Han Halewijn de Groot
Music Design

Han Halewijn de Groot was born 8 may 1963 in Leeuwarden.
When he was eight years old he started playing the recorder and later the oboe.
During his study at the Highschool of the Arts in Arnhem he followed:
– Master courses with Gilbert Flory and Lothar Koch
– Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag
– Lessons/Workshops from amongst others Walter Hekster,W. Lutoslavski, J. Cage, J.Drupsteen (audio/visual composing techniques), O. Messiaen and at Les ateliers UPIC the center of I.Xenakis.
Since graduation he works as a freelance composer, oboist and has great interest in connections between music and other forms of art. For this purpose he has collaborated with video, dance, music-theatre and light-art (Bulat Galeyev). From 1989 till 1996 he works and teaches at the Computer and Electronic Music studio (CEM) in Arnhem, Amsterdam. In addition to several European appearances as oboist and lecturer in composition he was also active as a testing engineer/ass man director of AUGAN instruments for user related problems with digital computer/audio equipment used by the film, video and musicindustry. From 1998-2001 he teaches animation, cdrom production and other computerart programs in workshops for amongst others the UCK, "Plaatsmaken" and the GLU. In 1992 he initiated Music Design for research in the field of form development and to produce multimedia and interactive performances. In may 1993 he won a price in a European competition for young artists who are active in the field of sound -sculptures, -installations and - performances with Interactive Woods - a concert for people, technology, surrounding and a woodwind player. After that his work went more into the direction of real/virtual interactive communicative surroundings and performances.This resulted in an expanded form of Interactive Woods with talking Trees made for the Foundation Maeght (MIRO) and Vision in the Dark a reallive adventure game for blind people and people that can see. He followed together with Katja Martin a scriptwriting course with Zoran Solomun to finish the first state off "To the best of my Memory". In nov 1997 a portret of him and his works was performed at the ISCM chambermusic days in Albania. In 1998 he won the second price of the German paper industrie with "Disturbing Utopia" a selfdestructive piece of art exposed at the Paper Biennal "Paper Art 7" in the Leopold Hoesch museum in Düren.Then he produced "Enchantress Influenza" an interactive surrounding for children where children had to help saving 5 cities from destruction by a virus. With Rochus and Markus Aust he created an interactive concert for 15 players and public which was premierred at the opening of the German Pavillion at the World EXPO2000 in Hannover. In 2001 he was selected for the performer and the mediated image course at the summer university of the AMSU and in 2003 he participated in the ‘Korsakov Workshop" for interactive documentairy filmmaking in Turin. His last piece in 2003 was part of the Labyrinth of Possibilities - Breathing in Breathing out an interactive rotating wall of 2 by 3 meter illustrating the effects of astma. In March 2004 he was selected for the Masterclass from Federico Fusi "Radio Arte Jump" organized by Almost Real and Eurocult about narrowcasting ideas or using the air as an exhibition space. In dec he was selected by SAGASnet for their mobile application development expert meeting in Oulu and in march 2005 for project development by the MEDIA program of the EU in Stuttgart. This month he contributes to the project Belgrad Reporter.

Selection out of the works produced from 2003 till 1993

– "Breathing-in Breating-out" an interactive rotating walls who consist out of 20 ventilators illustrating through sound, tekst and shadows the effects of astma while showing airflow.This installation was part of the Labyrinth of Possibilities.
– "Sense-It" an intuitive audio project for singers, tapecomposition and producer with Annemarie Steinvoort e.a.
– "Paper Rain" an interactive concert for piano, hobo, chant, trumpet, paper-rain installation and projections
– "Concerto Grosso" Peripherer Musiker für Zentriertes Publikum. Interactive concert for 15 players and public written in coöperation with Rochus und Markus Aust with performances at the German Pavillion during the world EXPO 2000 in Hannover, Osnabrück (KlangArt Festival), Donaueschingen (eröffnungs concert Musiktage), Stuttgart (KunstNacht - Staatsgalerie), Gengenbach (SWR recording), Kassel (Chorkirche HR recording), Völklinger Hütte (Schicht wechsel), Köln (Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum) u.a.
– "Enchantress Influenza" an interactive installation for children of group 5 (8year) made for the UCK educational program. A computer country in reality with 5 cities that has to be saved from a destructive virus by the children within one hour
– "Disturbing Utopia" an interactive "electric paper" installation developed for the 7th paper ART-Biennal in Duuren Duuren.This price winning project acts as a world of its own where the gravity is turned upside down. It consists out of 15.000 pieces of paper, individual controlled, that will fall down according to disturbance patterns (sound, movement, daytime, smell and amount) of visitors
– "De weg ontstaat door hem te lopen" an interactive installation in coöperation with Horatio Sormanie (fotographer) about a Pelgrimage to Santiago de Compostello exposed at the A-Kerk festival in Groningen
– "L’eau tempete ce renvoyer toujours" music for hobo and tape written for the 4th ISCMfestival in Albania 1997 performed as a part of the Dutch composersday with the works and a portret of Han H. de Groot
– "Three times through Nine places" music for oboe, violin and piano performed at the 4th ISCM-festival in Albania 1997
– "To the best of my Memory-TroisAnderthalbKwartYears" script-structure for an interactive "motion-picture" surrounding developed with Katja Martin and supported by the "Niedersächsische Landestreuhandstelle"
– "TeeWeeDee -Turn the World upside Down" theatrical piece for interactive ensemble, video/slides and conductor. Produced for:"Brass of the moving Image". Musicians react on images triggered by a dansing conductor who changes their world and their behaviour towards it. Performed at the TransmediaFestival - Berlin, Museum am Ostwall - Dortmund, Electronica Weekend - Rotterdam, Gothaer Kunstforum - Köln, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle - Bonn, Leopold Hoesch Museum - Düren and Städt. Museum in der Alten Post - Mülheim/Ruhr
– "Vision in the Dark" an communicative adventure world in a real live surrounding made for the exhibition "lost memories of sound and olfactory sense" in Kortenhoef sept/okt 1996. In this world everything is in braille. Blind people and people who can see have to communicate with each other to find out within 30 minutes how this world works
– "Landscape Talk" an interactive cartografic surrounding for the"Nature and Education Centre" in Hoogvliet (Rotterdam) feb 1996. Black and white world where people have to color their surrounding meanwhile triggering text commands belonging to locations on the map.
– "Talking Trees" an expansion to Interactive Woods created for the labyrinth of Miro in the "Foundation Maeght" (MANCA Festival - Nice).Touching trees alike objekts generate human alike sounds
– "The Tree of Lives" an interactive objekt
– "The unendless button" an interactive objekt
– "Interactive Fields" an interactive game surrounding
– "Wibble Wobble Wabble" a sculpture with three spell-bound interactive fruitdishes exposed at galery "Bloemrijk vertrouwen" in Leeuwarden
– "Ekati – Queen of the night" score for planetarium sky ("Artis" in Amsterdam), tape and quadrophonic computer surrounding
– "The Well of Beautiful Things" an interactive visual-sound object for children made for the educational program of Museum "Groeneveld" in Baarn
– "L‘espace sans visage" music for computer generated sounds produced at UPIC center of Xenakis (Paris) and the CEM in Arnhem
– "All we do is talking but what about humanity?" music for computer-ballet written as a reaction to the situation in Bosnie 1996.
– "Swing Swong, the singing dansfloor" an interactive installation where movement detected by magnetic shoes and infrared is translated in singing sounds, text on a display and a parrot. Performances in the gemeente museum at AVE-Festival Arnhem 1993 and at the festival for the youth "DeBuut"
– "Interactive Woods" - concert for people, technology, surrounding and a woodwind player. Performances of this price winning project where at the Biennial in Maastricht, Sonsbeek in Arnhem, at European Culture Unlimited 1993 in Nijmegen, at "Klangvisionen" in Iserlohn (Germany) and in several other cities
– "Changing Picture" duet for horn and bassoon
– "Rever de Aujourd’hui" solo for violin
– "ANUR" a ballet of Andreja Pisnik Osole selected for the performance price Germany - 1993 Composed music and produced the infra-red audiosuit
– "De Bronstvlucht" a project of "Het Klein Kollektief" with performances in the "Vierwinden Huis" in Amsterdam. Participating as oboist and composed music for tape and infrared system
– "Where the sea goes - knowbody knows" suite for orchestral ensemble
– "Return to go" solo for oboe
– "Answer me" music for oboe and computer-animation
– "7 ups to go" music for accordeon/english horn and computer
– "Le secret départ" solo for piano
– "Erakes Miose" solo for oboe continued

Works in progress - to be realised

– "Changing Views" interactive deduction system selected for FISEA Finland. People, music and
images interact to produce musical changes in realtime in the music and the images
– "Episodes musicales de la Vie" music for symphonic orchestra
– "Free my virtual Steps" design for a virtually filled surrounding with steps of people moving
through the museum developed for the museum of Modern Arts in Arnhem
– "Footsteps in Time - FIT" an integrated city-projekt where citizens with their movement on
a selected area provoke a time-based reaction in one of the 5 by radiowaves controlled timeobjekts
placed in the city
– "Scattered World" an communicative projekt where visitors and several connected rooms
produce a scattered world in reaction to each other
– "On m'appele Jean Péret" an symphonic story for orchestra and electronic surrounding
– "Musical Plants" an interactive concert and real live surrounding where nature, musicians and
public interact and together create the atmosfeer by movement and reaction

CONTACTS

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