Nico Hemmer
Nico Hemmer (The Netherlands, Hezingen 1964), has been educated in electronic music at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. He is mainly self-taught in the field of audiovisual art after joining video workshops with Babeth Vanloo at the Free Academy, also The Hague. For years, in addition to his working life in IT, he has been active as a musician, classical singer and composer, always seeking his own and different sound and signature. His music, lyrics and videos are generally concise and succinct, without digressions in search of a degree of beauty that makes everything else superfluous. Shaping and transforming, transcending and aggregating, characterize his attitude, function and primary activity. Nico has founded his own video-art and music studio and production company, Luminescent Productions in 2020. Under this production company, he releases his work as a video artist, composer and singer-songwriter (under the name Transverse). In his identity of video artist he participates in the artists collective “Drijvend Staal”(= floating steel, based in Leiden, The Netherlands. This year's projects will include two more videos from the Waves cycle, an EP by Transverse with 6 new songs and an overture and 1st aria from a concert opera on the life and work of Ayn Rand.