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Goya van der Heijden + OWRSI present “fluiten”
For Nader and I, “fluiten” was the first serious opportunity to develop and present work based on our practice of free improvisation, which we now present as OWRSI. It also was our introduction to working with Intro in Situ, who invited me the following year as artist-in-residence. I was glad to work with Goya again…
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Self-Contemporary by Evi Vingerling
No 4 from the Impressions series commissioned by the Van Abbemuseum. View the original painting here. Between two worlds. What music exists at the boundary of abstraction and imagery? Evi Vingerling has chosen a challenging stylistic approach. Her art works are neither total abstractions, nor realistic landscapes with fully recognizable objects and shapes. Her style…
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‘Composition XIV’ by Piet Mondriaan
No 3 from the Impressions series commissioned by the Van Abbemuseum. View the original painting here. How can music articulate the essence of abstract painting? Compositie XIV by Piet Mondriaan captures his style in a phase of transition. In search of his artistic identity, Mondriaan makes a clear reference to cubism with its volumetric geometry…
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‘Interrogation (what kind of bird are you?)’ by Max Ernst
No 2 from the Impressions series commissioned by the Van Abbemuseum. View the original painting here. How might music convey the hidden narratives of art? Two bird/human figures are sketched with black lines on an expressive, reddish background. Innocent, somewhat naive, comic, cartoon-like images are cheerfully smiling and cuddling. It might look sweet. But knowing…
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Grapevine Records: Intro
GRAPEVINE, alias Goya van der Heijden, found me through common contacts with an interest in working together and nothing more specific. It was a nice reversal of the usual, which is me hunting through networks for people to make things with me. We became good friends before we managed to make anything together, but eventually…
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Impressions project 2021-2026
Asja Zakhareva first described the idea that was to become Impressions to me in 2020 – writing music for artworks, serving both as an interpretive tool and as a part of an auditory experience for those with visual impairment. We took the idea in 2021 to the Van Abbemuseum, which has been working for years…