Steven Kamperman featuring Oene van Geel, Paul Jarret and Albert van Veenendaal - Maison Moderne (2023)

In 2023, the adventurous composer/clarinetist Steven Kamperman wrote the suite Maison Moderne during a residency at the Maison Van Doesburg (Meudon/Paris). Kamperman’s piece – stylistically balancing improvised jazz/rock with contemporary composed music – takes the listener on a musical tour through the house, from ‘L’entrée’ via the ‘Grand atelier’ to the machinery of ‘La Chaufferie’. In between, there are intermezzos about essential events in Van Doesburg’s life, such as his intense but finite friendship with painter Piet Mondrian.

Maison van Doesburg is the only realized building conceived by multi-talent Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931), who, besides being an architect, was also a painter, poet, art theoretician, stained-glass artist, and typographer. Dating from the 1930s, the construction is one of the finest examples of modern De Stijl architecture.

Paying true hommage to the house, the musicians recorded the suite on location, using several of its rooms. Please take off your shoes to enter a universe of its own, in Maison Moderne.