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Welkommen to my T2 Assesment wiki page

LOTS of things can be said here, but i'll try to be brief.

While thinking ahead of the things I wanted to write on this page, I noticed some re-occuring themes/keywords that kept and keeps re-appering in my practice and interests since i started this master.

Keywords:

Sound experimentation - Sound making - Visual outputs tied to sound - Musical experimentation - Broadening of my musical approach - Improvisation - Mapping - Organizing - Doing things together - Togetherness - Covering - Hiding - Cover Ups - Dodging - Cheating - Alternative paths -

What I did

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Writing Machines Ensemble

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Workshops

Protoyping

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`Application to AMRO`

With the WME we applied to AMRO 2026 i

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`Application to AMRO`

With the WME we applied to AMRO 2026 in Linz. Me and Robin wrote the application.

Performance description. (Max 1500 characters)

The Writing Machine Ensemble is a collaborative performance that was created during the Master's Programme in Experimental Publishing at the Piet Zwart Institute in 2025. In it, students and machines from the course come together to do a musical improvisation.

It started out as an interest in highlighting the audible qualities of the machines in our studio. Typewriters, Dot Matrix Printers, Pen Plotters. We took inspiation from Kathrin Hayles' Cognitive Assemblages, a term to describe a change in attitude towards technology. Rather than seeing the human as the only actor with cognitive ability, she considers different 'cognizers' agents capable of interpreting and acting on information-with agency distributed between them across the network.

We quickly realised that this meant we were re-contextualising the original use of the machines, our relation to them, their historical background and the formal settings around what we understand as music.

Removed from their main function as tools of writing, these machines enter the room with us as we collaboratively experiment with protocols using our sounds to make patterns we humans recognise as musicality. Their written output becomes the live scoring of our improvisation in front of a live audience.

How does your performance contribute to the context and the topic of AMRO26? (max. 500 characters)

We started with the machines by seeing their possibilities, which then allowed us to experiment with what music means. Rather than starting from a desire to make music and going for industry-standard software meant for making it, we used homemade bash scripts and txt files.

Reinterpreting vintage print oriented machines towards a musical output, where the print aspect of it is not intended to be commercial or secretarial, rather our live scoring production explores ways of writing music in new non-standard ways open to interpretation.

Update: In the end we did not end up being admitted but we have a great explanatory text on the Writing Machine Ensemble and it's great to see that the WME wants to expand beyond the XPUB Borders

`Submission to Galleria Pictor`

In Jan i personally found out about an open call for an exhibition about performances artworks. I took care of the application by applying with our WME project and sent this brief PDF with the link to our video.

Update: we haven't been selected

`Residency in Austria [upcoming]`

Together with Claudio we've been selected to do a 2 weeks residency in Wien at Semmelweis Klinik. Period: end of Aug beginning of Sept.

We thought of a new performance for the Writing Machines Ensemble.

Read it here.

`Exhibition Huius Mundi`

I had an artwork showcased in the collective exhibition Huius Mundi, curated by Gabriele Perretta, at IUMBO Gallery in Bologna (Italy). from Feb 7 till March 15

`Conference talk - MeetCOM`

I was invited as an ... to talk at ... that took place from 25 & 26th of February. My own speech was on Wednesday 25th and it lasted 15min.................

`Waste Waves Workshop`

In Oct/Nov I participated in a serie of 3 workshops at WORM on waste and recording sounds with contact mics. This workshop was shared to us from Michael. We first built a contact mic ourselves. We got to acknowledge insightful documentation regarding the theme of waste, especially within the Netherlands, sound recording, musical composition and mapping. We did a field trip to the AVR (Afval Verbranding Rijnmond) waste disposal facility to make field recordings with our contact mics + zoom mics. We wasn't allowed to get into the site. AVR is very politically exposed so they don't allow any type of visitor in, apart from investors.

The workshop was very cool and on the last day we got together to cut and edit our recordings. We uploaded them into a sample machine from Roland, and we improvised a sound composition over a visual of images recorded during the field trip.

This workshop was very interesting, rich in content and well planned overall. Most of all, thanks to it I got to understand and expand my feeling towards opening myself more to sound, to experiment with it and to integrate it as part of my artistic research.

`Buiten Kasteel`

Together with Hannes (my ex-flatmate, artist and musician) Kamo, and Riccardo (ex LB student) we started this band.

So far we publicly performed during Tiny Tuin #8 music festival. This festival was organised by us (mainly by Riccardo) and it took place in SOS. It was a festival composed by 4 acts with experimental musical performances and dances.

I play drums since more than 10 years, and i really hoped that i shouldn't have to stop cause of my living situation here in NL, thankfully that didn't happen. In this project what we play is really different from what I’ve been used to. Every time we play, we improvise everything!! There is a strong deal of understanding between us, thus we all feel comfortable with this approach. The mutual connection between our minds is priceless and is super important when coming to a group of musicians playing together.

In our music we do a roller-coaster between classical ways of playing and very open experimentations.

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This chapter actually applies for all the 3 major categories of this page [What I did up until now + What I'm doing + What I want to do] since it's an on going project.

Since i moved in Charlois, thanks to the kind souls of Joseph and Nami, I have been passed the baton of running Some Other Space (SOS), a polisemantic art space. Running an art space was a dream of mine, so i felt blessed by this surprise (when Joseph was telling me about the flat b4 i came, they never mentioned SOS cause they know about this dream of mine thanks to Claudio).

One space of 46m2, lots of possibilities, lots of effort. But I do the best I can since doing a master such as XPUB and running a space, and doing personal projects and working all together is not easy... Thank u very much Claudio for being the co-curator of the space.

Check out the website of SOS, which is also maintained by me together w/ Claudio, to see anything we do/did.

PS. The whole building where i live is gonna be demolished this summer. At the end of this period we'll do a printed publication of everything that has been done in SOS.

`Tiny Tuin Festival`

Organised by Riccardo Santalucia (my neighbour and ex LensBased student) it's a festival of experimental music performances. The various artists and bands participants are curated by Riccardo, and i now help him in some parts of the selection as a consultant. Tiny Tuin is a festival that is already up and running since 2022 and from edition #8 it takes place in SOS.

Since edition #8 we integrated as part of the festival a collective dinner in which we cook for the audience and everybody eats together. Is a moment of sharing and togetherness, in which you can meet new people and talk to the artists.

`Movie Nights`

Movies are always nice to watch. But what's also cool about the 7th art is to talk about it.

Me and Claudio tried to stick to a program of screening a movie once a month, but we managed only to do so the first 3 rounds.

Movies that were shown were:

- The Teacher's Lounge, Original Language ENG subs

- The Wall by Pink Floyd, Original Language ENG subs

- Koyaanisqatsi - This screening was much fun and interesting cause the movie file that we got was off from YouTube, but in order to avoid copyright infringements the movie was uploaded in reverse. At first, we watched it without realising it was in reverse. After 20min we realised but decided to keep going till the end. So why it was "fun" to watch it in reverse? Koyaanisqatsi is great movie that has not a single spoken word in it, and the music is very minimal by Philip Glass. The movie displays a sequence of clips about the American Civilization, urbanisation and growth of capitalism. Normally this movie presents this concept with a "zoom-in" linear sequence, in which we go from the natural (images of natural landscapes) to the super-development of the human specie (rockets that goes into space). By seeing it in reverse, this perspective changed completely. It was now Zooming-out. The movie was still valuable to watch like this cause it sticks better to our time. Opposed to when the film came out, 1982, we now live in a time already "developed", where everything shown in the movie is now fully part of our daily life. A zoom-out perspective works better in relationship to our time, since it can show how things were before this spread out Capitalistic and globalised time.

`Exhibitions`

ABSENCE [ ] was an exhibition by Hannes Buchwieser and Barbara Klampf, 2 Austrian artists. The exhibition received funds from the Austrian Embassy Den Haag & Culture Moves Europe from the Goethe Instituut and the EU. During the exhibition a representative from the Austrian embassy came from Den Haag to see the exhibition! :)

Between us, yet within us, lies an emptiness that eludes us. It is there, but it cannot be grasped: a suspension in space, a movement between reality and memory. Like water, it flows, reshapes itself, drifts, submerges, returns, never the same, never tangible.
We feel it as the echo of a presence that dissolves the moment we try to seize. This inner absence creates spaces between us, translucent, vibrating, breathing. In the interactive exhibition conceived by Barbara Klampfl and Hannes Buchwieser multiple layers of projection touch and overlap with the room, simultaneously filling it and opening it. The individual perspectives are projected onto delicate membranes that move within the space.
Visitors become part of the work, stepping inside, casting shadows, inserting voids. Each one of us carries them—these spaces, these intangible moments in which we ourselves are suspended and that is for each person to decide.

What I'm doing