Roland Kuit

Roland Emile Kuit Sonic artist - post genre composer, sound & music theorist, author, and lecturer in the field of sound design, electroacoustic music composition and sonic art. His output spans composition through sonic art, sound-architectural installations, collaboration with experimental artists, designers, and scientists and acousmatic performances.

Research and sound design include: Kyma - Pacarana, Buchla 200, ARP2500, Max/MSP, SCOPE SDK6 Xite, Modular IV, Xite-1, Clavia NMG2 & Nord Modular, KLC MS-20, Interactive Sonic Spaces, FORTRAN IV, Voltage-control studio (BEA 5) and PDP-15 computer, MIDIM/VOSIM at the Institute of Sonology, ARP2500, ARP2600.

Trained by Gottfried Michael Koenig, Jaap Vink, Werner Kaegi, Paul Berg, Frits Weiland and Stan Tempelaars at the Institute of Sonology Utrecht. Private lessons by Dick Raaijmakers. IRCAM: research physical modeling and spectral music. Kuit uses algorithmic and stochastic approaches, in which specific decisions are included. Kuit composed for modular synthesizer systems, computer and acoustic instruments in collaboration with electronic means and expansion of sound and sound directions. Emerging the overlaps between research, music, sound art and space. This present day, Kuit is researching chaotic systems and the creation and definition of sound at atomic levels. Kuit is considered a pioneer of the art form generally referred to as “sound installation” and taught this at the Vrije Academie Den Haag in the 90s. Kuit introduced audio art to the installation area, a metamorphosis from the traditional speaker boxes into 'sonic spaces'.

Guest Lecturer, Master Classes/Clinics Sonic Art, electronic music composition: Instituut voor Sonologie, Utrecht, The Netherlands - Klanklaboratorium, Koorenhuis, The Hague, The Netherlands - Vrije Academie, Den Haag, The Netherlands - University for Media, London, UK - Conservatory, Groningen, The Netherlands - SAE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Centre for Electronic Music, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Sonus Factory, Rome, Italy - Lindbladstudion, The department for electronic music at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Göteborg, Sweden | EMS Stockholm, Sweden - School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland - KYMA the De Montfort University, UK - TUMO Center for Creative Technologies, Yerevan, Armenia | 5th Tehran International Electronic Music Festival (TIEMF)- Department of Music of Tehran University and Art University, Iran

Honours/memberships: R U I S (noise) Sonic installation has been nominated for the prestigious Matthijs Vermeulen Prize for Composition 2025, the preeminent composition prize in the Netherlands. European Institute for Contemporary Art and Science(Museum EICAS, Deventer) Remapping Rajlich 2024 - European Institute for Contemporary Art and Science(Museum EICAS, Deventer) 0 1 / ZERO = language 2024 - ACEC salon, Apeldoorn / R U I S 2024 - European Institute for Contemporary Art and Science(Museum EICAS, Deventer) Ukraine sonic space 2022 - Evaluating Committee Installations - Interdisciplinary Creations at Atemporánea Festival Buenos Aires Argentina 2022 - CHIGIANA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER FESTIVAL 2022 - RADIOARTE Italia Monograph Roland E Kuit 2021 - International Festival for experimental music Sound Around Kaliningrad 2020, (NCCA Kaliningrad) Russia - VI Chigiana International Festival & Summer Academy Siena Italia - RADIOARTE Italia - Evaluating Committee Installations - Interdisciplinary Creations at Atemporánea Festival Buenos Aires Argentina 2020; FotoFest 2020 - Viga süsteemis | Error, Pärnu Linnagalerii Kunstnike Maja, Pärnu Estonia; OUA-EMF2019, Osaka University of Arts, Osaka, Japan; Evaluating Committee Installations - Interdisciplinary Creations at Atemporánea Festival Buenos Aires Argentina 2019; International Contemporary Art Exhibition Yerevan Armenia 2018; NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu 2016; Associate Member Art Research Center/A.R.C. Group; Nomination Art Basel Miami 2015 collectors opening; Society for Electro Acoustic Music in Sweden (SEAMS); VEMS Stockholm; Composers Circle; WIRED: Musica Globalista: Roland Kuit 2013; New York City Electroacoustic Music Society (NYCEMS); Electronic Music Foundation(EMF).

Roland Kuit has performed/exhibited on festivals, galleries and museums in Europe, United States of America, Asia, Russia and the Baltic States. Collaborated in different disciplines with artists as: Tomas Rajlich-paintings, Marcel Prins-sculptures, Karin Schomaker-visuals, Gerrit Rietveld-architecture, Masumi Nagasawa-harp, Mischa Kuball-light and the FAMA Q String Quartet. Featured composer and sonic artist at Donemus Publishing House of Dutch Contemporary Classical Music. First Dutch composer with sonic experiments in space on NASA OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu, 2016.

Bibliography

• SoundLab I. The Electronic Studio, Donemus, 2010; rev., 2014. [1]
• SoundLab II. Architectures for Philosophers, Donemus, 2012; rev., 2014. [2]
• Laboratory of Patching. Illustrated Compendium of Modular Synthesis, Donemus, 2012; rev., 2014. [3]
• Modular strategies in shaping reflections and space, Donemus, 2013. [4] [5]
• To be ON to be OFF, that's the SWITCH, Donemus, 2014. [6] [7]
• more

Discography

• [8] MASS Sonic Installation Art
• [9] NOISE CONSTRUCTIONS Sonic Installation Art
• [10] CITYCAPES / Amsterdam and Paris as Sonic Events
• [11] Zero Prose 0-Proza / From Elene Vere to minimalism
• [12] Acrylic Intonations / The painter Tomas Rajlich as sonic object
• [13] ATLAS V / Celebrating 1 year's mission OSIRIS-REx in space
• aes Campanum / Spectral bells from Stockholm to Roma, and from Jerusalem to Paris
• [14] SCULPTURED REFLECTIONS / For R.v.d.Wint
• [15] MONUMENTUM / The Sonic Memorial for all victims who have died as a result of epidemics worldwide
• [16] Variables - I / AI composed music
• [17] Musica Povera Binario / Radical minimalism
• SONIC FORMS / Orbits of quantum sounds for public and private spaces
• Tactile Utterance / Roland Kuit & the Fama Q String Quartet for Tomas Rajlich
• [18] RIETVELD PAVILION / The Architecture of Sound
• Landscapes of a Voice / Spectral wanderings
• [19] GRUIS/GRIT / Articulations in stone
• Bi-sonic / Bicycle Art
• Nanophonic similarities / Beyond the Bucla 200
• [20] Tectonic Articulations of Colour / Algorithmic compositions
• [21] Piano Restructures / The extended piano
• kymaXology / New forms in music
• Ars Modular Musica III / Modular Mastery
• Ars Modular Musica II / Modular Mastery
• Ars Modular Musica I / Modular Mastery
• [22] Monads and Beyond / De STIJL and music
• New Chamber Music / Extended String Quartet
• Abstract Flute Music / Flutes & Electronics
• Meditations for Flute / Flutes & Electronics
• Amsterdam / Sound event for Avenue Magazine

Links

• ABSOLUTE SONICS
• Kuit: Pioneering The Intersection Of Art, Music, And Science
• [23] Kuit nominated for Matthijs Vermeulen prize
• Kuit on Donemus
• Installations by composer and sound artist Roland Kuit
• Kuit sonic artist at International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2018
• [24] Architecture of sound
• kuit iTunes
• [25] Roland Kuit programmer Electronic Frequencies Concertzender