CD
1 / Three Modulators, For Trombones / 15:29
2 / Truth, Exercise For A Listener / 16:14
3 / Branching into Others, For A Large Instrumental Field / 15:57
4 / Three Modulators, For Basses / 16:45
5 / Positions, For Those Involved / 9:33
1 / Three Modulators, For Trombones / 15:29
2 / Truth, Exercise For A Listener / 16:14
3 / Branching into Others, For A Large Instrumental Field / 15:57
4 / Three Modulators, For Basses / 16:45
5 / Positions, For Those Involved / 9:33
Martijn Tellinga (1974, Netherlands) is a composer and performer of musical proposals and acoustical situations. His practice renders an ongoing meditation on the rudimentary condition of the sonic arts. Drawn from a reduced formalist-seeming vocabulary, his work centers on the intuitive bending of (music) systems and the use of sound to express ideas of space and process. It includes a wide variety of conceptual actions and chance operations, probing the emergent field between intended and accidental occurrences.
Traversing the places of composition and the performance setting as such, his works thoroughly intertwine parameters of both aural and spatial perception. Including aspects of concert, installation and performance art, sound is used to establish forms transitive and sculptural. Engaged with the formative principles of music, the scores for his instrumental works are often open-ended proposing simple rule-based systems that provide performers with a way to listen, act and interact.
Recently he has been installing sound pieces in the public space — often employing intervention style tactics and principles of acoustic measurement —, negotiating urban and nature sites.
Martijn received a Masters degree with distinction in Sonology, and stipends from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. He performs and exhibits his work worldwide, lectures and works in residence. He collaborated with a.o. Jonny Axelsson, James Beckett, Dante Boon, Dextro, James Fulkerson, Sagi Groner, Robin Hayward, Mike Majkowski, Jon Mueller, Koen Nutters. He interpreted and performed works by a.o. Brecht, Cage, Lucier, McCall, Nono, Raaijmakers, Tudor, Xenakis.
He is one of the curators for the concert series DNK in Amsterdam. In 1999 he started the platform for experimental music Stitching Mixer, having organised numerous events and released over 25 titles to this date. He lives and works in Amsterdam and Beijing.
