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Music Production | Event Organising
As part of Amsterdam Dance Event 2021, Blabla Sounds organized ‘Feel It! De Expo’, an exhibition that combined visual arts with music. Watch the after movie to get an impression of the event and scroll down to see the art works together with our custom made music.
At Feel It! De Expo, five artists developed and exhibited artworks within the theme ‘Connection to your surroundings’. Blabla Sounds produced music for each of the artists, which could be listened to through headphones while watching the artworks. We organized Feel It! De Expo to create bonds with new artists and to connect to our audience in real life.
At Feel It! De Expo, five artists developed and exhibited artworks within the theme ‘Connection to your surroundings’. Blabla Sounds produced music for each of the artists, which could be listened to through headphones while watching the artworks. We organized Feel It! De Expo to create bonds with new artists and to connect to our audience in real life.
Marian Genet made a tapestry from the floor to the ceiling, named Harmony of Love. She was inspired by stories and experiences of people from all walks of life, who bring color to our lives with the unique little things they do. The audience was invited to lie down on the artwork and experience a world of positivity, femininity, sensuality, vulnerability, color, energy and movement.
Blabla Sounds brought this harmony of warm, feminine energy and the multiplicity of human stories to life in a choir of soulful vocals and represented the movement and positivity through the jazz rhythm and high-spirited lead melody.
Marian Genet made a tapestry from the floor to the ceiling, named Harmony of Love. She was inspired by stories and experiences of people from all walks of life, who bring color to our lives with the unique little things they do. The audience was invited to lie down on the artwork and experience a world of positivity, femininity, sensuality, vulnerability, color, energy and movement.
Blabla Sounds brought this harmony of warm, feminine energy and the multiplicity of human stories to life in a choir of soulful vocals and represented the movement and positivity through the jazz rhythm and high-spirited lead melody.
Lara-Leh Bogaard made two series of paintings and photos edited with paint, showing the silence that evolves in the evening twilight. What kind of mysterious night scenery takes place when nobody is outside? She used her imagination and inspiration from anime movies and nature to imagine what kind of fantasy creatures appear when it is completely silent.
Blabla Sounds expressed this silence with sounds of birds and other animals you can hear during twilight, which transitioned into nocturnal animals. The fantasy creatures were represented by classical cello music, with rhythmic pizzicato and strokes as steps of small and large animals that stride into the night scenery. Sentimental melodies were introduced to express the beauty of this imagined nocturnal landscape and the overwhelming emotions we would experience if we would see things we could not believe with our own eyes. This is also often people’s first reaction in anime when they witness the supernatural.
Lara-Leh Bogaard made two series of paintings and photos edited with paint, showing the silence that evolves in the evening twilight. What kind of mysterious night scenery takes place when nobody is outside? She used her imagination and inspiration from anime movies and nature to imagine what kind of fantasy creatures appear when it is completely silent.
Blabla Sounds expressed this silence with sounds of birds and other animals you can hear during twilight, which transitioned into nocturnal animals. The fantasy creatures were represented by classical cello music, with rhythmic pizzicato and strokes as steps of small and large animals that stride into the night scenery. Sentimental melodies were introduced to express the beauty of this imagined nocturnal landscape and the overwhelming emotions we would experience if we would see things we could not believe with our own eyes. This is also often people’s first reaction in anime when they witness the supernatural.
Michiel Kingma is a gaffer (light technician) and light artist. With his art he wants to show people how beautiful the world is, that people can enjoy every moment and that art is everywhere around us. Kingma exhibited a light installation that simulates the reflection of light on water – a phenomenon you can often witness if you simply look around you. Think of the reflection of light on a lake that is naturally projected on a wall or a bridge.
Blabla Sounds created a soundscape with river sounds and tremolo guitar melodies that merge and separate like streams of water. The synthesizer and cello shimmer just like the sparkling light on the water itself and its surrounding surfaces.
Michiel Kingma is a gaffer (light technician) and light artist. With his art he wants to show people how beautiful the world is, that people can enjoy every moment and that art is everywhere around us. Kingma exhibited a light installation that simulates the reflection of light on water – a phenomenon you can often witness if you simply look around you. Think of the reflection of light on a lake that is naturally projected on a wall or a bridge.
Blabla Sounds created a soundscape with river sounds and tremolo guitar melodies that merge and separate like streams of water. The synthesizer and cello shimmer just like the sparkling light on the water itself and its surrounding surfaces.
Cheyla Dortland made a mixed-media series with collage and spray paint, representing how music brings people together. She was mostly inspired by funk, jazz and hip hop. Her work furthermore showed the infinity of the universe, in which people are tiny and quite insignificant beings. This adds a new perspective to our lives, our daily problems and to our ideas and perceptions of each other. Whereas we can differ so much from each other, in the end we are all one under the same moon. Besides, if we do not feel that significant in the bigger scheme of things, we can also take ourselves and our problems a bit less seriously.
Blabla Sounds made a psychedelic funk soundtrack with a mystic and playful energy. With the introducing melodies and dynamic pad, we imagined rising up from the planet into space, as we saw tiny cars and people getting smaller until their lives and conundrums faded away. Then we were floating in space, experiencing a new way of being. To represent the statement that the universe makes about our insignificance and oneness, the bass and guitar together play an epic statement lick. The vocal harmonies sound reassuring and soothing, telling the story once more with their lyrics, concluded with a mantra that we are all one under the same moon. This way, we hope to bring people together once more with music, this time inspired by psychedelic funk and space.
Cheyla Dortland made a mixed-media series with collage and spray paint, representing how music brings people together. She was mostly inspired by funk, jazz and hip hop. Her work furthermore showed the infinity of the universe, in which people are tiny and quite insignificant beings. This adds a new perspective to our lives, our daily problems and to our ideas and perceptions of each other. Whereas we can differ so much from each other, in the end we are all one under the same moon. Besides, if we do not feel that significant in the bigger scheme of things, we can also take ourselves and our problems a bit less seriously.
Blabla Sounds made a psychedelic funk soundtrack with a mystic and playful energy. With the introducing melodies and dynamic pad, we imagined rising up from the planet into space, as we saw tiny cars and people getting smaller until their lives and conundrums faded away. Then we were floating in space, experiencing a new way of being. To represent the statement that the universe makes about our insignificance and oneness, the bass and guitar together play an epic statement lick. The vocal harmonies sound reassuring and soothing, telling the story once more with their lyrics, concluded with a mantra that we are all one under the same moon. This way, we hope to bring people together once more with music, this time inspired by psychedelic funk and space.
Visual Artists: Lennox Schmidt, Marian Genet, Michiel Kingma. Lara-Leh Bogaard and Cheyla Dortland
Aftermovie: Almafilma and Sacha Glastra van Loon
Made possible by: AFK, Atlas Leefomgeving, Voordekunst, VSB-fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, sQuare