Bio
Jorrit Tamminga (Goes, 1973) studied Music & Technology at the Utrecht School of the Arts and
Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague.
During both studies he focused on electronic composition, live electronics and sound synthesis.
His work sounds regularly in different settings all over the globe: in concert halls and venues (Madrid, Amsterdam, Berlin, Istanbul), festivals (Huddersfield, Murcia, Zürich, Stavanger), churches (Mechelen, Utrecht, Antwerp), on the streets, in factories (Goes, Twente) and from towers (New York, Kaunas, Almere).
Tamminga teaches composition electronic music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and sound design at Music & Technology.
He composed works for speakers only (Barst), string quartet and live electronics (Zephyr Quartet-Powerchords), ensemble (Nieuw Amsterdams Peil-Cumulonimbus), saxophone and live electronics (Rosa Ensemble-Klep Dicht!), carillon and soundtrack (Inside Out, Waterslag) and gamelan and live electronics (Ensemble Gending-Tijdverspilling).
In 2007 he received a commission to write an electronic composition for Erik Bosgraaf for the opening of the Festival Oude Muziek.
In 2010 he composed the music for JANE, a new multimedia music theater piece with
Izhar Elias,
Erik Bosgraaf,
Paul en Menno de Nooijer.
Tamminga programmed live electronics for several music productions such as
Void (Muziektheater Transparant), Faust (theatregroup Artery with the Nederlands Kamerkoor) and The Seven Chakras and Nada Brahma, compositions by Wim Henderickx. Also for Peter Adriaansz Jorrit programmed electronic sounds.
As a musician he plays live electronics in several ensembles such as Herautronique with trumpet player Hans Leeuw.
In the period 2000-2002 he was music curator of Theater Kikker in Utrecht.
Currently he is one of the curators of the Rumor festival.
Press
"In de Domkerk zelf ging de Dowland-metamorfose nog even door.
Laptop kunstenaar Jorrit Tamminga en blokfluitist Erik Bosgraaf hadden zich er toegelegd op Dowlands muziek 'eigentijds in te pakken', wat smaakvol gebeurde.
Een voortreffelijk aperitief voor het piece-de-resistance van de avond: het Britse ensemble Trinity Baroque."
Kees Arntzen, Trouw 27-08-2007
"De opening in de Domkerk begon wonderlijk, met quasi-improvisatorische blokfluittonen van Erik Bosgraaf in contrapunt met elektronische klankweefsels van Jorrit Tamminga.
De elektronica klonk soms onvermijdelijk sciencefiction-achtig, en soms wat kitscherig, maar de interactie met Bosgraafs spel was goed hoorbaar en muzikaal zinvol."
Jochem Valkenburg, NRC handelsblad 25-08-2007
PZC, 24-09-2007
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