Kinetic Sounds & Wouter Snoei at Into The Great Wide Open

Kinetic Sounds is a sound installation that consists of a collection of rotating speakers in the room, each with its own shape and identity. You can see Kinetic Sounds as a mechanical version of an orchestra or as an automated ensemble of separately controlled musicians who all have their own sound, character and movement.

Composer Wouter Snoei has composed a new work for Kinetic Sounds especially for Into The Great Wide Open; a so-called generative composition, so not a fixed piece of music that is played, but a living sound work that grows slowly over two days and is never the same. The work is three-dimensional, the listener gets to hear a different perspective at every point in the room, some sounds can only be heard if you are very close to the speakers and others reverberate throughout the room. In the church of Vlieland this creates a unique spatial experience.

On Thursday and Friday there will be three live performances, a duet between the installation and a musician, where unexpected impulses are given by the two different musicians who play together with the work of Wouter Snoei.

• Lucija Gregov (cello): Thursday, August 29 at 8:30 PM and Friday, August 30 at 4:15 PM.

• Lise Morrison (church organ): Friday, August 30, 11:00 am

In addition to these concerts, Kinetic Sounds can be visited continuously at

Thursday August 29 3:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Friday August 30 11:00 AM – 11:00 PM

For the complete programme and ticket info of Into The Great Wide Open Festival, visit their website. See link below.

Wouter Snoei
Wouter Snoei is a composer, musician, software developer and teacher in the field of electronic and electroacoustic music. He was responsible for, among other things, sound direction for pieces by Luigi Nono and John Cage. He played with Jasper Blom and other jazz musicians at the Bimhuis and at the North Sea Jazz Festival.

Lucija Gregov 
Lucija Gregov is a cellist, improviser and sound artist from Rotterdam. She is a member of the collectives ‘RE#SISTER’, ‘Fruit From the Forest’, ‘cTrL’, ‘Hydra Ensemble’, ‘Ma’ and creator of the radio program ‘Sonosphere’.

Lise Morrison
Lise Morrison is a composer, musician and sound artist from South Africa, currently based in The Hague. She previously collaborated with Ensemble Asko Schönberg, Ives Ensemble, Slagwerk Den Haag and the Bozzini Quartet (CA). She also developed a concert series for experimental music and art at Korzo Theater, “In Bloom”.

Artwork of Into the Great Wide Open by Floor van het Nederend.

Kinetic Sounds was made possible with the generous support from Creative Industries Fund NL, Mondriaan Fund and the City of Rotterdam.

LINKS

• Into The Great Wide Open
• Wouter Snoei
• Lucija Gregov
• Lise Morrison