Hans Roels is composer, sound artist and researcher.
On February 5 and 6 (2025) there is a first try-out exposition of my new sound installation Driewoud (Threewood). A string trio has exciter speakers attached to their sound boards and these are playing multitrack recordings of one tree moving in the wind.
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I am playing my new composition Trill for the music robot Aeio in the concert hall of the Logos Foundation on 19 December 2024.
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The inflatable sound installation Susurrus is shown at the Big Bang festival in de Singel (Antwerp, 26 oktober) and de Bijloke (Ghent, 17 november 2024). This installation was designed and built together with Mattias Parent in the Logos Foundation.
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The installation The Unreliable Archives of Rona Kennedy with my sound tracks and audio objects can be visited in Ostend (B) at the festival Theater aan Zee on 8, 9 and 10 August 2024.
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On July 23, 24 and 25 the musical dance performance Robody was shown in the Logos Foundation. A production in collaboration with dancer Emilie De Vlam and composer Kristof Lauwers.
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In the past months I have been working on an inflatable sound installation Susurrus together with Mattias Parent in Stichting Logos. I am also busy creating a series of comprovisations for a physical model (software) synthesizer Mimba in Pure data. More information on these projects is coming soon...
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Here is more info on sound artists and composers making performances for locations outside the usual art spaces.
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On Sunday November 19th, Art Day for Children, the performance Planeet Jong Dzin Pong can be seen again in the Logos Foundation. In this performance for children, designed with Emilie De Vlam and Kristof Lauwers, the young audience walks through the Logos buildings and encounters concerts, dance acts and performances with the Logos music robots.
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The installation The Unreliable Archives of Rona Kennedy with my sound tracks and audio objects was shown at the Oorzaken festival (Amsterdam, June 2 to 4) and the Dansand festival (Oostende, June 31 to July 2).
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Here are samples and info on the (physical modelling) synth that I am designing.
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Listen to the soundscape that I have made for the Radio Forest Sessions exposition of Musica (in October - 2021). During one hour recordings and talks (with Ruben Orio and me) are served about the Street Sonatas performances in Ghent harbour (June 2021).
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You can watch a video of a Street Sonatas performance on this vimeo website. It is the recording -in three parts- of a performance in June 2021 in the harbour of Ghent, together with Ruben Orio.
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