Available on iTunes: link

I'm currently working on the Vreemdeling composition/process. Keeping a blog about it on http://www.hardhatarea.com/vreemdeling/.

How easily I can become utterly happy.... After submitting the Fury CD to CD Baby I received its barcode just 30 minutes ago!

Also, a little more to the point, my fresh (hehe) label fridgesound released the new SKIF++ enhanced CD. It's for sale on the labels website.

Of course I don't know a thing about everyday life in the US, and even less about its politics, but following the whole circus from a distance, and reading some here and there, I'd like to officially endorse Obama here (Let the media come in! Experimental composer in Bos en Lommer endorses Obama!).
Seriously - read Robert Reich's blog entry. His blog makes a lot of sense in general.
And although I know charisma can be dangerous at times, I think Obama's charisma could help him, the US and the rest of the world 'transcending the boundaries of class, race, and nationality'. I know some friends on that side of the big devide have lost hope that anything will change, but if we want anything to happen, it'll have to be through Obama.

O, and give Barry Adamson a listen - Stranger of a Sofa is a very nice, a little dark, but overall very happy album. And usually I hate happy music - so that says something. You can listen now (don't know how long they will keep it there) at VPRO's 3voor12 luisterpaal.

Finally, talking about media, listen to the first recording ever made.

Dutch electronic improviser, member of an electro-acoustic project (OfficeR) and of a trio active in audio-visual arts (SKIF++), mathematician, trumpet player, software programmer and so on…
Robert van Heumen’s compositions are created using primarily the laptop and, specifically, running the software LiSa for a live sampling and SuperCollider for a real-time audio-synthesis.
This is his first CD, containing two titles: “Fury (after anger)”, a composition in four movements built on distorted, crackled, buzzed sounds with episodic fragments of spoken words, repetitive at times but often consisting of entire pieces of text taken from historical documents about “Dust Bowl migrants living in Farm Security Administration camps in central California (1940-1941)” (see here). Subtle melodies generated by a guitar occasionally interfere.
“They Would Get Angry Sometimes”, the second piece, has nearly the same structure, but with more incidence of computer treatments and, perhaps, of noise.
Original work of sampling and programming, great combination of different sound sources, thus an excellent debut.

http://spiritualarchives.blogspot.com/2008/04/robert-van-heumen-fury.html

http://hardhatarea.com/fury.html

The online magazine neural.it - 'media art, hacktivism, emusic, since 1993' - published a review of Fury.

"Fury (after Anger)" is a new project by Robert von Heumen made up of two recordings: the title track, split in four different tracks, and "They Would Get Angry Sometimes". The former has been commissioned by the Sonic Circuit Festival in Washington and the latter has been composed from a performance at Rhode Island's Brown University. Both the works show their "in progress" structure and a strong conceptual approach, in part because of the sound forms riskiness, really suggestive, impalpable, ultimate, but somehow subject to the textual dynamics: recordings dating back to 1940-41 concerning the immigrants' life in the California's Farm Security Administration camps. Van Heumen's thesis is that "Fury" is functional to a specific investigation on the human beings primitive dynamics, our inner part that we feel very hard to eradicate or control. The author perfectly succeeded in emanating a sense of disquietude, even avoiding to decipher all the included texts. The texts are then suspended among drones, hums and buzz'n'crackles: muffled rustlings and dissonant glitches, wonderfully acted in a vibrant music crescendo but also still ambiguous, harsh and unstable.
Aurelio Cianciotta

With Tom Tlalim & Nicolas Field I played in Geneva, through the Cave12 connection, on March 28. This was the first concert with this trio, after two studio sessions, and we rocked! It's quite heavy, noise-like, driven by Nicolas's endless energy behind the drumkit, Tom's basslines and melodies, and my distorted sample layers.

On March 26 I presented the Fury CD at a STEIM Local Stop concert. Here's an image. Sound will follow.

Photo by Kees van Zelst

There's a YouTube video of a studio session of myself with Oguz Buyukberber.