Projects
Compositions, performances, sound projection, collaborations, research and writing. Explore by discipline.
FICC 2026 — UVERSA and COSMIC PULSES in San Juan, Argentina
South American premieres of Stockhausen’s UVERSA and COSMIC PULSES at the Teatro del Bicentenario, with Roberta Gottardi and Juan Andrés Verdaguer.
Setup for Stockhausen's SYNTHI-FOU 2022
Details on our performance and new setup of SYNTHI-FOU at the Stockhausen Courses Kürten 2022
Festival Internacional Cuyo Contemporáneo - FICC
About my participation in the FICC and my ongoing engagement with the contemporary music scene in Argentina.
Goethe Institut Berlin / Tokyo - unrest 62|22
On May 27th and 28th, 2022, I had the joy of projecting Stockhausen's TELEMUSIK and giving a lecture about it, as part of the celebratory events for Goethe Institut Tokyo's 60th anniversary. I had the pleasure of working with a wonderful group of artists, producers and organisers, including: Gebrüder Teichmann, Naoko Kikuchi, Mieko Suzuki, Makoto Oshiro, Angelina Mitterle and Dirk Lamprecht.
Blickwinkel - Kirche Unterburg
On February 13th 2022, Blickwinkel performed at the Kirche Unterburg in Solingen, Germany. In this occasion the players were surrounded by the audience, which in turn was surrounded by a quadraphonic system. The tower's bells were processed real-time and amplified in the sound system. For the first time after the floods in Solingen in July 2021, music was again resounding within the walls of the church.Christopher Collings: trumpet, flugelhorn, didgeridoo, visual projections, electronicsJuan V
GESANG DER JÜNGLINGE at Kölner Dom
On October 29th, 2021, I projected Stockhausen's electronic masterwork GESANG DER JÜNGLINGE at Cologne's Cathedral.
Blickwinkel - URBAUM
On October 7th 2021 we premiered URBAUM in the Lichtturm in Solingen, Germany. During the following three days we performed in the evenings
Die Nacht der offenen Kirchen - Kirche Ketzberg Solingen
On Friday, October 1st. 2021, Christopher Collings (processed trumpet, flugelhorn and didgeridoo) and myself (in processing, electronics and sound projection) played a concert in the Kirche Ketzberg, in Solingen, Germany as part of Die Nacht der offenen Kirchen event. This concert was our debut as duo and also marked our first try out for our new performing setup. We worked on this setup for over a year, without counting previous years of jam sessions and performances of Stockhausen's music duri
Virtual Soundscapes
My project Virtual Soundscapes received a starting grant from Creative Culture Funds NL (aka Stimuleringfonds). I'm very happy to be able to work building up this very ambitious project! In this project I'm going to be researching, investigating and recreating nature sounds with purely digital means. First Research / Experimental Phase Completed As a final result of the first stage of the project I'm sharing in the link below a controlled transition between day, storm and night virtual soundscap
Virtual Bells
Experimenting on the traditional sound of carillon bells and modern digital synthesis.
aus LICHT Master Students
Our roles in 'aus LICHT' as master students of the Royal Conservatoire The Hague (Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag).
On Sound Projection
I first learned about the term 'sound projection' during the Stockhausen courses (Kürten, Germany) back in 2008. Kathinka Pasveer, Bryan Wolf and Igor Kavulek assisted Karlheinz Stockhausen at the console or behind the stage for many years in his role of sound projectionist. Stockhausen invented this role in order to precisely describe his own work at and around the mixing desk in a live performance situation. In the absence of a concise definition of sound projection as an art, I think it's fai
aus LICHT in arte.tv
A compilation of the 3-day marathon performances of Stockhausen's work LICHT can now be streamed online through arte.tv.
Working on INVASION – EXPLOSION mit ABSCHIED
The first project I had to work on for the 'aus LICHT' production was Stockhausen's INVASION – EXPLOSION mit ABSCHIED.
aus LICHT - Holland Festival 2019
In 2019 a marathon performance will be staged of a large portion of the LICHT cycle, composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Featuring selected highlights from the seven operas – one for each day of the week – it will offer a spectacular overview of Stockhausen's masterpiece. aus LICHT is a joint production of Dutch National Opera, the Holland Festival, Royal Conservatoire The Hague and Stockhausen Foundation. For tickets and more info, please visit:
Working on Stockhausen's EVAs LIED
Trees and Sky
Whenever I'm not dealing with music and sound, I like to go walking in nature and take photographs of trees. Here's just a small selection of such pictures.
A new version of Stockhausen's SYNTHI-FOU
Probably since I heard Antonio Perez Abellán play SYNTHI-FOU in Kürten (Germany) in 2009, I knew I wanted to work in this piece. Pianist Ivan Pavlov watching video material from the premiére of SYNTHI-FOU in my home studio in Rijnsburg.The score calls for 131 different sound timbres on multiple synthesisers that are used in succession through the piece, often more than one timbre is being played simultaneously. In this project, it was my duty to design the instrument (as a combination of hardwar
Early Electronic Music at KC
A series of concerts organised by the Institute of Sonology "Historically Informed Performance Practice of Electronic Music".
SEE – Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble
On March 31st, 2015, I played piano and shortwave radio with the Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble. This time we did a free improvisation:The performance took place in the Kees van Baarenzaal at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague.
SEE – Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble
While I was doing my master at the Institute of Sonology, I had the chance to play the piano in the Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble together with student colleagues from those years together with Richard Barrett.I recently found a recording of our presentation in a Sonology Concert in February 2015. We gave a rendition of one of Stockhausen intuitive music pieces from FÜR KOMMENDE ZEITEN: ÜBEREINSTIMMUNG (UNANIMITY) for ensemble.More to follow...
Studying Carillon
Between 2009 and 2014 I did my bachelor in music in the city of Amersfoort, in the Dutch School of Carillon (Nederlandse Beiaardschool - Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht). I studied with Frans Haagen, Henk Verhoef and Gijsbert Kok. During those years I was fortunate to play in various towers in The Netherlands (Amersfoort, Leiden, Amsterdam, Delft, Doesburg), Belgium and Poland.My final exam took place in Amersfoort, in the Onze Lieve Vrouwetoren and comprised the following pieces: • Improvis
VERSE – Generative Music Boxes
Endless melodies for infinite music boxes.