Robin Coops

audiovisual - crossover - digital technology - experimental - film - sound - installation - interactive - performance - collaboration

Director/composer Robin Coops (NL, 1988) creates immersive operas and other music-driven works. Although his projects are deeply contemporary, cross-disciplinary and make use of digital technologies, the human voice and body remain the key elements of his work. Tactile, mesmerising and uncanny at times, Robin's projects address themes such as order vs. chaos, the fear and desire to loose control and multiperspectivity.

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    • The Saga of Sage - The Missions

    Project

    • 01-09-2021 t/m 31-12-2024
    • In collaboration with: Imagine Film Festival, Gaudeamus, O-Festival, Melkweg, Effenaar
    • Location: Metaverse, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht
    • The Saga of Sage is one of the first Metaverse-music projects that will allow a global audience to engage with a metaverse concert, both with and without VR glasses. This opens an unprecedented audience potential. Each mission in the series is created with a new guest visual and musical artist. Mission 1: Defrost is part of the overarching transmedia project The Saga of Sage.
    • www.thesagaofsage.com

    The Saga of Sage - Exoplanets

    Project

    • 01-01-2023 t/m 31-12-2024
    • In collaboration with: M31 Foundation, Batavierhuis
    • Location: Rotterdam, Rotterdam
    • Exoplanets is a music AI image generated graphic novel. Exoplanets is part of the transmedia art project The Saga of Sage, where we collectively explore the stories of Sage, who travels from planet to planet in search of the meaning of home. Each story is a collaboration with a new musician/composer of the Batavierhuis.
    • https://we.tl/t-itjF1KHAOE

    Orphee | l'Amour | Eurydice

    Project

    • 01-09-2021 t/m 01-03-2022
    • In collaboration with: Dutch National Opera, Reisopera, Opera Zuid, WeMakeVR, M31 Foundation
    • Location: Enschede, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Maastricht, Ede, Amsterdam
    • Using theater and VR technology, Coops and Changa let the audience experience the story from three different perspectives: Orpheus', Eurydice's, and L'Amour's, captured in three short performances, which can be experienced either separately or together. Gluck's music is transformed by Dutch-Polish composer Zbigniew Wolny into an intimate and colorful arrangement for tenor, guitar, and electronics.
    • https://vimeo.com/684747151

    touch

    Project

    • 01-01-2019 t/m 31-07-2019
    • In collaboration with: M31 Foundation, Film Master
    • Location: Film Academy, Amsterdam
    • A photographer becomes his own subject after he meets a mysterious figure. He is seduced by this animal-like creature, but as his desire grows, so does his fear. Exhilarating music and provocative movements slowly guide us into a nightmare in which the character eventually loses control over his own body.
    • https://vimeo.com/359824451

    Acknowledgments

      Publication

    • Jazzing Frames - Shifting Perspectives

    • 2019
    • Master's degree research
    • Amsterdam School of the Arts - Stanisław Liguziński
      Publication

    • Exoplanets 1: Ayo - Deva

    • 2023
    • Music AI Graphic Novel
    • M31 Foundation - Robin Coops