Sound Instruments Music Electronics Research
My name is Tijs Ham, although some know me as Tapage. I am a Dutch Sound Artist and Researcher, currently living and working in Bergen, Norway. My artistic practice is situated in the field of live electronic music, building instruments, and creating noise. My instruments are volatile, unstable, chaotic, fragile, vulnerable, and poetic. I play audiovisual performances, record albums, and research the notions of chaos and emergence in relation to music and meaning.
Currently, I am in the final stages of a Ph.D. in Artistic Research at the University of Bergen.
“What first seemed like a cacophony of disparate noises appears to display a wondrous sense of asymmetric balance. Recurrence, absent of repetition. A new sonic landscape transforms the pliability of the instrument that produces it.”
“An instrument capable of reinvention. A machine creating differences, not just affecting itself, but through its intricate vibrations, able to change everything it encounters.”