Casimir Geelhoed – Processing Music

• Medium: LP
• Year: 2025
• Client: B.A.A.D.M.

With his debut album Processing Music, Dutch com­poser and elec­tronic musi­cian Casimir Geelhoed offers a com­pelling med­i­ta­tion on sound trans­for­ma­tion as a metaphor for psy­cho­log­i­cal and emo­tional pro­cess­ing. Operating at the inter­sec­tion of over­stim­u­la­tion, intro­spec­tion and fragility, the album unfolds as a deeply immer­sive and per­sonal explo­ration — one that invites the lis­tener to inhabit a space of their own pro­jec­tion, mem­ory and reflection.

Rather than impos­ing a fixed com­po­si­tional struc­ture, Processing Music fol­lows a bot­tom-up approach, allow­ing form to emerge organ­i­cally from the devel­op­ment of sonic mate­r­ial. Digital sig­nal pro­cess­ing is not used here as a mere tech­ni­cal tool, but as a poetic device: trans­for­ma­tion as nar­ra­tive, delay as mem­ory, dis­tor­tion as ten­sion. Through slowly erod­ing loops, gen­tly col­laps­ing tex­tures and shift­ing lay­ers of tim­bre and space, Geelhoed crafts a del­i­cate sound world that is charged with friction.

What may at first seem abstract grad­u­ally reveals an emo­tional core. The album evokes the sus­pended time of a largo, the lay­er­ing of mem­ory like an exca­va­tion, the psy­cho­log­i­cal ten­sion of per­ceived spa­tial expan­sion. These are not lit­eral themes, but asso­cia­tive keys to a music that oper­ates in a dis­tinctly human sonic language.

Emerging from a series of live per­for­mances, Processing Music retains a per­for­ma­tive sen­si­bil­ity: the music breathes, trans­forms, and invites atten­tion to nuance. It slowly unfolds a land­scape shaped by the sub­tle inter­play between struc­ture and dissolution.

Casimir Geelhoed has per­formed at fes­ti­vals such as CTM, Sonic Acts, Rewire, Fiber, SPATIAL, and Aural Spaces. He stud­ied com­puter sci­ence, com­po­si­tion, music tech­nol­ogy, and sonol­ogy in Amsterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht.