voltage control (analogue) studio

Project 1 (Koenig)

Monument (1991)

Depths Of Field no.1 (1996)

Torso (1998)

E pur si muove … (2001)

Phalanxes (2005)

Crosstalk A (2008)

Lustre (2009)

Projection (2009)

composed with recordings of various air pressure sirens built by René Bakker.

Luchtveld (2010)

Chatoyance 1 (2012)

Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande (2014)

Voyage dans l'espace (2011)

1992 Holland Festival performance, IJsbreker Amsterdam, Harry Sparnaay contrabass clarinet, Harrie Starreveld contrabass flute, Kees Tazelaar live electronics.

A Pierre (Luigi Nono)

Most of this piece was composed during my Edgard Varèse Guest Professorship at TU Berlin during the winter semester 2005–2006 and produced in TU Berlin's electronic music studio.

Zeitraum–Ort–Zeichen–Sterne (2007)

Blocs de Son (2010–2011)

Pier & Oceaan (1999)

Geoglyphs Field 1 (1999–2006)

Geoglyphs Field 2 (1999–2006)

Funktion Berg

In November 2014, I composed a 3-minute-long mono piece in Sonology’s analogue studio called "Funktion Berg". It was my contribution to the playlist on the AC Jukebox, which was presented to Paul Berg as a farewell present. "Funktion Berg" consists of purely synthetic initial sound material and its transformations, whereby tendency masks controlled the random selection of parameter values at each subsequent step of the production.
Immediately after completing "Funktion Berg" I continued to process its sound material further, now using analogue as well as digital techniques.
The result is "Berglandschap" (Mountain scenery). 

Berglandschap (2014–2015)

Paradigma Stereo (original Version)

Kees Tazelaar (*1962) followed courses in Sonology in Utrecht and The Hague, and later studied composition under Jan Boerman at the Royal Conservatoire. He has been teaching at the Institute of Sonology since 1993 and has been head of the institute since 2006. His electronic music features a combination of formalisation, richness of sound and a compositional approach to sound spatialisation.

As well as a composer, Kees Tazelaar is a historian, who has specialised in the early years of electronic music in the Netherlands and Germany. He has twice been the Edgard Varèse Guest Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, where he earned his PhD in 2013 with the dissertation "On the Threshold of Beauty: Philips and the Origins of Electronic Music in the Netherlands 1925–1965" (ISBN 978-94-6208-065-2).

www.keestazelaar.com

Kees Tazelaar

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