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In all my installations and performances, material and its tactility are playing a major role. My fascination lies in experimenting with different materials in an effort to produce a full range of tones and noises, the subtle sounds and the violent ones. I construct sculptures of varying woods, metals and concrete and work with performances to create acoustical events in which the public can create their own story.

Small microphones are attached to the performers body and are connected with the computer. I can control the sounds the performer makes, when interacting with the materials or objects, and sending it to the speakers. By creating a sound framework and passing it back to the space, the audience discovers the fascinating intimate acoustical elements from the material in a broader sense.

As a young music maker and visual artist, I am very much fascinated by the interaction between the various artdisciplines. In contemporary music other artforms play an increasingly important role. By collaboration with other disciplines, my aim is to contribute to these developments and innovations within the scenery of music and the theater-of-experience.

About Frouke Wiarda
Frouke Wiarda (1977) finished her study in 2007 at the Royal Academy, Interfaculty of Image and Sound/Art Science in The Hague. During her study she developed her fascination to create sounds from all sorts of materials. She uses her direct environment as a starting point for improvisation and creative possibilities and for exploring the secrets, the origin and development of sound and resonance. Sound is a integral part of her sculptures.

Her goal is to create unique, multi-disciplinary performances and sound-art objects, that appeal to a broad audience, both visualy and soundwise. Her work offers a discovery in the world of acoustic zones in which it is exciting to discover unexpected sound phenomena by exploiting the ear.

In November G'ruis will has its premiere at the international contemporary music festival November Music and will then visit various festivals and museums. She recently presented a design for a soundwalk for the Muziekgebouw ’t IJ and exhibited with the sound project T4all, soundteapots in the traveling exhibition of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. She organized a public event in Bos en Lommer, making ceramic objects in concrete pavements in cooperation with ceramic artist Monique de Vries. She wrote and performed an Overture for 8 concrete mixers, made a concrete installation in Denmark, exhibited with her wooden soundobjects Vogelaars in Denmark and Borculo and received the Kunstschouw Art Award 2008, with her performance Enigment.

She has worked as a publicity- and production employee at Stichting Triade, De Groep van Steen, Amsterdam and did the production for the Stichting Kous, Musiscoop in Amsterdam.

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	What's next? press			In all my installations and performances, material and its tactility are playing a major role. My fascination lies in experimenting with different materials in an effort to produce a full range of tones and noises, the subtle sounds and the violent ones. I construct sculptures of varying woods, metals and concrete and work with performances to create acoustical events in which the public can create their own story. Small microphones are attached to the performers body and are connected with the computer. I can control the sounds the performer makes, when interacting with the materials or objects, and sending it to the speakers. By creating a sound framework and passing it back to the space, the audience discovers the fascinating intimate acoustical elements from the material in a broader sense. As a young music maker and visual artist, I am very much fascinated by the interaction between the various artdisciplines. In contemporary music other artforms play an increasingly important role. By collaboration with other disciplines, my aim is to contribute to these developments and innovations within the scenery of music and the theater-of-experience. About Frouke Wiarda Frouke Wiarda (1977) finished her study in 2007 at the Royal Academy, Interfaculty of Image and Sound/Art Science in The Hague. During her study she developed her fascination to create sounds from all sorts of materials. She uses her direct environment as a starting point for improvisation and creative possibilities and for exploring the secrets, the origin and development of sound and resonance. Sound is a integral part of her sculptures. Her goal is to create unique, multi-disciplinary performances and sound-art objects, that appeal to a broad audience, both visualy and soundwise. Her work offers a discovery in the world of acoustic zones in which it is exciting to discover unexpected sound phenomena by exploiting the ear. In November G'ruis will has its premiere at the international contemporary music festival November Music and will then visit various festivals and museums. She recently presented a design for a soundwalk for the Muziekgebouw ’t IJ and exhibited with the sound project T4all, soundteapots in the traveling exhibition of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. She organized a public event in Bos en Lommer, making ceramic objects in concrete pavements in cooperation with ceramic artist Monique de Vries. She wrote and performed an Overture for 8 concrete mixers, made a concrete installation in Denmark, exhibited with her wooden soundobjects Vogelaars in Denmark and Borculo and received the Kunstschouw Art Award 2008, with her performance Enigment. She has worked as a publicity- and production employee at Stichting Triade, De Groep van Steen, Amsterdam and did the production for the Stichting Kous, Musiscoop in Amsterdam.
	< back			TODAYS PROJECTS Charcoal is a project in which three art-disciplines meet. During the 10 days art-fair 'KunstVlaai' in Amsterdam, drawing-artist Jet Nijkamp transforms the interior walls of a square box into a large Charcoal drawing. Soundartist Frouke Wiarda records the sounds of the scratching and dashing charcoal, processes them and plays them back in the box. The micro- and macroscopic visual perception of charcoal is explored and projected by Toon de Zoeten. In this collaboration the artists let the visitors descent into this charcaol drawing. G'ruis Together with theatermaker and mimeplayer Janneke Albers, I currently developed the performance Gruis in which I use 5000 kilo concrete granules. Out of this material I design a futuristic landscape, in which the performer acts. With basic attributes she manipulates her surrounding and by doing so matter becomes sound: every tactile moment produces sound. By recording the sounds and transporting it to the computer, I will create a composition. By sending it to the speakers, even the smallest tiny sounds will be heard. Live-sounds from the performer and the composed sounds from the speakers will then move both in the same space and give the public alternative views on perception and the material. G'ruis is a multidiscipline performance, that unites elements of soundart, visualarts/design and movementtheater. The equivalency of these elements create an allround experience for the audience. G'ruis stimulates the perception and out of gray unimaginative demolition, unexpectedly fabulous worlds appear.