Collaborations

When confronted with prolonged periods without inspiration, the best medicine is to overcome your fear of other people and the fear of sharing a creative vision.

Releasing the grip on individual control in favor of shared creative endeavors brings a fresh perspective, encouraging a departure from your usual approach.

The best results often come when a session is scheduled without having a fixed goal, allowing the organic flow of creativity to shape the final result.

Listed here you will find the results of some of these efforts.

This Paradox of Mine

2015

A collaboration with Pelle Kuipers for his Sketchy Songs on Saturday-project.

For Sketchy Songs Pelle collaborates with a different musician each week. The style / genre can thus be completely different from a previous song.

For This Paradox of Mine most writing duties and singing came from Pelle, with production and background layers prov...

Firefly Makani - hotaru.

2008

Collaborating with sound artist Fedde ten Berge, the joint mission of the now defunct Firefly Makani was to create a full-on assault on all senses in which audio, video and design were intertwined into a uniform presentation.

During performances, video projections would show abstract animations that were generated in real-time and instantaneous...

Rock Moves

2017

A collaboration with Pelle Kuipers for his Sketchy Songs on Saturday-project.

For Sketchy Songs Pelle collaborates with a different musician each week. The style / genre can thus be completely different from a previous song.

A slice of tongue-in-cheek good time rock, more than a little root in the age of spandex and poodle perms, also kn...

Zgor

2014

A collaboration with Pelle Kuipers for his Sketchy Songs on Saturday-project.

For Sketchy Songs Pelle collaborates with a different musician each week. The style / genre can thus be completely different from a previous song.

The overall tune is an ode to 80's game music, rippling arpeggios (carefully timed!) everywhere in a "hero'-theme.