ALBUM RELEASE: The Void* + Martijn Comes / OPEN AIR EXPO: BEACON

Friday, July 1, 20:00, Entrance € 7

THE VOID*
For several years now, The Void* (pronounced: The Void Pointers) have been developing their own sound idiom at the cutting edge of ambient, live electronics, drones and post-rock. The trio, consisting of Roald Dillewijn, Eric Magnée and Tijs Ham, looks for new expressive sounds and they choose to build their own instruments to accomplish this. Both the coding of software and hardware tinkering are used to knead their sonic universe. Deep sound textures are interspersed with massive sound walls to then revert to a fragile piano note.

In 2014 The Void* travelled to France to record new material. A week of wine, cheese, cows and music. Lots of music. The recordings originated from free improvisation, out of which structures or basic playing rules quickly formed, laying down sound carpets which did or didn’t work well together. Throughout 2015, the band has been listening, cutting, pasting, adding and deleting layers, distorting, distilling, maturing and refining to finally get to the core: the album ‘Values’.

Now the music will be dissected and pieced together again onstage, recombining the many sonic layers to fill up the acoustic space of ‘De Ruimte’.

MARTIJN COMES
M. Comes (1979) is a Dutch musician/composer who is specialized in new media, sound design and electro acoustic composition.

EXPO: BEACON – A radiomagnetic object
Without being really aware, the ether is full of radiomagnetic waves. Wifi, mobile telecommunication, GPS and distant comets float through the space around us. With BEACON, Sjoerd Leijten and Olle Kruijt of Volle Band explore this hidden dimension. A mast equipped with antennas and software defined radio, tunes in to the ether. The beacon receives, interprets, unifies and transmits an ongoing generative audio composition. This installation can be heard in the garden of the Ruimte for the next two months.