November 3, 2011 at 14:29 · news
Composer and theatre maker Dick Raaijmakers is to receive the Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2011 for his entire oeuvre. The award ceremony will take place in the Bergkerk Church in Deventer on 10 November 2011, and will be celebrated with a Raaijmakers exhibition which will run until 4 December 2011.
The Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award is now in its tenth year, and the independent jury has chosen to mark this occasion by awarding the prize to Dick Raaijmakers. ‘We would like to take this opportunity to honour a very remarkable artist who is no longer a promising young man, but whose work continues to be promising,’ the jury stated in their report. ‘The great thing about Dick Raaijmakers is that he always retained his pioneering spirit and did not seem to know any bounds. Music, visual arts, theatre, poetry – he incorporated them all into one all-encompassing art form. He was a master of all arts, yet he never lost his own uniquely individual touch. Raaijmakers’ work possesses a certain sprezzatura. He is the rare artist who influences even laymen.’
Dick Raaijmakers (born 1930) is a Dutch composer, theatre maker and theoretician. He was one of the founders of Dutch electronic music in the 1950s and was a multimedia artist years ahead of his time. His works, installations and music and theatre performances were so original that they enjoy a worldwide reputation. His original ideas and novel approaches to art have inspired many, not in the least later generations of artists.
In the seventies Raaijmakers developed three ‘Ideofonen’, installations in which the speakers themselves create sound. Right now ‘Ideofoon 1′ is being reconstructed and is part of the exhibition Raaijmakers in the Bergkerk Church in Deventer!
On December 4, the last day of the Raaijmakers exhibition in the Bergkerk Church, esc.rec. organizes a special edition of ass-crack stage-hack at WILLIE in Havenkwartier Deventer to complement this exhibition.
More info about the impressive line-up of this complementary program very soon!
November 2, 2011 at 16:55 · news
Twee, the new album by Gluid. For those of you who haven’t listened to it yet, I can’t make it much easier for you… Check it now on the VPRO 3voor12 Luisterpaal!
November 2, 2011 at 15:03 · news
Nieuwe Electronische Waar (N.E.W.) organizes a conference day filled to the brim with masterclasses. On December 10, in Burgerweeshuis Deventer. The place to be if you’re into electronic music and want to learn more about hardware, software, mastering and mixing. All you need to get the best out of your tracks, both on record and in a live set.
Masterclass 1: Nobody Beats the Drum – Hardware vs Software
Masterclass 2: Kubus – Synthesizers, Sounddesign & Synthese
Masterclass 3: Delic – Software & Mix techniques
Masterclass 4: Rinus Hooning (Recordindustry) – Mastering
Masterclass 5: Arne Broekhoven – Online promotion
Masterclass 6: Pitto – Ableton
Masterclass 7: Steve Mensink – Hardwired
And there’s so much more… esc.rec. will be there too of course! Please look up the complete program overhere. Tickets are available through Burgerweeshuis for 10 euro.
And (as you may have noticed by now), the N.E.W. platform has had a massive re-design! There’s still some work to be done, but the new website is live and there’s more to come. Check it out!
October 24, 2011 at 7:13 · news
In this 17th edition of ass-crack stage-hack you can listen to the old fashioned radio play ‘De Planeet van de Oeroude Kinderen’ in an archaic setting, performed live by Coolhaven. Read more overhere. Or here.
October 23, 2011 at 15:36 · news
October 29, 23:00-3:00 hrs. in Het Burgerweeshuis, Deventer: The third edition of The Diamond Exchange, with Theo Ploeg and Roy Hessels.
Theo Ploeg is journalist/reviewer for a.o. OOR and Gonzo Circus. But that’s not all… read an impressive list of his (past) activities overhere. Roy Hessels is chief editor of Eclectro.nl and a musician himself. Could be a very interesting match again. Also because they’ve never actually met… exciting!
You have to pay 7 euro to get in, but then you also get to enjoy Deventer Dub Sessions with Trus’me en Ferdi Blankena & Sense Unique.
UPDATE: Theo Ploeg can’t make it. He’s ill. Luckily I could find a worthy replacement on this short notice: Michael Rhebergen (Mical Rhebess).
