MALIKO - MIRAGE

This is a sound demo of the DIY spring reverb I made.

DIY Spring reverb demo

Study-piece I worked on in December 2008 and January 2009. 
Electro-acoustic composition with a very organic character. 
It was also an exercise in writing for various instruments and the process of recording and editing them. 

credits
from Summer Drizzle E​.​P., track released 19 January 2009 
Composition, Production, Synth programming - Mark IJzerman 
Cello - Dianne Verdonk 
Violin - Myrthe van de Weetering 
Clarinet - Wouter Suren

Summer Drizzle (2009)

"Coalescence" was a collaboration between Soundlings, Insomnio & Rosa Ensemble commissioned by Gaudeamus Muziekweek. Performed at Le Mini Who 2013.

Coalescence – a space and time where three generations of sound touch, pull and fuse…

Imagine a dark space with islands of light and sound. Small separate traces of sounds fly around hastily. At times they illuminate the darkness, leaving bursts and flares of near blinding light. Miscible as these elusive substances are, they sometimes touch each other unavoidably. With only the slightest contact, the streams are pulled together with an incredible force. Coalescence. Moving ahead along the same path for a while – tied together – then suddenly, all is blown to smithereens again.

Coalescence (excerpt) / Soundlings + Insomnio + ROSA Ensemble

Made for the Lomechanik PLACES AUDIOPOSTCARDS collection.

With it’s 25th release Lomechanik brings you 25 tracks in two hours time and a special limited edition of the: ‘PLACES AUDIOPOSTCARDS’ set. Each track on ‘Places’ has it’s own postcard with URL audiocode: Order them now and send them while you’re on the road as an account of your trip to the one you love. We wish you were here! 

MALIKO - OAK FEATHER

Invited by Gonzo Circus and Mediamatic, I played a tape-themed Echokamer night on 27-02-2014 together with Myrthe van de Weetering on violin and Mark Nieuwenhuis on trumpet.

"Echokamer is a series of events during which composers, musicians and other sound-makers experiment with sound at, and with the sound of, Mediamatic Fabriek. The giant industrial hall reverberates and erodes, and produces quite a bit of sound all by itself."

Recorded by Mark Nieuwenhuis.

Live at ECHOKAMER #15 ft. Mark Nieuwenhuis  & Myrthe van de Weetering

Composition made for De Stem van West (www.destemvanwest.nl). De Stem van West is a web-radio station about the urban life, social-cultural shifts and daily life in Utrecht West.

This composition is about the many contrasts that can be found in the Kanaleneiland neighbourhood in Utrecht West. To sonify these contrasts, I used the metaphor of inner vs outer. Recording the unheard resonances of the neighbourhood as well as the busy daily life, and juxtaposing these, I wanted to let the listener feel the way that life in Kanaleneiland can be.
Keeping the source material intact was very important to me. I used a whistled motif of a marketman and a sung phrase of a child and transformed them into something musical to build on.

The picture is by Liset van der Laan.

DRUIS

Nova Loko is a piece by Mark IJzerman & Roald van Dillewijn, with Dianne Verdonk on cello.
It celebrates new places and the romanticism of old ones. 30 minutes of music which have been collecting dust for a year and a half. A gift for the holiday season, something to listen to while traveling to relatives. May you visit lots of new places in the new year!

Nova Loko

Full album releases 28th of October on Anterior Insula and Le Pacifique!

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Terror, ecstasy, and even comfort. Mark lJzerman summons an unmistakably modern gamut of emotions with the thrillingly cinematic Flounder Maps.

Perspective is key: the album oscillates between panoramic, desolate synths and beautiful, twinkling microworlds, each angle complicating a work that functions as a portrait of near-future worlds. There is a palpable precarity to these speculative soundscapes reflected in the title — "flounder," i.e. to navigate difficult situations. Rushes of digital euphoria collapse into cataclysmic noise, suggesting eternal biological cycles: life, death, growth, decay, and the constant transfer of energy.
Occupying a parallel zone to Jeff VanderMeer's distorted eco-fiction, Flounder Maps opens with "All Of Moss Holding All Of Her": warm, primordial synths swirl alongside a buoyant bassline, as if soundtracking a chill-out room in the depths of a sentient forest. Next is "Kinship Of Clover": hypnotic electronic tones seem to chirrup like mechanical birds while breathy human vocals rise blissfully in the background — a hypnotic synthesis of nature and technology.
There is a keen psychogeographic aspect to the dense collages of Flounder Maps, as if lJzerman, who also creates media installations focusing on ecology, is guiding us through a vividly rendered world, hyperreal like a video game. First we wander, taking in the bucolic scene. Then, when the kick drum screams into life on "First Flounder," we run — in fear. But this isn't a work of dystopia, nor utopia, but of mutation and change, ideas which are audible in each heavily processed sound. It feels fitting that the album should end with "Leer Van De Laatste Dingen," or "learn from the last things" in English. The track's title implies growth, conversation, and openness: out of its bed of bittersweet, gauzy electronics, a melody blooms forth.

(Lewis Gordon) 

All tracks written and produced by Mark IJzerman
Mixing and mastering by Robin Koek
Design and photography by Mats Arnouts
Text on back sleeve by Odette van Heesbeen

Released by Anterior Insula and Le Pacifique

First Flounder

Short piece made for the opening of several exhibitions at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam: Designing the Surface, amongst others.
It was inspired by the themes of the exhibitions.
During the opening, Paula Alvala & Jakob Jakobsson performed to this piece.

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