“Divergence” explores the tension between space and sound induced by their manipulated representation: sounds alter, calibrate and form space while simultaneously the sound is formed and manipulated by the space it is placed in. The album is based on pure sound sources such as sine waves and white noise. These sounds are physically manipulated and destroyed by the use of tape in order to form pulses, interferences and new wave forms. These manipulations create a divergence between the perception of sound and space: real and digital space interacting with pure and altered sound sources. The result is an intense sensory reaction and heightened spatial awareness through four movements.

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Divergence - B1

14-08-2015
Location specific live sound performance in the installation 'The Garden Which is the Nearest to God' by Taturo Atzu on the roof of the Old Church in Amsterdam.

Zeno van den Broek is fascinated by the experience of sound in and around the Oude Kerk. A significant contrast is noticeable between the noisiness in the immediate surroundings of the church and the silence within the church. The platform of Taturo Atzu adds a new layer to this contrast. A live performance, constructed from recordings of the environment of the church, the silence within the church and organ sounds, reveals the contrast between silence and noise, and the new position of the rooftop platform.

Come Closer is a public program on the rooftop of the Oude Kerk. In the midst of a city in motion, Come Closer offers a moment of reflection. From August 13 until September 6, every Thursday Friday and Saturday evening special guest speakers share a new perspective, a unique story or a performance with the public. High above the city in the open-air, a sort of contemporary hagenpreek (open-air sermon), Come Closer invites you to listen, look, experience, think collaboratively and to speak up.

Come Closer - Oude Kerk - live performance

In Shift Symm.two, a grid structure emerges from the artist’s formal language. Simple forms give way to the interplay of multiple moving and shifting layers, overlaps and collisions generating dense textures in sound and vision. These textures eventually open up into new forms of entropy.

Available on Sedition as audiovisual album: https://www.seditionart.com/zeno-van-den-broek/collection/shift-symm
Available on Bandcamp as audio album: http://vandenbroek.bandcamp.com/

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Shift Symm.two

The third work in the series, Shift Symm.three, sees stark lines contrast with circular forms, a simultaneous counterpoint of both visuals and sound. The contact of elliptical and linear echoes the relationship between discrete digital and continuous analogue representation.

Available on Sedition as audiovisual album: https://www.seditionart.com/zeno-van-den-broek/collection/shift-symm
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Shift Symm.three

Shift Symm.one focuses on linear form. Arrangements shift and distort rhythmically in a textured plane that extends indefinitely, creating waves of noise and roving focal points. As our vista expands, the plane is seen to be one among several, surfaces tangling into emerging textural complexities.

Available on Sedition as audiovisual album: https://www.seditionart.com/zeno-van-den-broek/collection/shift-symm
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Shift Symm.one

live blind date improvisation at Oorsprong Curator Series. 23-05-2016.

Performers:
Tijs Ham – electronics
Stephanie Pan – voice
Richard Japenga – drums
Zeno van den Broek – electronics

Curated by Zeno van den Broek
Oorsprong Curators Series is an initiative of Raoul van der Weide

Oorsprong live improvisation

Live recording of the fifth and final piece of Ob-literate.  
Performance at the Orgelpark - Amsterdam on 18-03-2016.

concept & composition: Zeno van den Broek, Gagi Petrovic
soprano: Stephanie Pan, Anat Spiegel
baritone: Florian de Backere, Kevin Walton, Arnout Lems
organ: Jacob Lekkerkerker
cubes: Zeno van den Broek, Gagi Petrovic

Ob-literate was commissioned by Gaudeamus Muziekweek.
Supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten and Fonds21.

Ob-literate

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Zeno van den Broek & Gagi Petrovic: Ob-literate at the Orgelpark - Part V

Binaural composition: please listen with headphones.

Pulse // Wave // Perspective utilises the spatial and musical characteristics of noise and sine waves and explores the perception of these sound sources from various perspectives. The short composition explores and juxtaposes distinct spaces by playing and placing these sounds in different forms of space: the non-space of the headphones, the real space of a house in Copenhagen and the virtual space of digital reverberation.

PULSE // WAVE // PERSPECTIVE

Paranon consists of two compositions based on parameter canons of sine wave generators. The canon is a counterpoint-based compositional technique that creates one or more imitations of a musical movement after a given duration. These imitations replicate the initial movement with transformations of parameters. The custom programmed sine wave generators Zeno van den Broek uses on Paranon make it possible to generate interference, shift phases and alternate frequencies with great precision. The method of the canon creates tension and unexpected, yet cherished, results between the initial sine wave and the imitations that follow. These two concise compositions delve into the beauty of pure sound and explore the richness of colliding sound waves that create spatial events wherever Paranon is being listened to.

Paranon

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Paranon - Canon 1 (excerpt)

Formed in Copenhagen, February 2018, using a modified Ciat-Lonbarde Esoterica Spike Ring.

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"Typically in my work I deal with fixed concepts and defined parameters. With “Entrop” the concept was to not deal with such notions and instead to embrace chaos. I built a noisy little synth – a Ciat-Lonbarde Esoterica Spike Ring – which I modified with further feedback loops to intensify its unpredictable nature. The drum track is not programmed – instead the drum computer follows the pulses of the synth. The recordings on this tape are edited and layered from several sessions. I find it to be one of my most musical works – less rational, almost purely instinctive.” - Zeno van den Broek, Berlin, 22.vi.2018

Entrop

ENTROP - Untitled IV

Breach is the new album by Zeno van den Broek out on Moving Furniture Records as LP + CD, CD and digital.
Order the album here: movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/breach

‘Breach testifies to the blackened sounds of tectonic shifts shaking the worn habits of society’s nature and nurture. NOW! blares from metal screens. As stability is a long-lost illusion and equilibrium stands at odd angles, Breach screams: Come out and play. Offers on billboards: Tables filled to the brim, a riot in excess. Over there! Look, out of the window: The movement of revolutions per minute in a rapidly changing landscape where as below so above can very well be the next trending hashtag for barricade-progressive action. If not thought.

Breach sloganeers: Your anger is a gift. Breach unleashes: What was kept pent up, creeping slow like glacier ice, but advancing surely as the scorching lava that entombed Herculaneaum. Leaving behind the spiked blast of unloading, Breach does not represent — fashions disruptive events: compositions of chaos in flux. Breach breathes the frantic fumes and pulsates with the moving noises of electromagnetic rebels in the streets:
This, the density of today. For Breach is manifest.’ 
(liner notes by Sven Schlijper-Karssenberg)

Breach

Breach one

Breach two

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