Jobina Tinnemans
composer and performer at the nexus of electronic and contemporary classical music
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Five Thoughts on Everything
“It’s a disc to die for, in which Tinnemans’ universe – and ours – is described with ethereal beauty from end to end.”
— Raul da Gama, THE WHOLE NOTE, read full review
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“…perched somewhere between seriously entertaining and entertainingly serious”
”Tinnemans organizes her music so that the two sides acknowledge their togetherness gracefully, without ever crossing into each other’s sphere.”
”…these miniatures are loaded with musical event, plenty to engage ears and brain.”
— Philip Clark, THE WIRE
“Such a gorgeous album – a pleasure to share it”
– SARA MOHR PIETSCH on Night Tracks, BBC Radio 3
“Yet while the material offered is purely aural, the five adventurous pieces, world premieres all, are hardly wanting for boldness.”
– TEXTURA, read full review
“Perhaps most important, however, is the firm hand Tinnemans keeps on the tiller as she pulls you through nearly uncharted territories, following tributaries from the 20th century’s avant garde to their natural conclusions.”
– ANEARFUL, read full review
“Five Thoughts On Everything is a fine, succinct, gently intelligent collection of compositions, visiting plenty of stops on electronic music’s map, but resolutely settling a town all of its own.”
– FREQ, read full review
Watch the five album previews
Jobina’s sound journey is extensive.
Moving on from traditional classical piano she started experimenting with samplers and noisy sound processing in the Dutch squat and DIY scene, being fortunate enough to live in Eindhoven, hometown of Philips Electronics. At the time, in the mid-nineties, analog was being replaced by digital and she fished many obsolete analog musical equipment out of skips. The electronics obsession expanded to heritage analog synthesisers and organs, tube valves and transistors, while equally being excited about the many digital innovations of the new century.
When Tinnemans moved to a rural isolated peninsula in Wales from the Netherlands in 2007, she became overwhelmed by the beauty of natural soundscapes, her new habitat, and soon electronic sounds made way for
rustling of leaves, wildlife calls and other outdoor sounds.
Jobina was selected to compose a new work for the 2013 edition of New York’s MATA festival. She created Killing Time which in turn caught the attention of Vogue NYC. Her piece Shakespeare and Hedgeshear, involving two table tennis teams and hedge trimmers, represented the British section at the 2014 ISCM World New Music Days. Tinnemans’ work has been in international demand ever since. In 2018 she received the PRSF for Music Composer Award.
New York-based Bright Shiny Things label will release her composer debut album Five Thoughts on Everything in 2020. This album celebrates a lifetime of exploration: her sound language is rich and idiosyncratic and she speaks it fluently.
