Dauw presents ZONDERWERK - MixTape+++

CLOT Magazine

Next mixtape comes from ZONDERWERK, who are a duo consisting of Linde Carrijn and Dijf Sanders. The artists started this project during the pandemic to explore their relationship as creative partners. Carrijn has a background in acting but recently has been more focused on composing and performing original scores for theatre, while Sanders is also a composer (and music gear enthusiast), with his work drawn from a wide array of non-Western music. The duo explain that their artistic name means ‘’without work’, but it also comes from ‘bijzonder werk’, where bijzonder is particular and unique. Both artists like to work with images/paintings that are bijzondere werken’, odd works, special and weird. The fact of working with images adds a particular approach to their creative process. As they mention, adding music and sound design to the work of art creates a new dimension and amplifies the beholder's experience. It’s an extra layer, an alternative storyline outside the frame ZONDERWERK have recently released their debut album babel on the Ghent-based tape record label Dauw (which similarly has a central visual/graphic aspect to their outputs and ethos). The album materialises the duo’s conceptualisation for this project; babel is an exercise in translating images into sound. It was initially created for the eponymous theatre piece by architect and artist Steve Salembier. One of the biggest inspirations for the album was Michael Woolf’s photographs, which in turn also served as the basis for the original theatre piece. The use of grey and repetition is translated into looped harmonies and fine-grained drones that progressively open up like blooming ice flowers. Using city-reminiscent musical elements, such as bells and metals, to create synthy lines, tape loops, and droney. There are details of fourth-world sounds that delicately populate the different tracks; small oases where to breathe away the man-made concrete jungle that is both inhospitable and endlessly awe-inducing. The mixtape they have prepared for us is full of compositions they are inspired by: Some we love because of the choice of the gear, some of them we love because of the emotionality, some of them we love because of the memory of a moment we listened to it together. Tracklist: Vuurfeest - ZONDERWERK Psalm - Yves Tumor Jynweythek - Aphex Twin known(1) - Autechre Addio - Dienne More Islands - Clark, Budapest Art Orchestra, Peter Pejtsik Lindbergh - schntzl Falaise - Floating Points Powerspot - Jon Hassel Goodbye Pluto- Kohn (clouds) Kristalstoelen - ZONDERWERK Oh Baby - Micachu & The Shapes Wintersong - Elisabeth Klinck Hana - Asa-Chang & Junray