Creations
Tijd Zal Ons Leren (Time Will tell)
In Collaboration with Het Nationale Theater (2021, 2022 & 2023)
After a 3 year deep dive into the history of heroic resistance during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, I accompanied actress and writer Romana Vrede in telling a personal story that connects the past with the present and expresses hope for our collective human future by focusing on untold stories honoring our ancestors.
OTION - Music composition and performance
Romana Vrede - writer / actor
Erik Whien - Director
Stage Design - Dennis van der Broeck
Lighting Design - Julian Meiwald
Costume - Rebekka Wormann / Nen Xavier
Dramaturgie - Simone Zeefuik / Remco van Rijn
Continue This thread
In Collaboration with
the Amsterdam Museum (2023)
For the healing space of the exhibition 'Continue This Thread,' I composed “Frekti Singi” (Woven Song in Sranan Tongo: My ancestral Language) by weaving together vocal patterns, and ASMR craftwork sounds into an auditive bedspread. In addition to this work I composed a series of short instrumental audio stops to reflect the theme of some of the other rooms.
Curated by: Roberto Luis Martins, Tess van Zalinge, Karim Adduchi
De Foetus Hemel (The fetus heaven)
In Collaboration with Ulrike Quade Company (2023)
Together with author Simon van Saarloos and Designer Carly Evaert, I composed a musical score and performed (the recorded) interpretation of the antagonist for the Play “De Foetus Hemel”
Dreaming Release
In Collaboration with
Bambi van Balen & Tools for Action (2023)
Dream Release is the 3rd edition of a collaboration that started during my Residency at MQ in Vienna. I collaborated with visual artist Bambi van Balen on a collective dreaming experience inside their light installation created with inflatable sculptures emitting pulsating light. I constructed a sonic journey guided by my voice with the invitation to release. The work was performed in Vienna at the MQ, in the MU in Eindhoven and is currently part of the Exhibition Resilient Rebels in Museum Helmond as “Dreaming While Awake”
Zielsverhuizing (transmigration of the soul)
In Collaboration with
Amerpodia & Compagnie Theater (2022)
I was commissioned to write a poetic text and create a soundscape for a video project illustrating the end of the Compagnie Theater as a location specific institution. I performed the text in the video.
ícaro
Created for
Rrreuring Festival at Podium Mozaïek (2020)
Solo theater work: OTION, created for the Rrreuring Festival at Podium Mozaiek in collaboration with lighting designer Nistal Anand. Inspired by the Icaros: medicine songs sung in rituals by Indigenous Shamans to the land we now call South America. This performance was structured as a rite of passage ceremony where OTION sang himself into the release of childhood trauma and radical self celebration.