The Artist
The Artist
So you want to know more about me as artist? I play piano and compose instrumental music. And since 2010 I make some drawings. The style of my drawings is largely influenced by the Order of the Stick.
If you want you can use my drawings and music in your website or on social media or wherever. My drawings and songs on this website are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
The songs I publish on the major music platforms (such as Spotify) are copyright by me, Sander Kooijmans. Those songs are not published on this website.
2023-09-17: The Day after Eunice
The Day after Eunice is a song I composed the day after the storm Eunice passed our country. For comparison you can listen to the demo version I recorded using my mobile phone. You can hear it is about one year after the song "For those who stay behind". It has the same kind of melancholy.
2023-07-29: Gnome's Fiestaval
Gnome's Fiestaval a song popuplar at fiesta for gnomes!
2023-05-07: New Jacket
The song New Jacket is a remake of Nieuw1, a song that I composed in the nineties. This version is not finished yet. Expect updates in the coming weeks. Nevertheless, I think it is good enough to publish it here so that I can get your feedback.
2022-12-20: Brit on a Buoy
A couple of weeks ago I got some inspiration. The result is this song called "Brit on a Buoy". The title is inspired on a news item: a Brit went kayaking on sea, but got into trouble. He managed to cling on a buoy. After a couple of days he was saved by Dutch fishermen.
2022-10-22: New song: Spring Mood 1
I composed the first version of this song in the nineties. I never recorded it then. In 2019 I used OpenMPT to record this song, which resulted in Gogognome's Ringtone nr 1.
But that version was not exactly as I originally had it in mind. I originally composed it with an organ as melody. In the past months I changed the song a bit. The melody has more variation now and I also added a chorus. I am pretty sure this won't be the final version of the song, but I think it is in good enough shape to share it. So here is the my new song, Spring Mood 1.
2022-10-15: New recording of old songs
As part of learning how to wrok with a Digital Audio Workstation I recorded two of my songs with a new tool. Here is the result:
- For those who stay behind, which was recorded in 2021 for the first time.
- Autumn Mood 1, which is a new take on Oktober 1998.
2022-07-26: Two drawings of a beach
These drawings were intended to be used for my title picture in Spotify. The first one I created was this one:
The image shows my hobbies or references to my hobbies. I did not use this one in Spotify, because the dimensions were not well chosen. It was not possible to show the beach volleyball players and the musical notes at the same time.
This drawing has better dimensions and is the one I use at Spotify.
2022-07-17: My song Campfire has been published on all major music platforms
At the bottom of this page you can find songs I composed and recorded myself. The songs sound amateurish. Recently I decided to pick one or two songs per year and record them professionally. Today, my first song has been published on all major music platforms, such as on Spotify.
This song is recorded by Martijn Kerkhofs at Triple Moon Studios. It is based on the song called Campfire that you can find at the bottom of this website.
I hope you enjoy it!
2022-04-17: MDIHE22
MDIHE22 a song I composed on Easter Sunday 2022. I recorded it using my mobile phone, so quality of the recording is poor.
2021-02-16: For those who stay behind
In a time that is difficult for many people all over the world, on a sad day, suddenly I got inspired to compose a new song. Click here read about the story behind the song and to listen to the song.
2019-12-29: Gogognome's Ringtone nr 1 published
After many years I finally publish a new song: gogognomes_ringtone_nr_1.mp3
It is a song I composed about twenty years ago but never had a chance to record it. In December 2019 I started playing with OpenMPT and decided to use this song to experiment with OpenMPT. It is a nice song to be used as a ringtone.
2019-10-09: Table Soccer
As you can see in my Curriculum Vitae I have worked for HighTech ICT in the past. When High Tech ICT opened their new office in 's-Hertogenbosch I gave them a can of silicon spray for their table soccer table. I put this drawing on the spray can to personalize it.
2019-07-06: Math Max
This drawing is a parody on "Mad Max Fury Road" commenting on the behaviour of Javascript's
math.max(). This function confuses people without mathematical background
as shown in this reddit post.
2016-12-12: Score Surprise published
I have published the score of my own composition 'Surprise'. Using the program MuseScore 2 I could turn my handwritten score into a professional looking score. Click here to download the score.
Here is an MP3 file with a recording of the song: surprise.mp3
2015-03-24: Cartoon about Dave Egger’s book "The Circle"
2016-02-15: Internet of Things:
