We’re gearing up for some new Etherkreet releases.
Ezra’s new album Atonotoop will be an audiovisual release.
I’m working on the videos right now and this is one of the first textural experiments I did.

No (digital) animation from me this time, but more of a hands on and improvised approach. Why? You might ask. Well, first of all I wanted to get away from the computer for a bit. Secondly I also wanted to be able to perform this kind of work live.
The final video will be a real time, one shot affair without any layering. Only some colour correction and cleaning up will be done afterwards.
The audio part of the piece will be a longer version of the track which starts at the 2 minute mark in this vid.

Finally here’s some audio as well.
My remix of Ezra’s track Ademstulp.

Klachterlater

May 22, 2009

A ‘remix’ of abandoner, a track by Steven Wilson.
Klachterlater

spleetdool
Processed music toy and some fragments from an early version of Ezra’s zierter’s spat

sluiervuist
Processed voice improv

stalkerslast
Processed guitar, voice and singing bowl.

Bas live set

April 12, 2009

New track: Murwvuller

January 20, 2009

A work in progress, but for some reason I didn’t save the project and only exported it as an mp3.
murwvuller

Bas

There have been two releases for Waterscape and Kaspar Hauser records in the pipeline for quite a while now. Hopefully they see the light of day soon.
The music is slightly different from my usual output as it’s mostly based on live looping of guitar and singing bowl.
Zijgersveins is a free EP of 5 tracks which didn’t make those two albums, but work surprisingly well together as a compact standalone taster.
Download the zip here with the mp3’s and artwork.
Zijgersveins

Japanese video artist Keiko Hosoya made a video for my track Gammelman.

Some older tracks from me this time.

Hermengselpech

Trappen in de val die verwachting heet

These were released on the Lomechanik double album Ruis voor thuis/Iets met biets.

The versions here are different mixes and I added another section in Trappen.

Geluidloze Gemeenschap

A remix I did for some Dutch indie band. As far as I know, it was never used. I wonder why?

If you speak Dutch, you might be able to figure out the name of the band through the track title.

They’re not worth mentioning ;)

- BitterBas

Welcome

August 31, 2008

I have the honor of making the first post and I’d like to share some music I made in Japan.
Last year me and Jak had a residency at Youkobo Art Space. During our stay we also took part in an outdoor exhibition called Trolls in the Park.

My contribution to the exhibition was a sound performance with my trusty singing bowl, some contact mics and different found objects. I also incorporated some audio fragments taken from interviews my friend Yuko Kotera did with visitors in the park.
Here are two tracks I was able to extract from my recordings:

Parkrachter
Parkdacht

For two days a group of children from the nearby elementary school visited the exhibition for a small art tour.
I explained them a little about my set up and performance and also invited them to make some sounds.
During all the ensuing chaos I managed to record a few minutes:

Rotltor

Bas