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Martijn Tellinga (1974, Netherlands) is a composer of media, acoustical installations and electronic music. His work renders an ongoing meditation on the rudimentary condition of the sonic arts. Utilizing architecturally and spatially informed compositional models, he aims to establish an artistic idiom that draws on the exploration of the parameters of composition and performance as workingmaterials for an autonomous practice in sound. A practice defined by attitude over means. It includes a wide variety of conceptual actions and aleatoric operations.

His work gains shape within a context of strict systematized procedures and intuitive intervention and reflects a process of continuous repositioning, navigating formal and technological constraints. It studies emergence, space and movement of the individual within. It proposes an aesthetic that is mobile and concerned with an observers disposition that is engaging, imaginative and expansive.

He received a Master's degree in Sonology, studying with with Paul Berg and Kees Tazelaar. In 2008 he received a 2-year scholarship from the Netherlands Foudation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.

He performed and exhibited his work in over 20 countries worldwide over the past years. He worked in residence at a number of institutes and collaborated with visual artists, video artists and filmmakers, creating multi-media environments and soundtracks for animated and short films. a.o. with Austrian graphic-designer Dextro, Finnish filmmaker and journalist Sami Kallinen and Dutch architect Jan Robert Leegte. He completed a short constructivist play for sound, light and objects in collaboration with visual artist James Beckett and trombonist James Fulkerson. He collaborated with renowned instrumentalists Jonny Axelsson, Robin Hayward and Jon Mueller and performed and interpreted works by Tudor, Nono, Xenakis, Raaijmakers, Lucier.

Recently he realized an algorithmically and spatially diffused performance for Sheng quartet. Currently, he is currently putting together 17 sums on 2009, for_Hanne Darboven, an acoustical environment for chamber ensemble and _of_pAraLlels_four tromBones, an algorithmically and spatially diffused performance for Trombone quartet.

He is co-curator for the weekly concertseries DNK-Amsterdam and radio maker for the Dutch radiostation De Concertzender. In 1999 he started the platform for experimental music Stichting Mixer.

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