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:: entropy ::

Today is the season premiere of ‘entropy’ with @balet_snd . I love that this piece continues to find a home in the repertoire in Slovakia! This is now the fourth season they are performing this work made back in 2020 during the early stages of Covid with @_craig_davidson and @alanasargent .

TOI TOI TOI to everyone involved!

You can listen to the whole score featuring beautiful cello playing by @galya.sky.cello on my album ‘Tetramer’.

non determinative outcomes

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This AV album explores our relationship with data through sound and visual. This album is also not about ‘fixed’ versions of any of these pieces, but rather it is about the way the bits fit together. This is why all of the Ableton projects are available on my Patreon, so that you can engage with this music not only as a listener but also as a maker.

This piece is called ‘out breath’ and started as a piano improvisation with me playing along with a @shabakahutchings piece, but it evolved into something quite different in the end.

Visuals made with @touchdesigner

#ableton #touchdesigner #av #ambient

Disintegrate

is a work that I began in 2023 and am currently still researching. The work is about global warming, and curates an art ecosystem with a melting block of ice at the centre. As it melts, this ice dictates what happens to the other elements of the ecosystem, including sound, movement and visual. As ecosystem, all of these elements are interconnected. I presented this work in December 2023, and have since continued the research, with potential performances planned for 2025. Here is a short film by Sam Asaert about the work.

This research period was with:
@penniemmanen - Dance Artist
@lily.azur.music - Harpist
@grazianaveneziano - Dancer
@samasaert - video documentation

This film is also available on YouTube. Link in bio.

This work made possible by @fondspodiumkunsten

STREAMING NOW AVAILABLE
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Preservation - A Suite for Shelter
on all digital platforms. Choose wisely !

LINKS IN BIO

"Littered with the refuse of ill decisions, corrupt social policies, irrelevant politics and bad behaviour, our world’s cities and landscapes are being repurposed by a growing number of unhoused people. Bridges, doorways, underpasses, metro stations, stairwells, parks are all transformed into peoples homes, places to survive. Shelter is a basic human right that is becoming increasingly compromised for a drastically growing proportion of our fellow citizens.

Homelessness is a social injustice. The search for shelter is a global and local issue. The preservation of our society is directly linked to the preservation of our habitats, both rural and urban. Amsterdam, a city of 1 million has around 30,000 people in need of shelter, shelter from the natural elements and shelter from the ever-demanding restraints that society places upon us. Homeless, itinerant, young old, the unhoused are not clichés, they are your neighbours, your colleagues, your friends, your family. Surrounded by wealth our global communities should in no way see such high numbers of people that suffer in this way. By preserving our human right to shelter in all its forms we can re-imagine our habitats, we can make sustainable change."

Featuring the incredible performance of @ekahuil.cello

Mastered by my brother @nicholas.thayer

Film by @farhad_dir

In collaboration with:
@themystifierscollective
@ww_records
@pete_and_co_design

Supporting the work of:
@hvoquerido
@deregenbooggroep
@z_de_amsterdamse_straatkrant
@sheltersuit.foundation

#preservation #shelter #homelessness #makechange #music #design #film #awareness #record #collaborate #care #produce #dignity #humanrights

Saturday March 7th I’ll be performing a 5hr live AV set at @nieuweinstituut for @museumnacht010 :: I’ll be collaborating with mychorrhizal happenings in response to the current (amazing) exhibition Fungi: Anarchist Designers. The set is built around ideas of birth and decay, as fragments of sound get slowly decomposed (pun intended), making fertile ground for new ideas to grow from the sonic detritus.

Come hang!!

Preservation - A Suite for Shelter the double album is out today via @bandcamp

⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️LNKS IN BIO ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

Created over 2 years from site-specific recordings to creative workshops and multiple studio sessions, collaborating with so many talented and caring artists in close partnership with @themystifierscollective

The Artwork has been created by the one and only @pete_and_co_design - a cherished friend and long-time collaborator with our record label @ww_records
Bringing together the imagery of @farhad_dir with a striking and political type font representative of the protest that this project aims to deliver.

Credits:

@guy_wampa_wood - Drums, Percussion, Production
@ekahuil.cello - Cello
@donniethemc - Vocals
@shirayaelwolfe - Vocals
Ernst Banen - Vocals
@liesschilp - Vocals
Julia Murray - Vocals
Georgie Sofia - Vocals
@mohamedsesay6831 - Vocals
@thijsvanmilligen - Saxophone / Clarinet

Additional Production - @nicholas.thayer
Mix - @guy_wampa_wood
Artistic Consultation - @jow_ills
Mastering - @nicholas.thayer

Artwork and Design - @pete_and_co_design
Photography and Film - @farhad_dir

With thanks to Societé Gavignies

Support:
@hvoquerido
@deregenbooggroep
@z_de_amsterdamse_straatkrant
@sheltersuit.foundation

#preservation #shelter #homelessness #makechange #music #design #film #awareness #record #collaborate #care #produce #dignity #humanrights

Preservation - A Suite for Shelter the double album is out today via @bandcamp

⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️LNKS IN BIO ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

Created over 2 years from site-specific recordings to creative workshops and multiple studio sessions, collaborating with so many talented and caring artists in close partnership with @themystifierscollective

The Artwork has been created by the one and only @pete_and_co_design - a cherished friend and long-time collaborator with our record label @ww_records
Bringing together the imagery of @farhad_dir with a striking and political type font representative of the protest that this project aims to deliver.

Credits:

@guy_wampa_wood - Drums, Percussion, Production
@ekahuil.cello - Cello
@donniethemc - Vocals
@shirayaelwolfe - Vocals
Ernst Banen - Vocals
@liesschilp - Vocals
Julia Murray - Vocals
Georgie Sofia - Vocals
@mohamedsesay6831 - Vocals
@thijsvanmilligen - Saxophone / Clarinet

Additional Production - @nicholas.thayer
Mix - @guy_wampa_wood
Artistic Consultation - @jow_ills
Mastering - @nicholas.thayer

Artwork and Design - @pete_and_co_design
Photography and Film - @farhad_dir

With thanks to Societé Gavignies

Support:
@hvoquerido
@deregenbooggroep
@z_de_amsterdamse_straatkrant
@sheltersuit.foundation

#preservation #shelter #homelessness #makechange #music #design #film #awareness #record #collaborate #care #produce #dignity #humanrights

I was recently asked to do a remix for a @gabrielprokofiev piece ‘Green March’, recorded with @fames.institute youth orchestra :: the remix is I guess what happens when new classical meets minimal club music. Had a lot of fun doing this. Out now on @nonclsscl :: big thanks to Gabriel and everyone else for the tap on the shoulder!

In May I had the opportunity with director @robin_coops @ickamsterdam and @arnoutlems and @countertenortrombone to spend two weeks researching a club opera about modern masculinity. DONS is an immersivr experience exploring identity and shifting terrains.

Lines between performer and observer dissolve, set to music incorporating elements of Mozart’s Don Giovanni set against stark electronic elements.

It was a pleasure working with this wonderful team, and a valuable experience as we head towards the full work to premiere in 2026.

Producer: Coops & Co
Co-producer: ICK Amsterdam
Direction and concept: Robin Coops
Choreography: Emio Greco / Pieter C Scholten
Composer: Nicholas Thayer / Wolfgang Mozart
Directing assistant: Alper Kaya Bayrakli
Dancers (video): Hiroki Nunogaki, Payton St.John, Ricardo Vásquez Allen, Alessio Cavazzana, Alissa Kouzmenkov, Leelou Teillet, Paul Bernaus Aparicio
Singers: Arnout Lems, David Whitwell
Technician: Israel Del Barco

Video: @paulsixta

the notes don’t matter
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Made using detuned mandolin strings and an eBow

From my AV album ‘non determinative outcomes’. Link in bio to watch full video.

post resonant object
:
Full video on YouTube. Tutorial and download on YouTube / Patreon. Links in bio.

oscillation implies a change in state over time
:
From my AV album ‘non determinative outcomes’.
Full video on YouTube. Link in bio.

Also made a tutorial on how to make this yourself including the rack download. Link to that in bio too.

#ambient #ambientmusic #ableton #touchdesigner

oscillation implies a change in state over time
:
From my AV album ‘non determinative outcomes’.
Full video on YouTube. Link in bio.

Also made a tutorial on how to make this yourself including the rack download. Link to that in bio too.

#ambient #ambientmusic #ableton #touchdesigner

hyper sensory input process
:
Video from my AV album ‘non determinative outcomes’. See link in bio for all videos from this album. See link in bio for a tutorial on how to make this and download the project file.

Video made with @touchdesigner #touchdesigner #av #ambient #ableton