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Jan Boerman was born in The Hague on June 30, 1923. He has been in electronic music studios since 1959. The Delft
Polytechnic in Utrecht, from which the world-famous Institute of Sonology was developed, housed the first electronic music
studio in the Netherlands after the Philips laboratory in Eindhoven, which was not generally open to composers.
A select few composers were invited to work at Eindhoven, including Edgard Varèse (who created his Poème électronique
there in 1958), but by 1960, Philips decided to close the facilities. It generously passed its equipment on to the Delft ...read more
Jan Boerman was born in The Hague on June 30, 1923. He has been in electronic music studios since 1959. The Delft
Polytechnic in Utrecht, from which the world-famous Institute of Sonology was developed, housed the first electronic music
studio in the Netherlands after the Philips laboratory in Eindhoven, which was not generally open to composers.
A select few composers were invited to work at Eindhoven, including Edgard Varèse (who created his Poème électronique
there in 1958), but by 1960, Philips decided to close the facilities. It generously passed its equipment on to the Delft
Polytechnic, which quickly became the primary site for electronic music in the Netherlands. Administrative problems,
however, caused both Jan Boerman and Dick Raaijmakers to leave Utrecht in 1963, whereupon they began setting up a
private studio in the Hague. Their facility eventually became incorporated into the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and
both men became members of the faculty. (Many years later, in 1986, the Institute of Sonology echoed their move by
transferring from Utrecht to the Royal Conservatory in the Hague.)
Jan Boerman was trained in the traditional manner as a pianist and composer, and his initial exposure to the electronic music
studio was both a shock and a revelation. There was relatively little "repertoire" in this new domain, so, while he had been
struggling with serialism and "finding his voice", Boerman quickly intuited that here was a vast new terrain to explore, quite
free from the stylistic pressures (i.e., the triumvirate of Paris, Darmstadt, and Cologne) that were so powerfully felt at that
time in Europe. Dick Raaijmakers, on the other hand, had been studying broadcasting, recording, and applied electronics at
Philips, so was more naturally drawn into the world of studio composition. « hide |
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