trains overhead. This field is closed to the public. This was where the A9 highway once passed underneath the 2 national rail and 2 metro tracks, each of the 4
in 2022, along with aimee theriot, margaux koch and constanza castagnet, i co-founded the aux) platform. through concert and workshop programmes we tried to foster discussion between sound artists, musicians, poets and anyone vaguely interested in the possibilities of the medium of sound and making it. the more i come into more contact with experimental