Johan van Kreij

Netherlands
research interests: computer music, improvisation, electroacoustic music, live electronics
affiliation: Institute of Sonology
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Johan van Kreij is a sonologist. His practice covers the fields of composing, improvising, making and executing in the field of experimental electro-acoustic music. He received his education at the Institute of Sonology, part of the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, Netherlands, graduating in 1998. At the same conservatory he acquired his masters degree in Composition in 2017. Cooperating with various artists he has been involved in a wide variety of projects in the field of improvised music, music theatre, dance, architecture and installations.
In addition to his artistic activities, Johan is actively involved in contributing to the experimental music scene in The Hague. In the first place in his position as teacher at the Institute of Sonology, but also as member of the Studio LOOS team where he helps creating events. Furthermore, he is in the process of setting up the ARTEk recording studio with Henry Vega, and he is participating in the cultural hotspot DCR.

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  • Of Rules and Canons — Raaijmakers' Reflection On Morphology (2017) author(s): Johan van Kreij published in: KC Research Portal
    Canon-1 is the first of a serie of five electro-acoustic works by Dick Raaymakers for which the concept 'morphology of sound' formed the principle starting point. Alongside the compositional activities, Raaymakers attempted to systematically describe a theoretical model that allowed him to get grip on the difficult matters relating composing with electronic means. This work fully occupied him from autumn of 1963 until spring of 1966. Not only led this work to a unique serie of compositions, it also laid the foundation for his later works covering the fields of composition, music-theater, installation art and writing. This important work was never well documented or contextualized from the perspective of electro-acoustic composition. Based on the original tapes, Raaymakers' schematics and interviews, this research aims to do that.
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  • 'What may have happened…' (2023) author(s): Johan van Kreij published in: Research Catalogue, KC Research Portal
    “What may have happened…" is a research driven by the desire to augment the sense of sharing in a decentralized improvisation-a creative musical situation in which the participants are in different locations. It focusses on extending the amount of communication channels in a decentralized improvisation setting—beyond the audible and visible. The aim will be not just adding extra layers of data exchange, but introducing various modes of interaction. This will be realized through the use of software and mobile devices.
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  • Revisiting the Gendy model from the perspective of noise transformation as a compositional method (last edited: 2022) author(s): Johan van Kreij, Jeyong Jung This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    The authors have been developing a technique called Noise Transformation that makes possible the on-the-fly instantaneous conversion of lists into continuous Probability Density Functions (PDFs) and the real-time redistribution of White Noise signals according to the list-style PDF prescriptions. One of the motivations for developing Noise Transformation was to create enormous possibilities in the choice of PDFs and the description of their in-time development in dynamic systems. The authors now attempt to apply the technique inspired by Xenakis to Xenakis’. The first step is using Noise Transformation in association with the Gendy model so that the synthesis uses the random numbers of arbitrarily drawn distributions.
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