Jim Zweerts, formerly known as FLUQS, is a sound artist and electronic music producer based in The Netherlands. He creates immersive soundscapes and montage music, but also collaborates with professionals from a wide range of fields, such as dance, theatre, installation art and cinema. His work plays with the symbiosis of contrasting elements and approaches towards sound: algorithmic processes vs meticulous handcraft, associative and club-oriented sounds vs abstract structures, playfulness vs formalization. Zweerts graduated from the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 2012.
Personal work soundcloud.com/jimzweerts
Commissioned work soundcloud.com/studiozweerts
License work soundcloud.com/tacitsounds
November 22, 2024 The Overkill Festival, Audio/Visual Set, Enschede July 28, 2024 INDEx Sonic Waves, Audio/Visual set, The Grey Space The Hague June 14, 2024 4bidden Sounds 4bidden Spaces, Multi-channel Audio/Visual set, OT301 Amsterdam May 31, 2024 Heli x Musicon, Audio/Visual set, The Hague April 20, 2024 Flipchart #14, Audio/Visual set, iii The Hague October 7, 2023 ARTEkroom, studio liveset, The Hague July 2, 2022 HyperFocus, hosted by INDEx, The Hague Contemporary Art Weekend June 18, 2021 Live soundscapes for Thornhill and Legrand’s Techno-Mythopoeia interactive 3D environment and video broadcast, V2 Rotterdam March 19, 2021 Live soundscapes for Thornhill and Legrand’s Techno-Mythopoeia interactive 3D environment and video broadcast, V2 Rotterdam December 28, 2020 Darkest Before Dawn, FLUQS x artep eros A/V set, YouTube livestream November 13, 2020 Live soundscapes for Thornhill and Legrand’s Techno-Mythopoeia 3D environment, V2 Rotterdam February 7, 2020 TEC ART Overkill Festival, WORM Rotterdam November 23, 2019 A Grey Space Weekend, hosted by Radio ñ, The Hague October 18, 2019 INDEx / 25 jaar Radio Tonka, The Hague April 20, 2019 Radio ñ, The Hague February 12, 2019 INSOMNIA SESSION on Radio Tonka, Den Haag FM September 21, 2018 TodaysArt x Azimuth, with visuals by Mark Ridder, The Hague April 21, 2018 INDEx, visuals by Mark Ridder, The Hague October 21, 2016 Dutch Design Week, with Institute for Applied Motions, Eindhoven November 10, 2011 Ephémère, live electronics with Martijn Barendregt and Payam Shahali, Studio LOOS October 21, 2011 Test:Extra, live electronics and interactive installation with Martijn Barendregt, at Nutshuis Den Haag 2008 – 2010 Several multi-channel pieces at CASS and Sonology Concerts, Royal Conservatory, The Hague
November, 2024 Sound design for shortfilm Footprints in the Valley by Eline Benjaminsen and Elias Kimaiyo, Norway November, 2024 Sounds for Het Oranje-Hotel: Murmurs Beyond the Wall by Lisette Alberti October, 2024 Sound design for shortfilm The Flora: Hedging by Dayna Casey and Eline Benjaminsen, Netherlands October, 2024 Sound design for All Sizes web project Defining Divinity by Lisette Alberti and Rising Lai, Netherlands August, 2024 Soundtrack for Chang Li Ting's One day I opened a book that said “everything is connected to everything else” and suddenly a feyness came out of nowhere…, Taiwan July, 2024 Soundtrack and sound design for the Revival Roadshow VR work by Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy, Netherlands January, 2024 Soundtrack and sound design for the Unfolding video installation by Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy, premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands August, 2023 Soundtrack for Guillemette Legrand’s video installation From Here to the Cosmos, Uncomputable views of the above, under and around, exhibited at Turn Signals — Design Is Not A Dashboard, Sept 7-11 Timisoara, Romania June, 2023 Sound assistance for Lisette Alberti’s installation The Bricks Keep the Record, KABK The Hague March, 2023 Soundtrack and sound design for the experimental audiotour project Virtual Listening by Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy, premiered at FMR – Biennial, June 6-11 Linz, Austria February, 2023 Soundtrack and sound design for Thornhill and Legrand’s Techno-Mythopoeia interative 3D game environment, displayed at MU Hybrid Art House Eindhoven and International Symposium on Electronic Art, May 16-21 Paris January, 2023 Soundtrack and sound design for the shortfilm Unfolding by Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy, premiered at International Film Festival Karlsruhe 19-23 April, Germany September, 2022 Soundtrack for the 2022 showreel of cinematographer Daan Kramer, Bruxelles October, 2021 Sounddesign for Terraforming animation by Petra Eros, at MuseumNacht Den Haag May, 2021 Soundtrack for short film Onze Stilte by Emiel Bachot, Bruxelles March, 2021 Soundtracks for the Talk To Me – De Heygraeff Audiotour by Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy December, 2020 Soundtrack for Terraforming animation by Petra Eros, at KABK The Hague April, 2020 Soundtrack and sound design for Thornhill and Legrand’s podcast Bodies of Resonance, Envisioning 5G Network Formation May, 2019 Soundtrack for desktop documentary Deep Breathing by Denise Jansen and Nicolai Schmelling, KABK The Hague May, 2019 Sound design and mix short film De Boze Buurman by Jeremias Monnerat, at RITCS, Bruxelles June 16, 2018 Sound installation for textile sculptures by Lotte Ooms at Electriciteits Fabriek, The Hague May, 2018 Sound design for Jeremias Monnerat’s recut of short film Het Getij by Maarten van Vliet April 6, 2018 Soundtrack, sound editing and mixing, for Anne Fehres’ premiere of Sakura: An Archetypal Journey, Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo November 30, 2017 Soundscape for installations by Aura Rendón Benger and Leslie Nagel, PIP, The Hague October 2017 Soundtrack for video presentation by Studio Smelt for Dupont, at A+A Beurs, Dusseldorf September 17, 2017 Composition for Angela Fegers’ choreography The Dogs of Berlin, at Euro Solo, Leipzig August 24 – 25, 2017 Soundtrack for Angela Fegers’ choreography The Dangers of Spring, Let Me In Festival, Berlin August 19, 2017 Sound design for Mischa Daams’ video artwork Origin: Sustained, at Atonal Berlin August, 2017 Soundtrack for Anne Fehres’ Teaser #1 for Sakura: An Archetypal Journey July, 2017 Composition assistance for Philip Vermeulen’s Physical Rhythm Machine / Boem BOem May 12 – May 21, 2017 Sound design for Mischa Daams’ video installation Origin: Sustained, Fiber Festival Amsterdam April, 2017 Soundtrack for Enrichers Promo Video, Eindhoven April, 2017 Music and sound design for the #TVclerici project by Design Academy Eindhoven, at Salone del Mobile, Palazzo Clerici, Milan for i.a. Edan Gorlicki, Anastia Kubrack, Nadina Botha, Marie Caye, Floriane Misslin, Louisa Zahareas January, 2017 Soundtrack for Anne Fehres’ Teaser #0 for Sakura: An Archetypal Journey September 30 – October 5, 2016 Composition and sound design for Bryan Arias’ in frayed edges for Nederlands Dans Theater 2, at Korzo Theater, The Hague
August, 2020 : FLUQS track Regen on WANNAMARCHI.CLUB’s EXPO2020® cassette, London March, 2020 : FLUQS track Kighin on Non/Being’s Certified Reality compilation, Montreal August, 2019 : FLUQS tracks concrete and fluqs on WANNAMARCHI.CLUB’s Summer Expo 2019 cassette, London July, 2019 : FLUQS’ remastered Exqod on SoulFeeder’s EAposting #4 compilation July, 2019 : FLUQS track Kamaga for Biodiversità Records’ Digital Diagenesis compilation , Italy