Tag Archive for 'bart van rosmalen'

Lab21 about freedom

on March 7, 2008

Today was the third meeting with Lab21. Lab21 is a small group of master-students from the Royal Conservatoire. They meet me on a monthly basis for a two hour session on artistry and artistic reflection. This time the given task by e-mail was to prepare a quotation on freedom.


Improvisation

on March 3, 2008

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“We simply begin by improvising,” says Helena Gaunt. Whenever they meet, in any setting, Helena Gaunt and Bart van Rosmalen simply start by playing. You cannot theorize beforehand, because there is nothing yet to theorise on. The situation in improvisation is that you know that you don’t know; there is no time and […]


Sounds of white paper

on February 11, 2008

Today I worked with the visual artist Barbara Philipp. She is a painter and performance artist from Austria now living in the Netherlands. I have a cello, a bow and a voice. She has lots of white paper, some paint, some pencils and sometimes also rope to create lines and connections. There is also a video camera. Sometimes the camera is just lying down and taking the sound, sometimes it is completely integrated as an instrument alternately in my or her hand.