The coming months we will be setting up an artist-in-residency here in De School. We will be taking the summer and the early fall months to see what fits best with the space, the general programming, and what we can do to approach the format of an artist-in-residency program in a different way. More on this later. As the first test, together with Studio The Future, who are also based in our building, we have selected Tokyo-based sound artists, composer, and producer JEMAPUR, who will come to Amsterdam and create new work to be shown in De School. For the full month of May, he will be living in the house on the terrace of Cafe DS.

JEMAPUR is first and foremost interested in making sound — and everything that comes along with that. When he was 14, he decided music and the electronic music scene / underground internet culture would be his new home, and since that moment he has been making music, experimenting, and recently making sound tracks for films. In 2006 he made his album debut by HydeOut Productions, till 2014 he has released 4 other albums. Since then he has taken a bit of a shift, and started to work more in composition, producing soundtracks for tv and film, and producing for others (lately focusing on the electronic pop band Young Juvenile Youth). His personal work has recently focused on experimenting with various modes of composition, producing, and communicating, rather than producing albums. At De School JEMAPUR will be mainly experimenting with communication through collaboration, creating a series of new works that will be installed in the various spaces in De School. In addition to this, with the huge body of sound work he has accumulated the last five years (his personal work) he will experiment with different ways of “releasing” the work.

For us the most important aspects of this artist-in-residence, and the work of JEMAPUR as resident, are the potential links that can be made with the club, the club goers, and how a different link can be made between various aspects of our everyday experience here in De School.

More info about JEMAPUR to come, but in the meantime here are a few links to get oriented:
Find his most recent film projects here and here.
Old school stuff: here, here and here.
And some of his more commercial work: here and here.