Introduction

Welcome to this site about my music and sound design.

It will be “under construction” at any time, ever evolving. The site was launched at the beginning of April 2006.

All comments are welcome. Please contact me or the webmaster.

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It is my aim to get advertisement companies, the moving pictures industry and the computer game industry interested in my work. Please feel free to contact me.

I have been composer and sound designer for some twenty years. Coming first from the classical music world (conservatory, oboe studies), I started working with different means in the eighties: electronic ways of composing and producing sound and music.

I am working in the Netherlands for theatre and ballet by then. In 2005 and 2006 I have been busy in my private digital composition and editing sound studio, based in Brighton, United Kingdom. By now (2008) my studio is based in The Netherlands again.

Note I use my studio for composition and production of my own work only.

My journey is one of hybrid forms combining instrumental and electronic music. I used to work with heavy duty analog equipment (such as analogue synthesizers, for example the semi-modular Korg PS3200) but the upkeep and maintenance of the stuff is no longer possible this day and age. So I am being forced to use digital apparatus (including computers). After some years of digital hell (sometimes due to Microsoft bugs but quite often human errors) I worked myself towards heaven even without noticing this very process. However, right now in 2008 I am the proud owner of a fresh designed analogue valve-synthesizer…

I discovered my creativity thrives best with random processes.

My styles of music are widespread, from contemporary classical to ambient and techno, some work crossover and world inspired as well.

Musically yours, Matthijs