Jochem van Tol, 1983.
This
website shows a selection of my work from the past 15 years.
From recent collaborations, exhibitions, performances, and concerts, to early study material.
Feel free to look around, or come back later – the selection will change over time.
Latest video: T’iju T’iju
Photo: Christina Marx, 2022
From recent collaborations, exhibitions, performances, and concerts, to early study material.
Feel free to look around, or come back later – the selection will change over time.
Latest video: T’iju T’iju
Photo: Christina Marx, 2022
Featured Work
Having hung his hat in the past on collaborative projects such as The Paper Ensemble, SOON and Silverbones, Jochem van Tol’s new project T’iju T’iju answers a long-held hypothesis: what would happen if he were to experiment with sound and music on his own? The answer lies partly in its moniker, named after the Bolivian word for grasshopper, an animal the Amsterdam-based composer and artist feels a peculiar spiritual connection to.
“T'iju T'iju became a kind of nickname for me. Somehow I’ve always come across grasshoppers in my life, which is really funny. Whether it is on my car’s steering wheel or on a motorboat or in my house on top of my bed.
So I’ve come to believe the grasshopper is an animal that has mysteriously bonded with me. It’s something I like to fantasize about. T'iju T'iju became a kind of nickname for me instead of Jochem. At the same time, the pronouncement of the word is a kind of onomatopoeia for grasshoppers; the name itself sounds like something that could fit in my sound world.”
text: Jasper Willems
T’iju T’iju
Having hung his hat in the past on collaborative projects such as The Paper Ensemble, SOON and Silverbones, Jochem van Tol’s new project T’iju T’iju answers a long-held hypothesis: what would happen if he were to experiment with sound and music on his own? The answer lies partly in its moniker, named after the Bolivian word for grasshopper, an animal the Amsterdam-based composer and artist feels a peculiar spiritual connection to.
“T'iju T'iju became a kind of nickname for me. Somehow I’ve always come across grasshoppers in my life, which is really funny. Whether it is on my car’s steering wheel or on a motorboat or in my house on top of my bed.
So I’ve come to believe the grasshopper is an animal that has mysteriously bonded with me. It’s something I like to fantasize about. T'iju T'iju became a kind of nickname for me instead of Jochem. At the same time, the pronouncement of the word is a kind of onomatopoeia for grasshoppers; the name itself sounds like something that could fit in my sound world.”
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text: Jasper Willems
The Paper Ensemble
Since 2007 I collaborate with Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti on one of our favorite projects: The Paper Ensemble.
We developed a series of performances with instruments made of all kinds of different paper. Many of which are found in rural Japan. In 2023 we finished a short music film together with director Jiska Rickels, in which the visuals and the composition co-exist.
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We developed a series of performances with instruments made of all kinds of different paper. Many of which are found in rural Japan. In 2023 we finished a short music film together with director Jiska Rickels, in which the visuals and the composition co-exist.
Read more ︎
Awichas
~Formerly known as Obol Le, Silverbones~“Using synthesizers and live tape manipulation among instruments and vocals, and combined with custom-built algorithmic videoprojections that respond to the music, this is like improvised jazz gone into jet-setting, shape-shifting hyperdrive”
Soundfly magazine NY
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Photo: Sabine van Nistelrooij, 2026
Electronic Explorations
Buchla 100 and 200 systemsIn my research to translate Andean concepts of time and space, into tangible sonic work, I have spend years in building, noodling and playing with electronic instruments. Highlight was a 2 week residency at EMS, Stockholm in 2024, where I recorded 800 minutes of improvisations with Buchla 100, Buchla 200 and Serge Systems. As we speak in 2026, this ‘mountain of material’ is getting cut and pasted into the debut album of Awichas.
Some pictures, video’s and studiojams will appear here randomly over time.
CONFETTI FOR THE BLIND - 2025
JOCHEM VAN TOL AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.
JOCHEM VAN TOL