</alice> - Music Producer, Composer and Artist
Up-and-coming Dutch media composers show their recent work and tell us who they are
</alice> started out as a singer and songwriter but found a new direction when she discovered electronic music. While her love for long, dreamy melodies remains, she now merges these ethereal soundscapes with distorted glitches and grainy drums, inspired by more experimental approaches.
In her recent work </alice> explores the conceptual and metaphorical significance of glitches for marginalized groups within the electronic music scene. In a male-dominated industry, she investigates how the </glitch> can be used as a strategy to claim space. This theme also resonates aesthetically in her music and performances, where layered productions with glitchy vocoders result in an electronic dreamscape.
Through her studies in Music and Technology, she developed into a versatile composer and music technologist, creating interdisciplinary art. Her projects range from working as a DJ and producer in the theatre piece Disco Inferno, to a residency at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest. She also composed for a choir during the event E-Live, where choir, vocals and electronic music were blended. For her graduation project, </alice in a digital daydream>, she combined lights, visuals, and live performance, a work that earned her an HKU Award nomination.
Alongside this, she also works as a music producer for other artists, creating songs that range from experimental explorations to accessible pop. She enjoys working across different contexts and is always open to new collaborations and projects.
Project Video’s
</alice in a digital daydream>
A live performance, performed by the artist and producer </alice>. Through electronic soundscapes, vocals, and layers of effects, a dream world is created and constantly interrupted by glitches and fractures.
</alice in a digital daydream> is a performance inspired on the following story, self created:
Thought experiment </alice>
</alice> lives in a digital dream world. She walks along paths of solder, watching streams of electricity flow past her. The input of the circuit is all the expectations placed on </alice>, and the output is </alice>'s perception as she fulfills those expectations.
Until one day, the circuit glitches, stops working for a moment, and through a crack, </alice> sees a glimpse of reality, a world in which she is more than the expectations she has to meet. And in which </alice> can be a great person, through all the other functions she can embody, and thus take up space.
The glitch ends, but </alice> is forever changed. She now knows that the system she lives in was flawed, and not the complete world she thought it was;
During the performance, the digital dream world of </alice> is created. The music is like an ethereal dream, with its rich pads and reverb vocals. This sonic dream world is interrupted by digital glitches, faltering vocoders, and detuned synthesizers.
For this performance, </alice> produced and performed all the music, and coded visuals in Hydra which are used as a backlight.
Performed by: </alice>
Video by: Siobhan Lemaire
Spaces
A composition in which electronic music merges with live choir and live vocals.
The composition spaces explores the transition from liquid to solid. Liquid adapts effortlessly to its surroundings, like water taking the shape of whatever contains it. A solid form, like stone, however, claims its space, while ice pushes boundaries even further by expanding.
This movement from flowing, to floating, to occupying space lies at the heart of the piece. This piece was performed by in the Nicolaïkerk with choir Neon, where </alice> performed live vocals and Jelle Valk the spatial electronic instrumentals.
Music by: </alice> and Jelle Valk
Choir: Neon
Video edit by: Siobhan Lemaire
Spatial Composition in SSI Budapest
A spatial compostion in which harmonic vocals drift around you, as if in an embrace.
During a residency at the Spatial Sound Institute (SSI) in Budapest, </alice> conducted research with colleague Bram van Klink into the combination of sound and light. The 60 speaker studio with lighting system made it possible to experiment and research how there could be a translation from the spatiality of sound to colour and lights in the space.
In the video, you hear a spatial composition that </alice> made specifically for a multispeaker setup, created in 4DSOUND. The composition is about vocals embracing you. And you see the corresponding lighting effects.
Music by: </alice>
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