A new full evening concert with the Genetic Choir:
1st of June 2012
20:00 doors and bar open
20:30 concert starts
PuntWG, M.v.B. Bastiaansestraat 15
1054 RS Amsterdam. www.puntwg.nl
Entrance: free
Be on time, it might be tightly packed.
For those who cannot make it: There are two sneak previews planned on 28th and 31st of May, at 17:00… Same place. Watch the Genetic Choir blog for more info: www.genetic-choir.org
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The new film museum EYE in Amsterdam is ready and blinking in it’s sleak design.
But I can’t help finding even more charm in the unfinished design that I spotted earlier. They should have finished it off without losing the nice, unplanned raggedness in the roof! 
See earlier post here.
Tonight, Queen Beatrix is opening the building!
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The radio documentary about Radio Kootwijk Live’s “Doppelgänger” session and concert is now on this blog, ready to listen:
Part 1 (45 min)
Part 2 (30 min)
“Radio Kootwijk ligt midden in de Veluwse bossen. Een kolos in art deco-stijl, te boek staand als Gebouw A. Maar het lijkt meer op een kathedraal: groots, grijs, verweerd, intrigerend én angstaanjagend.
Een overblijfsel uit de Nederlandse radiogeschiedenis, waar de groep professionele musici en kunstenaars ‘Radio Kootwijk Live’ onderdak heeft gevonden. De groep is op zoek naar een nieuwe presentatievormen van het vertrouwde concert. In de documentaire ‘Kootwijk Live – op zoek naar een nieuwe concertbeleving’ doet radiomaakster Aletta Becker op de haar kenmerkende wijze verslag van het multidisciplinaire project ‘Doppelgänger’ in Radio Kootwijk en Leeuwenburgh/Vredenburg.”
copyright NTR 2011
Broadcast on 10 and 17 December 2011 on Radio 4, The Netherlands
More on Radio Kootwijk Live – click here or look on the website: www.radiokootwijklive.nl
Researching and listening to the Whitney Music Box by Jim Bumgardner to find out what it can do for us in terms of audience created music… (for the Radio Kootwijk Live concert “Remote Control” on 29th of March 2012) – very very interesting…
Jim Bumgardner gives a very nice talk in the video below on randomness, information theory and the whitney box. I also see many links to the Genetic Choir there! I had a great morning browsing the net…
Jim also talks about caleidoscopes, which links to this earlier post. I will write soon more, about the connections I see with voice and improvisation…
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Tagged audience interaction, chaos, complexity, improvisation, kaleidoscope, music, self-referential
Tomorrow evening a small concert by the “Language Choir” – a special project/subdivision of the Genetic Choir
The Genetic Choir is a vocal ensemble that works with complexity, randomness and the self-organizing principles of interrelated nodes in a living network. It’s a hands-on approach of creating meaning and beauty from seeming randomness by “letting the system do it’s thing”. In this way we mirror ourselves on natural processes like the evolution of genes or the the way gas molecules create order from chaos after a certain “tipping point”.
This is the first time we intensively allow words and language into the instant composition work. A complex endeavour!
Come and see it:
Friday, 10 February 2012 – 18:15 – Place: Studio Wladiwostok, Bogortuin 16, Amsterdam, Java-Eiland. click here for a map to find the studio
There has been a charmingly positive review of the performance “Stapel!” in the journal of the Dutch Association for Puppetplayers (NVP / Unima)…!
“Stapel!” is a piece for 2-4 year olds that I directed for Lindai Boogerman. It will tour this and next year through the Netherlands/Belgium. For current tour data see www.vanaf2.nl > speeldata > Lindai Boogerman.
If the text is too small to read below, you can use this link to download the pdf: Recensie Stapel! NVP dec 2011
Tomorrow and next Saturday on the Dutch radio:
A two hour radio documentary in two parts about the Session ‘Doppelgänger’ from this autumn.
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