From 2005 until 2014, I was a core member of theatre group Cowboy bij Nacht in Utrecht.

Over the course of almost ten years, we made several theatre performances and participative performance installations, which were shown on national theatre festivals like Oerol, Over ‘t IJ Festival, Spring Performing Arts Festival and Karavaan Festival. We also made a several nationwide theatre tours.

For most of the performances we made, I composed the music and was responsible for the overall sound design.

Tesla Theatre is a short musical theatre performance about inventor and eccentric genius Nikola Tesla. In this performance for actor and a musical tesla coil, we share our fascination with wayward inventor, physicist and futurist Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943). Although he was often regarded as a mad genius in his own times, nowadays Tesla is seen as one of the biggest inventors of all times in the fields of electricity and magnetism. In this performance his miracles and radical ideas regarding a global network of unlimited wireless energy come to live.

“Security is both a feeling and a reality, and they’re different. You can feel secure even though you’re not, and you can be secure even though you don’t feel it.”

—  Bruce Schneier

An installation about feeling secure even though you’re not, and being secure even though you don’t feel it. In Smile! You’re on CCTV the visitor enters a room with several hidden IP cameras and one central video surveillance monitor placed on a desk. On several sticky notes placed on the walls and the floor, the visitor can read quotes on the subject of privacy, CCTV, security, safety and the rise of the ‘politics of fear’. The video monitor shows several (delayed) video streams of the cameras capturing the image of the visitor. Because of this delay, the visitor can watch himself on the monitor walking around the room, while he was reading these quotes.