About Merlijn Twaalfhoven

Composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven is most known by the remarkable projects he creates, connecting styles, cultures but first of all people. Twaalfhovens intention is to bridge worlds of contrast, and to mix unusual elements to a new unity. Classic and modern, western and oriental, groovy and subtle music is combined into a lively metaphor for nowadays world.

The expense of frustration

Our economy is in recession. Analysts talk about pessimist markets or measures that might inspire the financial world to recover. Politicians pump public money in the black holes that banks appear to have created.
Man is an emotional creature. Society reacts unpredictable on these measures – the future is undisclosed.

It is proven that people make decisions by intuition when taking big risks. I myself wonder sometimes why I decided so easily to climb mount Ararat once, or to buy a derelict house.

We learn to deal with rationality. In school, by reading books and listening to others. But how to deal with emotions? Is there a school for intuition other than just experimenting – trial and error?

Yes, there is a method to teach about irrationality. There is a vocabulary of the unspecific and the ambiguous. It’s called art.

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