Electric Umbrella #21 - Improv Food and Improv Sounds!

and... IMPROV FOOD... FREE!

Come around 19:00 hours and enjoy the vegetarian meal, cooked by DE VOLKSKEUKEN, right next to the stage in the concert hall. Please be on time or you'll find empty plates! Concert will start at 8:30 PM.

Dirk Bruinsma plays saxophones, bass guitar, electronics and percussion. He is active as a musician and a composer and has been active in the Dutch and international music circuit for about 40 years. Think of avant-garde rock bands like Sumbur (with Han Buhrs) and Blast (with Frank Crijns)! AND he worked with iconic musicians like Fred Frith, Barry Guy, Axel Dörner, and Elliott Sharp.

Apart from some composition lessons and piano lessons as a child, he is entirely self-taught. Having his roots in experimental rock music, an interest in contemporary composition and free improvisation resulted in a rich oeuvre of works with each time a shifting focus per project. Side paths to sound art and electronic sounds have broadened this even further. However, the free spirit of rock music has inspired him all the way.

Martijn Comes (1979) is a Dutch composer and improviser who has a special interest in sound character in various musical traditions, with a special gravity towards electroacoustic composition. He graduated at the academy for Digital Communications in 2004 with a thesis on live stage performance with the aid of digital media and studied Composition for Film with Jurre Haanstra at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.