From September 4 I gave 3 lectures in 5 days under the heading ’Sound is Space’ at Gallery Het Langhuis Zwolle, ArtEZ and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
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From September 4 to 25 2016 Langhuis Galery (Zwolle) will be organising in collaboration with Icon Museum Kampen the exhibition: ‘Strategies for Fighting Evil’.
→Soon I ‘ll will be giving 3 readings in 1 week with the common denominator: ‘Sound is Space’ at Langhuis Gallery, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academy
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a meditative sound walk, 9 and 10 july, 2016
A path leading past five small waterfalls at the foot of the Hemelse Berg near Oosterbeek and my love of experimenting with binaural, stillness-inspiring sound prompted me to create a variation on Portabe Silence 1.
2-2-2016 BLOG: LISTENING TO CHINA 1986 and 2015 Listening live to China’s globalization, to its fastest and most extensive urban development ever with an interval of 29 years was an overwhelming experience. Right now I have available 2 sound files of…
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THERE IS NOTHING TO TELL ME is the title of my new interactive GPS directed sound work about World War One. Three lines of the book of the Belgian writer Stefan Hertmans about WW1 inspired me to create a sound…
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This is the prototype of a binaural (h)earbox, designed for a hearing-impaired person.
It was a great developing process
After the ‘Dutch Directors Guild Award’ and the ‘Cinetrofa Award of the Portugese Trofa Film Festival’, both in 2014, Menno Otten wins with his short documentary Via Dolorosa the ‘Best Cinematography Award’ at the Bucharest International Film Festival (BIEFF).
Jury:special focus on the binaural recordings and the sound design.
VIA DOLOROSA, a documentary from director Menno Otten, has won the Dutch Directors Guild Award 2014 for short documentaries as well as the Cinetrofa Award of the Portugese Trofa Film Festival. Later this year it will be presented in the Santa Fe Filmfestival (2014). The first screenings were in the IDFA 2013. The documentary shows the centuries old passion shared by the penitents taking part in Málaga’s Semana Santa processions and the crowds that flock to see them.
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