Ernst van der Loo
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| Biography | Ernst van der Loo (*1974) is a Dutch composer and performer based in Norway. He studied Sound Engineering and Electroacoustic Composition & Performance. He obtained a bachelor degree from the institute of Sonology in The Hague, and a master degree at the Norwegian Music Academy in Oslo. His main field is acousmatic spatial audio composition in the fixed media format. He has created several GPS sounds walks and made sound design for theater. His work has been played at international festivals in the spatial audio field. He is also a member of Electric Audio Unit, which organizes spatial audio concerts in Norway together with composers Mathieu Lacroix and Natasha Barrett. His works have been played at international festivals, such as Spatial Sound Arts (Seoul, South Korea), Nordlysfestivalen (Tromsø, Norway), Only Connect Festival (Oslo, Norway), Klingt Gut (Hamburg, Germany), BEaST FEAST, (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (New York, United States), Wavefield Synthesis Festival (The Hague, The Netherlands), Immersive Sounds/Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), 40.4 Sonic Summit 2023 (Boulder, Colorado, United States), Electric Edge festival (Bærum, Norway), Tonband Festival (Gothenburg, Sweden). In December he participated in a residency at Elektronmusikstudio in Stockholm Sweden and has an upcoming residency at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology, Zürich in November 2023. ABOUT Ernst van der Loo: «Mutations» «Mutations» is a new quadraphonic composition based on an older quadraphonic one. I created it 20 years ago while at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. The original work was one of the first multichannel works I made. Since then my work methods have changed dramatically and I am employing very different methods of spatialisation in my current compositions. However, I recently found back a folder on an old harddrive with the original source materials for this 20 years old work. This «treasure trove discovery» triggered my idea to make a new work based on the same source materials. The original work’s sound materials are all synthetic and created at the analogue studio BEA 5 at Institute of Sonology, The Hague. Partly with help of Symbolic Sound's Kyma & Capybara at the same institute. The work is based on a rather rigorous transformation process that also steers the development of the work over time. This so called «family tree» composition method is inspired on the works of German composer Gottfried Michael Koenig between 1957 and 1969 (Essay, the Funktionen pieces and the Terminus pieces). NB! The sound file attached is a stereo version of the original composition from 2003. The final work that I will bring to the festival will be a different work but it will be based on the same sound materials. The duration will most likely be a bit shorter than the original composition from 2003. |
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