User:Niek Hilkmann

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Resurrection of the genius was an installation-piece consisting of a variety of audio-visual equipment connected through different pieces of audio- and video wire. A composition of around eight minutes was manipulated and distorted through the equipment and its features. The audio-piece itself consisted of three parts: industrial field-recordings touched game music and the digital simulation of a heartbeat. Different carriers, such as DAT, VHS, MP3 and CD, were used for each part and got combined with differently tuned speakers, for instance a built-in one for a TV-set, stable monitors and computer speakers. The TV-set also visualized it’s audio-input through the digital intervention of a external audio-driver, responding with visual white noise to the electrical current of the heartbeat. The setup was created three times, incorporating audio-equipment available in the room. In each case the space was darkened with only the television screen delivering a beam of light each time the heartbeat sounded.

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Sowieso is the second album I recorded under the alias Yoshimi! and was released in februari of 2012. It consists of 11 songs about conceptual disorder and existential crisis and is sung in Dutch. Practically each instrument that occurs during the album’s 38 minutes duration is played by me. There are few electronic sounds to be heard, but the arrangements include twelve string guitar, piano, ukulele, bass, mandolin, conga, drums, harmonium, rababa, qua zeng qin, bongo, dizi, accodeon, trumpet, darbuka, cello, euphonium and violin. The recording, mixing and production of the music was also done by me in a non-studio environment. Last but not least I produced the artwork and released the record through my own music platform KIKVORS which handled promotion and distribution.

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http://www.designhistory.nl/2011/het-begrip-kitsch-in-goed-wonen/

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