(2025-2026)

I've been cvollaborating wit Villa Voortman creating "portretten", portraits of the visitors of the Villa. In this creative encounter, I make (musical) portraits that take shape in collaboration with a choreographer. The result are brutally honest pictures we bring as a group on a theater stage. So far I've created portraits for Vincent and Jerome, with a guest appearance from Ben Benouisse.

One of the first things I explored with Vincent was how to give him agency over my modular synth. To do that I built some sensor extensions on my "coatlab" Jerome also explored this, but definitely needed a different outfit in the end. We opted for a different, more indirect way of interacting with each other while performing. Body language is strong, but maybe unexpected, don't let the looks fool you... breakcore ballerina

dancing in a tutu to live breakcore.

Portret 3: Breakcore ballerina

Ben, intrigued by the coatlab immediately saw the potential as an instrument. When putting it on the coat switches to theatrical mode.. or is that because of putting Ben on stage...

Ben in the coatlab instrument

the coatlab is wirelessly connected to the modular data box

This project brought some great encounters and keeps growing Thanks Freddy for the pictures