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   zooolife

               faceshift

         icuria coss

folies douces

    liquid skin

         apophenia

             mr. speaker

     wall of sound

waiting room 1.0.

      sounding out

             lea

the sound tree

      operation sunflower

    zinneke parade

     wedding music

welcome to the museum

il ne faut pas rire du bonheur

         
              squash



Bob Vanderbob a.k.a. Bobvan is a composer, video artist, writer and communication artist based in Brussels (Belgium).
He attended the legendary Creative Music Studio in New York, then founded the rock group Des Airs and the activist cyberpunk duet Sacher Musak in the 80's, set up Sauce Riche Fanfare, composed music for theatre, fashion and dance, and recorded two solo albums released on Crammed Discs : Loonychip Classics and Water Dragon.
In 1993, Bobvan started exploring the field of sound in space, or 3D audio.
His research in sound spatialization led him to create the Sound Tree, a listening environment for sound stories for children: “cinema for the ear”. It is in this context that he produced Operation Sunflower, a Sound Tree story that extended through a vast urban communication project, which was presented in the framework of BrusselsEuropean City of Culture 2000 and twinned with the city of Glasgow (Scotland).

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Recent projects :

> Kick 'n' Roll, a documentary film about the Brussels rollersoccer team Shinobis Riders, and their participation in the Rollersoccer World Championship in San Francisco.

> Buddies, a book of photographs of human-like faces in everyday objects.

> Icuria Coss, a music project with Toronto-based vocalist/dancer/actress Susanna Hood and British writer Liz Scrimgeour. Their debut album The Scabs Are Itching Badly Today is out on Entangled Records.

> Liquid Skin, a dance project with the Australian dance and multimedia company Igneous and German puppeteers Figuren Theater Tuebingen.

> Waiting Room 1.0, a sound performance about the future of robotics and artificial intelligence where the audience eavesdrops on a conversation between four humanoid robots.

> Zooolife, a sonic exploration of the encounter between genetic and binary codes.

> The Wall of Sound, a sound installation and communication project in the Gare de la Chapelle in Brussels.

> Sounding Out, a pseudo holographic video performance premiered at the Netdays festival.