We do perfomances in different settings under different names. Festival programmers were often confused by that and took projectnames for bandnames. We decided to perform under this format:

- "www.dendriet.nl" as the bandname
- projectname
- full names of ALL contributers

Here's a incomplete list of projects we did. Do check out the mp3 music section as well.

Fingerbang

Fingerbang was the working title for a five piece boyband performing live at the 'Garage' on the Zuidwal in Den Haag. We played 3 sets, and the plans are to release the 2nd set on cd.
Juan Parra: Guitar, Saxoflute, MSP. Léon Spek: Radiophonics. Thijs Scheele: Hacked toy keyboards, aarstrompet, Samplers looping the other players. Ernst van der Loo: MSP, processing his China gong and the other players, live Mix, (post production). Dave Krooshof: Bass Guitar, Electris Tuba, MSP processing the bass and other players, kraakdozen, (mastering).
Since we usually play with 2 or 3 players, this performance was one step futher. There was some commotion on the fact that we were playing with 5 men now, since that number qualifies us as a boyband. And it's good to do a performance in a squadhouse with _good_ speakers (from www.koncon.nl) for a change. We'll put up an mp3 of the third section on this site.
The Garage site is here, they still use Leon's equipment as a splash image.

Toy Control

A Thijs Scheele and Dave Krooshof performance, a playfull decendant from Ground Control. Ground Control is a performance with short circuited old-hifi equipment as instruments. Toycontrol has a bit more emphasis on the heavy rock and roll experience.

Penta

Penta is a conceptual piece in 5 segments for 2 instrumentalists and 2 processors. Ernst van der Loo is the composer and Max/MSP programmer. He graduated Sonology with it in 2003.
Musicians: Aslaug Holgersen: Double Bass -> processed by Ernst van der Loo
and Juan Parra: Guitar -> processed by Léon Spek. Soundprojection: Dave Krooshof.
More info on the composer's site.

SPL

Clouds and electric outbursts from Ernst van der Loo, Léon Spek and Juan Parra. Loud and at times aggressive live performance with a electronic instrumentarium of intensly interconnected set of radiophonics, computers and matrix-equipment. Performers: Léon Spek: Radiophonics and Matrix-keycode, Juan Parra: noise shaping, Ernst van der Loo: deconstruction. SPL has been performed in Korzo, White Space, Theater Kikker to name a few places.

Fruitpower

A project of Dave Krooshof and Thijs Scheele with Xavier van Wersch. When Dave Krooshof remembered that fruit can be a battery, they decided to control a synthesizer with apples. The first performance was for the New Forms Festival 2002 in The Hague, when the equipment was mostly old chemistry measuring equipment from the Mol.Spec. depertment of the K.U.N. Martijn Kieft from the VPRO made a nice video registration and interview. You can see the photos and the VPRO video.
The second performance again drew the attention of the national TV, when the performed at the fabulous Garage-g festival in Stralsund. For that occasion we made a mobile lab (see photos) which is monkey proof and was tested for three weeks by the Garage audience. Xavier made a sugarcoated website for it.

ArQ

ArQ was formed in the beginning of the year 2000. ArQ was a trio consisting of Leon Spek, Ernst van der Loo and Ronald Aufenacker. At that time all students at the institute of Sonology in The Hague, The Netherlands. The trio was formed for a series workshops/classes in live electronic music under the supervision of the well-known composer/live-performer Richard Barrett (member of the live electronics duo Furt).
The basic set-up of the trio consisted mainly of toys, old hi-fi equipment and an effects processor. The working method allowed a big involvement of chance, mainly coming from the unreliability of the circuit bent toys and hi-fi equipment. There was definitely an influence from Cage and Tudor's live electronic works. However, the overall sonic end-result and intensity of the performances ended up somewhere between Japanese noise music, Indian ragas and ''serious'' electronic music.
ArQ existed until October 2000, when Ronald decides to leave to pursue a more beat influenced approach. Leon and Ernst continue working together, as a duo and in more extended groups like the Sono Ensemble. Ronald died unexpectedly in December 2000, aged 22.