There are tech enthusiasts who make tech their identity and there are those who you don’t know about their tech love unless you ask. The latter is what we do in this section; we ask famous Dutch people about their tech. In this third edition we talk to musician Colin Benders about why he exchanged the trumpet for a modular synthesizer, about experimenting with AR, VR and Unreal Engine, and how he preferred a robotic arm to make music together.
Colin Benders is best known as trumpeter and composer Kyteman, who played almost every Dutch festival with his hip-hop orchestra between 2009 and 2011, and whose mega hit Sorry could be heard on the radio every day. For a long time there was silence around the musician, but that was not because he was sitting still. On the contrary, he got to know a new love: the modular synthesizer. It took him years to learn to play that instrument. In 2017 he is, still somewhat unaccustomed, with the instrument for the first time on stage during Awakenings† From April this year, he and audiovisual artist Boris Acket can be seen in Dutch theaters with the show ‘rhizome part 1’, a show of which he himself does not yet know exactly what he will make there. “The ingredients are Boris, me and a light and sound installation from you there. All I know is that it’s going to escalate completely.”
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