This was made by putting Brian Eno's Bloom (Version 2) through TC Electronic's Hall of Fame 2 and Flashback triple delay.

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Alt-rock from Oxford, UK. Best played loud.

𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚍𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜, 𝚖𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚊, 𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚞𝚒, 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚍𝚎, 𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚛𝚢𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚊 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝.

𝙰𝚕𝚕 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗𝚕𝚘𝚊𝚍𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 C𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 C𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎. 𝙵𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚡, 𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚎, 𝚘𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚋𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚗𝚘𝚗-𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚞𝚜𝚎. 𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎.

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

Almost all tracks are free to download and covered by a Creative Commons license. Collaborations / Remixes are welcome so feel free to experiment - no need to get my permission first. Just send me a link to your track when you're done :)

I love listening to & creating ambient, dark ambient, avant-garde & experimental electronica (and the occasional beatscape). I have no professional aspirations  - I just really like creating music / manipulating sounds. It's my way of relaxing after a hard day at the office. All my tracks are produced using monitoring headphones (Audix A140) so I recommend that you listen to my music through headphones. My DAW of choice is FL Studio. I also use Reason every now & then. 


To the artists I follow; I do my best to try to listen to as many of your tracks as possible each night (I listen to each track all the way through - you went through the effort to create a track so you deserve to have it heard in full). If I miss a recent upload of yours, please forgive me...

Thank you for taking the time to visit my little corner of the soundcloud.

My bio does not matter at all.
Just listen. 
Be the sound. Be music.
Just be.

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