JAN-BAS BOLLEN

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Hotelschool The Hague | Jan-Bas Bollen (1961, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Jan-Bas Bollen is a composer, sound designer, performance artist and violinist. In the past several years he has worked increasingly with video. He studied violin with Jan Bor and Herman Krebbers, composition with Joep Straesser, Theo Loevendie, Gilius van Bergeijk and Klaas de Vries. He has written music for various soloists, ensembles and theatre productions, including the HEX Ensemble (of which he is a founding member), the Volharding, Steamboat Switzerland and the Scapino Ballet. In many of his works he uses electronics to broaden his sound palette, but he also composes pieces on the computer. He often works with dancers and choreographers, such as Ross Cooper (UK), Daniel Belton (NZ) and Gonnie Heggen (NL). He and Alison Isadora work as the multimedia performance duo SYNC, and he regularly performs with percussionist Steve Heather.

Hotelschool The Hague, which has two locations in the Zuidas, was his institutional host. Bollen was struck by the way people at the school deal with the phenomenon of privacy. “There should be a certain philosophy about how you deal with space in relation to other people. I think that’s an interesting field of tension. With this as a starting point, I also wanted to make a link to the larger context of the Zuidas.”

Jan-Bas Bollen's participation has led to a multimedia presentation, a Dolby surround-sound installation (brought out on DVD).

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