[December 11th, 2020]
Over the moon and so grateful for the accreditation of two years of structural funding by Gemeente Utrecht to Sounds Like Touch foundation!!! This means that we can be a platform for artists and designers in and around Utrecht and carry out our very cool plan called ‘Tactology Lab – interfaces of artistic expression’ and many more.
More to be read about our plans soon on www.soundsliketouch.com
Thanks a lot to Gemeente Utrecht for investing and believing in our plans, operating as such a new organization in Utrecht! And for the big help of Rens Machielse, Rob van Rijswijk, Marisa Tempel and Klaas Hernamdt.
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[November 7th, 2020]
My performance at ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event) at the 21st of October (ADE’s only ‘live’ event with real flesh-and-blood audience) in the Beurs van Berlage was captured by Remko de Waal for NRC Handelsblad and was published in the paper version of the national newspaper on October 26th. Thank you Marc Schots for spotting me 😀
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[June 1st, 2020]
Already a while ago, illustrator Micky Dirkzwager created a series of awesome drawings after interviewing me about my practice as an instrument inventor. Thank you Micky, I love your drawings ❤ and they are a great reflection of how I work 😀
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[July 11th, 2019]
Very grateful that my work was featured in the short documentary about Rewire Festival 2019! I like the resulting video very much and it shows how diverse Rewire Festival is!
Video by Mind The Film.
Short documentary of Rewire Festival 2019 including short interview with Dianne
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[May 22nd, 2018]
Interview (English!) iii published in Jegens & Tevens
In the end of April this year during my residency at iii in The Hague, an article of an interview with me by Cybil Scott was published in the independent online contemporary art magazine Jegens & Tevens. It’s about me and my work, so if you always wanted to know why I’m making strange musical creatures, this is one chance. Best question is definitely the last one. Have fun reading it here!
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[April 1st, 2018]
‘A Composer’s Guide to the Bellyhorn’ published!
Super glad to have ‘A Composer’s Guide to the Bellyhorn‘ published on my website, written by Mieke van Dam!
All inside information you always wanted to know about Bellyhorn: how to play, how to compose for it, and moreover: how to involve Bellyhorn in your ideas, performances and expositions. Have fun reading!
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[March 20, 2018]
Bellyhorn in newspaper Groningen
1st of April, Bellyhorn will be part of the festival Het Rumoer in Groningen. A short announcement and a Bellyhorn photo (by Viorica Cernica) were published in a Groninger newspaper (Dutch) last week! Read the article here:
https://gezinsbode.nl/artikel/619776/bellyhorn-in-de-wolkenfabriek.html
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[Februari 25, 2018]
Guide on (writing for) Bellyhorn in the making!
I’m pleased and glad to have Mieke van Dam, composer, flutist, theremin player and 4th-year-music student, as my intern since October 2017. She’s currently putting the finishing touches to a guide she’s been putting together on (writing music for) Bellyhorn. The guide should make it easier for composers to create pieces including the Bellyhorn as an instrument. Up to now, only myself or people I know personally were able to make stuff with the Bellyhorn. Of course, Bellyhorn is still the only Bellyhorn in the world and one would need the physical instrument to work out their ideas, but at least we hope to lower the threshold for new collaborations in the near future. The guide will be published on this website within a few weeks from now.
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[November 9, 2017]
On the cover of the GONZO (circus)!!
It’s great news that instrument builders are right in the spotlight of the new edition of the Flamish-Dutch music-and-art magazine Gonzo (circus). I even made it to the cover…!! Go and get it at the better bookstores and record shops, or online.
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[May 22, 2017]
Bellyhorn has won its first prize!
It was picked as ‘best installation’ at the NIME Conference in Copenhagen last week. It’s been great to expose it to so many colleagues (counting the times I’ve washed the mouthpieces, at least 150 people have been trying it out…!), thanks a lot for hugging and playing!
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Interview ‘Baanbrekers’ .unst, HKU
Edwin Verhoeven, senior editor of the HKU magazine .unst interviewed me about building new instruments. He wrote an article about it in the column ‘Baanbrekers’ (‘Pioneers’), to be found here.
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Bellyhorn interview on Dutch radio
Last Wednesday – November 9th 2016, I was being interviewed for half an hour live at the Dutch radio channel Concertzender about the Bellyhorn.
You can listen back the interview here:
or at the website of the Concertzender (starts at 1.01.49):
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Bellyhorn in national newspaper NRC
Joep Stapel came to see and write a page-wide articleabout the Bellyhorn in the national Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad on Monday September 5th! Photo by Rien Zilvold. It was also published in NRC Next.
For an English translation, go to the online article and help yourself with Google Translate… 🙂
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La Diantenne-family in Klankspeeltuin Amsterdam!
Superglad to reveal that the Klankspeeltuin (‘Sound Playground’) in Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in Amsterdam invited me to build a true La Diantenne-family for their new collection of instruments for 2017! The Klankspeeltuin organizes workshops for kids from elementary school, special education and high school.
photo by Baldwin Henderson. Rood Noot, 2015
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La Diantenne at Stukaklassiek 2015
Short report of the livingroom concert at Stukafest at bumaclassical.
“Zelfs de onderbuurman wordt nieuwsgierig en belt aan om een kijkje te nemen.”/”Even the neighbour downstairs gets excited and rings the doorbell to have a look.”
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La Diantenne in American magazine In Tune (May)
The American music magazine In Tune published an article about the Guthman Instrument Competition last March in Atlanta, Georgia. La Diantenne was mentioned and included with a photo (by Baldwin Henderson) in their May issue!
See also: http://www.intunemonthly.com/gtech/
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Bellyhorn in newspaper!
8 april 2016, AD Utrecht
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Grant issued by Creative Industries Fund NL
Great news!! The Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds) issued a grant for the core of my Residency at Gaudeamus and Vechtclub XL: a big project where I work on developing new electroacoustic folk-instruments together with four awesome makers form Vechtclub XL. The result will be premiered at the Gaudeamus Music Week in September 2016. Now we can make even more fabulous Future Folk Instruments (blog coming soon)! Thank you, CIF NL!
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La Diantenne semi-finalist at Guthman Musical Instrument Competition
March 2 & 3, 2016
Proud to announce that La Diantenne has been selected as a semi-finalist for the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia!
“Georgia Tech’s 2016 Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition is an annual event aimed at identifying the world’s next generation of musical instruments and unveiling the best new ideas in musicality, design, and engineering.”
Other semi-finalist: Yaybahar by Görkem Şen, Turkey
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Photos Stads/Einder last weekend at RoodNoot
Photos by Baldwin Henderson
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Nominated for HKU Award 2015!
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Musician-in-Residence Gaudeamus 15/16
Dianne will be Gaudeamus’ Musician-in-residence during next season! In collaboration with Gaudeamus and Vechtclub XL, hotbed for creativity in Utrecht, Dianne will be working together with four artists of different art disciplines to continue her search for expressivity in electronic music performance. She will be building upon her previous inventions La Diantenne version 1 and 2 and further extend her instruments. Next spring she and the other makers will be presenting their joint work through a series of four performances, each time from a different maker’s perspective.
Dianne Verdonk 