This is inspired by a Korean horror movie ‘Train to Busan’. A night sea journey on a train. The corduroys have nothing to do with it. Still working on some refinements in the mix.

Warning: features some scary voices

Derailed in Corduroys

This too is still undergoing some refinements in the mix. While working on it, the screen temporarily turned green (like a Zoom background screen), perhaps out of exhaustion of the internal working memory.

Green Screens Dub

Mood Sifts

An interplay between some layers of processed recordings and free-associative musical ideas.

Wind - Up Bert Chronicle

Joe Mortoru's Yacht

Baobab

Combining ideas from a very old and lost electronic piece and new material for a chamber work.

Fernsprache

Project over the Summer of 2021. Coming out of the lockdown, I had a lot of dreams involving parties and gatherings, mixed with impossible tasks and performance anxiety.

Untitled Dream Series

The Hearsayologist

Combining modular synthesis, microtonal themes and shifting rhythms.

Occult Acrobats

Melati - Memori

Der Luftmensch

These things are always broken. Old field recordings of electrostatic generators + percussion timbres triggered by modular voltage + loosely related sonorities.

Die Dingen Zijn Altijd Kapot

This is a something in between a re-mix and a re-make of an old montage piece based on recordings of electrostatic generators that I made in Teylers Museum (Haarlem), and sounds I designed around that. The piece was left out of the actual series of pieces ('Beauty Sleepers') performed there as part of the Toon festival in 2001. The re-make/re-model version was made in loving dedication to my father who passed away on January 24th 2022.

Phlogiston

Composed 2019. inspired by a Federico Garcia Lorca's poem 'Los Puentes Colgantes'. Revised version with tape 2022.

Music on Floating Bridges - for Small Ensemble, Choir And Tape (excerpt)

Cintilar

Upon re-reading Kazuo Ishiguro's 'An Artist of the Floating World'.

Hesitation Bridge

Objets Mathématiques. Objets Naturels. Objets Sauvages.

Most of the sound design was done through modular synthesis. I was listening a lot to Bauhaus whilst building on top of an ever-moving very percussive modular synth foundation track. I felt like descending into my post-punk early years as a musician - possibly as a way of coping with the loss of my dearest friend Isis. This influence if definitely there.

Polterzeitgeist

Worked on in parallel with Polterzeitgeist.

Transfiguration sur la Plage

Antifesto is a creative alias of Bert-Jan Zuiderduin, a Dutch composer and sound-designer who doubles as a psychotherapist in private practice and at a human rights charity in London.

Bert-Jan originally studied Art and Media Technology at the University of Utrecht before going on to study composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. As greatest influences he cites Conlon Nancarrow and Morton Feldman. 

Through his later psychotherapy studies and practice, Bert-Jan stumbled across Carl Jung’s theory of the Transcendent Function, which describes a dialectic transformative process very much akin to his own way of writing. In essence, this theory describes two opposing forces joining to create a third. 

Bert-Jan’s work juxtaposes often contrasting ideas or even techniques. Makes use of extremely structured as well as completely improvised or accidental material. Another characteristic is the simultaneous occurrence of repetition and continuous change as has also been explored in minimalist music.

Previously, Bert-Jan worked more conceptually, for example his work ‘Beauty Sleepers’ existing of field recording made in Teylers Museum, Haarlem, where the composer attempted to bring back to life the ‘sleeping’ scientific instruments from bygone ages. There was even an electronic homage to Frank Zappa (‘20.000.000 False Moustaches Can’t be Wrong’).


Album:
https://antifesto.bandcamp.com/album/the-hearsayologist

Antifesto

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