Since 1990, then based in Amsterdam, Peter Bosch and Simone Simons have focused on the development of autonomous “music machines”, characterized by unstable balances which the slightest change could disturb enough to produce an unpredictable outcome. The Krachtgever is their best-known piece for its Golden Nica, received in 1998 at Prix Ars Electronica, Linz in the category of Computer Music. Next projects were Cantan un Huevo (2000) and Aguas Vivas, which obtained a mention at VIDA 6.0, Madrid, 2003. In 2009 a retrospective of their work was held at La-Tour-du-Pin, France, curated by GRAME, Lyon. Bang Spring Time was shown in an outdoors setting at the Biennale Transitio in Mexico-City, 2011. Mirlitones was shown at the ICMC 2013 in Perth/Fremantle and at the Sound travels in Sound Art Festival, NAISA, Toronto, 2015 and in 2016 at the exhibition “Arte sonoro en España 1961-2016”, Museo Fundación Juan March, Palma de Mallorca. Último Esfuerzo Rural III—V premiered at the justMAD art fair, Madrid and has been shown thereafter at the Digital Arts Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, and November Music, Bois-le-Duc, Netherlands (all in 2017). In 2019 they presented Último Intento Minero at the festival Callejón del Ruido, Guanajuato, Mexico, Arrhythmia at Finding Affinities, GYA, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, Germany (in collaboration with Sergey Kostyrko) and Spring Tide at “Wadden Tide”, Blavandshuk, Denmark. Acuática premiered in 2019 in CentroCentro Madrid as part of the VANG concert series. A new version has been shown during November 2021 at Museo Vostell, Malpartida de Cáceres. In 2023 STAALPLAAT released the LP “Three Music Machines” with sound recordings of their early projects. September 2024 Acuática has been shown in a, so far, most sophisticated set-up at the Palau de les Arts of Valencia during the contemporary music festival ENSEMS.
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Peter Bosch studied psychology at the Universities of Leiden and Amsterdam (1976-‘83) and thereafter studied sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (1986-‘87). Simone Simons studied at the audiovisual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam (1980-‘85). Since 1997 they work and live in Valencia, Spain.