Category: sound design
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Lear
De Toneelmakerij Music and sound design for a new take on Shakespeare’s classic for a young audience. About “Lear brings together the full power of Shakespeare’s mastery: a language of which you want to remember every word. Tragedy and humor in perfect balance. Characters who, with both their smallness and grandeur, immediately get under your…
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The World of the VOC
Nationaal Archief Sound design for a major historical exhibition at the National Archive of the Netherlands, as part of the team of scenographer Guus van Geffen. The World of the VOC won a silver IDCA award in the category best scenography for a temporary exhibition. Additionally it was nominated for a German Design Award. About…
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Giovanni’s Room
Korzo Productions Music and sound design for Ryan Djojokarso and Bram Jansen’s dance theatre adaptation of Giovanni’s Room. With Gerty Van de Perre co-composing several songs she performed live. About The American David is about to marry Hella, but falls deeply in love with the Italian Giovanni in Paris. We follow David through the night…
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What About Nora?
Luzerner Theater Sound design and music for Bram Jansen’s contemporary on stage encounter between the Ibsen piece and the therapeutic method known as Family Constellations. About There is a crisis in the dollhouse. Nora Helmer is tired of playing doll’s wife to a doll’s man and doll’s mother to her doll’s children. I no longer…
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De Goede Richard III
Wart Kamps Sound design for a new play by Wart Kamps, trying to rehabilitate one of Shakespeare’s famous villains. About Thousands of actors from all over the world have already crawled into his deformed skin. One with a wine stain, the other with a wooden leg, but always Shakespeare’s story unfolds in exactly the same…
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Matta Matta
The100Hands / Dansstationens Turnékompani Music for a dance piece by Jasper Džuki Jelen and Mojra Vogelnik Škerlj. A playful piece made with and for school gym halls the music is made almost entirely of sampled and manipulated sounds of the gym mats themselves. About A dance performance that doesn’t stay on the dance floor. It…
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Rauch
Theater Oberhausen Music and sound design for a play by Josep Maria Miró i Coromina directed by Bram Jansen. In collaboration with George Dhauw. About Two couples from Western Europe suddenly find themselves trapped in the hotel where they are staying in some strange non-European country. A revolution, or at least some kind of uprising,…
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Einige Nachrichten an das All
Schauspielhaus Zürich Music, sound design and light co-design for Bram Jansen’s take on Wolfram Lotz’ hit play about the meaning of life and theatre. About The theater characters Lum and Purl Schweitzke question the reason for their existence. To have a child together – they decide – could give them a task and a meaning.…
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Maarten de Meeuw
Toneelmakerij i.s.m. tg. Winterberg Music and sound design for Daniël van Klaveren’s Maarten de Meeuw (‘Maarten the Seagull’) a contemporary fairytale for ages 5 and up, made together with puppeteer Marlyn Coetsier (tg Winterberg). In collaboration with George Dhauw. About Maarten is a perfectly normal boy. He lives in a wooden house with crooked walls…
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Nomophobia
Korzo Productions Music, sound & light design for a short dance piece by Ryan Djojokarso and Bram Jansen. On location in the Pulchri Studios gallery as part of a walking tour visiting several performances during the CaDance festival. About Six out of ten people have a smartphone and whether they’re on the train, in the…