Karel van der Eijk is a visual artist who makes installations in which sound and mechanics have a key role. Some of his installations move with a push of the button, others are played like an instrument by the audience or by the artist himself. [edgtf_button size="" type="" text="Website" custom_class="" icon_pack="font_awesome"...
Since 1999, Alexis Malbert (aka Tapetronic) distracts (magnetics), recycles (plastics) and transforms (mechanics) audio cassettes and tape recorders to make machines to play music. Inventor of, among other things, the Scratchette, the Vibro-K7, the Audio-Skate, the Wheeling Walkmen. [edgtf_button size="" type="" text="Website" custom_class="" icon_pack="font_awesome" fa_icon="" link="http://www.alexismalbert.com/"...
In the eighties studied percussion at Brussels Conservatory and spent a lot of times in a bell tower, learning carillon and listening to the sounds. Studying encouraged him to continue various things he did since his early childhood like throwing objects on the ground, shake...
Unlike other instrument makers, the Vegetable Orchestra make new instruments for every new concert or workshop, made of fresh vegetables. The utilization of various ever refined vegetable instruments creates a musically and aesthetically unique sound universe. The Vegetable Orchestra was founded in 1998. Based in Vienna,...
Born in 1956, Dunkerque France. Since 1984, he constructs instruments (strings, winds, percussions), with found objects, and little by little organized a vocabulary of sounds that drove him to consider music as a landscape. Later he started to combine the found objects-instruments with all kinds...
Pierre Bastien (born Paris, 1953) created - and literally built - his own orchestra called Mecanium : an ensemble of musical automatons constructed from meccano parts and activated by electro-motors, that are playing on acoustic instruments from all over the world. "A composer's dream : a...
Paul Tas is 'erorrinstruments', making experimental instruments; Strange noisy synths, noise makers, lo-fi end hi-fi instruments, sound art noise boxes, euro rack modules, hacked hardwear , circuit bending and DIY Kits. All great stuff, made in shortruns from 20 to 50 pieces, very affordable. Paul...
Live EEG performance by Alberto Novello, Marion Traenkle & Ivo Bol, translating the brainwaves of the performers into sound, light and laser control. Each one of us has different memories, experiences and perceptions, but when we analyze our brain’s responses to specific basic stimulation, we...
Tom Verbruggen (TokTek) is a self-taught musician and instrument maker. It is from this interdisciplinary context that his ‘sound-objects’ the ‘Crackle-Canvas’ series was born. ‘Crackle-Canvas’ has been described as a series of interactive paintings in which the canvas is composed of embedded speakers, switches, knobs...
Sound artist Sjoerd Leijten and psychiatrist / engineer Olle Kruijt make sound bicycle performances and art expeditions as part of the Volle Band collective. Next to exploring the urban environment with bicycles, they are now exploring the sky, the cosmos and the earth through radiomagnetic...
