Pieter-Jan Pieters at Design Indaba Conference 2013.

Music & Sound Design/2013/7 min/Reel № 13.001

ByPieter-Jan Pieters

Pieter-Jan Pieters on using human movement to compose music

The Best of the World's Creativity/Recorded 2013

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Pieter-Jan Pieters takes music & sound design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in Netherlands in 2013, the conversation is grounded in Pieter-Jan's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pieter-Jan Pieters makes digital music using his body parts as the instruments.

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About the speaker

Pieter-Jan Pieters

Eindhoven/Netherlands

Pieter-Jan Pieters is a recent Design Academy Eindhoven graduate interested in innovation, design, technology, engineering and fun.