_ABOUT ME
Mark IJzerman is a young music composer, producer, sound artist & educator from The Netherlands, who recently gained his Master of Arts (in Design for Digital Cultures) at the Music Technology department at the Utrecht School of the Arts. Besides being an artist he believes in the importance of educating (young) people to make their own media. Whether he’s composing, producing, teaching or experimenting, organicity is an important keyword to all that he does.
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Upcoming projects
- February 2012 – Spatial installation workshop for Interactive Media Design students at ArtEZ Arnhem
- March 2012 – Radio Kootwijk Live performance at Vredenburg
- Winter/spring 2012 – Recording new Lovis EP. Due April/May 2012.
BrainPulse at GLOW Festival ’11 (Installation)
Interactive sound design for light installation at GLOW Festival 2011, collaborating with students from the Interaction Design department of the University of Technology Eindhoven.
A team of Industrial Design students of Eindhoven University of Technology takes the visitors of Glow on a journey into the brain of a researcher. In this context, the façade of the main building provides room for interactive play between the Glow visitor and the building, representing the synapses of the human brain. The lighting design expresses the activities that take place behind the façade, using an array of lights that reside in the rooms, making optimal use of the spatial characteristics of the building. Visitors contribute by making use of flashing equipment, such as those found in standard devices like digital cameras, to inspire the brain and experience innovation.
See videos of the process here and here.
Video footage by Nupky, ICMS and J. Gerstel.
Installation Prototype @ Radio Kootwijk Live: Remote Control
As participating artists in the REMOTE CONTROL session of Radio Kootwijk Live, sound-artists Robin Koek & Mark IJzerman, in collaboration with visual artist Joris de Jong created this prototype for an installation in two days.
It “connects” the users via visuals and sound. We intend to make a dance piece with this technology in the near future.
Bilderraus @ VJ op de Dom (Projection Mapped Animations)
Music and sound design for ten different animations which were projection mapped on the Dom Tower of Utrecht. Composed together with Tijs Ham.
Animation artists: Zesbaans, Aldo Hoeben, Jan Samsom, Marcel Alberts, Arnaud Loonstra, Veerle Cima, Machiel Veltkamp, Martin Boverhof.
Project by z25 in collaboration with Born Digital and Vrede van Utrecht.
Rocket Cinema – “Robbery” (1967) (Live new soundtrack for classic movie)
Performed a new live electronic soundtrack for the old 1967 classic “Robbery”, together with d’Arles from Buchner & d’Arles, at the Rocket Cinema Festival 2011. Performed in Utrecht, Amsterdam and Groningen.
Reviews here and here.
Implied by Light (video of installation)
Music for a video of a prototype light installation by Jeroen Peeters.
Blind Date project @ Ohrid, Macedonia
Final performance of "Enigma"
From the 29nd of July to the 12th of August 2011 I was in Ohrid, Macedonia to participate in the “Blind Date”-project. This is a project set up by the ZOEY foundation.
Blind Date is a cooperation project between musicians from the Netherlands and Macedonia. The project is open to music technologists, composers, and players of acoustic instruments. During an intense period of 14 days and under the guidance of professional composers, you will compose/play music and work together in small groups to develop your own compositions together with participants from another country. During the project, many evening performances of the work in progress will be organized. At the last day of the project the new pieces will be performed on a concert at the International Ohrid Summer Festival.
I collaborated with composer Damjan Temkov, philosopher Vladimir Hari Krstevski and musician/programmer Tijs Ham (tapage) to make a piece based on the Enigma code.
Audio will be up soon.
Mutualistique (Motion Graphics // Sound Design experiment)
Participated in this 3D Motion / Sound Design experiment by Brutesque.
“No Experience Required” (Documentary)
Music for Judith Schouten’s documentary “No Experience Required”, a documentary taking a hard look at the effectiveness of development work in Ghana.
“The Educators” (Documentary)
“This documentary shows Bernard Mika, one of the filmmakers in the Butala-project, on his way to becoming a local cultural agent. The movie is set to the background of a rural area in Zambia, just before the coming of electricity. Sarome Chibuye, an old farmer, has fears and questions as to the new developments. Does the coming of media, games, etc. mean that tradition will end?”
Documentary by Dominic van Buul & Sarah Harkink, Sound design and composition by me.