Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and composer based in Berlin. With this project, Ankersmit explores the visionary but little-known sonic ideas of Dutch modernist painter Piet Mondriaan. As far back as the early 1920's, Mondriaan imagined a radical, abstract, electrically produced music of pure, hard-edged frequency and noise; "tone" and "non-tone”. Ankersmit realises these ideas into an electronic composition of his own, made entirely on an original 1970's Serge Modular from the collection of Gemeentemuseum The Hague - an instrument inspired by Mondriaan’s work. The piece was commissioned by TodaysArt and ORF Radiokunst - Kunstradio.



Acoustic phenomena such as sound reflections, infrasonic vibration, otoacoustic emissions, and highly directional projections of sound play a central role in Ankersmit‘s work. His music is also characterised by a deliberate misuse of the equipment, using feedback and disruptions to the signal, and the extremes of frequency and dynamics, to create visceral but finely detailed swarms of sound. Ankersmit has performed throughout Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, and Asia.

Thomas Ankersmit is Shape Artist 2017.

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