Joost van Dijk

Joost van Dijk (05-05-1970) is a self-taught musician, music composer, photo-& videographer and visual artist based in Tilburg, The Netherlands.

'Finding art school way too restricting and stressful for me, I chose to go my own way and started working as a visual artist with a main focus on painting and drawing, with some music composing on the side. Gradually, my life flow and inspiration took me more towards composing music and soundscapes over the years and until now I have composed, recorded and edited music, soundscapes and soundeffects for theatre, dance and video for over 20 years, as well as performing as silent actor in various art- and theatreprojects, and I am still doing all that.
Since the last four years or so I'm combining this with my original visual aspirations doing more and more photography, filming and computer animation, commissioned works as well as my own.
With my visual works as well as with my music, I let sensitivity, feeling and atmosphere prevail over technical details, intellectual complexity, hypes and rigid rules.
Like in everyday life, I try to let chance and improvisation play together freely and in balance with detail and precision.
I have been doing commissioned photography/filming/editing and sound design for documentaries, dance company LaMelis, De Kwekerij location theatre, Studio Tween, Docman, Strijbos&van Rijswijk, dance-theatre company WELLES, Sounding Bodies, Beeldjutters, Radio Nederland Wereldomroep, Teleac, independent artists, cultural organizations like 'L Avventura, business organizations like CMC mobility and private portrait- and artwork projects.'

Specialties: Film, photography, music compositions, sound design, sound editing, sound recording, video-editing, multi-instrumentalist, painting, drawing, computer animation, creative thinking, sensitive and open to the vision of the client and the soul of a project.