Roland Kuit
composer | synthesis research | author | lecturer

Roland Kuit is an independent researcher, lecturer modular synthesis and composition. He contrived numerous cutting edge concepts in synthesis. As an author he writes about modular synthesis, research and sound design. His most comprehensive book is the "Laboratory of Patching; Illustrated Compendium of Modular Synthesis". As a composer, his music and books are published by Donemus, Publishing House of Dutch Contemporary Classical Music.

Roland Kuit received his first piano and recorder lessons at the age of six. Fascinated by the phenomenon 'sound' he made his first improvisations. The tape recorder at home was not only used to record these sessions but also all kinds of noises. He started playing the flute at the age of eleven. One year later he was accepted at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. His teachers were Mirjam Nastasi and Marijke Bakker. After playing Baroque music, his interest went via Debussy, Fauré to the modern composers like Escher, van Dijk, Fukushima.
Electronic music crossed his path. At that moment Roland made a decisive step in his career by subscribing at the prestigious Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands, one of longest-running research and production hubs on the European electroacoustic music scene. With great enthusiasm Roland studied analogue modular sound design and composition under Jaap Vink and Frits Weiland. Roland attended lectures about MIDIM/VOSIM given by Werner Kaegi and Stan Tempelaars as well as Fortran IV music from Gottfried Michael Koenig (1981-1985) and Paul Berg's lectures PILE. Roland took the opportunity to study and explore interactive composition and acoustics at the IRCAM, Paris. Kaija Saariaho and Philippe Manoury were his teachers (2000).

Works
Electronic / acousmatic
2014 "PianoCoder", Piano - Kyma.
"This is Piano Music", Piano - Kyma.
"Ruins of Memories", treated piano - Kyma.
"ReStructures for Piano", Kyma.
"Modular Piano", NMG2 - Kyma.
"Time Tunnels", for Renee Baker. Six Granular Microtonalisms for orchestra and electronics.
"Illiac Indeterminacy", Kyma. A tribute to Daniel Slotnick and John Cage.
"Trio For Artificial Violin - Flute - Piano", Kyma.
"One Piece For Two imaginary Piano's " , Kyma.
"Sequences of Poetry At The Hudson River For One Trumpet Player At 3.25 Hours", Kyma.
"Not and Tech Flute", Kyma.
"Sanctuary for the Lost Souls", Kyma . For Greg Kent.
"Scordatura for sixty Brown & Black Grand Piano bowed Resonances", Kyma.
"Green Clandestine Conversations 4 plants", Kyma.
"Three lines for Flute", Kyma.
"Three groups of Female Singers vocalise into each others Mouth", Kyma.
"Modal Glottal Violins running", Kyma.
"Flute(r)xtures", Kyma. For Carlton Vickers.
"Rajlich Rebits I - III", Kyma.
"Etude Violinesque", Kyma.
"Schaltungen I - III", Nord Modular G2. For Bil Smith.
2013 "Monads and beyond", Xite-1 Modular IV / Flexor. Karin Schomaker: visuals.
"Neo Plastiek V", Xite-1/Modular IV
"Neo Plastiek IV",Xite-1/Modular IV
"Neo Plastiek III", Xite-1/Modular IV
"Neo Plastiek II", Xite-1/Modular IV
"Neo Plastiek I", Xite-1/Modular IV
"form follows function", Xite-1 Modular IV / Flexor. Karin Schomaker: visuals.
2012 "The LAB", 35 years of electronic experiments
2011 "_0_ , 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, .0. ", computer music
2006 "De zee", for flute, hobo d'amour, bass clarinet, electronics, 3 groups female singers, video screens with electronic music.
2003 "Moving surface", for Tomas Rajlich.
"New Electronic Prose of the Hague", voice art: a tribute to Albert Vogel and ZERO.
2001 'Lines', for Hobo (d' Amour) and spacial granular synthesis.
2000 'Song for Clara Daniela Bentinck', for modular system, voice and granular synthesis.
'Emulated flutes I', physical modelling synthesis.
1999 "Xor, Nor and Or" for physical string models. Violence, for physical string models.
"Argument II", composition for bass clarinet and computer.
1998 Manifestation of New Music and Environment: series of concerts and performances for computer, dance, bass clarinet, flute, harp, the Hague.
"Holiday", composition for 5 harp groups and computer.
"Argument I", composition for bass clarinet and computer.
1997 "FM/AM", composition for computer and video.
1996 "Hieroglyphs" for Florence Sitruk, composition for pedal harp and computer.
"Electronic Poetry" with Albert in 't Veld.
1995 "Resonance", composition for bass flute and computer.
European Harp Symposium: MATRIX MR4 for Masumi Nagasawa, composition for pedal harp and programmable c.d.
1994 Juigalpa Project: "Requiem" for flutes, double bass, percussion and tape.
"LAYERS I-III", composition for violin, viola, double bass and computer.
1985/90 compositions and sound design for pop- and jazz formations.
1985 Dutch Broadcasting Studio (N.O.S.) compositions for movement (dance); KLIM
1978 "AM/FM", techniques to explore noise and crackles

Techno-Minimal
2008 Glitch
2006 "Car music", minimal techno.
"Chat music", electro.
2005 "SineBeats" projects.
2004 "Dutch Lounge Loops", video and music project.
2003 "Reset Junkies", Tekno performance.
"Dutch Loops", minimal dance performance.
2000 'St@te of .......phase", minimal house music. research of phase differences.

Ambient
1998 "The Relax Patches", for virtual analogue modular synthesizer.

Audio-Art
2009 'Cars', computer drawings and audio.
2002 Audio art object 'Resonance'.
2001 Audio art object 'Square Noise'.
Audio art object 'Enjoy Riding'.
1999 Audio art sculpture 'Money talks', for coins, 2 bass speakers sensors and Micro modular synthesizer.
1998 'Paris' audio art object.
1997 Audio art sculpture SQUARE&SINE, for Marcel Prins.
Sound-composition for 'The Hague 2025', multimedia- project with Marc van Bilderbeek and
Mariska Streefland.
1996 Audio art sculpture Line, black.....interrupt.
E-SCOPE, video installation with Marc van Bilderbeek.
1995 Audio art sculpture AMSTERDAM, for Avenue-magazine.
Audio art sculpture Architectonic Models I-XVII.
1994 Audio art sculpture with Reier Pos (light performance).
Audio art sculpture with Albert in 't Veld (steel/neon objects).
Audio art sculpture with Tomas Rajlich (paintings).
Sound Event for 4 paper objects .
Audio art sculpture 'Money talks', for coins, 2 bass speakers sensors and Micro modular synthesizer.
Audio art sculpture for relief of Jan Andriesse.
Electro Acoustic Domestic Pet.
Audio art sculpture Construction I.

Film/video
2000 Marc van Bilderbeeck: OUI Je T' Embrasse, Avec Tout Mon Coeur
1997 Anneke Mulder: De kloof
Anneke Mulder: IJs

Theatre
2002 Theaterwerkgroep De Firma Eindschot
1996 Stichting Rein Edzard Productions: Eksters

Compositions have been performed in:

New York City Electroacoustic Music Society, Spectrum NYC, USA
EZUFF = PP#5 Festival, Spectrum NYC, USA
Hörlursfestival Sollefteå, Västernorrland, Sweden
Museum Mondriaanhuis Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Electro-Music festival. NY, U.S.A.
University of Gothenburg. Lindbladstudion, Göteborg, Sweden
University for Music and Media (electro-music festival), London, UK
Theater aan het Spui, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Spuiplein, Den Haag, The Netherlands
RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paard van Troje, Den Haag, The Netherlands
HKK, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Festival of Arts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Gemeente Museum (Ouborg Prijs 1994), Den Haag. The Netherlands
De Rode Hoed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
De Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
De Ijsbreker, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Congresgebouw (North Sea Jazz), Den Haag, The Netherlands
Cheltenham Art Center, Philadelphia, USA
Cafe Sonore, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Atrium, Stadhuis, Den Haag, The Netherlands

Lecturing
Lecturer at Lindbladstudion, The department for electronic music at the Academy of Music and Drama,
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Lecturer at Sonus Factory, Rome, Italy
Teacher Roland Kuit Modular Synth School, the Netherlands
Lecturer Nord Modular Synthesizer, Centre for Electronic Music, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Lecturer Sound design at SAE, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Lecturer at Conservatory, Groningen, the Netherlands
Lecturer at the University for media in London, UK
Lecturer Audio Art Vrije Academie, Den Haag, the Netherlands
Lecturer and head of department Klanklaboratorium, Koorenhuis, Den Haag, the Netherlands
Substitute teacher analogue studio techniques, Instituut voor Sonologie, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Sound design
Kyma - Pacarana, Symbolic Sound
Concertzender, Dutch radio
SCOPE SDK6 Xite, Sonic Core
Modular IV, Sonic Core
Xite-1, Sonic Core
NMG2, Clavia
Nord Modular, Clavia
KLC MS-20, Korg

Discography
Piano Restructures
Ars Modular Musica III
Ars Modular Musica II
Ars Modular Musica I
kymaXology
New Chamber Music
Abstract Flute Music
Meditations for Flute
IFAR's "Avant-garde"
Amsterdam
0-Proze

Publications
eight nerve
The next word on music
Sound Morphology
Modular strategies in shaping reflections and space
To be ON- or to be OFF- that's the SWITCH
Creating a sonic Boolean Barber's pole
Musica Globalista on Wired.com
Goodreads(by Bruce Sterling)
Sequencer.de
Audio Central Magazine
Progsounds
Laboratory of Patching, Illustrated Compendium of Modular Synthesis
E-book SoundLab II, Architectures for philosophers
E-book SoundLab I, The Electronic Studio
Film festival catalog '84, Italy
Film festival catalog '97, Netherlands
North Sea Jazz
Zo als ik iets ben (H.K.K).
Komponisten der Gegenwart
Notes, bits&bites
World Harp Review
Orbe, Livres d’ Artistes
Interface magazine
Harpa
Notes, bits & bytes
Future Music
Avenue Magazine

Broadcastings
VARA Radio, The Netherlands
Canadian Radio, Canada
Concertzender, The Netherlands
Lake Country Community Radio C.A., USA
VPRO, The Netherlands
Soundart Radio Moscow, USSR
French Radio 1, France
NOS, The Netherlands

Archived
Composer at Donemus, The Hague
NEAR(Gaudeamus), Amsterdam
Muziek encyclopedie Nederland
Komponisten der Gegenwart
Haags Gemeente Archief, Den Haag
Ircam, Centre Pompidou, Paris


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