2024-12-20

For FIBER Festival 2024.

2024-05-29

Video shot and edited for Casimir in promotion for the opening concert at Het Orgelpark for FIBER Festival 2024. Live on FIBER website. Info: Casimir presents Deviations (Live) - Concert I: Organ/Body. For the opening concert of FIBER Festival, Casimir Geelhoed will present a premiere of ‘Deviations’, a performance for hyperorgan and live processing that breathes new life into an old instrument. Focusing on timbre, texture, and harmonic structure, the composition invites an exploration of the friction, instability, and fragility that emerges when acoustically produced sound and layers reproduced through a spatial sound system clash and merge in the physical space. Be ready to sharpen your listening and submit to this bodily experience. Casimir Geelhoed will perform during our festival opening concert night called ‘Organ/Body’, taking place at The Orgelpark.

2024-05-24

I conducted an interview with Alex and Dylan with the help from Frederick Walker and Charles Lanceplaine for Essay Skate Mag. The article was published in anticipation for the video releases "Playdate" by Dylan and "I've been doing this for years" by Alex.

2024-05-01

As Friday evening grew dark, I was blessed to attend Maya al Khaldi and Sarouna’s performance at Het Koorenhuis, Den Haag, for Rewire 2024. With Sarouna on the sound mixer, qanun – traditional Arabic string instrument – and Maya Al Khaldi’s voice, their harmonious yet grief-laden sounds pierced through the audience during the show. The Palestinian artists’ focus on themes of nostalgia, longing, and reminiscence – common topics among today’s Arab diaspora – were brought into the concert space through longings of the past and Levantine Arabic lyrics from their debut album (2022) Other World عالم تاني, which hit really close to home. Mixing in each of these songs are lyrics, melodies, or samples of audio recordings from the Popular Art Center in Ramallah. Full of percussion and folklore, Maya al Khaldi and Sarouna create a soundscape of rattling pasts in the midst of collapsing contemporaries.

2024-03-12

Two written pieces for Mnemotope 003 - "Swamp Semantics"; essay on boggy linguistics and washed-up feelings - "Stairwell"; a poem about liminality and directionlessness

2024-01-09

Interview with Floris - coordinator at Buurthuis de Bol - about how the social space benefits their neighbourhood residents in Amsterdam Noord