Dick Raaijmakers

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Dick Raaijmakers (born September 1, 1930 in Maastricht ; † September 4, 2013 in The Hague ) was a Dutch composer , performance and installation artist .

life and work

Raaijmakers studied at the Koninklijk Conservatorium The Hague until 1953 . From 1954 to 1960 he worked at Philips in the field of electroacoustics, after which he was a research assistant at the Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht until 1962 . From 1963 to 1966 he ran a studio for electroacoustic music in The Hague with Jan Boerman . Until 1995 he taught electronic music, from 1991 electronic music for musical theater at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague .

In the early 1960s Raaijmakers composed a number of electro-acoustic works such as Vijf canons , Flux and Plumes . Between 1967 and 1972 he created "photokinetic objects", which were exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1971 and in the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague in 1972 . De grafische methode tractor was created in 1976 and De grafische methode fiets in 1979 , two pieces based on the work of film pioneer Etienne-Jules Marey . In 1977 the audiovisual production Mao leve! .

Between 1981 and 1984 Raaijmakers created a series of productions for tape, film, theater and percussion ensemble, which revolved around the film Night Owls by Laurel and Hardy ( Shhh ! , The Microman , The Soundman , The Soundwall , Ow! And Come on! ) . The series for which Raaijmakers composed the music was performed at the 1984 Holland Festival .

In 1983 Ping-Pong was created , a stereo radio production about a table tennis game between Louis Andriessen and Cornelis de Bondt . The following year Ecstasy (in memoriam Josine van Droffelaar ) was performed, for which Raaijmakers received the Matthijs Vermeulenprijs . In 1985 he designed a neon sculpture for the new building of the Groningen City Conservatory.

In the 1990s he created a series of works for musical theater: Intona (1991), Dépons / Der Fall (1992), The happy hand / open (1993), Der Fall / Dépons (1993), De promenoir van Mondriaan , (1994 ), De val van Mussolini (1995) and Scheuer im Haag (1995).

Fonts

Raaijmakers is the author of several essays, including

  • "De art van het machine lezen" (1978)
  • "Little morfologie van de klank" (2000)

Honors

  • 1992: the Oeuvreprijs voor Beeldende Kunst of the Stichting Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam
  • 1995: The Hague City Art Prize
  • 2004: the Johan Wagenaar Oeuvreprijs .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Dick Raaijmakers