Work-in-progress of dance/sound performance duo. Choreography: Aurore Floreancig. Marjorie Van Halteren: voice, recordings, sound objects, instruments.

See our latest teaser HERE.

See a video excerpt of fragments workshop here.

This is a piece that I made a few years ago as a submission for the Presque Rien competition in honor of Luc Ferrari, who I met, along with Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari, when I first came to France in the early 1990's. They were extremely welcoming and generous with myself and my then husband Ray. 

In the Presque Rien competiton (http://lucferrari.com/en/presque-rien-prize/, composers are invited to work around a brief collection of Luc's recordings. I chose his voice, which appears rather accidentally in the recordings - because it conjures up that time of my confusion and culture shock, and of course him, who naturally I will never forget. 

The piece was well-received and featured on the site for that year.

It was recorded and mixed by Raphaelle Duquesnoy.  I play all the instruments - which is not to say that I know how to play any of them.

The piece appears only here.

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For Radiophrenia 2017, two pieces by myself and Jeff Gburek were featured (Strange Ambitions and Lives of the Poets Two), one of mine (Autobiography of a Tree), and one with myself and Raphaelle Duquesnoy, The Man on the Street.

Four pieces by Marjorie Van Halteren and Jeff Gburek were featured in 2016.

The Rain Is

The Lives of the Poets

You're Alive

Hands Up Don't Shoot

Marjorie and Cécile Richard at Muzzik's Pym Bam Boum, November 20, 2017.

Marjorie performing with Falter Bramnk and Rosa Parlato as a guest of Muzzix. November 2016. All photos by Philippe Lenglet.

Poems to hear, sons à lire - with Cécile Richard

Found this friend on the internet and we met once for a tour. we've created a body of work we like to call Lives of the Poets. Ongoing, listen here.

Jeff works intensely and gorgeously on many projects, including with violinist Karolina Ossowska. Listen here:

https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/

Five composed pieces featuring recordings of village residents talking about fashion, clothing, and the visual textures of the countryside.

Listen here and here.

The Musiques et technologies program at ISEN Lille (Yncréa) is a section of incoming students that are offered the opportunity to explore electronic fields through their passion for music and sound. The program starts with The Nature of Sound course in the first year and points students towards various projects works through the five year engineering degree. Projects pictured are Musiques des pièces (Nicolas Chatzigianis, Masato Fukasato),  inspired by Alvin Lucier's I Am Sitting in a Room, the performance of Architecture by Marjorie and Nicolas Chatzigianis with the modular synthesizer he constructed, Staircase, with Thibault Mounes, Nicolas Chatigianis and Masato Fukasato.

Architecture on Mixcloud

And that might explain the lifelong love affair. I began on the radio at my college  station, WCBN in "the basement of the student activities building" at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, during the tumultuous 1969-1972 period - and subsequently worked my way through  carts, reel-to-reel, cassettes, DATS, and digital delights through the subsequent decades. I've worked at an advertising agency making radio commercials (starting out, like Peggy, as a secretary), a small commercial station (selling ads in the morning, making the spots in the afternoon, hearing them on the air on the way home), to nearly two decades in NYC as an indie producer, and then a spoken word producer at WNYC New York Public Radio. After moving to France in 1992, I've had the pleasure of sampling the broadcasting Europe has to offer. I present here a few highlights.