January 29: Additional #isthemessage program

On January 29, the last day of the #isthemessage exhibition I curated, there will be an additional (and final) program in Kunstenlab with a presentation of Planeet Faceboek and a special edition of The Diamond Exchange. It all starts at 14:00 hrs.

Walter Breukers and Jaap Godrie form the artist duo Breukers & Godrie. Their work, like the project Planeet Faceboek, is an aesthetic reflection on contemporary developments. Planeet Faceboek is a digital studio where Breukers & Godrie perform artistic studies on the planet named Facebook. These studies translate into poetry, video, images, etc.

They study Facebook because with half a billion users, it is very decisive place for developments in image, language, sound, communication and (social) behavior. And as artists have a long history relating to the most important phenomena of their time, so to Breukers & Godrie relate to Facebook. Also see www.facebook.com/planeet.

Record label esc.rec. presents The Diamond Exchange. Two passionate music lovers take turns in playing their personal favorites for each other. You’re allowed to be present as an audience and enjoy. At best, you will witness an exciting, musical conversation between two connoisseurs. That conversation may – depending on the participants – be designed to listen, to dance, or both. Anything is possible, anything goes.

In this special edition for #isthemessage, The Diamond Exchange not only connects two music lovers this time, but also two locations. One of the participants is at Kunstenlab, the other is at Podium Willie in Havenkwartier Deventer. The exchange of music and communication is via a live stream over the internet.

Participants in this fifth edition of The Diamond Exchange are Julien Mier and Maria Cristina Fazecas (MiaMia). They are both music composer and producer of (electronic) music and they have both released works through esc.rec. These are no strangers to each other. Actually, after booking them, it appeared that they are currently neighbors…

Posted in Events on January 24th, 2012 | No Comments »


Two Diamond Exchanges coming up this weekend

Two editions of The Diamond Exchange coming up this weekend!

The first is on January 28 (23:00-3:00) in Burgerweeshuis, with Albert Reinink (Deventer Schouwburg) and Arris Roordink (Alles Los). The second is a special edition for #isthemessage on January 29 (15:00-18:00) in Kunstenlabánd Podium Willie, with Julien Mier and Maria Cristina Fazecas (MiaMia).

All locations are in Deventer. See you there?

Posted in Events, WILLIE on January 24th, 2012 | No Comments »


Studio Playlists 2011

It’s that time of the year again. Or in fact, it’s already past that time of the year… I’m kinda late this time. Everybody who’s into music is making and/or reading lists at the end of each year. I usually try to keep as far away of listmaking as possible (what’s the use), but for Studio Playlists by Ron van der Ende I gladly made an exception again.

My 2011 list is here (in random order). It’s twice as long as I usually make them, but I had a hard time choosing. No harm done I guess. Oh, and this beautiful release in wooden box topped the cake packaging-wise:

Please do check the other Studio Playlists too. Find out what music got played by some rather interesting artists out there. I just did so myself and made quite a few new discoveries.

 

Posted in Other news on January 16th, 2012 | No Comments »


Promo video #isthemessage by Egbert.EGD

Egbert.EGD is one of the artists participating in #isthemessage, the exhibition about social media I curated for Kunstenlab Deventer. He has proven to be creative in using this exhibition to his advantage, utilizing several interactive installations (like the Dead Drop, the printer and the Repudo Kunstuitleen) in the exhibition as promotional tools. And now he’s created a surprise promotional video and posted it on YouTube. Looks great! Thank you Egbert.

You can still visit this exhibition. It ends January 29.

Posted in Media on January 3rd, 2012 | 1 Comment »


Cette Truc at Neon Space Beach NYE

This is the dj-set I played last night at Neon Space Beach, the NYE party at WILLIE in Havenkwartier Deventer.

Posted in Cette Truc, Media, WILLIE on January 1st, 2012 | No Comments »