Erik Nyström

Erik Nyström’s computer music performances situate enactive improvisation within a texture of algorithmic processes and synthetic morphological deviations. Categorical conceptions of species, homogeneity, heterogeneity, nature and artifice, are elasticated and repositioned in a posthuman morphogenesis.  

Erik Nyström is a Swedish composer and performer whose output includes live computer music, electroacoustic works, and sound installations. Among recurring interests in his practice are spatial deformations, texture perception, entropic processes, and visual and physical listening. He is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Birmingham Electro-Acoustic Sound Theatre, University of Birmingham, UK, working on an aesthetic and technological research project on multichannel spatial texture synthesis in composition and performance. He studied Computer Music at CCMIX, France, and Electroacoustic Composition at City University, London, with Denis Smalley. His music is performed world-wide, and has been published on the disc Morphogenèse by empreintes DIGITALes.

Jan Kleefsta / Chris Bakker /Romke Kleefstra

The trio Kleefstra|Bakker|Kleefstra (KBK) combines improvised dark-ambient with spoken word and consists of the experimental guitarists Romke Kleefstra and Anne-Chris Bakker and poet Jan Kleefstra. After their debut album ‘Wink’ in 2009 the trio played through Europe and Japan. They worked together with musicians like Peter Broderick, Nils Frahm, Greg Haines and Machinefabriek. KBK also made music to short experimental films of film- and video artists like Shinkan Tamaki from Japan and Sabine Bürger from Germany. In 2012 the album ‘Griis’ was published on Low Point form the UK. Late 2016, begin 2017 KBK released three albums in a row, including the ‘twin studio albums’ ‘Dage’ and ‘Dize’. The Kleefstra brothers are also playing in bands like Piiptsjilling and The Alvaret Ensemble, while Anne-Chris Bakker is also publishing solo-albums.

Expect dark, dreamy soundscapes that tend to burst. Or like magazine The Wire wrote abou the trio: “Two guitarists construct an icy enclave out of frozen drones and amplifier crackle, a veritable Fortress Of Solitude whose isolation is further emphasized by the poet’s intimately close-miked tones and distant echoes, giving an acute impression of expanses and depths both internal and external.”

llse van Haastrecht & Emlyn Stam

Trio #1 for dancer, violist and viola. A trio performance based on the relationships and interrelationships between two artists and a musical instrument. They explore touch, flow, intensity and friction. The two performers explore connections and differences in a shared improvisatory language where density and texture in physical movement meets density and texture in sound. They take a child-like approach to discovering and exploring their interaction in their shared space.

Ilse van Haastrecht is a dancer and movement teacher living in Den Haag. After graduation at Codarts/Rotterdam in 2009 she performed in pieces made by Piet Rogie, Billie Hanne, Sayaka Akitsu and Sylvia Bennett, among others. Ilse performs regularly in improvised pieces in Bimhuis, Oorsprong-series and OT301, Amsterdam. As a movement educator her passion goes to teaching dance improvisation. In CLOUD/DCR she organizes study labs in which she shares her knowledge of the Axis Syllabus lexicon. Ilse is a member of the team of CLOUD@Danslab.  

Violist Emlyn Stam is active as a chamber musician, soloist, orchestral musician and performance researcher in the Netherlands and throughout Europe. Alongside his activities as a chamber musician Emlyn has developed a passion for contemporary music. Since 2013 he has been the artistic coordinator of the New European Ensemble an international ensemble for contemporary and 20th century music. 

Emlyn is active as a researcher and is currently studying for his PhD at the Docartes program at the Orpheus Institute in Gent and the Academy for Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Leiden. His research focuses on the performance practices of violists and chamber music groups in the early 20th and late 19th centuries.