Images of Ebb and Flow, audio-visual performance @ the 69 edition Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen
ebb and flow, audio-visual performance, 40min, sound | Robert Kroos & image | lichun tseng 30 April 2023 @ Oberhausen festival as part of Spectral project. Special thanks to Esther Urlus, Nan wang, Mihail Bakalov, Erwin van 't Hart, Kristina, and Technicians...
3 Times Present at 69th Kurzfilmtage Filmfestival Oberhausen
During the 2023 Kurzfilmtage Filmfestival in Oberhausen I will pass by 3 times. First of all I will be performing Ebb & Flow together with Lichun Tseng at Expanded Spectral 2. Our film Shunyata will be shown at the EYE's Distributor's Screening. And the film...
No Ground Under your feet, a radio documentary to the continuation of Raw Dates, Multidisciplinary Playground For Improvisers.
No Ground Under your feet is a radio documentary produced by iii in the Hague, a prequel to the continuation of the Raw Dates Sessions #2 - Multidisciplinary Playground For Improvisers. In this radio documentary you can hear the speaking voices and sounds made by 13...
Rotterdam Kinematic Ensemble & Silent Sound Design @ Sounds of Silence Festival
On Saturday 18 March 2023 The Rotterdam Kinematic Ensemble brought a live improvised soundtrack to Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 horror classic Vampyr. I separated the voices and sound effects of the film of its original soundtrack and edited complete Silent Sound Design...
Ebb & Flow will be performed @ Into the Great Wide Open 1 Sept 2022
As part of the Sound Vision Performance Night, Lichun Tseng and me will perform Ebb & Flow @ Into the Great Wide Open, Vlieland. At the same event there will also be a performance by Sophia Bulgakova & Mark IJzerman, 'All Eyes On'.
Duckfood DJ Set @ Labyrinth Festival 11-06-22 WORM Rotterdam
Labyrinth: A small thank you for sticking with us during the pandemic. WORM opens its doors for a day of creative adventure throughout the whole building. We showcase all forms of arts and socio-cultural endeavours, from hip hop to performing arts, readings, live...
Shunyata will be screened at Ground Level Cinema, Japan
0n 30-01-2022 Shunyata by Lichun Tseng and Robert Kroos will be screened at Ground Level Cinema Vol.2.5 in Japan. Follow the link and check the interesting program.
Shunyata is selected for IFFR Rotterdam 2022
Im proud to share Shunyata got selected for IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam 2022. Unfortunately due to all the restrictions the filmfestival will now be helt in a reduced, online format and the film is only available as a P&I Selection. Available on...
Shunyata is added to the Eye Experimental Catalogue
Shunyata has been added to The Eye Experimental Distribution Catalogue. Festival distribution Company Name: EYE Experimental Festival distribution Company E-mail: experimental@eyefilm.nl
10 December 2021, Ebb and Flow will be performed at Blonde Cobra Festival, Cologne Germany.
On 10 December 2021 Lichun Tseng and me will perform Ebb and Flow at the Blonde Cobra Festival in Cologne.
5 December 2021 Ebb and Floww will be performed at Almost Back to the Future Festival, WORM, Rotterdam
Almost Back to the Future is a 2-day festival that is all about analogue moving images and optical sound; a celebration of the ‘real’ film medium with a program of audio-visual performances, films, presentations and installations. Almost Back to the Future focuses on...
Shunyata will be screened at Klankvorm – Audio Visual Explorations
Shunyata is a collaborated film by Lichun Tseng and Robert Kroos that was commissioned by Klankvorm. It will be presented as part of Klankvorm's Audio Visual Explorations on Saturday, 30 October 2021 @ AVL Mundo in Rotterdam.
Grof Folklore and Duckfood mixes now on rotation on Radio is a Foreign Country
Several Grof Folklore/Duckfood mixes are on rotation on Radio is a Foreign Country, a 24/7 radio platform and mixtape series featuring cut-ups of international radio broadcasts (AM, FM & shortwave), sound travelogues, and obscure regional folk & pop music.
24 September Ebb & Flow performance @ 25fps Festival Zagreb
...The programme will be opened by the Dutch audiovisual duo Lichun Tseng and Robert Kroos on Friday, September 24 at 10:30 pm in the SC Cinema hall with a performance Ebb and Flow for four 16-millimeter projectors. Inspired by ancient Chinese texts on the...
Going live as Charlois Breakdown @ Koffie&Ambacht Goes to Church
HYDRA ENSEMBLE is an electroacoustic quartet based in Rotterdam. The ensemble is a juncture of four distinctive expressions finding common ground. Together they form a four-headed entity that emerges from highly pensive collective improvisations, creating an intricate...
some stills of a new film….. Shunyata 2021 image: Lichun Tseng + sound: Robert Kroos
Flight BT 619 Riga(RIX)– Amsterdam(AMS)Taxi, Take Off, Landing -Binaural Recording
Robert Kroos · Flight BT 619 Riga(RIX)– Amsterdam(AMS)Taxi, Take Off, Landing -Binaural
Ebb and Flow performance gets its premiere at Process Experimental Film Festival in Riga
21 August 2021 Process Extended. Ebb and Flow live performance 4x 16mm projectors, 35min image: Lichun Tseng | sound: Robert Kroos A short trailer can be seen by following this link: ebb and flow_performance [excerpt].mp4
16mm Club First Edition
The 16mm film club was founded from the need of the four organizers to project and view together bits and pieces of the rich history of this format so beloved in avant-garde / experimental film culture. The great digitization has dusted off many films in recent years,...
My Radiophonic piece Royal Raymond Rife and his Mortal Oscillatory Rates is now on Dr Klangendum #397
Royal Raymond Rife And His Mortal Oscillatory Rates is now also streaming on De Concertzender.
Duckfood – Grof Folklore – meets Cinema Colombiano
Duckfood visited his friends of Cinema Colombiano @ Radio WORM Check the whole show on Mixcloud:
Have you checked Steur? As part of Rotterdam Art Week it is open to visit and Thursday from 18h I'll be playing tunes. Reserve a free ticket, Thursday slot 5. Hope to see you! We are STEUR, a monumental beacon and driving creative force in Rotterdam’s energetic M4H...
Grof Folklore: Cumbia WEPA! Radio WORM
Grof Folklore Tanzania Beyond Singeli set on Mixcloud
Young producers in Tanzania have warped Taarab (a popular music genre in Tanzania and Kenya) and other traditional sounds into Singeli - the breakneck sound from the bustling neighbourhoods of Dar Es Salaam. Using free DJ software, and hyping things up to 300 bpm...
The Side Entrance: Robert Kroos
"The Side Entrance is a radio show where Tisa N. Herlec encounters and interviews improvisers, mostly musicians. We enter into their sonic and conceptual worlds through the side entrance - listening to their sound materializations - recordings and compositions - and...
Duckfood aka Robert Kroos – EOL Radio – 9.1.21
Black Lulu in a series of "global oriental" programs hosts DJs and musical selectors for Two-hour set of Middle eastern spirit on Radio EOL Black Lulu · Black Lulu Feat Duckfood aka Robrt Kroos ✪ EOL Radio ✪ 9.1.21
After a life of silence a monumental tree gets killed to make way for one parkingspot to prosper. The soundtrack of the removal of this tree is like a horrifying Godzilla movie. In contrast of what was and what is to come. Recorded at Rockanjestraat Rotterdam ...
Robert Kroos – Live @ Le Sud Rotterdam
DJing vinyl at Zero edition – 16mm film club
The 16mm film club was founded from the need of the four organizers to project and view together bits and pieces of the rich history of this format so beloved in avant-garde / experimental film culture. The great digitization has dusted off many films in recent years,...
Voice only DJ-set with Ash Killmartin @ Antenne: Singing Club of Rotterdam – Cassette Release Party
Singing Club of Rotterdam came to existence in the early days of 2019 as an alternative choir exploring ways of singing and listening together. Now, with this event, they are celebrating a strictly limited cassette release made in collaboration with Antenne. The tape...
Dear friend, neighbor, colleague and citizen, Having caught our breaths since last time, we would like to invite you to the (play)grounds of Rib again, for a second summer session of 4uurtje. From our sunny roof terrace we'll generously cover the neighborhood music as...
Norouz 1399 mixtape
1001 Nights-buddy Vala invited me to celebrate Norouz, Persian new year on Operator radio. Stranded as we are we collaborated on a Norouz 1399 mixtape. Filled with 70’s era disco, funk, soul classics and a few recent domestic pop releases.Enjoy wonderful music from...
At the set of Remnant from echo and shadow – Lichun Tseng
PoortjeHerrie #9 – MoE – Torture Corpse – Live
Going Live as Torture Corpse together with the awesome Norwegian band MOE. MoE (no) Norwegian rock band. Powerful and angular, surprising and musical confronting.Through collaborations with artists such as Pain Jerk, Keiji Haino, Mette Rasmussen and Lasse Marhaug, MoE...
AB40 Kick-off: Global Street Sounds – La Yegros – Susobrino – Nuri – Rebel Up! DJs – Ancienne Belgique
????:'????? ??! Records ????? ?????' ?? ?????? - A thrilling blend of folktronica and 'nu cumbia'. The Argentinean Mariana, aka Là Yegros, offers delightful, highly danceable sounds built upon cumbia, chamamé and other folk influences with an injection of electronica....
Ducktape 005 Roman Havasi, Havalari
Ducktape 005 Roman Havasi, Havalari by Duckfood :::
Pantropical – Cinema Colombiano – Los Guaqueros – Duckfood
Cinema Colombiano teams up with Pantropical for a party finale that continues into the small hours. Los Guaqueros, aka renowned DJ’s Mario ‘Gala’ Galeano (Los Pirañas, Frente Cumbiero, Ondatrópica) and Barba Roja, will open their treasure chest of rare vinyl for a...
Exploder Sound – African Underground – OT301- Amsterdam
Exploder Sound returns to the OT301 bringing the best of African underground and deep sounds from the Motherland. With special guests: Duckfood (Rebel Up ! Soundclash), Jula Lo (Gente Quente), Stroes, Colin301 (OT301 Studios), PÅL/SECAM (pan-amafropeans)
Pantropical: Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla (Sahel Sounds)
✹ Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla plays energetic synthesizer freakout music in a style known in Mauritania, the Sahara as WZN, or in Arabic simply “music.” The style has emerged as pop music, blaring out of taxi cabs and cassette shops throughout the country. Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla...
Listen! – Rebel Up -Ammar 808 – Susobrino – Gan Gah
Listen Festival,Rebel Up & VK concerts join forces for a global sounds night in the heart of Molenbeek at the historic VK Concerts venue. The night will take you on a global round trip with a multicultural lineup consisting of some of Belgium’s current top crop,...
Arab Film Festival – AFFterparty at WORM: Cheb Gero, Duckfood, Discourse
ARAB FILM FESTIVAL - official afterparty ✹ CHEB GERO ✹ DUCKFOOD ✹ DISCOURSE WORM and Pantropical proudly host this year's official Arab Film Festival afterparty. Cheb Gero from the Parisian Akuphone label, Duckfood and Discourse will DJ fantastic old and new dance...
Going live as Stoflong @ Herman: Junzo Suzuki, Fuji en Stoflong
take a psychedelic trip and reach the high of herman.
Torture Corpse Live @ ALBATREALBATRE »»»» New ALBUM release & Machinefabriek + Torture Corpse
Duckfood @ Gonzo (Circus) Mixcloud Monday
For Gonzo (Circus) Magazine I made a special mixtape. With IFFR and Sound//Vision in mind I I was inspired to use film(ic) music without historical or geographical boundaries. For your listening pleasure off course!!!
Special video for Art Installation Alex Suarez @ Drawing ambience. Alvin Boyarsky and the AA @ deSingel
Sound design for a installation by Alex Suarez @ Drawing Ambience, Alvin Boyarsky and the AA can now be seen @ deSingel in Antwerp.
New edit of Füsun Türetken’s ‘ Alchemic Desire’ shown @ Alchemic Materials @ Impakt
For Füsun Türetken we edited ‘a new version of Alchemic Desire, On The Most Powerful Catalyst On The Planet’. The new film will be screened at Impakt Festival - Alchemic Materials.
Featured Street Photographer of the Week: Robert Kroos in Street Photography Magazine
What drew you to street photography initially? The shortest answer is that beauty and magic can be found everywhere as soon as you go out of the house. Next to that, I always consider myself an absolute beginner and street photography is my best teacher to learn and...
SUN 2 OCT ’16 – CONCERT MIMA 54: FRANCE (FR) + EKLIN Overdriven hurdy-gurdy versus enigmatic trance rock
SUN 2 OCT '16 - CONCERT MIMA 54: FRANCE (FR) + EKLIN Overdriven hurdy-gurdy versus enigmatic trance rock 20:30 WORM France (FR) Imagine Tony Conrad & Faust reincarnated as a French punk trio in 2016, using only a minimal drum kit, bass guitar and hurdy-gurdy to...
Fri 30 Sept > Rebel Up’s Duckfood @ Pantropical x Arab Film Festival: Gan Gah ≈ Deena Abdelwahed ≈ Tropikal Camel
PANTROPICAL x ARAB FILM FESTIVAL: –– GAN GAH (ma) –– DEENA ABDELWAHED (tn) –– TROPIKAL CAMEL (il) –– DUCKFOOD (nl) ♒ Arab dance / electronica, Morrocan bass ♒ Pantropical x Arab Film Festival is an integral part of the annual Arab Film festival...
Pantropical>>DJ Tetris ≈ Duckfood ≈ Chris Baas
First time ever introduction to tribal guarachero in NL?! ■ DJ TETRIS (mx | n.a.a.f.i., guaracha) DJ Tetris, from the southern state of Oaxaca, has been a key part of the Mexican tribal guarachero scene for quite some time now. The origins of this particular style of...
Duckfood @ IFFR White Nights Rotterdam
Het eerste zomerevenement van International Film Festival Rotterdam is een feit! Van 13 tot en met 17 juli slaat IFFR zijn tenten op in het Museumpark met IFFR White Nights. Overdag kun je op het terrein in kleine tenten doorlopend korte films bekijken, en ’s avonds...
23-25 June > Rebel Up! in Bulgaria @ Zenith Fusion festival (Dolen)
Zenith is a boutique festival that showcases an anthology of Bulgaria’s beauty. Zenith simply makes use of what is already locally present: nature, heritage, culture. The festival supports initiatives that successfully create contemporary relevant ways for tradition...
Close-Up – A New Generation of Film and Video Artists in the Netherlands.
Lichun Tseng's JianJian film-installation will be exposed @ EYE: Close-Up – A New Generation of Film and Video Artists in the Netherlands. With sounddesign by Duckfood. "In the exhibition we present the installation jianjian, which means so much as ‘gradually’ or...
REFUGEES WELCOME BENEFIT W/ ERITREAN REFUGEE BAND + ROCKY MARSIANO + REBEL UP! DJS
After their horror-trip to Europe the ERITREAN REFUGESS from Havenstraat get a chance to Listening and playing Eritrean music, dancing and enjoying their home food at OCCII together with Rebel Up! DJ SebCat & Duckfood Please bring...
Mental Youth playing @ 909 | 5 year anniversary | Jeff Mills presents Time Tunnel |
With Mental Youth we did the warming up at ADE Jeff Mills presents Time Tunnel At the request of Jeff Mills himself we did a Science Fiction - Soundtrack - Classical- Atmospheric - Experimental set.
PANTROPICAL x ‘Afrofuturism Now Festival’: DJ SPOKO & Rebel Up – Duckfood @ WORM
ANTROPICAL presents DJ SPOKO as part of WORM’s ‘Afrofuturism Now!’ festival. ■ DJ SPOKO (south africa) Raised in the rural town of Tzaneen (northern South Africa), Spoko started producing at age 12. After moving to Atteridgeville (a 99%-black township outside the...
MDOU MOCTAR (nr) + Film Premiere: Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It (Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai) + REBEL UP! DJ’s
“CELLULOID & LIGHT” Expanded Cinema Performances
"Waste" by Nan Wang “Waste” is an audio-visual performance use modified slid-projectors to project small trash material into enlarged moving image. By using Electronic sound synchronised with tinny abandon objects, movements of light and shadows, constructing a...
PANTROPICAL: HAILU MERGIA with TONY BUCK & MIKE MAJKOWSKI (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
■ HAILU MERGIA with TONY BUCK & MIKE MAJKOWSKI (et/au) Hailu Mergia's return to the world of music is one of the most unlikely comebacks of the recent years: The keyboardist / accordeon player was a major star in 1970's Ethiopia, presiding over the country's...
VROOOM #22: LOS DANSING QUEENS + INDICATOR2000 + FANFARE VOOR VOORUITSTREVENDE VOLKSMUZIEK + DUCKFOOD
░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ■ LOS DANSING QUEENS (nl) Los Dansing Queens [sic] are a phenomenon. Sprouting from the moldy hotbed of culture, Maastricht, Los Dansing Queenc might be the best kept secret in the Dutch music and art scene. This...
The Fountain pt5. profound ambient mix by Mental Youth
The Fountain pt. 5 by Mental Youth on Mixcloud Mental Youth is a collaboration between friends Dirk Jan Hanegraaff and Robert Kroos. Their shared love for music and sound throughout history and the world finds expression in their music and many mixes and...
Radioshow on Liz Harris – Grouper
We did a one hour radiospecial about Liz Harris - Grouper on the Concertzender. Give yourself an hour to listen to this wonderful stuff HERE!
Have I said anything that would lead you to think I thought you were stupid?
John Cage
BLOWN AWAY AFTERMOVIE 13.10.12 Fenixloodsen Rotterdam
Rebel Up Soundclash
Once again Rebel Up! Soundclash returns with a dance night of global tunes, vintage sounds and ethnic bass in Amsterdam. It promises to be an excellent night with a live set and some special DJ sets, here’s the roll; Guess What (UK) This duo specializes in obscure...
Night of the Chupacabras – Cultvideotheek Next Page – WORM
26 October... One-of-a-kind movienight featuring the amazing short “Banana motherfucker” and the amazing horror film ‘Noite do Chupacabra’. Brazilian set by Roberto Caroso and DJ Markinho! Nossa!Nossa! Rodrigo Aragão is an up-and-coming Brazilian director who gained...
Finally seen TAMPOPO at the Camera Japan Festival in Rotterdam
Cultvideotheek Movienight wiht Leos Carax @ WORM
Cultvideotheek en Lantaren Venster presemt in ambiance Française: 'a Filmnight with Leos Carax' With two films Mauvais Sang en Les Amants du Pont-Neuf! And I will bring some beautiful French music with me: (dance party at the end)"
Jodorowsky’s THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
Tonight there is a screening of Jodorowsky's THE HOLY MOUNTAIN @ WORM. 35mm restored. This is a once in a lifetime MUST SEE film. And if you have seen it.. you want to see it again! Before and after we have a 'end of the film-season' party with nice DJ's. (like...
Busby Berkeley – Going Through the Roof
Amazing stuff:
Torture Corpse – The Pit of Hot Embers
Track from my first heavy TC cassette Particular Sufferings on Stunned Records based on the Buddhist Hell Realms.
Moroccan music for the screening of YOU ALL ARE CAPTAINS – Oliver Laxe @ WORM
8 & 15 December 2011 Testing, testing, testing… a film of in-between-ness that’s set in Tangiers, features a director who’s overruled by his cast and crew of kids, and utilizes the King of Morocco’s discarded 35mm film camera to stunningly scrutinize realism. YOU ALL...
