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Released in Dec 2009 on Creative Sources Recordings
The music on this album is performed by Jeff Carey and Robert van Heumen at STEIM’s Studio 2 in
February & September 2008. The interactive visuals by Bas van Koolwijk are an integral part of live
performances by SKIF++ and as such are present in this music.
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Released in July 2009 on Evil Rabbit Records. Available on Fridgesound records.
"Digital brutalism in free form, vehement expressions, heightened efforts, wailings and atonal lamentations are all performed with uninterrupted breathing techniques - the electronic manipulation is relentless, full of powerful distortions, melancholic melodies and experimental combinations. Authentic, intricate compositions [...]."
Aurelio Cianciotta for Neural.it
"Wow. What a mighty blast this is. [...] Heavy duty improvised music [...]. From the very first to the very last second things erupt like volcano. Sometimes we are on top of that volcano, watching the eruption, then we see hot lava running down, slow but hot and powerful."
Frans de Waard for Vital Weekly
"Devoted to not holding back when Chen performs, it was a pleasure to see her working so hard to match van Heumen’s often brutal digital transformations of her sound. There were several moments of pure psychedelia as van Heumen allowed untransposed, ungranulated repetitions of Chen’s voice to come through. I loved it when, halfway through the second of two extended pieces, he took Chen’s keening voice and filtered it in such a way that, for a moment, it seemed that George Martin, the revered Beatles producer, had entered the room."
Review by Keir Neuringer from a live concert at STEIM May 22, 2008
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Robert van Heumen
StrangerReleased in May 2009 on Creative Sources Recordings
" [...] Stranger in any case represents an intriguing chapter in the output of a hardly pigeon-hole-able emerging sound artist. There`s more than meets the ears, though it takes persistence to find the combination needed to enter this obscure area, halfway through the remnants of excruciating memories and the blurred idea of an uncertain future."
Massimo Ricci for The Squid’s Ear
"[...] Van Heumen serves up strong electro-acoustic music out of the Raaijmakers and Koenig tradition. Strong work, happy to have `found` Mr. Van Heumen."
Brian Olewnick for just outside
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Released in March 2009 on Creative Sources Recordings
" [...] enjoy and translate this almost-palpably visual, cerebral yet immediately mesmeric work [...] this music exudes the grace and violence of a NASA enterprise: at times lingering in static poses on the dark side of the moon, other moments crashing face-first into the sun."
Dave Madden for The Squid’s Ear
"A noisy and exciting duo. As good as strong tea to wake me up this morning!"
Monsieur Délire
"The groundhog (whistle pig) reference isn`t incidental and helps point to a level of repetition and sonic revisitation that might initially be resisted by anyone committed to real-time, don`t-look-back improvisation. [...] the whole set is sensuous fun as well as intellectually stretching."
Brian Morton for The Wire
"Equal parts STEIM-y electro-acousticism and raunchy guitar noise, the latter sometimes reminding me of Kaiser in his Synclavier period. Itchier than ‘Stranger’, it might find more favor among post-Zorn enthusiasts."
Brian Olewnick for just outside
"Either there is nothing new - or there is endless novelty - `two cultures`?"
Jliat for Vital Weekly
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Released November 2008 on +3db
"Multitudes of charmingly dignified timbres fit together without creating chaos, the sense of discipline is exceptionally developed, the whole sounding tight and controlled also when that’s probably not the case."
Massimo Ricci for TEMPORARY FAULT
"Contrapuntal layering of all these effects provides Office-R (6) with distinctiveness - an ever-shifting interface that negates minimalist austerity while clasping on to its hypnotic effects."
Ken Waxman for Jazzworld
"There is a palpable sense of purpose to RtG [...]. The results are unsettling, but paint some rather wonderful primary-coloured pictures on the inside of one`s head."
Nick Ilott for HAIR E
"Recording the Grain is proof that the world of free jazz and improvisation is still interesting."
Hans van der Linden for Kindamuzik
"Hectic, nervous, intense. Highly demanding and highly rewarding music."
Frans de Waard for Vitalweekly
"[...] the sextet Office-R(6) literally sculpt rather than play the music using acoustic instruments and computers yeilding a music that is sublty seismic and eminently contemporary [...]"
Musicreaction
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Released 2008 on sonig
The NOISE ROOM CD documents the NOISE ROOM, an autonomous surround sound space built for pre-recorded musical works and sonic experiments.The NOISEROOM CD features exclusive compositions by: Lee Ranaldo, Black Dice, Kevin Blechdom, Mouse on Mars, David Grubbs, Vert, Jason Forrest, Daniel Schorno, Sun OK Papi K.O., Casey Rice, Robert van Heumen, Jeff Carey, Keith Fullerton Whitman aka Hrvatski and Michel Waisvisz.
More information: http://www.sonig.com, http://cubittartists.org.uk/, http://www.youtube.com/v/6fHa1nnD9ac
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Released April 2008 on Fridgesound
"[...] this is musique concrete that has torn away from its formal, academic origins. Deconstruction and reassembly in nasty extremis."
David Stubbs, The Wire
"SKIF++ knows when to pull back, make a move, a new gesture and offer new insights."
Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly
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Robert van Heumen
FuryReleased January 2008 on Creative Sources Recordings
"[...] this will feel like a familiar, but quality noise/avantgarde album, and if that is your thing, you`ll be satisfied. [...] caught my attention big time."
Killed in Casr
"[...] dynamic, ever changing, crackling, loud and soft, buzzing and hissing. Vibrant music this is, great music, moving away from the delicate structures of microsound into the land of noise based textures."
Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly
"[...] emanating a sense of disquietude ... texts are suspended among drones, hums and buzz`n`crackles: muffled rustlings and dissonant glitches, wonderfully acted in a vibrant music crescendo but also still ambiguous, harsh and unstable."
Aurelio Cianciotta, neural.it
"[...] an intriguing effort, whose effect on the psyche is evident, exactly as the will of repeating the experience time and again to better comprehend the peculiar fascination of this unusual arrangement of events that doesn`t want to know of being memorized, instead offering further indications with each new listen."
Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes
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Robert van Heumen
SilentReleased March 2007 on Fridgesound / CD-R format
Solo work based upon a single synthesis procedure after James Tenney.
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Released February 2006 on Lampse
"The disc`s purposeful, stop-start interplay is permeated by perpetual flux and invention with electronic sputter, bass clarinet growls, bowed scrapes, saxophone honks, and sliced voice samples endlessly circling around and colliding with one another. [...] resembles the kind of challenging music Luciano Berio might be creating were he alive today and in his composing prime.
Texture March 2005
"They share a language based in European improvisation and free jazz, but with a completely new and contemporary approach. Sound just runs, crashes, dives into a trouble sea. [...] one of the great Improv records of 2006.
Stabbed in the face
"Energy fragments in all directions in a capricious game piece between acoustic texture and skilled electronic interaction, imbuing the music with the joyful energetic velocity ... A highly palatable, invigoratlng and sophisticated appetizer of tradition and renewal, superbly performed and recorded."
Paris Transatlantic
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Robert van Heumen
SolitudeReleased 2006 on Fridgesound / CD-R format
"... Solitude is so intense that you don`t need to read a manual beforehand. The piece is as good as the book and unfolds in its own way. It is rare that the experience of silence, witch belongs to reading and loneliness, is captured so adequately in moving imagery and sound."
Joost Heijthuijsen
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Released April 2005 on A-version / CD-R format
CD-R capturing a storming collection of live improvised music from the formidable International N-Collective. Tracks from Office-R(6), Thai on Top and Pho.
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Released 2004 on X-OR
N Collective`s debut CD, showcasing the efforts of all the different N groups. Tracks from Office-R(4), Robert van Heumen and the illustrious b:lab.
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Kraakgeluiden
Document 1Released 2003 on Unsounds
3 years of live electronic improvisation from the Kraakgeluiden series of improvised music-performances in Amsterdam. Appearing on the CD are over 30 musicians including: Jaap Blonk, Cor Fuhler, Gert-Jan Prins, Anne le Berge, Marko Ciciliani. Includes a track by OfficeR Extended.
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