CV
Personal Information
Name: Tijs Ham
Aka: Tapage
Member of: The Void*
Address: Skottegaten 17
Zip Code: 5011
City: Bergen
Country: Norway
Organisation: Tapage-Sound
Organisation nr: 920397867
Date of Birth: 19-09-1981
Education
2025 Music4Change, Mentorship Program
Mentored by Pedro Rebelo, SARC
2023 Ph.D. in Artistic Research, University of Bergen
Supervised by Dániel Péter Biró and Kristina Andersen
Reflection Component
2013 M.A. in Creative Design for Digital Cultures, HKU, Music and Technology
Supervised by Jorrit Tamminga
Supportive Narrative
Bachelor of Art and Technology with Honours, HKU, Music and Technology
2011 Internship, STEIM, Supervised by Takuro Mizuta Lippit
2004 Bachelor of Design, AKV-St.Joost
Supervised by Koen Geurts
Thesis
2000 VWO, Lorentz College
1998 HAVO, Lorentz College
Completed Courses
2020 Materials, Methods, and Ethics in Music Research
2019 Kurs i tekstarbeid for ph.d.-kandidater
Motive; Materiality; Movement:
Inseparability in Interdisciplinary Music Studies and Practices
Absurd Hackathon
Exploring artistic, pedagogic, and therapeutic practices:
Interdisciplinary knowledges for responsible research and innovation?
Ethics and Artistic Research
Work Experience
2005 - Ongoing Tapage, Artist
2010 - Ongoing The Void*, Band Member
2024 - Ongoing Bergen Future Music (BFM), Co-Founder (With Kjetil Møster and Stephan Meidell)
Associate Professor at the Music Department of the UiB-KMD (Guest Lecturer)
nyMusikk Bergen, Leader Group
Artificial Center for the Imagination (ACI), Co-Founder (With Simon Gilbertsen)
2023 - Ongoing nyMusikk Bergen, Board Member
HK-Dir, The Norwegian Artistic Research School, Moderator
2022 - Ongoing Bulldozer, Co-Founder (With Johanne Øra Danielsen)
2019 - Ongoing Playdate, Board Member
2018 - 2023 UiB - KMD, Ph.D. in Artistic Research
2020 - 2022 DIKU, Ph.D. Board Representative
2019 - 2022 FUU, Board Member
2018 - 2022 Borealis, Valgkomittee Leder
2017 - 2020 Blue Rinse, Co-Founder (With Craig Wells)
2017 - 2018 Østre, Staff Member
BIT-Teatergarasjen, Technical Staff Member
2013 - 2017 STEIM, Staff Member
STEIM, Member of the Artistic Board
Soundlings, Co-Founder (With Pinar Temiz)
2004 - 2008 Tapeface, Co-Founder (With Silke van Poelgeest)
Education & Workshops
2025 Guest Lecturer, Kultur og Samfund (Univerity of Bergen/KMD)
Guest Lecturer, Non-Linear Feedback (NTNU)
Workshop Assistant, Immersive Sound (Lydgalleriet)
2024 Ph.D. Midterm Assessor (Univerity of Bergen/KMD)
Guest Lecturer, Kultur og Samfund (Univerity of Bergen/KMD)
Guest Lecturer, Musikk Terapi (Univerity of Bergen/KMD)
Guest Lecturer, Non-Linear Feedback (University of Agder)
Workshop Leader, Encoded Noise (BEK)
Moderator, Artistic Research Forum (HK-Dir/Norwegian Artistic Research School)
Presenter, Seminar 1 (HK-Dir/Norwegian Artistic Research School)
Presenter, Seminar 2 (HK-Dir/Norwegian Artistic Research School)
External Student Consultant (Glasgow School of the Arts)
External Student Consultant (TU/e, Industrial Design)
2023 Master Exam Assessor (NTNU)
External Student Consultant (Arts2, Academy of Arts)
2022 Guest Lecturer, Chaotic Music (HKU/Music Technology)
2018 - 2023 Lecturer, Contemporary Music (Univerity of Bergen/KMD)
Lecturer, SuperCollider (Univerity of Bergen/KMD)
Lecturer, Biinstrument Elektronikk (Univerity of Bergen/KMD)
Supervisor, BA & MA students (Univerity of Bergen/KMD)
Speaker, Composition Research Group (Univerity of Bergen/KMD)
Speaker, Sounding Philosophy (Univerity of Bergen/KMD)
2021 Guest Lecturer, Artist presentation and transition between practice and architecture (BAS)
2019 Workshop Leader, Synth building workshop (Åsane Kulturskole)
2018 Workshop Leader, MOD/ALL (BEK)
2017 Workshop Leader, Windinstrumenten (The Beach)
Guest Lecturer, Southern Wave (Casco/DAI)
2016 Guest Lecturer, Sonic Tour guides (HAN)
Lecturer, Controllers (STEIM)
2015 Workshop Leader, Kids Sound Installations (TU/Delft)
Workshop Leader, Voice Manipulation (Rewire Festival)
2012 - 2014 Organizer & Moderator, Think Tank Meetups (Soundlings)
2014 Lecturer, SuperCollider (STEIM)
Guest Lecturer, Sound Identity of Places (STEIM/ABA Perugia)
2011 - 2013 Class Assistant, Max/MSP (HKU/Music Technology)
2013 Junior Lecturer, Hardware Design (HKU/Music Technology)
Workshop Leader, Visual Reactive Audio (Fiber Festival/Cocolab/OFFF)
Workshop Leader, Dec++o++ded (Frauduleus)
2012 Guest Lecturer, Instrument Lab (STEIM)
Guest Lecturer, SuperCollider (HKU/Music Technology)
Albums as Tapage
2022 - Vinyl Recursive Behaviors (Video) (Video)
2021 - Digital Recover
2020 - Digital Minimal Remnant
- Cassette Ecdysis
2019 - Digital One, Two, Three & Four
2017 - Cassette Chrome Fragments (Video)
2016 - Digital A Deep Fact
- Digital Face Taped
2015 - CD Five & Six (Video)
2014 - CD Eight (Video)
2012 - Digital Circles (Video)
2011 - CD Overgrown (Video)
- Digital Seven (Video)
- Digital Irukandji E.P.
2009 - CD Fallen Clouds
2008 - CD The Institute of Random Events (Video) (Video) (Video)
in Collaboration
2024 - Vinyl The Elephant Started Crying When Listening To Herself Sing (With Guro Kverndokk)
2023 - Vinyl Descended Hope (With Espoir) (Video)
2020 - Digital The Collider Circle (With Tokee) (Video)
- Cassette Bumblebee Amateurism (With Espoir)
2019 - Cassette Norwegian Disco (As The Void*) (Video)
- Vinyl STATES (With Gareth Davis)
2015 - Vinyl Values (Video) (As The Void*)
- Cassette Poetic Infomercial Experimentalism (With Espoir)
2014 - Digital Valentape (With Espoir)
2012 - Digital Laughing Aluminium (With Espoir)
2011 - Digital Outercloser Part Two (With Rick De Greef)
2010 - CD Etched in Salt (With Meander) (Video)
2009 - Digital Outercloser Part One (With Innsu)
- Vinyl The Financial Times (With Ophidian)
2005 - Vinyl Hydromedusa E.P. (With Meander)
- Vinyl Phataa Diin God E.P. (With Ophidian)
Remixes
2021 - Digital Rect - Something Doesn’t Add Up (Tapage Everything Subracts Mix)
2020 - Digital Hior Chronik - That Mystery Again (Tapage Remix)
2018 - Digital Admir Korjenic - Taiga (Tapage Remix)
2016 - Digital Near The Parenthesis - Notation (Tapage Remix)
2013 - Digital Lights Off - Only You Can See (Tapage Remix)
2012 - CD Dirk Geiger - Twin Flame (Tapage Remix)
- Digital Peter Adriaansz - Phase & Fraction (Tapage Remix)
2011 - Digital Anomie Belle - Electric Lullaby (Tapage Remix)
- CD Rroo - Laugh In Her Broken Eyes (Tapage Remix)
- Digital Synthetic Violence - Art July (Tapage Remix)
- CD Dirk Geiger - Itch Glitch (Tapage remix)
- Digital Cybo - Now That They're Watching (Tapage Reconstructed)
2010 - Digital Apparent Symmetry - Looking Through (Tapage Remix)
- Digital Thermidor - Oceanus (Revisited By Tapage)
- CD Pleq - Sound Of Rebirth (Tapage Remix)
2009 - CD Haven - Kuharjrib (remix by Tapage)
- Vinyl Ophidian & Ruffneck - Noisemaker (Noise Made By Tapage & Meander)
- CD Aphorism - Msect (Dissected by Tapage)
2007 - Vinyl Ophidian as Raziel - To Punish The Weak (Punished By Tapage)
- Digital Lucid Static - Inner Struggle (Tapage Remix)
2005 - Vinyl Wedlock vs Comababy - Void Sector (Massacre)
Contributions
as Tapage
2024 - Digital Encoded Noise
2023 - Digital The Unfamiliarity
2022 - Digital Porcupine
- Digital Stepping Forward Blindfolded
2021 - Digital The Constant Fading
- Digital Leaf
2020 - Digital Amenity
- Digital OoQ
- Digital Triangular Cavity
2017 - Digital Sander
2015 - CD She Looks So Peaceful
- CD So Small
2014 - Digital Flac False
- Digital Moth Skin
2013 - Digital Paragon Choice (Video)
- Digital Removed
2012 - Digital Xantophyta
- Digital Liquid Dust
- Digital Glycyrrhiza
- CD Ctenophores
- Digital Chrystal Flabs Resonating
- Digital Moonship
- Digital Peak
2011 - Digital Holothuriodea
- CD Last
- Digital The Fields
- Digital Losing a Thought
- Digital Shifting
2010 - CD XVYVX
- Digital Scenes
- Digital Wounds (Video)
- Vinyl Notoyou
- Digital Solitary Polyp
- CD MWM
- Digital Unfold
- Digital Adapt
2009 - Digital Interwolf
- CD Last Inhale
- Digital One In Dig
2008 - CD The Unspoiled
2006 - Vinyl [||||]
2005 - Vinyl Flowerbed Deathbed (Video)
in Collaboration
2022 - CD Imbalanced (With Jonas Kocher)
2020 - CD Flooded Ant (With Espoir)
2016 - Digital The Network (With Chem D)
2015 - CD Plane (With Syndemic)
2012 - Digital Green Queen Discount (With Espoir)
- Digital Idofin (With Meander)
- Vinyl Head VI (With Ophidian)
2011 - Digital The Room (With Ophidian)
- Digital Flood (With Miss Twilight)
- Digital One Limited Cheap Swine (With Espoir)
2010 - Vinyl Industrial Cooking Spray (With The Outside Agency)
- Vinyl Choice Mission (With The Outside Agency)
- Digital Frozen (With Miss Twilight)
- Digital Modular (With Stan Verberkt)
2009 - Digital Spare Seconds (With db)
- CD Jelly Battleship (With Meander)
2005 - Vinyl Chestnut Theory: Ice Cavern (Death) (With Meander)
Live Electronics & Sound Art
2025 Song of the Living Circuit
2024 Shimmer
Lilla Sol
Encoded Noise
Persistent Disequilibrium Rosendal (With J. Welsh, Ø. Brandsegg & T. Lossius)
Gathered Resonances (With KORO - Studio & Bergen Fremtidsmusikk)
Sonisk Selskap - Sustained Vibrations (With A. Nordstrøm, S. Tchirkov, F. Wennborg,
A. Hannevold, D. Jone Castro)
2023 Live at Bulldozer #3
Live at CASE Records Label Weekend
Persistent Disequilibrium Molde (With J. Welsh, Ø. Brandsegg & T. Lossius)
Persistent Disequilibrium Wrap (With J. Welsh, Ø. Brandsegg & T. Lossius)
Songs We Sing (With Alwynne Pritchard & Hans Knut Sveen Et.Al.)
Tapage & Espoir at Tipping Points Concert (With Espoir)
2022 Live at 10 Years of Algorave
2021 Pixels.Frames.Beats.Drones (With J. Welsh, P. Wanthiang, Ø. Brandsegg & T. Lossius)
2021 - 2023 Physeter
2022 - 2023 Follow The Unfolding (With Carmen Bóveda)
Vivid Forgetfulness (With Sergej Tchirkov)
2020 - 2023 Restate (With Kjetil Møster)
2019 - 2023 Multiple Minds
2021 Audioglimt (With Alwynne Pritchard)
2020 Flowering Depression (With Espoir)
2019 Focus ++ Fragility
Sounds & Spaces (With J. Welch, C. Wells, Ø. Brandsegg)
2018 L I F T
Mannes (With Roald van Dillewijn & NIO Architecten)
2017 - 2018 Ecdysis
States I/O
2016 - 2018 WMWM
2016 - 2017 States
2017 Refract / Recurse (With Birk Nygaard)
2015 - 2016 Three Mixers
2016 Live at LPM16 (With Machinka)
Songline (With Soundlings)
E.E.G.Kiss (With Lancel/Maat)
Live at The Instrument Room (With Espoir)
2014 - 2015 Circuit Bend Mixer
2015 Circuit Bridges (With Soundlings & Vox Novus)
VJ On Tour (With Born Digital & Sietse van Berkel)
Threshold Shift
2014 Hear (With Fourcelabs)
Cycles (With Cocolab)
Perpetuum Mobile (With Cynthia Zaven)
I am Sitting In A Room (With Alvin Lucier)
2013 Code, Code & Clarinet (With Roald van Dillewijn & Gareth Davis)
Drill (With Roald van Dillewijn)
Coalescence (With Soundlings & Insomnio & Rosa) (Sound)
Sound It Is (With Soundlings)
2012 In:Still Life (With Pinar Temiz)
_Dewpoint (With Pinar Temiz)
Labyrinth Psychotica (With Soundlings & Jennifer Kanary)
Tordinaire (With Mark IJzerman & Z25)
2011 T. H. E V1.0 (With Bram Snijders)
Bilderraus (With Mark IJzerman & Z25)
Residencies
2024 Kulturhuset Wrap (Lilla Sol)
Oetré (The Void* Recording Sessions)
Rosendal Teater (Persistent Disequilibrium)
Kulturhuset Wrap (Sonisk Selskap)
Bergen Kjøtt (Gathered Resonances)
BEK (Shimmer)
Kulturhuset Wrap (Shimmer)
2023 Gyldenpris Kunsthal (Songs We Sing)
Kulturhuset Wrap (Persistent Disequilibrium)
Møre og Romsdal Kulturhuset (Persistent Disequilibrium)
Lydgalleriet (Tipping Points)
2022 Instrument Inventors Initiative (Physeter)
Surnadal Billag (Piksels, Frames, Beats & Drones)
2021 Surnadal Billag (Piksels, Frames, Beats & Drones)
2020 Gallery KiT (Piksels, Frames, Beats & Drones)
2018 BEK (Ecdysis)
Lydgalleriet (Threshold of the Algorithmic / ALMAT)
2017 USF Verftet (Refract / Recurse)
2016 Musica (Songline)
Muziekhuis Utrecht (WMWM)
BEK (STATES)
2015 STEIM (Three Mixers)
BEK (Three Mixers)
Aalborg University (Modality)
2014 BEK (Modality)
Writing
2024 Artificial Center of the Imagination (Website, RC Exposition)
Flying Blind (Paper, Under Review)
Gathered Resonances (Chapter, Under Review)
2023 Tipping Points (Reflection Component, RC Exposition)
2021 Static Code (Essay, Low-Tech Chronicles)
The Unfinished Instrument (Essay, Blue Rinse Papers)
2020 Multiple Minds (Performance Paper, ICLI)
2019 Composing Composing Instruments (Self-published, RC Exposition)
2018 Thresholds of The Algorithmic (ALMAT, RC Exposition)
2015 Algorave Scene Report (Article, Gonzo (Circus) #124)
2013 The Institute of Constrained Chaos (Supportive Narrative, RC Exposition)
2009 - 2010 Various Music Reviews (Connexion Bizarre)
2004 Doof Beeld / Deaf Image (Thesis)
Curation & Organization
2024 Playdate Festival XV
2023 - Now SmalPrat, Discursive Series (With nyMusikk Bergen)
2022 - Now Bulldozer, Noise Concert Series (With Johanne Øra Danielsen & Østre)
2017 - 2020 Blue Rinse, Live Electronics Concert Series (With Craig Wells & Lydgalleriet)
2018 Ecdysis Concert (With Landmark)
2015 - 2017 Klinkklaar (With STEIM, Glasmuseum, ECWK, Muziekgebouw a/h IJ)
Ask STEIM (With Kristina Andersen & STEIM)
2016 - 2017 Electronic Extravaganza (With Monoták & STEIM)
2017 Connector, Live Electronics Concert Series (With STEIM)
2013 - 2016 Oorsprong (With Raoul van der Weide & STEIM)
2016 Three Mixers Concert (With Landmark)
2012 - 2014 Think Tank Meetups (With Soundlings)
2014 Algorave (With Fiber Festival & STEIM)
Frozen Waves (With STEIM & BIMHuis)
2012 - 2013 The Wrong Wave (With Yaniv Schonfeld)
2010 - 2013 Live Coding Competitions (With Gaudeamus Muziekweek)
Funding Record
2025 Song of the Living Circuit (Norsk Kulturdiktorat)
2024 Encoded Noise (Bergen Kommune)
Playdate Festival (Bergen Kommune, Norsk Kulturdiktorat)
Jazzfestivalen X SmalPrat (Bergen Kommune)
Biblioteksmusikken (Bergen Stiftelsen)
2023 - 2024 Shimmer (Bergen Kommune, AVGarde)
Tapage & Guro Kverndokk (Bergen Kommune, FFUK, NFK)
Bulldozer (Bergen Kommune, Norsk Kulturdiktorat)
SmalPrat (Bergen Kommune, nyMusikk Bergen)
2021 Refract/Recurse Installation (Bergen Kommune)
2017 - 2020 Blue Rinse (Bergen Kommune, Norsk Kulturdiktorat)
2017 - 2018 Ecdysis (Bergen Kommune, AVGarde)
2016 - 2017 WMWM (Creative Industries)
2015 - 2016 Three Mixers (Creative Industries)
2015 Circuit Bridges