Musiscoop

makers and performers

The following people work on the Giant Light Circus project:

Artistic direction & magic lantern animation: Ida Lohman
Composition: Axel Schappert & Mark Tuinstra
Magic lantern performers: Marie Rademaekers, Rop Severien & Cecilia Arditto
Trombone & tuba: Axel Schappert
Electric guitar & percussion: Mark Tuinstra
Artistic adviser: Jeannette van Steen
Publicity & production: Nienke Niermans
Japanese contacts & advice: Maaike Ono-Boots
Website translation: Hester van der Knoop & Michael Blass
Video documentation: Jotja Bessems
Website: Tobi Fondse


Ida Lohman† (NL, 1961) visual artist and founder of Musiscope. In 1997 she discovered the contemporary possibilities of the magic lantern and together with Francien van Everdingen she initiated the magic lantern performance Diascope. From then on she was addicted to magic lanterns and used them to make installations and performances.

Axel Schappert plays jazz, bigband and contemporary classical music. Besides his involvement in Musiscope, he is also a member of ‘Tetzepi’, the ‘Newgenerationbigband’ and ‘Concentrated Oceans’.

Mark Tuinstra is a self-taught musician. He started playing the piano at a very early age, then played drums and bass guitar, and finally ended up on the guitar. He now plays guitar in several bands, among them Bernie’s Lounge, Mimoon and The Protones. He has toured to Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Iceland and Brazil. As well as the guitar, he also plays cavaquinho and percussion. His main guitar influences include Jimmy Hendrix, Marc Ribot and Bill Frisell.

Marie Raemakers is a visual artist and teaches art and cultural education to children and young people. Currently she is leader of the Projection Project, in which children create their own shadow performances using overhead projectors.

Rop Severien is a puppeteer and theatre maker whose wide experience includes Balinese shadow puppet theatre, or Wajang. He has previously worked for Theater Terra (youth theatre with puppets and objects). He currently also performs with Japanese percussion group Hanadon. 

 Cecilia Arditto studied music at CEAMC in Buenos Aires and graduated with a distinction from the Amsterdam Conservatory. Alongside her composition work, she is also co-founder of Sound Forum Amsterdam, a monthly composers’ forum. In 2006 and 2007 she programmed two editions of the Latin American concert series at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam. Her music has been performed in Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, USA, Germany, France, Switzerland, Holland, Lithuania and Canada. She is currently writing a chamber opera entitled The Daughter of the Sorceress Wanders through the Map of the Four Neighbourhoods Looking for her Personal Turtle.

Jeannette van Steen trained in mime in Amsterdam and then became a longstanding member of Bart Stuyf’s movement group. She subsequently performed in productions by movement theatre Bewth. Her work has been strongly influenced by a prolonged stay in Japan, where she studied traditional Noh theatre. From 1983 onwards she produced her own work under the name of Stichting Triade, and went on to found Groep van Steen, with which she made numerous performances together with Irene Schategger and Fried Mertens. She has been artistic advisor to Musiscope for several years.