Thomas Ankersmit

Thomas Ankersmit is a Dutch sound artist and composer, born in Leiden in 1979 and based between Amsterdam and Berlin. Since 2006 his main instrument has been the Serge modular synthesizer, which he plays live and in the studio, working with psychoacoustic effects and the acoustics of the room. He met the American composer Maryanne Amacher in New York in 2000. Homage to Dick Raaijmakers, commissioned by Sonic Acts and premiered at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2016, draws on the Dutch electronic pioneer's music and writings of the 1960s. Shelter Press released it in 2018.