june 2011: a new radioplay performed at loos studios and poetry int. festival in june 2011: new york revolutionary plan, by yan yun and the xstatic tics
2011
New release: My Favourite Tics, by The Static Tics. After ten years of their excistence we finally released our first album. On Z6 Records .
Finished the score for the movie My Long Distance Friend By Carina Molier, due to be released in september 2011. read the synopsis here (also more info on several theatre productions i did with Carina)>> READ
November 2010
Austrian tour with Static Tics and Live radioplay: The Flatworm. Go here for more details on that trip!>> READ
>>> the static tics here with steve beresford performed at former dutch royal shell house, amsterdam north, in a new series curated by anne la berge , july 2009
The Static Tics with Steve Beresford febr.2008, maybe later this year on the " it doesnt fits if it aint got that ticks" tour with: Dr L Simonis and Dr S. Beresford
get the demo!Listen to a liveset, done in early 2008 at WORM >>
Part of the studio B
SUBTERRANEAN project: is malorix (rythms and abletonlive ) and me (bassclarinet and soundscapes)
XANKILL2
was produced in 2008 and featured in our movie verrotterdam
click here:
STACKED FLOW
was produced in 2009 and released on Ketacore
Records Industrieel Erfgoed 2009 Keta cdr 003
subterranean is a project jelmer cnossen and i started out for the resort off's
instant music series, brombron, 2005. Our mission was to explore
sounds and soundlayers generated by drums and bassclarinet, and
processed thru a lot of soft and hardware tools. The end result was
that the emphasis was more on soundlayers and brusque editing, than on
compositional structure. That was something we hoped to work out in the
second phase, jet to come. Also the end result was refused by the editor (....) of the resort off series and therefor wouldnt be released on cd
here are the tracks we wanted to release: using bassclarinet, samples and drums
in 2009 working on music score for the movie/documentary My Long Distance Friend (by C. Molier ) (TBC in 2010)
Working on sounddesign for TRASH 2009 new show Zofia
2008: activities to keep myself warm and reasonably fed. I am
working as an allround team member with the WORM group, as a
programmaker, webstation manager, radiomaker, organiser& producer
and studiomanager. www.wormweb.nl , www.wormstation.nl , wormstudio.blogspot.com Presently also Audio-editor for Praudioguide projects (www.praudioguide.nl)
1999/2008 RADIO:
An ongoing long term project involving the production of RadioWORM,
various radioplays, supplying several international radiostations and
manifestations like SAIT, DEAF, De Concertzender, Radio Resonance
London, RebootFM Berlin, Radioswap in Brussel en de NPS. Participant in
various radiofora in Amsterdam, Berlijn, Halle.
2005/2006
Playing bassclarinet (in combination with cello) for T.R.A.S.H , modern dance/theatre company from Tilburg
New Theatrework with Carina Molier: House of the Future with ToneelGroep Amsterdam>
RadioPlays: Blood Electric (http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/category/shows/the-sunday-play)
2008: Ghosts
2007/2008/2009
Playing bassclarinet for T.R.A.S.H, modern dance/theatre company from Tilburg>
Studioworx with Malorix>>
Trio with Steve Beresford and L.Simonis
Radiodocs for vpro-radio with Team TCHM: Venlove; The new Buzz RadioProductions: coming up next: WORM T Schippers presents...(4 hour special on radio 6) 15-11-08 Listen to it HERE
New Radio Play: Ghosts (december 2008)
Here's a selection of the stuff i did and do or was involved in the
past 20 years. It involves impro, modern chamber music, multi media
theatre, modern dance, abstract film. Music styles are
elektro-accoustic, digital, modern composed and improvised, pop, noise,
avant rock, techno, soundscapes.
The tools i work with vary from several elektronical hard and software,
to the average cd and record players, samplers, synthesizers, filters,
effects and transistorradios and so on.
Theatre
In collaboration with director C Molier i've realised several
multimedia dynamic theatre installations/plays, by means of
compositions, and interactive soundscapes (performed live)
-Chelsea Girl , Zuid Zuid West , Big Boy (NesTheaters), Ruigoord De
Geboorte en Ruigoord II - (Toneelgroep Amsterdam), Queen and King
(Paradiso/Melkweg Prod.) Huis van de Toekomst (Toneelgroep Amsterdam 2006)
Other smaller plays:
-Terminus by Caren Klaes,
-Abelard en Heloise by Eric-Ward Geerlings and Lucas Simonis - (and the institute of affordable madness)
Filmprojects with the Alliage Orkest of the Rotterdam musicianplatform;
composition and performances with the inevitable Vertov’s Man with the
camera
-Composition and live performance with abstract movies by Bart Vegter, Forest Views-
Chambermusic: modern composed, live improvised
-Duoprogram with fluteplayer and innovator Anne Laberge, solo’s en duo’s with live elektroniks.
-Trio NU modern compositions for flute, bassclarinet and piano
-Projectes with poet/performer Cor Gout
-Co-Producer of parts of the Recyclops project(disko B)
-Trio Aim: improvisations with Arend Niks en Wilbert de Joode
-Paul Termos Dubbel Express, (new Dutch swing) -
-Soloprogramma; Bassclarinet Culture (compositions, improvisations en soundsculptures)
-Duo Friederich/Bakker (techno,ambient,jungle,) -
-Co-producer en participator van Recyclopedia(D) - jaren 90 plunderphonics
-Gates (project by Gerard van Dongen with Ann laBerge, Peter van Bergen
- compositions en improvisations with interactif elektroniks),
-Project by artist William Engelen (grafical improvisations).
-Elektronik Quartet TEC 97 with Huib Emmer, Artur Sauer and Frans Friederich
- Gerard van Dongen 5tet (akkoestical improvisation) -
- Project met Bart van Dongen (elektro-akkoestical improvisation)
Various elektronikal projects
- Heimseh; excercizes in techno with composer Huib Emmer
- Henry and Joe; Alternating and processing in digital realm; (with Johan de Koeyer, aka Donkey Hare Joe)
- Static Tics; with L Simonis (digital improv) -
- Hek, drBadvibes/hekvibes: solo studio productions with digital tools and elektro-accoustical improvisations
- Subterranean: duo project with Jelmer C. elektro-accoustical musics; combination between digital percussion and bassclarinet
discog.
Recyclopedia b - Friederich De arte venandi - estos no son pagagos
Recyclopedia C - Friederich
Ambush - Dull Schicksal
Recyclopedia D - Friederich
Recyc;lopedia E - Friederich
Recyclopedia G - Friederich Drone joke yeah - donkey hare joe
Hard disko 1 - (Recyclops)Recyclops
Dikke mannen - Dull Schicksal
Death dance of principals - Paul Termos
Kraakgeluiden - samplercd
RadioWORM - various issues
Musically i started out listening and experimenting with various
selfmade stuff (tapes,loops, radio) and noncertificate use of excisting
excotic wind (like the Khen, shakuhachi) and percussion instruments and some selfstudies of non
western musics, expanding into semi electronical realms by various use
of tapedecks, cassetteplayers and loops, lots of loops. Picked up the
clarinet and flute, fell in love with the bassclarinet and started as
an improviser and expanded this also with the use of electronics and
tape collages. Studied solo bassclarinet from '87 till '92 at the
conservatory in Utrecht with H. Sparnaay -
mostly modern chamber music (with tape compositions as well), did some
course (i looked over his shoulder) with elektronic pioneer/composer T
Bruynel .
After wich I mixed it all up with improvisational and experimental
soundstuff and elektroniks and lived happily after. I did many projects
in bands and ensembles, ad hoc stuff, in all kinds of directions. But maybe it all started much earlier while listening to the RADIO... dont underestimate the radio
people to remember
Gerard van Dongen passed away
on Friday the 4th of March 2006, after a brave battle with colon cancer.
Gerard worked as a composer, musician and computer programmer in
Rotterdam as well as played live with many improvisational and
electronic musicians in the Netherlands including Bart Maris, Tom
Wouters, Joe Williamson, Henk Bakker, Peter van Bergen and Ann LaBerge.
He performed solo-concerts with electronics and/or piano compositions
and played for numerous dance and theatre productions, produced
radio-plays for the internet, and was a technical designer and software
programmer for multimedia theater. Gerard was also an active member of
the Pure Data and Linux Audio Developers communities, and contributed
code for the user interface of the Ardour project and the soundengine
of Soundtransit.nl.
