What’s on
2023
2022
Whispers
Music and architecture speak the same language of rhythm, contrast, proportion, dynamics and harmony. Music also has its own architecture: from the design of instruments to the aesthetics of the notation itself. In the Frozen Music exhibition, the design of space and sound is explored with interactive installations, art, film and music, architectural drawings and models.
International Arts Channel
The Internationals Art Channel Foundation invites you to attend the premiere evening of the first series of three short artist portraits. These video portraits were made by Jan Doms (editor) and Tom Pijnenburg (camera and montage). Host Jan Zobel, dancer and choreographer, introduces the new Internationals Art Channel and the three short films about Strijbos & Van Rijswijk, Chikako Watanabe and Marjolein Landman.
The Man Who Fell From The Sky
Our new co-production with Panama Pictures production, 'The Man who fell from the sky', captures a collective sense of directionlessness and dislocation. The performers look like they have been washed ashore. High in the air they hang from the branches of an uprooted tree, balancing on moving platforms. Is this the aftermath of a disaster? The harbinger of a great change?
Signal – dall’altra parte
For Periferico Festival in Modena (Italy) we transformed our landscape opera ‘Signal’ into the city streets of Modena. The city is quite literally cut in half by a railway line. On the one side the old city - beautiful architecture and monumental squares. On the other side the perifico, suburban Modena. Where is the “other” side? ‘Qual é l’altra parte?’ And why does this feel like another place, even though it’s in the same city?
Signal in Kaunas
Kaunas in Lithuania was Cultural Capital in 2022. In August, the last weekend of the 3-week ConTempo festival, they performed their landscape opera Signal in the city heart, inviting people to go out in the rural countryside and experience this work.
Signal at Latitude
Strijbos & Van Rijswijk created Latitude’s very own green cathedral of tranquillity.
Signal in Groede
At the core of this work was the connection between audience, sound and music, and the market square located in the old centre of Groede, located in West Zeeland Flanders.
A Landscape That Is Us
We were very honoured to be featured again at this wonderful festival with our new project 'A Landscape that is Us'. A new immersive experience in which we combine several techniques we developed for our deep practice in creative placemaking investigating and experimenting with sound, space and public engagement.
Signal at Dusk
For the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, we composed a new live performance version of our landscape opera Signal. Beginning at dusk, our 4 sopranos lead the audience along the shoreline bidding farewell to the sun on the horizon and signalling the arrival of the night.
Signal-on-Sea
Great Yarmouth beach was transformed with sound. S&VR’s bespoke digital technology and twenty long throw speakers create a unique audio experience enabling visitors to the installation to experience the vast seascape afresh and in their own way.
2021
Signal in Forum Iulii
During Mittelfest 2021 we immersed the ancient town of Cividale del Friuli, Forum Lulii during Roman times, in sounds.
Another Green World
In collaboration with STRP and Unusual Suspects we presented a one of kind sound walk through the beautiful estate De Wielewaal, together with artists James Zoo, Bram Stadhouders, Amy Root, Konduku and Mathilde Nobel.
Soprano Panorama
From August 20th to 22nd, 2021 we participated in a special edition from Oranjewoud Festival.
Signal-on-Sea
Cryptic connected land and sea with sound in Signal-on-sea, a captivating, boundary-crossing coastal installation set against the transitioning sunset sky.
Signal am Dachstein
Today nature has become fragile, the glaciers are disappearing. With our landscape opera, we asked for awareness at the Dachstein glacier in Austria because of the consequences of climate change. It was accessible to the audience on-site!
2020
Signal bij de Rotte
During this landscape opera, the audience walked along the Rotte in Prinsenmolenpark: a narrow green strip and a unique urban nature reserve close to Rotte in Hillegersberg.
Emergency
Jacob Polley, T.S. Eliot prize winner, wrote Emergency; a play which focuses on climate change, flooding and connecting with the past. Jacob read extracts of poetry from the storm sequence bringing the terrifying power of the weather to life.
Your Trembling Mile
This summer we guided the audience through sound installations in the city of 'S Hertogenbosch NL during Festival Boulevard. Our soundtrack and walkscape 'Your Trembling Mile' took visitors past parks, buildings and other public spaces that we literally covered with sounds.
Signal in Graz
Based on our landscape opera Signal and in preparation for a large-scale project together with La Strada Graz and the Festival of Regions in Upper Austria, we developed a sound art work especially for our city in this time of challenges due to corona.
Mahler at Museumplein
Commissioned by Het Concertgebouw. A spatial musical translation of Mahler's work covering the Museumplein during the whole Mahler festival.
Architecture of Infinity
We introduced our new projects on the possibilities of music and sound in public space, prior to the film Architecture of Infinity - which explores the universal spiritual experience in architecture.
Panorama Ysselsteyn
With Panorama Ysselsteyn, we invited the public to enter an experience at the German war cemetery where there was room for their own interpretation in a collective experience. Part of Brabant Remembers
2019
Dadoc
Dadoc presented a world of adventurous triggers, in which various musical sources constitute a new whole. What rests in these cabinets were playful and soothing sounds. Design by Christian Grässli.
Each Time We Fall A City Rises
Panama Pictures showed 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 programmed our opera in the landscape as guest curator at Pronomades in France. With care and empathy, sopranos scanned the village and translated 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 experienced how the Haanwijk estate was translated into sounds. With care and empathy, sopranos scanned 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' formed the setting for the large-scale concert 'Signal at Dusk' by 4 sopranos, an elusive choir and desolate fog horns that sang 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 presented several soundworks in the newcomer series Quiver, as part of 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. Toured 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
Compositions in dialogue with the well-known DAAU (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung) clarinet and double bass of Han Stubbe & Hannes d’Hoine, for Panama Pictures' choreography.
2018
Maashoorn Winterklanken
A permanent hybrid artwork that visitors can watch and listen to, as it emitted sound and was the center of a spatial sound composition. Local residents of the Maasboulevard told 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. Designed 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
Compositions in dialogue with the well-known DAAU (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung) clarinet and double bass of Han Stubbe & Hannes d’Hoine, for Panama Pictures' 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. Toured 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' formed 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 kilometre 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 was watched and listened to, as it emitted sound and was the center of a spatial sound composition. 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 the 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 contained seven wooden objects, designed by artist Paul van Rijswijk, shaping a physical space and a sound space diffused through the wood by tactile transducers.
Winterevents
Swedish composers Åke Parmerud and Olle Niklasson premiered their sound work – created with our Walk With Me platform - outside Björngårdsvillan in Slottsskogen, Gotenburg.
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, presented a world of information, in which data from various sources constitute a new whole. What rests in these cabinets was 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.
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.
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.
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