PLATE I
Spif's practice spans live modular performance, spoken-word ritual, AI-mediated installation, and tactile interactive objects — instruments built to slow people down and lead them somewhere they did not expect to go.
The vocabulary is vintage hardware and electric ritual: bakelite cabinetry, brass-trimmed cockpit television, eurorack patch cables, two-way mirror, warm signal lamps. The intention is closer to ceremony than to spectacle — a museum bookshop's hush, with a Tesla coil quietly waiting in the wings.
Based in Amsterdam, working toward a permanent multidisciplinary space — Diepgang — that holds the performances, the installations, and the workshops in one room.
PLATE III
An AI-mediated future-self oracle. The participant tunes in, and a 3D rendering of themselves +30 years on offers advice from across the patch field.
Vintage brass-trimmed cockpit television. Stripped Soviet tank radio for the dial. Two-way mirror over an LCD; a hidden camera reads the face. A Raspberry Pi keeps the ritual running underneath the cabinetry. The oracle does not predict — it remembers forward.
PLATE IV
A 90-minute spoken-word and live electronic ritual. Ayahuasca without ayahuasca. A Tesla coil reveal late in the set.
The Spark is the seed of Diepgang — an evening that holds the audience the way a good ceremony does: gradual descent, a long middle, a reveal that earns itself. Composed for modular synthesis, voice, and a single high-voltage moment of light.
Vox Arboris began as a one-month installation residency at WIHH Gallery in 2023 — a slow, branching modular score that the room learned by heart — and returned in April 2026 as a live performance high above the IJ at the A'dam Tower. The piece treats the modular rig like a tree: signals enter the roots, take their time, and only certain frequencies make it to the canopy.
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PLATE V·c
A 1950s bakelite television, gutted and re-warmed. Two rotary encoders sit where the tuning and volume used to live; a Raspberry Pi runs a quiet, custom interface behind the glass. Pull the cord, find your resonance.
PLATE VI
A month-long residency at Ten Club's theatre venue: a full evening-length show alongside continuous contributions to the wider theatre programme — MC duties, ensemble performance, and sound design across other works in the run.
A 20-minute participatory installation. The participant travels five years into the future and meets the version of themselves that has already accomplished what they came to do. Built by a five-person team and performed with hired actors. The conceptual prototype for Vox Futuri.
A three-metre interactive Rubik's cube installed in the gardens of Tuinen van West, Amsterdam — one corner deliberately skewed. Visitors stepped inside, chose a single topic to change in their life (finances, a relationship, a worry), and were led through a breathing exercise to release it. Press the RESET button to open the WINDOW to the rest of your life.
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PLATE IX·d
An interactive installation. A small ritual disguised as a game — visitors entered alone and left holding something they didn't know they were looking for. The earliest public seed of the practice that would become Spif.
PLATE X