Anne van de Star (NL, 1988) is a Brussels-based sound artist and composer exploring the physical and spatial nature of sound. Her practice investigates the threshold between body, matter, and technology — re-sounding surfaces where air meets forms, textures, and spaces.
She is the co-founder of IIIOIIOIIIOIIO, an electro-acoustic duo with violinist Hester Bolle that combines electro-acoustic sound with synths and instrumental textures in a dynamic live set. Anne regularly collaborates with choreographers and theatre-makers across Europe, including Mette Ingvartsen, Cherish Menzo, Katja Dreher, Guus Diepenmaat, and Anouk Friedli, bringing her distinctive sensibility for sound, movement, and atmosphere to cross-disciplinary contexts.
During her residency at Decoratelier, she explores a variety of ways in which human physical energy can be converted into sustained sound. By ‘sustained sound’, she means a tone that continues for as long as the energy of a body is present — a living resonance shaped by breath and pressure.
This research resulted in the creation of a new instrument: a hydraulic modular organ system inspired by the ancient hydraulic organ, the precursor to the pipe organ. Playing this instrument involves not only blowing, but also listening to the tones shaped by air and water pressure. The sound emerges as a direct response to physical energy, movement, and environmental conditions.
