Nina Hitz and Lukas Simonis - music and poetry
Hitz & Simonis have a long history of collaborations (not only musical), in this project they concentrate on poetic texts in the dutch language, surrounded by an improvised sound landscape. They use guitar, arp odessey, cello and voice to obtain this aim.
Nina Hitz, Nina Hitz grew up in Switzerland and lives in the Netherlands today. She studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague baroque cello. In addition to baroque music, she is also active in experimental music, improvisation and music theater. She plays in Wonderland of Makiko Ito and makes pieces with poet Chantal van Heeswijk.
Further activities in music / theater / dance area; Kilimanjaro DoomJazz Ensemble, Liana Flu Winks, Zoikle (with GW Sok), Freies Musiktheater Zurich with Wilhelm Tell; The Orkater productions La Voix Humaine and How Mozart Casanova beat, the theater productions God's Opinion and The Pelican of Olivier Provily, Paramount, Heartland of the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam. Nina has its own group “Sounds", a quintet of historical instruments and plays regular improv concerts with different people in Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
Lukas Simonis (1961) is one of the founders of WORM, Rotterdam (see;worm.org). He organises and produces radio, concerts, cd's, performing projects and writing, sometimes as KLANGENDUM, a new foundation that promotes soundart and radio-art, sometimes still under the WORM-umbrella, sometimes in cooperation with others (oa. The Radia Network, Poetry International, Soundtrackcity, Vrooom, etc.) He started out as a 'unconventional' rock musician, playing in bands like Trespassers W and Dull Schicksal. The last few years he turned more and more to electronic, improvised music and sound art, allthough he still has a weak spot for his version of rock, and he is playing with people like Candlesnuffer, Ergo Phizmiz, Pierre Bastien, GW Sok, Henk Bakker, Jim Whelton, Radboud Mens and the Bohman Brothers. Other groups and projects include Coolhaven (electro performance trash), Perfect Vacuum, Vril (songs), Static Tics (electronics) and Kruk (improv perfo).
Since the year 2000 Simonis got more involved in Soundart and Radio making, in different constellations, cooperating with Artists, Journalists and radiomakers.
Other activities; curating anything that can be curated (music mostly), filmmusic, writing (ao. plays & radioplays), singing in the rain.
Yiannis Tsirikoglou - solo live electronics
Yiannis Tsirikoglou (Gr) (electronics, objects) is an electronic music composer, performer, sound artist and developer currently living and working in The Hague, where he also completed his master degree at the Institute of Sonology. He is participating in several projects including Eventless Plot (Thessaloniki), Duel Protocol (The Hague), Parallels (Amsterdam) and collaborating with different musicians. Yiannis has released works on labels like Granny records, Aural Terrains, Another timbre,More Mars and performed live at numerous venues and festivals in the Netherlands, Greece, Lithuania, Germany and Italy. He has also composed music for dance performances , animation and film.
Reiner van Houdt - Riemann Angels
Reiner will perform with materials from Riemann Angel, an impending release on Bladud Flies. This work taps into a lifelong obsession with recording everyday objects, situations and moments. Recording and listening to things 'outside' is like delving into the imagination already contained in matter. Perception becomes a vice that constantly hallucinates realities.
Creating music from these recordings felt like divining things found crawling under rocks, whirling in shaded corners, traversing the atmosphere, propelling through the ether. The ears focused as if in a gaze - but an errant gaze, sleepwalking through the different layers of matter; a gaze disinterested in possibilities, complexity, openness or totality; an errant gaze, melancholic as well as pervasive, inviting contingency by ignoring it.
Reiner van Houdt is a musician/composer from Rotterdam (NL). He works from a fascination for matters that escape notation: sound, timing, space, physicality, memory, noise, environment - points beyond interpretation and improvisation. Besides making his own music he premiered music by Robert Ashley, Alvin Curran, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Francisco López, Yannis Kyriakides, Maria de Alvear, Jerry Hunt, Michael Pisaro, Walter Marchetti. He has also worked with John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Luc Ferrari, Charlemagne Palestine and Christian Marclay. Reinier van Houdt plays in MAZE and Current 93.