Events
The work of Strijbos & Van Rijswijk has not gone unnoticed. They have performed at many renowned festivals, concert halls and museums. Clients are found all over the world, from Los Angeles to New York City and from Montreal to the Geyonggi Province in South Korea. More information about these -and all upcoming events- can be found below.
Signal bij de Rotte
During this landscape opera, the audience walks along the Rotte in Prinsenmolenpark: a narrow green strip and a unique urban nature reserve close to Rotte in Hillegersberg.
Signal at Dusk
Cryptic connect land and sea with sound in Signal at Dusk, a captivating, boundary-crossing coastal opera set against the transitioning sunset sky by Dutch duo Strijbos & Van Rijswijk.
Mahler at Museumplein
Commission by Het Concertgebouw. A spatial musical translation of Mahler's work covering the Museumplein during the whole Mahler festival.
Architecture of Infinity
We'll introduce our new projects on the possibilities of music and sound in public space, prior to the film Architecture of Infinity- which explorer the universal spiritual experience in architecture.
Dadoc
Dadoc was modeled after pre-digital era archiving systems, which used cabinets to store data. All information you need, can be found there. Combining facts and figures deposited on different locations, produces a detailed and multi-faceted picture of a person or an event in a wider context full of interconnections.
Panorama Ysselsteyn
With Panorama Ysselsteyn, we invite the public to enter an experience at the German war cemetery where there is room for their own interpretation in a collective experience. Part of Brabant Remembers
Past events
2020
Past events
2019
Dadoc
Dadoc presents a world of adventurous triggers, in which various musical sources constitute a new whole. What rests in these cabinets are playfull and soothing sounds. Design by Christian Grässli.
Each Time We Fall A City Rises
Panama Pictures shows a world about to be thrown off balance. In this performance Strijbos & Van Rijswijk enter into a special collaboration with composer Anthony Fiumara, composing music as in a dialogue.
Coco Chanel
Compositions for the performance Coco Chanel, about the influence fashion has on our society. Directed by Ulrike Quade Company and Jo Strømgren Kompani (NO)
Signal à Arbas
Kees Lesuis, artistic director of Oerol programs our opera in the landscape as guest curator at Pronomades in France. With care and empathy, sopranos scan the village and translate its surroundings into musical sounds.
De Droomlozen
The future is technological and capita-listic, people can stay awake for nights. They can keep working as dreaming is no longer part of life. Collaboration with Ulrike Quade Company.
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers. Design by Christian Grässli.
Signaal bij Haanwijk
During the Boulevard festival, visitors experience how the Haanwijk estate is translated into sounds. With care and empathy, sopranos scan forest and pasture.
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers. Design by Christian Grässli.
Signal at Dusk
The installation 'Signal-on-Sea' forms the setting for the large scale concert 'Signal at Dusk' by 4 sopranos, an elusive choir and desolate fog horns that sing the sea at 1 kilometer of beach.
Technostalgia
Welcome to Mars. You take a walk among the remains of an abandoned human colony who once settled here. Coproduction with Ulrike Quade Company.
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers. Design by Christian Grässli.
Making Space Tangible
Solo exposition. S&VR will present several soundworks in the newcomer series Quiver, as part of an ongoing research on art related to architecture, public space and the public itself.
Coco Chanel
Composition for the performance Coco Chanel by Ulrike Quade Company, about the influence fashion has on our society. Tour in Germany, Netherlands & Belgium.
Go North
Choreography by Pia Meuthen with music composed by Strijbos and Van Rijswijk. Dance-act about five men and a whale on a remote place in the north with icy winds.
Performing Public Space
International students of Fontys master Performing Public Space were our guests, creating public walks with our Walk With Me conposition app outdoors at museum De Pont.
Requiem For Lost Things
New compositions in dialogue with the well-known DAAU (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung) clarinet and double bass of Han Stubbe & Hannes d’Hoine, for Panama Pictures' new choreography.
Past events
2018
Maashoorn Winterklanken
A permanent hybrid artwork to watch and to listen to, as it emits sound ánd is the center of a spatial soundcomposition. Local residents of the Maasboulevard tell their personal stories.
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers. Design by Christian Grässli.
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers. Design by Christian Grässli.
Requiem For Lost Things
New compositions in dialogue with the well-known DAAU (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung) clarinet and double bass of Han Stubbe & Hannes d’Hoine, for Panama Pictures' new choreography.
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers. Design by Christian Grässli.
Coco Chanel
Composition for the performance Coco Chanel by Ulrike Quade Company, about the influence fashion has on our society. Tour at Espoo Cultural Centre, Louhi Hall.
To Travel & To Matter
A love story installed as a soundscape along the route of a walk through the landscape of the Lake District, with TS Eliot Prize winner poet Jacob Poley. Commissioned by Lakes Alive 2017.
Signal at Dusk
The installation 'Signal-on-Sea' forms the setting for the large scale concert 'Signal at Dusk' by 4 sopranos, an elusive choir and desolate fog horns that sing the sea at 1 kilometer of beach.
Signal-on-Sea
In 'Signal-on-Sea' one kilometer of beach at West aan Zee will be transfrormed into a musical space. You can only fully experience the sound work by walking.
Maashoorn
A permanent hybrid artwork to watch and to listen to, as it emits sound ánd is the center of a spatial soundcomposition. Visual design by Pierluigi Pompeï, words directed by Nienke Rooijakkers.
Coco Chanel
Composition of the performance Coco Chanel, about the influence fashion has on our society. Tour at Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá!. With Jo Strømgren Kompani (Norway).
Mahler & Kokoschka
Music composition for the performance Mahler & Kokoschka, about the young and eventful love of two artists, one muze and a doll with perfect resemblance. The perfomance was very postively reviewed.
Quiver #1
Quiver #1 contains seven wooden objects, designed by artist Paul van Rijswijk, shaping a physical space ánd a sound space diffused through the wood by tactile transducers.
Winterevents
Swedish composers Åke Parmerud and Olle Niklasson premiere their sound work – created with our Walk With Me platform - outside Björngårdsvillan in Slottsskogen, Gotenburg.
Past events
2017
Rocking Chairs – Big Bang Tour
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers.
Dutch Design Week Music
A renewed Ketelhuisplein stage, curated for the 2nd time by Strijbos & van Rijswijk, dedicated to experiments, co-creation, and participation. In collaboration with popvenue Effenaar.
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers.
Quiver #3
Quiver#3 Metal Floor contains twentyfour metal tiles and three sitting objects shaping a physical space and a sound space diffused through the steel by tactile transducers.
Go North
Choreography by Pia Meuthen with music composed by Strijbos and Van Rijswijk. Dance-act about five men and a whale on a remote place in the north with icy winds.
Coco Chanel
Composition of the performance Coco Chanel, about the influence fashion has on our society. Tour at Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá!. With Jo Strømgren Kompani.
Maashoorn
A permanent hybrid artwork to watch and to listen to, as it emits sound and is the center of a spatial soundcomposition. Visual design by Pierluigi Pompeï, words directed by Nienke Rooijakkers.
Marseille un paradox
A collaboration with filmdirector Philippe Carrèse and Sylvie & Gil Paz. The Marseille version produced for Travellings was a trail around the Street Arts Centre and Aygalades district.
Love of Seven Dolls
Composition for Paul Gallicos’ masterful “Love of Seven Dolls”, about a young woman who is enchanted by the magic of a Parisian puppet theater, an extraordinary love story.
To Travel and To Matter
A love story installed as a soundscape along the route of a walk through the landscape of the Lake District, with TS Eliot Prize winner poet Jacob Poley. Commissioned by Lakes Alive 2017.
Signal-on-Sea
An elusive choir and desolate fog horns surround 4 sopranos who sing the sea while moving through the twilight zone between water and land, light and dark. The installation 'Signaal aan Zee' forms the setting for this large scale concert at 1km of beach
Hétérotopies #1
A walk combining audiotours and science around the Sainte-Victoire, together with two climate change experts in Provence-Alpes-Cote 'Azur involved in the Regional Group of Experts.
Coco Chanel
Composition of the performance Coco Chanel, about the influence fashion has on our society. Tour at Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá!. With Jo Strømgren Kompani.
Felbrigg Hall
The Guardian: 'Walk With Me' at Felbrigg Hall is one of Lyn Gardner's top tickets in the UK. Reprise this year at Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2017 and now available in the app Walk With Me.
Dadoc
Dadoc, conceived by the Swiss designer Christian Grässli, presents a world of information, in which data from various sources constitute a new whole. What rests in these cabinets is sound.
360˚ /Seascapes
The projections by Rob Moonen evoke images of the sea. The composition by S&VR runs along similar lines. Rich, layered white noise suggests sounds of nature. Video by Hans Timmermans.
Quiver #1
Quiver #1 contains seven wooden objects, designed by artist Paul van Rijswijk, shaping a physical space ánd a sound space diffused through the wood by tactile transducers.
Past events
2016
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers.
Cells
With Cells, Strijbos & van Rijswijk explore the dynamic possibilities of the cello. Rustling, whistles and acoustic deviations create a mysterious atmosphere. With Jacqueline Hamelink on cello.
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers.
Lecture
Lecture: 'soundart: from space
to place'
When the right thing is in the right place, we are moved .. in this lecture we talk about interrelationship: how space transforms music and music transforms space.
Guestlecture
Guestlecture about our collective body of work for students at MADtech, Academy of Fine Arts, Groningen. Afterwards we had personal talks with students and about their works.
Dutch Design Week Music
A renewed Ketelhuisplein stage, curated for the 2nd time by Strijbos & van Rijswijk, dedicated to experiments, co-creation, and participation. In collaboration with popvenue Effenaar.
Hétérotopies #1
A walk combining audiotours and science around the Sainte-Victoire, together with two climate change experts in Provence-Alpes-Cote 'Azur involved in the Regional Group of Experts.
De Laatste Dagen Van De Zomer
De laatste dagen van de zomer (The last days of summer) was a unique mix of location-based and venue-based theatre in collaboration with the classical choir Capella Brabant and André Amaro.
A Whisp Of Sound Rose Into The Air
A Wisp Of Sound Rose Into The Air makes use of the acoustic qualities of the surroundings in which the work is played. It challanges the visitors to approach the installation with an open mind.
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers.
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers.
Walk With Me
This work transforms a walk through the Reininghaus site into an acoustic journey with noises, music and passages of text. Buildings and memories come alive, the place recounts its tale(s).
Walk With Me
Palimpsest is an immersive sounding trip in the city center of Wroclaw, at the National Forum of Music entrance. Collaboration with Pierre Jodlowski & François Donato, éOle (FR).
The Wall / De Wand
THE WALL is a visual performance about the primal power essential to survival. Adapted to in situ performance at Oerol NL. Strijbos and Van Rijswijk composed for the performance.
Walk With Me
The Guardian: ‘Walk With Me’ at Felbrigg Hall is one of Lyn Gardner’s top tickets in the UK. Reprise this year at Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2017 and now available in the app Walk With Me.
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers.
De Marginalia
A musical narrative about the life of Jheronymus Bosch in the centertown of 's Hertogenbosch, script by Jibbe Willems spoken by actor Bert Luppes and history told by Tijn Vaes.
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers.
Portraits and Short Stories
Six men aged between 20 and 60 allow us an intimate glimpse into their mutual relationships. On rope, Chinese pole and the trampoline, the men brave the pull of gravity.
The Wall / De Wand
THE WALL is a visual performance about the primal power essential to survival. Co-creation with Ulrike Quade Company. Strijbos and Van Rijswijk composed for the performance.
Past events
2015
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers.
Alpha
This Pop-Up shows the cast of the last piece ALPHA - the new wilderness: live music from Strijbos & Van Rijswijk with three new choreographies from Pia Meuthen.
SoundSpots
Permanent exhibition of SoundSpots with spatial electro-acoustic composition 'COLD WAR' at the Remembrance Park in Wanroy NL, curated by Rob Moonen & Albert Kliest.
Rocking Chairs
Swaying back and forth on these chairs produces an interactive, personalized performance, shaped by individual movements and collaboration with fellow rockers.
Das Schloss
Composed for a dance piece by Estefania Miranda after Franz Kafka. Kafka' unfinished novel Dass Schloss (The Castle) is perfectly suited for a dance piece.
Marseille un Paradox
A collaboration with filmdirector Philippe Carrèse and Sylvie & Gil Paz. The Marseille version produced for Travellings was a trail around the Street Arts Centre and Aygalades district.
Majestic Scene
Majestic Scene has been repeatedly labeled the "best alternative rock band from the Netherlands” within a select group of adventurous and devoted music lovers.
Dadoc
Dadoc is a multispeaker-installation. The audience can isolate or filter the different layers of sound within the entity of the installation, by opening the various dadoc's.
CicLAvia Walkscape
CicLAvia rolled into the San Fernando Valley for the first time on March 22, and the popular car-free streets event is slated to return here every spring thereafter.
Frankenstein
Strijbos & van Rijswijk composed the music for this dance performance, inspired by Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” (written 1817 in the Lake Geneva area).
Walk With Me
Lecture with Julia Adolphe & filmcomposer Jeff Rona. This small preview & lecture is located in Venice LA, this salon is a casual opportunity for professional music creators to interact.
Past events
2014
Dadoc
Dadoc is a multispeaker-installation. The audience can isolate or filter the different layers of sound within the entity of the installation, by opening the various dadoc's.
Majestic Scene
Majestic Scene has been repeatedly labeled the "best alternative rock band from the Netherlands” within a select group of adventurous and devoted music lovers.
Design House Walkscape
This walkscape explores the spatial design and acoustic qualities of the Design House in relation to it's surroundings, presented during the Dutch Design Week.
Alpha the new wilderness
Strijbos and Van Rijswijk composed the music for the choreography of ALPHA - the choreographer Pia Meuthen places the body language of executives under the microscope.
The New York Walkscape
Imagine walking through Lower Manhattan and hearing the sounds around you become ever-changing music as you move. That is what the Walkscape of New York entails.
En Hier Is Lijf
Strijbos & Van Rijswijk composed the music for this wanderstory. En hier is lijf catapults the audience into a story about love and the desperation that ensues when it vanishes.
Othello
Jeroen Strijbos and Rob van Rijswijk created music specifically for this production. It picks up on the musical aspects of the performance, based on Shakespeare's tragedy.
Past events
2013
Cells
With Cells, Strijbos & van Rijswijk explore the dynamic possibilities of the cello. Rustling, whistles and acoustic deviations create a mysterious atmosphere. With Jacqueline Hamelink on cello.
Parc La Fontaine
With the aid of their app Walk With Me, you can experience the surroundings of Parc La Fonteine in a composition consisting of musical wanderstories about life.
Air Sensible
A special Dutch week at Usine C, a multidisciplinary center for creation and presentation in Montreal, with Strijbos & Van Rijswijk performing Air Sensible.
Sounds in your Pocket
Imagine walking along Sauchiehall Street, hearing the sounds around you change as you move. From one spot to the next sounds differ; the character of what you hear shifts.
Inauguration King Willem-Alexander
The king and queen, surrounded by thousands of people, watched a musical spectacle unfold that was orchestrated by Strijbos & Van Rijswijk. Music, dance, and circus were present.
360º/Seascapes
The projections by Rob Moonen evoke images of the sea. The composition by S&VR runs along similar lines. Rich, layered white noise suggests sounds of nature. Video by Hans Timmermans.
Walk With MU
Rob van Rijswijk and Jeroen Strijbos have been creative partners of STRP for many years. Their contribution about the history and identity of STRP-s terrain premiered during the festival.
Walk With Me
The music from Strijbos and Van Rijswijk is about the combination of technique, space branches of art. Experimentation with the newest technology is a constant theme.
Fortress Walk
The walkscape Fortress Walk is situated in the Kalamegdan Park in Belgrade, Serbia. It contains the music composed for a contemporary dance performance.
Past events
2012
Cross Avenue
In Cross Avenue the sound created by the strings will be saved, explored, re-worked and re-introduced so that the original sound and its new variant combine to form an entity.
The Walk of Earthly Delights
In a sincere salute to one of 's-Hertogenbosch's most renowned citizens, The Walk of Earthly Delights divides the inner map along the lines of the famous Garden triptych.
Somewhere; Close
'Somewhere; close' is a danced roadmovie that takes us to places that seem to be close by and familiar but might exist on the edge of reality. A poetic and layered performance.
Walk With Me
Gaudeamus Musicweek proudly presents Gaudeamus Walk With Me, a composition by Dutch composers Jeroen Strijbos & Rob van Rijswijk that takes you across Utrecht.
No Man’s Land
In No man's land dance and acrobatics merge to become one language. Strijbos and Van Rijswijk created the composition for choreography of this performance.
Past events
2011
Elettra
In the short solo performance of ELETTRA choreographer Jelena Kostic zooms in on every man’s small secrets. Strijbos and Van Rijswijk created the music for choreography.
Skin
Choreographer Pia Meuthen was inspired by big cities where people live close together yet are able to immerse themselves in anonymity. Composition by Strijbos and Van Rijswijk.
VOX
Voices take control of space, while creeping up along floors, walls and ceiling. In ‘Vox’, S&VR unleash a true vocal pandemonium, supported by videomapping by Hans Timmermans.
Ballad of the Rising Sun
The ballad, with Japanese vocalist Yuka Kawabe and Westlands menchoir, is a modest ode to everybody who’s only destiny is hard labour in order to follow the path of life.
Walk With Me
Imagine walking through a city and hearing the sounds around you change as you move. From one spot to the next the sounds differ; but as you approach a spot, or distance yourself from it, the character of what you hear shifts.
Vertigo
You’ve never been part of such exciting performance of the TU/e campus in Eindhoven (NL) before – it’s an unforgettable quest, a spectacle , that will exercise your senses.
Past events
2010
Go tell the women (we’re leaving)
Dance-act by choreographer Pia Meuthen about three businessmen that go out together. Strijbos and Van Rijswijk made the composition for choreography.
Strangely Familiar
Choreographer Pia Meuthen worked with an existing group of friends to create Strangely familiar. Strijbos and Van Rijswijk created the compostion for choreography.
Past events
2009
SoundSpots
A sound installation formed by 8 traditional speakers and 8 SoundSpots (parabola-speakers) situated in a spatial environment.
Nude
Nude unravels the thought processes of a woman who loses herself in the extremes. Strijbos & Van Rijswijk accompany the performance with live piano, percussion and soundscapes.
SoundSpots
A soundinstallation formed by 8 traditional speakers and 8 SoundSpots (parabola-speakers) situated in a spatial environment. Experimental sound art and multimedia.
Air Sensible
With every breath of air, you exchange something with your surroundings. It's the most intimate, direct and immediate way of communication with the world around you.
