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Wednesday 25-0903

Release new album Deconstructed Melodies on Bandcamp with Koen Nutters, Peter van Bergen, Jeroen Kimman, Gert-Jan Prins. Extended meditations on compositions by Anthony Braxton, Paul Termos, Carla Bley, Sun Ra, Koen Nutters. Have a listen and support the group if you can!

Deconstructed Melodies

by Deconstructed Melodies
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1. Composition 110a (A. Braxton) 13:36

2. Balloon (P. Termos) 14:00

3. Ida Lupino (C. Bley) 14:36

4. MA (Michelle Alexander) (K. Nutters) 13:28

5. Omniverse (Sun Ra) 13:10

credits

released September 3, 2025

Deconstructed Melodies
Peter van Bergen - tenor sax
Jeroen Kimman - guitar
Koen Nutters - bass
Gert-Jan Prins - percussion, electronics

Recorded by Gert-Jan Prins on August 7, 2025
Mixed by GJP and Jeroen Kimman
Mastered by Jeroen Kimman

Melodies by Anthony Braxton, Paul Termos, Carla Bley, Koen Nutters, and Sun Ra.

PvB add: The session was meant to be a rehearsal. Gert-Jan, Koen and Jeroen were enthusiastic about what they had heard and suggested releasing the recordings. Anthony Braxton's melody was played together for the first time and transposed on the spot from concert C to Bb (tenor saxophone). This is a skill I learned during rehearsals and concerts, transposing the alto saxophone parts in the scores played by the group HOKETUS in the 1980s to the tenor saxophone on the spot.

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Wednesday 25-0827

Meeting with drummer and African percussion specialist Willem Jansen. Concrete start of a new wind/percussion duo. Name not yet known. Rehearsals will start soon.

IOM-AIM

IMPROVISING ORCHESTRAL MACHINE - ARTIFICIAL IMPROVISATION MACHINE

BY PETER VAN BERGEN

The Interactive Interdisciplinary Improvisational Orchestral Machine (IOM) - Artificial Improvisation Machine (AIM) is an artistic research project by Peter van Bergen (PhD candidate at the Brussels Conservatory / Vrije Universiteit Brussel) being developed in collaboration with software programmer Johan van Kreij.

Research into and development of IOM have been made financially possible through a two-year research grant from NFPK +, a work grant from the FPK and the municipality of The Hague.

The pursuit of IOM-AIM is the design and realization of an interactive improvisation machine, an "orchestra" consisting of human improvisers in combination with computers, speakers, beamers, microphones, sensors and cameras. In IOM-AIM, people and computers improvise musically, interactively, and simultaneously in complex networks. Unstable aspects of improvisation concepts are being investigated for possibilities to transform them into interactive interdisciplinary set-ups. The human improvisers enter into a live dialogue with a multimedia autonomous improvisation machine consisting of computers, 4-18 speakers, cameras, sonar sensors, microphones and images and sounds that play a role in the performance live via the internet. In IOM, all parts of the ensemble communicate with each other on an independent basis. The audience is also involved as “data input” in this musical adventure.

Themes:
• granular synthesis
• generative algorithmic models
• hyperinstruments
• the art of memory
• exploring the space
• iCOT (interactive Cathedral of Thorns)
• transforming the space

Participating artists:
Peter van Bergen (concept, compositions, wind instruments), Johan van Kreij (software programming, sound engineering) Jan Trützschler von Falkenstein, Darien Brito, Nikolaj Kynde, Giuliano Anzani, Anna Chocholi (software programming), Gabriele Hultsch (design), Herman van Bergen (visual arts), Hans Vaders (poems), David Kweksilber Big Band (28 individual artists), Remake of the Scratch Orchestra (10 individual artists), 30 x various musicians, Evan Parker, Petra Dolleman, Wim T Schippers, Paul Koek.