After composing extensively for renowned modern music ensembles, (including the Asko/Schönberg Ensemble, the Nieuw Ensemble and the Doelen Ensemble) and as a drummer playing metal, jazz and improvised music, Friso decided to fuse all of his musical approaches and experience into a kaleidoscopic whole with his own ensemble “Candy Container”.
Influenced by the serialism and aleatoricism of Boulez, Stockhausen, etc, but also by jazz, metal, open improvisation, and writers/poets such as James Joyce and e.e. cummings, the music Friso composed for this group aims for a synergy between these different, sometimes completely opposite worlds, ranging from totally rationalized to highly intuitive.
Candy Container brings together a group of energetic virtuosos, whose abilities to switch between contrasting style elements lend the music a hyper-expressionistic frenzy, imbued with high-octane interaction.
Booking or questions? Drop us a line at frisovanwijck@gmail.com
