Electroacoustic Wrestling

The versatile producer from Den Bosch has developed an algorithmic musical brain that both plays the piano and responds to the master musicians of Asko|Schönberg and Slagwerk Den Haag — an autonomous instrument among the performers, a kind of Disklavier 2.0.
And Jameszoo himself — astonished deity in his own sonic universe — bombards them whenever he can with his electronics. A unique bout of electroacoustic wrestling you won’t soon forget.

Robotized Piano

Jameszoo, a.k.a. Mitchel van Dinther, has earned an international reputation as a DJ and producer of experimental electronic jazz — or, as he calls it, naïve computer jazz. On his latest album, Blind (2022), Jameszoo focuses on instruments that play themselves through self-learning algorithms. The result sounds different every time, and the sonorities are more otherworldly than ever.

Jameszoo’s Disklavier (robotized piano) follows in the tradition of Conlon Nancarrow’s player piano etudes: music often physically impossible for humans to perform. But what a trip it is.

Read the interview with Jameszoo about this project.

As part of the Sounds of Music Festival on 1 November, the concert is preceded by MA(N|CHINE) by Zeno van den Broek, performed by Slagwerk Den Haag.

The development of this project was made possible by Rizoom, with additional support from the Fonds Podiumkunsten (Performing Arts Fund NL) and the Mauricio Kagel Music Fund.