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"official artist bio":
Derek Holzer is a sound artist with a background in radio, webstreaming and environmental recording. His work focuses on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations, networked collaboration strategies, experiments in improvisational sound and on the use of free software such as Pure-Data. He has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR and Gruenrekorder labels.
Holzer has also performed live, improvised electronic music in many venues and festivals in Europe, the US and Brasil including FILE (Sao Paulo, BR), WRO (Wroclaw, PL), Netherlands Film Festival (Utrecht, NL), Garage (Stralsund, DE), Videomedeja (Novi Sad, SCG), BEK (Bergen, NO), Transmediale (Berlin, DE), RAM6 (Vilnius, LT), Arts+Communication (Riga, LV), Kuda.org (Novi Sad, SCG), Earational Festival (S'Hertogenbosch, NL), Medienturm (Graz, AT), Kunstraum (Innsbruck, AT), Art Museum of Nantes (Nantes, FR), Montevideo (Amsterdam, NL), Kraakgeluiden (Amsterdam, NL), Denver University (Denver, USA) and others.
Upcoming Performances:
Nov 28 - Abominations - Fylkingen, Stockholm, SE
Dec 01 - Abominations - Moonshake Club @ Digital Tone Festival, Umeå, SE
Dec 02 - Abominations - Luleå, SE (venue to be announced)
Dec 06 - TONEWHEELS - Tesla, Berlin, DE
Dec 07 - Abominations - Ausland, Berlin, DE
Jan 24 - TONEWHEELS - NETMAGE, Bolgna, IT
Homepage:
Umatic.nl
Online works include:
Soundtransit.nl
resonanCITY
Karosta Project
Discography:
2007 - V/A - connected dots. connected ideas - Frozen Elephants Music
2006 - V/A - Recorded in the Field by... - Gruenrekorder [ reviews ]
2005 - V/A - Untitled Songs - Sirr|ecords [ reviews ]
2005 - V/A - Phonography.org 7 - Phonography.org / and/OAR Records
2004 - Derek Holzer & Oloolo - Kosta - Nexsound [ review ][ review ]
2003 - V/A - RT-32 Acoustic Space Lab - RIXC