MACUMBISTA

Holzer's live performances as Macumbista combine live, self-built analog electronics with field recordings and found objects at the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music.

SOUNDTRANSIT.NL

SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. On this site, you can plan a sonic journey through various locations recorded around the world, or you can search the database for specific sounds by different artists from certain places. If you are a phonographer, you can also contribute your recordings for others to enjoy. The Creative Commons Attribution license encourages the sharing and reuse of all sounds on this website.

SOUNDTRANSIT.NL/FIELD RECORDING

SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. On this site, you can plan a sonic journey through various locations recorded around the world, or you can search the database for specific sounds by different artists from certain places.

This workshop combines an introduction to recording technologies, in-the-field recording sessions with critical listening skills and basic post-production techniques to produce mono, stereo or multichannel field recordings, suitable for uploading to the Soundtransit.nl website.

NEANDERTHAL ELECTRONICS WORKSHOP

More than 40,000 years ago, our Neanderthal predecessors invented the first music instruments from simple objects around them (bones and stones, sticks and skins...), without reference to any existing music history, and primarily for their own pleasure rather than that of others. Nowadays, we use complex audio hardware and software which make it "easier" to make music, so long as we channel our creativity into such socially acceptable avenues as Western Classical or Minimal Techno. As with any established genre, the results are often completely predictable, and therefore quite boring. But some of us, deep in our wild hearts, still long for the Stone Age simplicity of pure noise!

This 5 day workshop is designed for 8-10 people, possibly with a background in sound, but with no previous electronics experience. They are shown how to use simple objects from our modern environment (resistors, capacitors, transistors, LEDs, integrated circuit chips...) to design and build their own personal, customized primitive noise synthesizers. Each is a tiny world of its own, using primitive analog computers in combination with feedback, sensors and audio inputs to create a unique sound. Even from the same plan, no two are alike!

Participants are encouraged to use found materials for the construction of their personal instrument. The workshop concludes with a group performance and an invitation to the audience to experiment with each of the instruments which have been created.

PURE DATA

Pure Data (or Pd) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. Because all of these types of media are handled as data in the program, many fascinating opportunities for cross-synthesis between them exist. Sound can be used to manipulate video, which could then be streamed over the internet to another computer which might analyze that video and use it to control a motor-driven installation. Pd is commonly used for live music performance, VeeJaying, sound effects composition, interfacing with sensors, cameras and robots or even interacting with websites.

This workshop ties in with the Pure Data FLOSS Manual, and can cover many different areas including basic Digital Signal Processing, Basic Video Processing, AudioVisual Cross-Synthesis, Sample Manipulation, Multichannel Spatialization, Physical Computing, Sensors and other areas of computer music and human/computer interaction.

Performances

Oct - TONEWHEELS, Whatnight #3, Tilburg, NL
Oct - TONEWHEELS, DA Festival, Sofia, BG
Oct - TONEWHEELS, Tiny Noise/Kunstwerk, Cologne, DE
Sep - [w/ Tore Honore Boe] Salon Bruit, Berlin, DE
Sep - TONEWHEELS, Oscillations Festival/Black Box, Belfast, UK
Jul - TONEWHEELS, Sommercampworkstation/Ausland, Berlin, DE
Jun - Macumbista, WORM, Rotterdam, NL
May - [w/ John Hegre] Landmark, Bergen, NO
May - TONEWHEELS, OHP Festival, Malmo, SE
May - Macumbista, Raum 18, Berlin, DE
Apr - Macumbista, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, UK
Apr - Macumbista, LoopHole, Berlin, DE
Apr - TONEWHEELS, International Noise Conference/Gallery Wallywoods, Berlin, DE
Mar - TONEWHEELS, Future of Light/Future of Sound, London, UK
Mar - TONEWHEELS, E:vent Gallery, London, UK
Mar - TONEWHEELS, Thursday Club, Goldsmiths, London, UK
Mar - TONEWHEELS, Noise=Noise, Goldsmiths, London, UK
Jan - TONEWHEELS, Kuda.org, Novi Sad, SRB
Jan - TONEWHEELS, xxxxx_temporary_structures, Club Transmediale, Berlin, DE

Workshops

Oct - TONEWHEELS, DA Festival, Sofia, BG
Oct - TONEWHEELS, Tiny Noise Camp/Bollwerk107, Moers, DE
Sep - TONEWHEELS, Digital Arts Center, Belfast, UK
Aug - Neanderthal Electronics, AVAVMAA/MOKS, Mooste, EE
Aug - Instrument Building, Sommercampworkstation/Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Jul - Neanderthal Electronics, XXXXX/Pickled Feet, Berlin, DE
Jun - Neanderthal Electronics, WORM, Rotterdam, NL
May - Neanderthal Electronics, Lydgalleriet/Piksel, Bergen, NO
May - Neanderthal Electronics, NK, Berlin, DE
Apr - Neanderthal Electronics, Queen Street Studios, Belfast, UK
Mar - Pure Data, NK, Berlin, DE
Feb - Neanderthal Electronics, Tartu Art Week, Tartu, EE
Feb - Neanderthal Electronics, Royal Art Academy, Copenhagen, DK
Jan - xxxxx_temporary_structures, Club Transmediale, Berlin, DE
Jan - Pure Data, Belgrade, SRB
Jan - TONEWHEELS, Pickled Feet, Berlin, DE

2008

Performances

Nov - 12m Power Chord, Styx Project Space, Berlin, DE
Nov - [w/ Staalplaat Sound System] TONEWHEELS, Lab.30, Augsburg, DE
Oct - TONEWHEELS, Almost Cinema Festival, Gent, BE
Sep - TONEWHEELS, Club Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin, DE
Sep - TONEWHEELS, Full Pull Festival, Malmo, SE
Aug - 10m Power Chord, White Rabbit, Berlin, DE
Aug - Field Recordings, De Paviljeons, Almere, NL
Aug - TONEWHEELS, Access Space, Sheffield, UK
Jun - TONEWHEELS, "Waves" Exhibition, Phoenix Halle, Dortmund, DE
Apr - TONEWHEELS, Werkleitz/Hochschule für Kunst und Design, Halle, DE
Feb - [w/ Sara Kolster] TONEWHEELS, STEIM, Amsterdam, NL
Feb - [w/ Sara Kolster] TONEWHEELS, DNK, Amsterdam, NL
Jan - [as Abominations] Club Transmediale, Berlin, DE
Jan - [w/ Sara Kolster] TONEWHEELS, NETMAGE Festival, Bologna, IT

Residencies

Aug - TONEWHEELS, Access Space, Sheffield, UK
Feb - TONEWHEELS, STEIM, Amsterdam, NL

Workshops

Aug - Field Recording, De Paviljeons, Almere, NL
Jun - TONEWHEELS, "Waves" Exhibition, Phoenix Halle, Dortmund, DE
Apr - Pure Data Book Sprint, FLOSS Manauls, Korcula, HR
Apr - Pure Data, Werkleitz/Hochschule für Kunst und Design, Halle, DE
Feb - Pure Data, Royal Art Academy, Copenhagen, DK
Jan - [w/ Andrei Smirnov] Pure Data Theremins, Club Transmediale, Berlin, DE

Exhibitions

Sep - Soundtransit.nl, Galerija Galzenica, Velika Gorica, HR
Aug - Soundtransit.nl, De Paviljeons, Almere, NL

Curation

Jul - Tuned City, Berlin, DE
Jan - Club Transmediale, Berlin, DE

2007

Performances

Dec - [as Abominations] Moonshake Club, Umea, SE
Dec - [as Abominations] Blackies, Lulea, SE
Dec - [as Abominations] Ausland, Berlin, DE
Nov - [as Abominations] Fylkingen, Stockholm, SE
Oct - K-ITA, Berlin, DE
Oct - [w/ Sara Kolster] Passengers International Festival of Public Art, Warsaw, PL
Oct - K-ITA, Berlin, DE (w/ Craig Hilton)
Oct - KUMU, Tallinn, EE
Aug - Kleine Field Recording Festival, Berlin, DE
Aug - "Kunst & Musik mit dem Tageslichtprojektor", Cologne, DE
Jul - Telsa, Berlin, DE
Jun - [w/ Sara Kolster] Mijatmina, Riga, LV
Jun - DISK Session, Berlin, DE
May - [w/ Sara Kolster] International Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor, SI
May - Frozen Elephants Music release party, Zentrale Randlage, Berlin, DE
May - [w/ Marcelo Aguirre] NWEAO Festival, Berlin, DE
May - Ballhaus Naunyn, Berlin, DE (w/ Brandon La Belle & Jason Kahn)
Apr - [w/ Rob Curgenven] Salon Bruit, Berlin, DE
Apr - [w/ Rob Curgenven] NBI, Berlin, DE (w/ Laptop Orchestra Berlin)
Apr - [w/ Rob Curgenven] Klinker Club, South London, UK
Apr - [w/ Rob Curgenven] Klinker Club, North London, UK
Apr - [w/ Rob Curgenven] The Blue Lagoon, Bristol, UK
Apr - [w/ Rob Curgenven] La Generale, Paris, FR (w/ KTL [Rehberg/O'Malley])
Apr - [w/ Rob Curgenven] OT301, Amsterdam, NL
Apr - [w/ Rob Curgenven] Tag, Den Haag, NL
Apr - [w/ Rob Curgenven] Electronic Church, Berlin, DE
Mar - [w/ Rob Curgenven] Zucker, Frankfurt, DE
Mar - [w/ Rob Curgenven] Alula Ton Series, Leipzig, DE
Mar - [w/ Rob Curgenven] 7Stock, Dresden, DE
Mar - [w/ Rob Curgenven] Hoerbar, Hamburg, DE (w/ Jazkamer)
Feb - Kleine Field Recording Festival, Berlin, DE
Feb - [w/ Rob Curgenven] Joint Venture, Berlin, DE

Releases

V/A - Frozen Elephants Music, Frozen Elephants Music

Workshops

Nov - Fylkingen, Stockholm, SE
Mar - Pickled Feet, Berlin, DE
Feb - Pickled Feet, Berlin, DE

Residencies

Nov - EMS, Stockholm, SE
Oct-Dec - Tesla, Berlin, DE

2006

Installations

Dec - Soundtransit.nl [w/ S. Kolster & M. Boon], Art Center Nabi, Seoul, KR
Oct - Sonic Overlay MetaVille, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, IT
Oct - Sonic Overlay Eindhoven Centraal Station, Blind Spot Sound Art, Eindhoven, NL
Aug - OZONE [w/ Bas van Koolwijk], Art+Communication:WAVES, Riga, LV
Jul - Soundtransit.nl [w/ S. Kolster & M. Boon], Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ

Solo Performances

Nov - Kleine Field Recording Festival, Berlin, DE [audio]
Oct - Sonic Overlay OT301, DNK, Amsterdam, NL

resonanCITY Performance [w/ Sara Kolster]

Jul - HAPPY Bar, Wellington, NZ
Jul - SCANZ Moving Image Center, Auckland, NZ
May - The Upgrade!, SAT, Montreal, CA
May - SAW Gallery, Ottawa, CA
Apr - Zentrale Randlage, Berlin, DE
Mar - Apoteke, Portland, OR, USA
Mar - Video In Studios, Vancouver, CA
Mar - Hotcakes Gallery, Milwaukee, USA
Feb - Denver University, Denver, USA

Releases

V/A - Recorded in the Field by... - Field Recording Series 01, Gruenrekorder

Pure Data Workshop [w/ Sara Kolster]

Sep - Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, FI
Jun - SCANZ, Auckland, NZ
May - Videographe, Montreal, CA
May - SAW Gallery, Ottawa, CA
Mar - Apoteke, Portland, OR, USA
Mar - Video In Studios, Vancouver, CA
Mar - Film Department, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
Feb - Denver University, Denver, USA

33.99 Records Instant Record Label [w/ Sara Kolster, Jan Zimmermann, Meik the Mischer]

Jun - Weblaunch party, M12, Berlin, DE
Feb - Club Transmediale, M12, Berlin, DE

Awards

Dec - NetArts.Org Grand Prize 2006 for Soundtransit.nl, Tokyo, JP

2005

Releases

V/A - Untitled Songs on the 49th year of Gesang der Jünglinge - sirr 020 double CD, Sirr|ecords - www.sirr-ecords.com
V/A - Phonography.org 7 - pho/7, and/OAR Records - www.and-oar.org

Performances

Dec - Kraakgeluiden, OT 301, Amsterdam, NL
Dec - (w/ Sara Kolster) Apo33 event, Art Museum of Nantes, Nantes, FR
Dec - (w/ Sara Kolster) Fresh Trips, Kunstraum, Innsbruck, AT
Nov - (w/ Sara Kolster) FILE festival - Sao Paulo, BR
Oct - (w/ Sara Kolster) Dutch Filmfestival- Re:visie, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
Oct - (w/ Sara Kolster) Videomedeja, Novi Sad, SCG
Jul - (w/ Sara Kolster) Garage Festival - Forget It!, Stralsund, DE
Jul - (w/ Sara Kolster) Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam NL
May - (w/ Sara Kolster) BEK, Bergen, NO
May - (w/ Sara Kolster) Awarded Second Prize @ WRO Biennale, Wroclaw, PL
May - (w/ Sara Kolster) Festival Pomladi, Ljubljana, SI
Feb - (w/ Sara Kolster) Transmediale, Berlin, DE

Web Projects [w/ Marc Boon and Sara Kolster]

Jul - Soundtransit.nl - Garage Festival - Forget It!, Stralsund, DE
Feb - Berlin.Soundscape-FM.Net - Transmediale, Berlin, DE

Workshops/Lectures

Dec - panDEV presentation - STEIM, Amsterdam, NL
Dec - Artist Presentation (w/ Sara Kolster) - Apo33, Nantes, FR
May - Pure Data workshop (w/ Sara Kolster) - BEK, Bergen, NO
Feb - visibleSound/audibleImage screening - College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM, USA
Feb - Pure Data Workshop - College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM, USA

Residencies

Jun/Dec - panDEV- STEIM, Amsterdam, NL

Nov - resonanCITY (w/ Sara Kolster), Piksel04 festival, Bergen, No
Oct - resonanCITY (w/ S. Kolster & M. Shentilev), Pushing the Medium, Mooste/Tartu, EE
Sep - resonanCITY (w/ Sara Kolster), Arts+Communications 7, Riga, LV
Sep - resonanCITY (w/ S. Kolster & M. Shentilev), PostsovkhoZ4, MOKS, Mooste, EE
Jun - Impakt Event (w/ Christian Toonk), BAK, Utrecht, NL
May - Mikrostraava (/w Sara Kolster), DEPOT Klubs, Riga, LV
Apr - Multiplace Festival (w/ Jan Sicko), Bratislava, SK
Mar - Fluid Data (w/ Yannick Dauby), Umatic.nl, Utrecht, NL

Pure Data Workshops

Nov - MUTE magazine, London, UK
Nov - Your Machines, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
Nov - Waygood Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Oct - (w/ Sara Kolster), Pushing the Medium, Mooste & Tartu, EE
Sep - Arts+Communications 7: Trans-Cultural Mapping, Riga, LV
Aug - (w/ Sara Kolster), RAM6 Festival, CAC, Vilnius, LT www.vilma.cc
Aug - (w/ Sara Kolster), Daugavpils, LV www.audibleimage.nl
May - RAM5, RIXC, Riga, LV
May - (w/ Frank Barknecht & Jaromil), Montevideo/NIM, Amsterdam, NL
Apr - Burundi Lab, Bratislava, SK
Feb - Ecole supérieure de l'image, Poitiers, FR

Web Projects

Jul - Soundscape-FM.net (w/ S. Kolster & Y. Dauby), Garage Festival, Stralsund, DE

Symposiums

Sep - Arts+Communications 7: Trans-Cultural Mapping Festival, RIXC, Riga, LV
Sep - PostsovkhoZ4: ISOLATSIOON, MOKS, Mooste, EE
Jul - Trans-Cultural Mapping: Iceland Inside and Out, LORNA, Reykjavik, IS

Other Projects

Sep - Milk Project (Sound Design)(w/ I. Auzina & E. Polak), Riga, LV
Apr - OZONE Installation (w/ Bas van Koolwijk), EMAF, Osnabrueck, DE

2003

Performances