about

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about 〰️

Ruben Samama is an audio-visual artist / composer / producer and performer currently dividing his time between Amsterdam and Berlin. 2022 - Blanco Palamera: Ven a Verte Remix. 2021 – Gabriel Rios: Flore (Sony Music). Album Production, Recording-Mixing Engineer, Composition, Visual. 2021 – Jonathan Jeremiah: Horsepower for the Streets (PIAS Germany). Album Co-Production, Composition, Recording-Mixing Engineer. 2021 – On Healing with Laia Abril (Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona). Audio-visual work. 2018–2021 – The Blue Skies Project with Anton Kusters (shown or permanent collection at: The V&A Museum London, The Photographers Gallery, London Photo, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, Rencontres D'Arles, ICP New York, Getxophoto, C-Mine, Genk). Audio-visual work. 2017–2020 – PUK* Breakdown with Floris Schönfeld (Beautiful Distress House Amsterdam, ROBOT LOVE, Campina Fabriek / van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Rijksopen 2017). Audio work. 2016 - 2019 – The Other Violence I - II, with Michael Sewandono (Baerum Kunsthall Oslo). Composition. 2019 – Walk of Doubts and Chapman for President with Eef van Breen, Production, Script Development with Ola Mafaalani. 2018 – Jonathan Jeremiah: Good Day Deluxe Edition (PIAS). Album Production, Recording-Mixing engineer, Composition. 2018 – Paradis/Garden (Berliner Ensemble for Ola Mafaalani). Sonic Steel Playable Decor and Instrument Build. 2017 – Kapok: Mirabel (K-REC). Album Production, Mixing Engineer. 2017 – Stereography Feat. Jeff Taylor and Katell Keineg (HERT). Album Production, Mixing Engineer. 2016 – A Mysterical Journey with Saelia Aparicio (Serpentine Gallery London). Audio-visual work. 2016 – Insomnia (Rhubarb) – Audio-visual work (partly shown at 2019 MINJUKIM Seoul Fashion Week show) 2016 – NATURA* Voice with Floris Schönfeld (Rijksopen 2016, Poppositions Brussels). Audio work. 2015 – Dames 4 (CTM LEV) Director Maurice Trouwborst. Composition. 2014 – Gabriel Rios: This Marauder's Midnight (Sony/Columbia/RCA). Album Production, Recording-Mixing Engineer, Visual. 2013 - Yuri Honing – North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts (Bop City) Performer. 2013 – Jungran: Nomadism (Poney Canyon South Korea). Album Production, Recording-Mixing Engineer, Composition. 2012 – Arash (CTM LEV) Director Michael Sewandono. Composition. 2012 - Yuri Honing: True (Challenge Records) Performer, Composition. 2010 - Deloitte Jazz Award, First Prize. 2009 – Thelonious Monk Competition, Semi Finalist. 2009 - Manhattan School of Music NY, USA, MM. 2007 - Royal Conservatory of The Hague, NL, BM. Teaching and Presentations: 2021 – Vonk Ateliers (Hasselt). Studio visit. 2021 – Anthem Academy. Online Masterclass on audio production/composition for video. 2020 – the Photographers Gallery (London). Online presentation and discussion of the Blue Skies project. 2020 – iArts. Online advisor. 2018 – ICP New York presents Blue Skies and Bad Dreams. Lecture and discussion. 2011 – Goethe Institute. Teaching tour in Bogota and Cartagena, Colombia – Quito, Ecuador. 2010 – Sydney Conservatorium of Music - Masterclass Jazz. Ruben has been able to create work with the help of the Fulbright foundation, VSB fonds, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.