Excerpt of a live concert with a pneumatic installation at Villa Nuts in Den Haag.

Although I am using some presets, the mix of sounds and movements are being made intuitively, and real time controlled.
This self-built living sculpture, annex noise-instrument (called Pneuma-Tix), consists of jumping air-tubes and pneumatic cylinders. The tubes are at one end connected to electronic valves (hand controlled via midi-controllers) and at the other end they turn and jump around wildly, because of the air that looks for an exit at 8 bar air pressure. The cylinders are connected to the valves (and real-time controlled) as well.

With the moving tubes and cylinders I create beats and soundscapes, amplified by microphones,which are fixed on the valves. In this way the 'left-over-air' blows directly from the valve-block into the microphones, so what you see is what you hear; the essence of the sounds is corresponding with the pneumatic movements. The pneumatic sound source (picked up by the mics) goes as well into my computer as sound input for digital sound processing.

I am playing with this installation moving back and forward; to and away from reality, from real pneumatic noise (directly linked to the visible dialogue between the cylinders and the valves) to virtual digital noise-layers out of my computer (triggered by live sound events). Both are live composed and connected. To highlight the behavior of the tubes I use black-lights combined with a stroboscope, so the traces of the tubes in the air, are made visible in the air and a complete experience is taking place.