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 Het Geluid van de Machine (2011)A composition for Disklavier, laptop-instrument and flute with electronics, performed by Shackle (Anne LaBerge on flute with electronics & Robert van Heumen on laptop-instrument) Alternative version for Disklavier, laptop-instrument and voice, performed by Robert van Heumen (laptop-instrument) and Stephanie Pan (voice) The sound of machines is fascinating. They scream, growl, grind, buzz, hum, sing, roar, whistle, thunder. The Disklavier is a machine to make music with. But it's not only the strings that make sound. This composition exposes the Disklavier's mechanism and produces freshly squeezed music. | |
 Like Harry, a soundwalk (2011)There is a man who can't stop walking. He is passing through cities, fields, hills. You are invited to follow him, with headphones on, searching for clues. Meanwhile you hear a musical story about thinking and the traps and seductions of the mind. We try to look into people's thoughts. Combined with a strange institute and the hypnotizing music, this is a fascinating, lightly philosophical road-trip through the human mind. You can't share your mind. In it, you are alone. Are you like Harry? | |
 Shackleis Anne LaBerge on flute and electronics and Robert van Heumen on laptop-instrument. Their aim is to explicity and subtly exploit shackling in both concept and material.This extraordinarily inventive duo has a way of making music all their own. At the heart of their duo is a self-designed, cutting-edge digital cueing system which operates as a sometimes visible third member. Both prodding and reactive, the Shackle system suggests musical directions and textures to these two highly gifted performers, opening up a fascinating array of sonic choices for La Berge and Van Heumen to both play with and against. Shackle’s performances explode the line between improvisation without borders and tightly controlled forms that are both playful and daring. [ more ] Live at Splendor Amsterdam (2012) Live at Ephémère Den Haag (2012) (excerpt) Live at Zaal 100 Amsterdam (2010), part n | |
 Achmea Pensioen Congres 2011 (sound design)The request was to create background soundscapes for 4 different rooms. The first 2 minutes should be more pronounced, after that it should be just functional sound. | |
 Spoon3+Forkis Jodi Gilbert (voice), Albert van Veenendaal (piano), Meinrad Kneer (bass) & Robert van Heumen (laptop & controllers)Neerpelt Feb 17 2011 improvisation Neerpelt Feb 17 2011 improvisation Gilbert and Van Heumen | |
 SKIF++is back with a vengeance. After a break of more than 2,5 years their music is even better than before. The difference? No predefined structures, all free improv. But still making sense.There is the new cd .next and they're touring the US and Europe. The electronic audio-visual trio SKIF++ is a collaboration of Jeff Carey (laptop SuperCollider), Robert van Heumen (laptop LiSa) and Bas van Koolwijk (laptop Max/MSP/Jitter). Sound gets processed into video and back, ranging from sonic bursts to melodic melancholy, using joysticks and selfmade controllers to keep it all in line (most of the time). Every SKIF++ performance is improvised, but based on structures that give each set its distinct character. Live at Diapason Gallery May 10 2010 (excerpt) Live at Brown University May 12 2010 (excerpt) Track 1.04 (from the album .next) | |
 Fashion Weekis a stop-motion video collage by visual artist Susan Happersett with a soundtrack by composer Robert van Heumen. The full video at Vimeo. | |
 ABATTOIR: Audrey Chen (cello/voice) and Robert van Heumen (electronics)"The acoustic strings and singing voice give a very human feeling to the CD, only to be undermined by Van Heuman`s live processing. In his hands, Chen`s voice might start to develop an artificial sustain and within seconds be swirling like water down a drain. Fragments of her cello playing seem to be preserved and regurgitated as blipping percussion. " Kurt Gottschalk for All about Jazz "Digital brutalism in free form, vehement expressions, heightened efforts, wailings and atonal lamentations are all performed with uninterrupted breathing techniques - the electronic manipulation is relentless, full of powerful distortions, melancholic melodies and experimental combinations. Authentic, intricate compositions [...]." Aurelio Cianciotta for Neural.it "Wow. What a mighty blast this is. [...] Heavy duty improvised music [...]. From the very first to the very last second things erupt like volcano. Sometimes we are on top of that volcano, watching the eruption, then we see hot lava running down, slow but hot and powerful." Frans de Waard for Vital Weekly "Devoted to not holding back when Chen performs, it was a pleasure to see her working so hard to match van Heumen’s often brutal digital transformations of her sound. There were several moments of pure psychedelia as van Heumen allowed untransposed, ungranulated repetitions of Chen’s voice to come through. I loved it when, halfway through the second of two extended pieces, he took Chen’s keening voice and filtered it in such a way that, for a moment, it seemed that George Martin, the revered Beatles producer, had entered the room." Review by Keir Neuringer from a live concert at STEIM May 22, 2008 Download PDF info sheet [ more ] Blood (live at STEIM May 22 2008 (excerpt) Feasting (recorded live at STEIM March 12 2009) (excerpt) Live at Nachtjournal Cologne March 5 2009 (excerpt) | |
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