Concerts
From www.oscarvandillen.com
This page provides an overview of current and recent concerts.
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Upcoming events
2 Cameras @ Sea
2 Cameras @ Sea is a new film by Clive Holden, original music and soundscape by Oscar van Dillen, music performed live by the Continuum Ensemble (afl, bcl, vi, vc, pi, pc).
The music and soundscape for 2 Cameras @ Sea were developed and composed after a careful study of the movements of water and the sounds it produced. The obvious common element in music and water is the wave, and in both cases these waves can simultaneously happen on a completely different scale. In fact, I started treating individual tones as drops, phrases as waves, parts as tides, as it were working from the atoms themselves upwards...
Latest screenings
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- MFDF Jihlava October 2009 in Jihlava, Czech Republic.
- Images Festival 2 April 2009 at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto ON, Canada. (with live music and soundscape)
- Shift Festival 21 November 2008, in the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (with live music and soundscape)
Documentary
- Canadian multidisciplinary artist Vera Frenkel made a video documentary of the Opening Gala of the 22nd Images Festival of Film, Video and New Media, also featuring 2 Cameras @ Sea. For more information see www.verafrenkel.com.
Utopia Suite Disco
Utopia Suite Disco is a looping video installation by Clive Holden with original music and surround soundscape (2.1 track duration 74 minutes, full track version double loop, twice 2.1: one loop 60, another 74 minutes) by Oscar van Dillen.
This project's musical style was chosen reflects the disco-music of the 1970's, which I intertwined with odd world music rhythms and Indian melodic structures and instruments. Together with the soundscape using both electronics and tuned samples I created a new kind of “Varèsian consonance”.
Latest screening
Oscar van Dillen will personally attend the opening reception on March 28 of Utopia Suite Disco in Chatham, Ontario:
- Exhibition March 28 to April 26, 2009, Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, ON. Including Artist's Lecture, Utopian Conversation, Opening reception and Big Disco Party.
So here we are (De Stad)
Conny Janssen Danst tours the Netherlands March through May 2009 with SO HERE WE ARE, with a choreography to a.o. the music of De Stad parts 5 and 6 performed live by ensemble Original Winds, conducted by Carlo Balemans.
Playlist performances
Maart 2009: do 05-03 | Roosendaal try-out | De Kring -- za 14-03 | Rotterdam try-out | Schouwburg -- zo 15-03 | Rotterdam première | Schouwburg -- do 19-03 | Capelle | Isala Theater -- zo 22-03 | Eindhoven | Parktheater -- wo 25-03 | Breda | Chassé -- vr 27-03 | Emmeloord | 't Voorhuys -- za 28-03 | Amersfoort | Theater de Flint -- di 31-03 | Utrecht | Stadsschouwburg
April 2009: wo 08-04 | Zoetermeer | Stadstheater -- do 09-04 | Amsterdam | Stadsschouwburg -- za 11-04 | Dordrecht | Kunstmin -- di 14-04 | Bergen op Zoom | De Maagd -- wo 15-04 | Delft | Theater de Veste -- do 16-04 | Zaandam | Zaantheater -- za 18-04 | Den Helder | Schouwburg De Kampanje -- di 21-04 | Haarlem | Toneelschuur -- wo 22-04 | Alkmaar | Theater de Vest -- za 25-04 | Den Haag | Lucent -- di 28-04 | Maastricht | Theater a/h Vrijthof
Mei 2009: vr 01-05 | Wageningen | Junushoff -- za 02-05 | Hengelo | Rabotheater -- di 05-05 | Weert | Munttheater -- wo 06-05 | Apeldoorn | Schouwburg Orpheus -- do 07-05 | Purmerend | De Purmaryn -- wo 13-05 | Groningen | Stadsschouwburg -- di 19-05 | Rotterdam | Rotterdamse Schouwburg
mm2
World premiere of mm2 for two toy pianos by one player, performed by Bernd Wiesemann in the Düsseldorfer Tonhalle is postponed until May! (was originally planned 4 March 2009)
New premiere date: 13 May 2009 20:00
Current and recent events
Ken Dryden
- Ken Dryden - soundtrack (music and soundscape) by Oscar van Dillen for this short film by Clive Holden.
(reusing original mono-audio from a rare radio interview with Ken Dryden)
Music for a Sculpture (Paradox)
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Music for a Sculpture (Paradox) (composed 2006-07 by Oscar van Dillen) was written for two percussionists, and is envisioned to be the first in a series of pieces to be performed on objects becoming instruments. In this way, Edgar Varèses old modernistic definition of music, i quote: music is organized sound, is subtly redefined by the highly skilled performance of musicians. Music is organized sound, performed by musicians expresses my own, more precise version of this general definition...
Utopia Suite
Utopia Suite is a large ongoing project in collaboration with Clive Holden, lasting 2006 through 2012.
Finished parts: Mean (2007), Engines of Despair (2007), You are being remembered (2007), Utopia Suite Disco (2008) and Ken Dryden (2008) - (project descriptions momentarily partly available here).
