It's my only record released on the Dutch techno label Team Wasted under the name RonMeijs.
Team Wasted#4/2003/ www.teamwasted.nl, grafics by Marco Broeders.

Minimal 7

a sound recording made of machines, present in every house. Edited and pitched down 60 % with Roland 808 sampler. year: 2002 By Ronald van der Meijs

Building Breath

Signes From

It's a live recording of a sound art installation in 2007.
It's an installation about the 'boxed calves' industry. They only get milk powder which causes the anaemia. This keeps the meat white. Each framework has the same scale as the boxes in the bio industry. In every framework a 'drum' skin of dried gelatin is stretched. The drops of water which fell on it at a surtain sequence causing the concert till the gelatine dissolves after 23 minutes and remains as a lens of water. The drops of water will be amplified and electronically manipulated in time. It symbolizes the transformation of the calves... see my website for pictures.

Economical Anaemia, A Dying Requiem

produced by Ronald van der Meijs in 2005.
The installation Footbal Cage consists of a stereo arrangement of contact microphones attached to a metal football cage. The sound composition is caused by physical contact with the cage during the football game. This sound work shows the oppressive situation of young people in a given city. When listening to it again It gives a spatial tightness. Recorded during a project with street kids in Amsterdam North.

Football Cage

produced by Ronald van der Meijs in 2003.
it's a composition made of rhythms which are visual on a painting of Rene van den Bos. A sound installation together with a painting in the exhibition at Joop Stoop, IJmuiden, Netherlands.

Sound Painting

produced by Ronald van der Meijs in 2002.
A sound art installation made for a exhibition in gallery RC de Ruimte in IJmuiden. in opposite of the Steal factory Hoogovens / Tata Inc. It's made of very short samples and symbolizes the working shifts 24 ours a day. 

Night Shift

Produced by Ronald van der Meijs in 2007. Piezo microfoon recording, during a sea voyage, of the radar bulb on a huge Icelandic container vessel called 'Godafoss'.  

Radar System Godafoss

Produced by Ronald van der Meijs in 2007. 
During a trip with the container vessel Godafoss to Iceland. A sound recording with piezo microphones against the steel of the bow of the ship during heavy weather. 

In the bow of the Godafoss.

Produced by Ronald van der Meijs in 2008.
Field recording of installation 'Wind Violins' during exhibition 'Exoten' Beelden op de Berg, Arboretum Wageningen. year 2008


Wind Violins Field Recording

biography

Born in 1966, Ronald van der Meijs lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied architectural design and graduated cum laude in 1993 at the Academy of Arts St. Joost in Breda, Netherlands. From 1993 he had his own practice and focused primarily on architectural design and concepts. He received architectural stipends and was teacher spatial design at the Academie of Arts St. Joost for 3 years. Since 2001 his work shifted to autonomous work in which architecture, art and sound have come together. He has exhibitions in museums, galleries, and biennials world wide. Such as NAI - Rotterdam, Central Museum Utrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Gorinchem Museum in the Netherlands, Martinez gallery - New York, SIM House - Reykjavik, Verbeke Art Foundation - Belgium, Fabbrica Europa 2012 - Florence and Centro de Arte Complutense - Madrid, FILE - Sao Paulo, National Art Museum China - Beijing. He received art commissions of the Dutch Government and received several grands of the Mondriaan Fund.


statement

He constructs site-specific installations and sculptures that questions how people relate to their environment by technology, both high tech and with more earthy, rural construction methods. 
“It’s fascinating to see how we try to control our lives and even nature itself by using and relying completely on technology" 
Natural processes are part and subject of many of his works. He is interested in how nature and humans organizes itself: the consistency of growth and decay, processes of evolutionary adaptation to a changing environment. In particular, his interests include how people derive from technology development in response to the nature and the elements. Making art and culturing falls in it together. His work is a dialogue between nature and technology or nature versus culture. To show and investigate this matter in his work, he combines technology with natural and rural elements. “Nature has it’s own order, time and rhythm”
Each work is a metaphorical and conceptual treatment of sound, space, and material.
It is to lend a narrative quality to the hi-tech detail design, the architectural, machine-like character of the work, causing them to transcend their merely technological nature and raise the question to what extent our actions are conditioned.