window.COLOURS_ARTISTS = [ { id: "connecting-silence", name: "Connecting Silence", tagline: "stillness / painted / horizontal", description: "Connecting Silence is the chance meeting between two ambient soundscape-artists with the same interests, but a totally different approach of sound-art.\n" + "When Joost Carpentier (Jovica Storer, Dreun, ...) and Johan Van Den Abeele (Defile Andante, Symbian) started playing together, they decided to record every sound and every note they improvised, but not too many, leaving some space.", coverImage: "./assets/artists/connecting-silence-640.webp", coverAlt: "Connecting Silence", }, { id: "cycles-of-moebius", name: "Cycles Of Moebius", tagline: "spiraling / twisted / electronical", description: "“There is the theory of the moebius. A twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop, from which there is no escape. When we reach that point, whatever happened will happen again.”\n" + "-Lieutenant Commander Worf, Star Trek: TNG, “Time Squared”\n" + "\n" + "It seems like a strange connection in time that Jovica Storer and Lounasan where suddenly buzzed into the same space. The harder they tried to escape from each other, the faster they were swinged back, locked in a strange perpetuum mobile with no end. So... what can you do when you are together in one room and time becomes a loop, besides looking at each others ever boring face?\n" + "\n" + "Well, you could start to make some tunes together and go intergalactic. Cycles Of Moebius is a fine collaboration of two different musical minds bouncing together. The results are timeless loops and shapes with here and there the odd twist included. But in whatever direction your are playing them, they all land on the same spot again and again. We invite you to join in on this trip into endless creativity from two twisted minds.", coverImage: "./assets/artists/cycles-of-moebius-800.webp", coverAlt: "Cycles Of Moebius", }, { id: "dreun", name: "Dreun", tagline: "dream / sleep / drone", description: "Dreun is all about dreaming. Dreaming of the present, the future and the past, induced by divine musical interferences. Dreun is best listened to on headphones on a low volume while lying in bed!\n" + "Join Dreun into his world of soundscapes. While using drones and atmospheric ambient as musical basepoint, Dreun explores the world of the endless equilibrum of sounds, painting a landscape of vibrating music. We invite you , the listener, to stand, by preference, right in the middle of it!\n" + "\n" + "Dreun is into alien field recording. Quiet. Silenced vibrations. Bringing it together and let it evolve, creating new soundspheres, that's Dreun at its best.\n" + "\n" + "Low volumes and earphones are recommended!", coverImage: "./assets/artists/dreun-800.webp", coverAlt: "Dreun", }, { id: "dreunigheit", name: "Dreunigheit", tagline: "rambling / speechless / unforgiven", description: "Dreunigheit is an non-existing old Dutch word which means 'to have the characteristic of a dronastic sound'. If you, as a random example, sound like a Dreunigheit, we will hear the rambling sounds coming from withing your body, that resonating stigmatic sound which emerge from your bones, which will soon be the only thing that will be left once the passage of time has done it's unforgiven work. Are you speechless now? Good, then you're ready to enter.", coverImage: "./assets/artists/dreunigheit-800.webp", coverAlt: "Dreunigheit", }, { id: "jovica-storer", name: "Jovica Storer", tagline: "listen / ambient / electronical", description: "Jovica Storer is Jovica Storer.\n" + "\n" + "Well, OK, that was maybe a bit too easy. Let us have a look what was said on the good old MySpace page:\n" + "\n" + "\"Joost Carpentier (aka Jovica Storer) is a Belgian electronic music composer/producer who has been addicted to aural vibrations ever since his youth. He learned to play the piano as a child an started improvising his own creations as a teenager. After being a radio jockey for several years, he went DJ-ing in several pubs and on local parties. In his early twenties he bought his first synthesizer and a computer and started sequencing. Since that day in the summer of 1989, he has never ceased to explore new territory on the planet of electronic sound. An artist to follow, on his adventures to explore new territory on the planet of electronic sound.\"", coverImage: "./assets/artists/jovica-storer-298.webp", coverAlt: "Jovica Storer", }, { id: "karim-s-featuring-lounasan", name: "Karim S Featuring Lounasan", tagline: "upbeat / progressive / technoïd", description: "A venture into techno sounds with a little progressive twist. Karim S, together with Lounasan are both addicted to cool sounding loops and beats, so this is a perfect match for dance music.\n" + "Lounasan and Karim S know each other already for a long time. In 'ye olde' days they even had some DJ sessions together, which were always ventures in the world of techno and beats.\n" + "\n" + "Karim S is a great admirer of Jeff Mills and the 808 states are still very present in his DJ sets. Together with Lounasan, he searches for a more progressive sound, perhaps, but not without loosing sight of their original joint venture in techno sounds.\n" + "\n" + "It always nice to see both in action while creating, crafting and discussing. But one way or another, both seem to be able to give each other the necessary breathting space while creating their little progressive musical universe.", coverImage: "./assets/artists/karim-s-featuring-lounasan-292.webp", coverAlt: "Karim S Featuring Lounasan", }, { id: "lounasan", name: "Lounasan", tagline: "voyage / ambient / electronical", description: "Travelling without moving! It all happens in your mind and in an undefined deep area of your belly. Have a look at the cosmic trips into music.\n" + "Being fascinated with electronical music since childhood, Lounasan never ceased to make music. He was available in techno-format, recently in a very experimental version, but last years finally it seems to go into a very emotional direction, like pieces of a puzzle coming together. Although the last piece isn't placed yet... . Online (with music player!), fly here: https://www.lounasan.com", coverImage: "./assets/artists/lounasan-800.webp", coverAlt: "Lounasan", }, { id: "music-for-installations", name: "Music For Installations", tagline: "soundscape / dark ambient / drone", description: "Where sound meets space! Imagine being in a dark rectangular room with speakers in the four corners and only you as an object, absorbing the sound.\n" + "\n" + "Visit Music For Installations website for an in depth walktrough: https://www.musicforinstallations.com\n" + "\n" + "This is the basic principle of Music For Installations. Life is a stream of sounds. Most people don't hear it and let it pass. Music For Installations has always been observing the soundworld where he lives in, wether it is out in the outback or in the center of downtown. The studio is ideal to sit back in your own therapeutic space and reflect on things going by or the feelings you have experienced in your weird interaction with the rest of the world.\n" + "But actually, any good room or any place in the world you can call home, would fit the requirements.\n" + "\n" + "When you ask why, this is the reply: \"The first things I remember are sounds. When I listen to people I don't hear words but melodies. When I stand in a room, I enjoy the way the music makes her way in the empty space around me. This collission of vibrations that meet each other can be used in empty spaces, dark rooms, to accompany installations. It's an impression sent out to catch a listeners ear.\" ... and maybe in the future indeed on installations themselves.", coverImage: "./assets/artists/music-for-installations-800.webp", coverAlt: "Music For Installations", }, { id: "onsturicheit", name: "Onsturicheit", tagline: "wild / analog / psychedelic", description: "What sometimes would be considered as a 'soup of sounds' is in fact a very wild and broad analog palette of very rich sounding material that has been thouroughly vivisected and deconstructed, before throwing it at the lions.\n" + "\n" + "Onsturicheit is Dutch for wildness, uncontrolledness, makingashitloadofnoiseness, but always very vivid and not by definition dark. The music can balance from spooky to a kind of joy, but off course, always what that c-o-l-o-u-r-s twist, which seems to be a disease here on this website.\n" + "\n" + "A lot of tracks are happening as is, live, with always changing gear. The man has no car, so..., the setup must be transportable in a very suitable large backpack. It's unpredicatble, just like the early electronic machines were. Be prepared for samples, sequences and textures. Your perfect companion for an adventure in analogue sounds (and gear!)", coverImage: "./assets/artists/onsturicheit-646.webp", coverAlt: "Onsturicheit", }, { id: "sjoko", name: "Sjoko", tagline: "move / dance / fly", description: "Sjoko, an alter ego of Joost Carpentier, is all about movement. To move is to displace a body from one place to another location. Sjoko will induce movement by the use of musical rhythms, beats, melodies & harmonies. Indeed, this music is made to swing your hips, to roll year head and to jump your feet. Let yourself free and give a go with the music of Sjoko. How can you still stand still?", coverImage: "./assets/artists/sjoko-800.webp", coverAlt: "Sjoko", }, { id: "triolog", name: "Triolog", tagline: "musical triologues towards trimensional orbital states", description: "A meeting of three multi-instrumentalists from different fields:\n" + "-> Joost Carpentier (keyboards, electronics, ...)\n" + "-> Johan Van den Abeele (soprano & tenor sax, wind controller, flutes)\n" + "-> Raphaël De Cock (vocals, jew's harps, ethnic wind instruments) (bio see https://www.raphaeldecock.be/)", coverImage: "./assets/artists/triolog-800.webp", coverAlt: "Triolog", }, ];