Johan van Kreij
Improvisor, composer and maker who aims through his work to create a lens on contemporary technology which is employed in order to extend, invert or disassemble the musical situation. His collaborations cover the fields of music, architecture, choreography, visual arts and music-theatre in which he worked closely with Dick Raaijmakers, Peter van Bergen, Frances Marie Uitti, Paul Koek, Marie Guilleray, Ted Stoffer and many others.
As independent developer of creative software he has contributed to the artistic works of a.o. Michel van der Aa, Louis Andriessen, Kas Oosterhuis, Bram Vreven and Jan van der Putte. As an artistic researcher, in the past years he has developed and realized a variety of projects and has contributed to the LOOS artistic research community, collaborating with many young artists. Since 2001 he has been a permanent staff member of the Sonology department at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.