Peeters Arno (bio ENG)
The impetus which Arno received from the Center for Electroacoustic Music was relatively central to his further development as a composer of acoustic works. It was here that he first encountered names such as Brian Eno, Einstürzende Neubauten, Laurie Anderson, Adrian Sherwood/Tackhead, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV.
It is also quite likely that it is thanks to this encounter that Arno has since the beginning been aesthetically closer to the approach to music usually associated with dance clubs, the DJ scene and experimental electroacoustic music. Like every musician who has set out on an "audio search", in his compositions he has never limited himself to the relatively closed world of electronic technobeat. His music is constantly hovering in a difficult-to-define space between, on the one hand, art (literally research) projects in theater, site-specific and audio installations, and the world of remixes and club DJ projects on the other.
Listening to his compositions we can clearly hear a relatively personal sonic atmosphere which for the most part is formed by a series a smaller acoustic events, snippets of human speech, telephone conversations and automatic telephone machines. Almost all "ingredients" - as Peeters himself remarks - are a kind of "microcomposition" all their own, which - torn out of their original context - help to form the beginnings of a new audio organism.