Serge & Mondriaan

With „Serge & Mondriaan“, Ankersmit explores the visionary but little-known sonic ideas of Dutch modernist painter Piet Mondriaan. As far back as the early 1920's, Mondriaan imagined a radical, abstract, electrically produced music of pure, hard-edged frequency and noise; "tone" and "non-tone”. Ankersmit realises these ideas into an electronic composition of his own, made entirely on an original 1970's Serge Modular from the collection of Gemeentemuseum The Hague - an instrument inspired by Mondriaan’s work.

Acoustic phenomena such as sound reflections, infrasonic vibration, otoacoustic emissions, and highly directional projections of sound play a central role in Ankersmit‘s work. His music is also characterised by a deliberate misuse of the equipment, using feedback and disruptions to the signal, and the extremes of frequency and dynamics, to create visceral but finely detailed swarms of sound.