| See you on Facebook! |
[Jul. 1st, 2010|05:15 pm] |
Hi all,
I decided to stop updating my LJ and hyves accounts.
For me it works a little better as a social network.
I will still keep both accounts, so I can follow what is happening.
Feel free to add my as a friend on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/luchoutkamp
All the best,
Luc |
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| Back from SA |
[Feb. 19th, 2010|10:36 am] |
Update will follow. In the meantime, look at my Facebook.
Here is a cartoon about the Zuma controversy in South Africa.
Madam & Eve is a cartoon series about a white family and a black maid, trying to deal with the new South Africa
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| Box Of Brix |
[Jan. 25th, 2010|11:50 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  crushed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Don't like to hear any of my own! | ] |
This weekend I finished my new work for the POW Ensemble, Box of Brix!
Pff...
Here they are: 33 compositions, duration between 15 seconds and 5 minutes, spread on my living room floor. I use paper of different colours to help the musicians to find the right piece during the probably frantic improvisations of stage.
The premiere will be: 21 April in Paradox, Tilburg...
ps: I promised to write an overview of the last decade on my LJ. Still have to wait a little, I'm halfway now... |
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| New post, at last! |
[Dec. 28th, 2009|11:27 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  relaxed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Mahler 3, Haitink, RCO | ] |
Wow, my last LJ post is from 12 August!
I was very busy in the last 1/2 year, and was mostly using facebook to stay in touch with my friends through the internet.
http://www.facebook.com/#/luchoutkamp?ref=profile
However, I'll promise I will post here an overview of my 2009 before the end of the year!
We were in Al Andalus just before Xmas. In Sevilla I found this odd sign in a bar!
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| Headscarfs for Geert Wilders |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|09:58 am] |
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| | relaxed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | My new Philips NP 2500 internet radio | ] |
This picture from the largest Muslim country in the world (Indonesia) is especially dedicated to the Dutch right wing politician Geert Wilders. He still thinks that woman wearing headscarfs is a sign that they are oppressed by the Islam.
I have never seen more emancipated, happy looking, openly flirting woman with headscarfs on. Like this encounter at the Sultan's Palace in Cirebon. This group of educated woman really wanted to be on the photograph with me, big man from Holland. Laying their arms around me, they were not the timid women that people think they are under Islam.
When Wilders will be convicted for discrimination (he is being prosecuted at the moment), maybe they should send him to Indonesia for a few weeks to see that the world is more complicated than in his mind...
They do send Moroccan boys denying the Holocaust to Auschwitz to learn some things, and that works too... |
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| Tarima Kassie Piet Hein |
[Jun. 14th, 2009|03:50 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  cheerful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Some Indonesian Karaoke | ] |
The Indonesian tour by the POW Ensemble is coming to an end. That is a little sad, as we have had such a great time here!
Tonight we play the last concert, here in Cirebon, at the north coast of Java.
Thanks for all the people who made this tour possible: Otto, Zacky, Ditto, Kezhia, Dian, all the students.
And most of all, our lovely Piet Hein, who couldn't make it to Cirebon, because of some health problems.
The POW Ensemble & crew and students at Theater Salihara in Jakarta
Interview with Wiek Hijmans and me (in English) in the Jakarta Globe.
Blog entree about the Bandun concert, made by someone in the audience (in Bahasa Indonesia) |
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| Ajoen ajoen ajoen in die hoge klapperboom |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|09:21 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  hot | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Ajoen ajoen ajoen in die hoge klapperboom | ] |
It's a very long time ago that I have last updated my LJ.
A lot of things has happened since my last posting.
- The POW Ensemble premiered the new show: 'Strange Attractors' during the Gaudeamus Performers week in Amsterdam
- We played several concerts in Holland since then
- We played at the Sonorities Festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland
And now we are in Indonesia for a 2 week tour, consisting of workshops, master classes and concerts. We are staying a week in Jakarta, and then playing on Sumatra (Padangpadjang), then doing some more performances in Bandung and Cerebon.
It's an unbelievable experience! Jakarta is a totally chaotic town, there is one constant traffic jam from 6 am until midnight. And the same time people are extremely friendly and polite, in traffic ad elsewhere!
Here in Jakarta we are doing several workshops, and 4 concerts. On the picture you can see some of the students doing our introduction computer music class.
The students are very smart!
More postings as soon as I will be back home, after 17 June!
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| POW Ensemble at Borealis |
[Mar. 27th, 2009|01:06 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Viper Sniper - Guy Harries | ] |
We just came back from Bergen, Norway, were we played two concerts at the Borealis Festival. The main performance was at the Logen Theater in Bergen, featuring Luc Houtkamp (saxophone, computer), Han Buhrs (voice), Marije Nie (tap dance), Guy Harries (vocals, flute computer), DNA (turntables) and Jacqueline Hamelink (cello).
We also played the Festival's opening concert at the Bergen Travpark with Marije & Han. The POW Ensemble accompanied the horse race! In fact, we did the pony race, and another group played during the race with horses. Probably one of our weirdest gig locations!
You can see the ponies passing by somewhere at 1:52 minutes in the video.
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| BDSM Cock & Rabbit! |
[Mar. 21st, 2009|02:39 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  crazy | ] |
Here is a cell phone (unfortunately) quality video clip. It's one of the experiments for the POW Ensemble Borealis Festival show in Bergen, Norway, on 25 March 2009.
I play a rabbit with a build-in Wii controller, who is attacked by a rubber cock! The music to accompany the scene will be Jacqueline Hamelink's cello playing, but here you hear a MIDI file.
BDSM for cocks & rabbits...
The Borealis website is here: http://borealisfestival.no/2009/ |
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