the Sijme Storm Ensemble is:
- andré hogeslag/ sijme storm
electric guitar, e-bow, e.g.o. - luuk de weert
vibraphone, percussion, pure data - various guests
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INSPIRATION
texts, drawings, notations, technical stuff are all from my sketchbooks
12 june 2019
from my wish to play soft, abstract and harmonious sounds came the energy and motivation to start to think about chamber music and eventually to write music for chamber music ensemble.
Electric Chamber Music, because at the center of this writing is the electric guitar. so far i’ve written some 25 pieces in the last year. Solo pieces, duets, trio’s, quartets, and lately i’m working towards combinations with woodwind instruments [clarinet, flute] and percussion.
besides thinking and writing the music i wanted to test the written material. an Ensemble would be perfect for this musical journey.
my great great grandfathers name was Sijme Storm, he was the gardener of ‘Kasteel Soelen’ / ‘Soelen Castle’ in the 19th Century. Enough reason for me to name the Ensemble after him.
my main inspiration for the project: – Ecole de Notre-Dame, – Morton Feldman, – Jürg Frey.
André Hogeslag/ Sijme Storm 2019
NEW electric souvenir PROJECT – 2019
A NEW PROJECT STARTED IN JANUARY 2015
…and now, at the beginning of 2019, everything starts to come together, the Sijmen Storm Ensemble started rehearsals for a contemporary electric chamber music. Compositions are being made for intimate, soft, abstract and harmonious musical adventures. Rehearsals are recorded. There is a sound cloud page for this project : electric souvenir notes.
More info and musical output will be available in the near future.
André Hogeslag
Twijnstraat 5 Mei 1945
After 10 years, this short documentary by Ferry van der Werff and myself, was aired on RTV Utrecht yesterday [a reprise]. Maybe there’s more interest in the unique archive footage of the old city of Utrecht, so I post it here on the electric souvenir site.
tristesse d’une étoile
our submission for the sapporo-international art festival 2014
appolinaire’s war poem ‘Tristesse dune étoile’ is our inspiration for the composition with which we entered the sapporo international art festival 2014 competition
1914-2014 centennial WW 1
tristesse d’une étoile
Une belle Minerve est l’enfant de ma tête
Une étoile de sang me couronne à jamais
La raison est au fond et le ciel est au faîte
Du chef où dès longtemps Déesse tu t’armais
C’est pourqoi de mes maux ce n’était pas le pire
Ce trou presque mortel et qui s’est étoilé
Mais le secret malheur qui nourrit mon délire
Est bien plus grand qu’aucune âme ait jamais celé
Et je porte avec moi cette ardente souffrance
Comme le ver luisent tient son corps enflammé
Comme au coeur du soldat il palpite la France
Et comme au coeur du lys le pollen parfumé.
Tristesse d’une étoile [20’02”]
André Hogeslag: Yamaha CS-10 analoque synthesizer, Max/MSP; Luuk de Weert: Vibraphone, Percussion, Pd; Annemarie Steinvoort: Soft Synths and Voice
Poem ‘Tristesse d’une étoile’ [ G.Apollinaire ] presented by Marlies Koenders
Recorded 21-12-2013 / Utrecht / The Netherlands
an Electric Souvenir Recording
Painting of Apollinaire by Luuk de Weert