Reflect

Mixed-media installation

Reflect is a mixed-media installation that uses sound frequencies to create visual patterns on a water surface. It makes the unseeable become visible by exposing sound in water. Thesemiraculous patterns emerge in many choreographic ways, showing the beauty of interacting natural elements. Reflect invites people to look beyond the surface and feel how we all are connected to nature in a common way. Furthermore, Reflect examines the interaction between sound vibrations and the human body, consisting of 70% water. How does sound affect our bodily experience? And in what new ways can we observe the sounds and perceptions around us?

Concept & design: Victor Dissel

Code: Gerben van der Kleij

Exhibitions

2022 Rietveldpaviljoen, We Are Water

2022 Museum Speelklok, Springplank

2023 Havenloods, FAAM Licht/Donker

2023 Fort Pampus, Water Werken

SouRCe

Audiovisual installation

SouRCe is dedicated to the many faces of water and embraces the idea that all water streams originate from the same source, just like us. This is embodied on a towering six-metre LED screen with spectacular water sculptures falling from the sky supported by an electronic/acoustic composition. With a shared fascination for the countless shapes and forms of water, light artist Emanuel Nijkerk and composer Victor Dissel explore the ever-changing beauty of water patterns. Emanuel captured footage of streams, rivers and waterfalls during his journey in the Portuguese mountain area of National Park Gerês. The people there depend on a large network of pumps and hoses to provide clean drinking water. Around this, all kinds of social constructs emerge about how the limited amount of water should be distributed in the area. 

Concept: Emanuel Nijkerk, Victor Dissel

Sound: Victor Dissel 

Visuals: Emanuel Nijkerk

Exhibitions

2022 Rietveldpaviljoen, We Are Water

2022 Museumnacht, Alkmaar

2022 ORBIT Festival, Fort Vechten

Circular

Audiovisual performance

CIRCULAR is a performative installation that plays with the sensory perceptions of its viewers. Composer & creative director Victor Dissel, visual artist Emanuel Nijkerk and creative coder Gerben van der Kleij joined forces to create an environment that is built to provoke, challenge and stagger the viewer using transparent projection screens, spatial sound and psychoacoustics. These manipulative experiences appeal to our primal senses, bringing us closer to them and, on the other hand, making us question their reality.

Visuals are created by light artist Emanuel Nijkerk and explored within a spatial design of transparent screens. Electronic sound composition is made by audiovisual artist Victor Dissel consisting of percussive noises, microtonal harmonies and psychoacoustic phenomena. These sounds are transmitted live within a spatial speaker system by creative coder Gerben van der Kleij. Is everything that exists perceptible? Is everything perceptible existing? How do we relate to our reality?   

Concept, sound: Victor Dissel

Visuals: Emanuel Nijkerk

Creative coding: Gerben van der Kleij

Commissioned by UNCLOUD

2021 Nicolaikerk, Utrecht

2022 UNCLOUD, De Nijverheid

Constellations

Light installation

Constellations is a light installation focusing on connectivity. The work completes the decor of Straight From The Horse Mouth Festival, a music and art festival taking place in the hangar of the Amersfoort arts hub OostWest. 30 moving heads have been placed in the roof of the hangar and another 10 or so scattered at different heights from the floor. The columns of light create spectacular patterns and connections that fill up the space. The lights also make connections with the performing artists, resulting in an impressive three-dimensional web of light.

Victor Dissel: creative director & composer

Silence Of The Lights: technical director & light operator

Bart Kipping: light programmer 

Commissioned by Waldo Volmer and Camiel De Kruijf

Located at OostWest

CAELUM

Short film

‘Caelum’ is Latin for heaven, or sky. In many religions, it is a place where God or Gods reside and a place where the soul goes after death; a blissful place of eternal happiness, a dimension where time does not exist.

‘Caelum’ is a short film in search of the deep now by exploring guided meditation, spatial sound and visuals. This translates into a multi-sensory ritual in which there is room for self-reflection and connection with the inner soul.

This project is a S.O.A.P production and a collaboration between multiple artists. Sound design and spatial composition is made by audiovisual artist Victor Dissel. 3D-animations are made by digital artist Chris Kore (UKR). Spoken-Word is done by Nadia Azimzadeh and the cinematic story is created by co-director Bobby Littlejohn and director Hylko Smit.

Director: Hylko Smit

Co-director, DP: Bobby Littlejohn

3D artist: Chris Kore

Sound design: Victor Dissel

Spoken word: Nadia Azimzadeh

Exhibitions

2022 Blauwdruk, OostWest

2023 Première, FLUOR