Martijn Comes
Martijn Comes is a Dutch composer, born in 1979, who works mainly in electroacoustic music and has written several pieces for carillon. He studied film composition with Jurre Haanstra at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. His records move between drone, ambient and electronic music, often in collaboration with other Dutch experimental musicians such as Frans de Waard and Hessel Veldman. Comes's carillon works include EANN, which opened Le Guess Who in Utrecht in 2017, MOTHER for the Gaudeamus Festival and Radiance, Time for Rewire. He made the films Resonance and Learning Curve with Thomas Mohr.
Manifest Exodus
200 copies on black vinyl. As a composer Martijn Comes has a special interest in timbral music and various musical traditions, with an emphasis on the electro-acoustic history. His works for the carillon were performed live at festivals like Le Gues…
Equal Weights
Companion to Various Weights, pursued through an inverted method. De Waard prepares two empty acoustic containers of predefined length with his own sonic brushstrokes, then sends them to Comes, who completes the 'paintings' by filling in the blanks -…
Regering
With the album 'Regering' (dutch for ‘Government’) the duo Martijn Comes and Lukas Simonis release their first record together.
Various Weights
First collaboration between Frans de Waard and Martijn Comes, deliberately built without an underlying concept. Each artist supplied the other with a pool of source sounds: de Waard sent Comes Korg MS20 and Koma Field FX recordings and field material…
Crystalline Tragedies / The Procession - Distant Motionless Shore
An unusual collective release: Comes and Aldinucci composed their two pieces in complete isolation, exchanging neither studio time nor materials, but both worked from the same Nietzschean opposition - the moral codex of the Christian church against t…
Interrogation Of The Crystalline Sublime
"I hear atmospheres, sound shapes, gestural narratives, spectral trajectories, stochastic rhythms and phasic space when I encounter an environment rich in sonic phenomena. But in order to be open to this meta-sensory information, I must first get my …