“Grains” is the newest result of the interdisciplinary IOM-AIM Research of Studio LOOS The Hague.

IOM-AIM Research is a practice based artistic research of composer/performer Peter van Bergen as a PhD candidate at the VUB - Free University Brussels in cooperation with software programmer/performer/improvisor Johan van Kreij.  

Since 2014 the research has resulted in an extended series of elusive performances and installations with audience participation, performance art, visuals, electro(acoustic) composition and improvisation.

“Grains” is a new work for a human Saxophone Quartet (TUMB, another artistic research project of Studio Loos), artificial Saxophone Quartet (IOM-AIM) and audience participation. 

The title already indicates the main subject of the piece: the smallest particles of sound taken from the TUMB saxophonists will be the grains for a performance in which the audience is actively composing new structures together with the artificial IOM-AIM saxophonists within the environment of and as multilayers on composition 01100110011000110110110100101110001100010010101100110010.

TUMB musicians: Peter van Bergen, David Kweksilber, Leo van Oostrom, Michiel van Dijk.

TUMB (since 1995) is a production of the LOOS Foundation.

The first performance of “GRAINS” was during the program “Spot on David Kweksilber” at the BIMhuis on Saturday March 16, 2019, time: 20:30.