This piece for duduk and loop machine was developed during the Atlas Academy 2012

Performer - Raphaela Danksagmüller

The loop rehearsal 30.08.12

New album https://3eilanden.bandcamp.com/album/harlingen

Comments & ideas for collaborations appreciated. 
Instruments: violin, mandoline, acoustic, bass and electric guitars, harmonica, tin whistle, darbuka, sansula, roland synthesizers. 
Recording with Cubase Elements 11 

Recommending these inspiring musicians: 

https://soundcloud.com/the-plugs ;  https://soundcloud.com/pleudoniem ;  https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett ; 
https://soundcloud.com/dan-lockhart ; 
https://soundcloud.com/julsy ; 
https://soundcloud.com/houckjt ; 
https://soundcloud.com/tante-meli .

Geboren in 1973 in Sulaymanyah/Koerdistan, kreeg zijn eerste muzieklessen op 14-jarige leeftijd van Adil M. Said. Daarna studeerde hij altviool en andere muziekvakken aan het college of Fine Arts (Music Arts) aan de Universiteit van Bagdad. Van 1994 tot 1996 was hij muziekdocent op de muziekafdeling van Sulaymanya Institute of Fine Arts. In 1997 is hij naar Nederland gevlucht. Vanaf 2002 studeerde hij met steun van het UAF compositie bij Alex Manassen, na zijn bachelor (2006) heeft hij zijn master diploma aan het Messiaen Academie – ArtEZ conservatorium te Zwolle behaald (2009). Zijn composities worden in verschillende  landen uitgevoerd.

Igor Iofe is a contemporary
composer from Tashkent currently based in Amsterdam whose musical
paths lead to diverse stylistic destinations.

At theConservatorium van Amsterdamhe studied with Wim Hendrickx,Richard Ayres, Fabio Nieder,Willem Jeths and Jorrit Tamminga. Igor attended masterclasses with Misato Mochizuki, Tristan Murail andTan Dun. His music was performed on the Composers’ Festival Amsterdam (2012 and 2013), Atlas Academy (2010-12), Looptail XXX and at such venues as De Link, De Duif, Het Bethaniënklooster, Het Veem, STEIM and CvA in Amsterdam and other cities of the Netherlands. His piece Y+Ywas performed by the Joint Venture Percussion Duo at several venues in the USA and Europe.

Parallel to his Classical Composition studies Igor studied Composing Music for Film with Jurre Haanstra and graduated as a Master in Composing for FIlm at the CvA. During his studies he wrote music for several movies which were shown at the Beeldbuis Filmfestival, Keep an Eye Film Festival, VERS Awards, Cinekid Filmfestival, M2M Filmfestival and Pleinbioscoop Rotterdam.

Igor is one of the founding members of the 528Hz

João 𝗦𝘃𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗺, is a multi instrumentalist, music producer and yoga student / teacher. Connected with the term singer-songwriter but also diverse genres, such as music for meditation, electronic, trip-hop, ambient, free form music, and others.
Lover of nature, passionate world observer, into spiritual questioning and meditation practices.

☼ 
 Music is one of multiple ways of living fully, being whole and complete, immersed on the vastness of the world. At each music note we can redeem something more from our essence, spread it, echo it, give, receive and be. Svayam is a moment of meditation guided by sound, and it’s offered as an opportunity to be who we really are, to take from the inside what escapes our instant and automatic sensibility. João Sousa guides this voyage - personal, but collective - with a guitar, voice and bowls.
Each body touched by sound is a moment of unique love,
an inexhaustible source of energy. To create with sound is to open doors to the earth, to touch the water, feel the air and transform with fire… For a moment we understand the act of creation, we are that moment, undulating in the ethereal, taking off from matter. Each time Svayam happens, we connect profoundly with humankind, with life, with the cosmos. Let us be all and nothing, here and now, everyone and none.

Guitarist, composer, performer, producer, Lucas Maiorani is a Franco-Italian guitarist.
Trained at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne with Dagoberto Linhares then at the Royal Conservatory of Liège with Adrien Brogna and Hughes Kolp, he obtained a Masters in interpretation and pedagogy. The many opportunities for representation in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Russia, give him a great experience of the stage.
On the wise advice of great masters like Roland Dyens, Rolf Lislevand or Scott Tennant, Lucas Maiorani develops a very musical, contrasting game; looking for various and colorful stamps. His audience describes him as a passionate and touching musician.
“An audience captivated by the harmony and the sharing of great musical emotions tinged with rich Latin, Brazilian and Iberian musical accents. »Le bien public (08/17/11)
His taste for chamber music has led him to work in numerous projects such as the opera by Hans Werner Henze: El Cimarrón, with Barna Cserháti, Catherine Goederman and Jonas Burton; or the guitar octet Dagoberto Linhares in adaptations by Praetorius, Ravel, Piazzola, Bernstein…
In 2020, his first solo album “  Guitarra Sudamericana ” is released, dedicated to Latin American compositions, as well as “ Django Project ” dedicated to guitarist Django Reinhardt in collaboration with Guillaume Lepoutre.
He founded the CBArts Productions Label which produces emerging artists with various influences.

https://lucasmaiorani.com

The music project "Present Paradox" by Dortmund-based David Kleinekottmann provides insights into the often opaque nature of the present. The result is a fusion of melancholic and danceable elements, expansive and intimate at the same time, diverse and yet familiar. Since 2013, Kleinekottmann has been regularly releasing LPs/EPs that move between indie, experimental rock and electronica.

Cinzia Nistico is a composer working in theater/video art based in Amsterdam

Her music brought her from Milan to London, back to Milan and finally to Amsterdam where she’s currently based.
She studied composition at Trinity College of Music where she graduated, and in Milan Conservatorio di Musica, where she also graduated in 2010. She studied with Paolo Rimoldi in Milan, Fabio Nieder in Amsterdam and Salvatore Sciarrino at the Acanthes summer course in Metz. Among her most significant encounters is Rolf Riehm and Bernhard Lang who she recently met in Ostrava (CZ).
Among the venues where she received performances there is the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, “De Duif” Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t ij and Trinity College, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Peacock Theatre in London. Her music has been performed among others, by the Atlas Ensemble (2010), Ensemble Risognanze (2010), Orchestre National de Lorraine conducted by Diego Masson (2008), Cseallox Duo (2009/10/12) and Briefe Ensemble (2010), Quasar Ensemble (2011) True Lobster Duo (2012). She collaborated with the choreographer Laurant Cavanna, from Rambert Company in London, and the film director Alan Denman, for whom she composed the soundtrack of Luminoid, which was successfully presented at the New York short film Festival and Cannes Film Festival in the short film section.
Her music has been performed in Festivals in Amsterdam such as Gaudeamus Vertolkers concours & week van de Kamermuziek, Uitmarkt Festival, in Milan at the Festival Milano Musica (2010) and within the Internationale Saxofoondag festival (Barneveld) and Festival del Sassofono Fermo (Italy); in the Czech Republic (Ostrava Music Days 2011), Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Amsterdam (2012) Alte Schmiede in Vienna (2012). In August 2012 there will be a premiere of her music in Denmark.