VI.BE

mīkēl (Michiel Claessen) uses field recordings, found sounds, tape machines, analog mixers and anything old that passes an audio signal to create a cinematic sonic landscape. Embracing experimentation and improvisation, he takes raw sounds and ideas, and sculpts them into cohesive tracks that take you on a journey.

As a writer/singer/guitarist in his previous band Storksky, Michiel's music took him across the world to Indonesia and had him play some of the biggest festivals like Pinkpop and Zwarte Cross, earning him his spurs as a professional musician.

Following this round of success, while simultaneously dealing with years of depression, Michiel quit his band, moved countries and honed in on using writing and production as a tool to express his inner world. Now, after emerging from this truly vulnerable place with a completely new approach to making music, he's focussing less on proving himself as a musician and more on connection, expression and vulnerability as a bridge between his inner world and the world around him.