SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE
NETHERLANDS SOUNDSCAPES Scene #17
A REFRESHER
The Grassy Knoll is a vehicle for me to be relentless – relentless in the pursuit of something beautiful and true amid the chaos and darkness.
Let me reintroduce myself and Netherlands Soundscapes, where everyday Dutch life gets reimagined through a cinematic lens. This series of short audiovisual studies blends striking visuals with original ambient compositions to create meditative, immersive moments that invite reflection, calm, and curiosity. Each piece works as its own emotional landscape, but together they form a living tapestry capturing the evolving spirit of the Netherlands and the beauty hidden in everyday life.
In the late 1990s, The Grassy Knoll was on the leading edge of a new kind of music, a darkly artful mix of the electric and the organic, of digital sampling and analog virtuosity. It was the sound of rock, jazz and electronica melded into a sometimes sly, sometimes seething and always forward-minded infusion. Salon dubbed The Grassy Knoll’s music “groundbreaking and futuristic.” Billboard magazine went further, describing those early albums on Nettwerk and Antilles/Verve this way: “A soundtrack for the conspiracy theory in your mind, The Grassy Knoll fuses the technical terrorism of the Bomb Squad with the organic impact of Miles Davis’ Jack Johnson – industrial-strength beats vying with serpentine sax solos, ambient-noir atmospheres cloaking coiled aggression... Cut-and-paste style, it effectively blurs the line between Birdland and clubland.”
Beyond music, my creative work has extended into visual media. I served as Photo Editor for CMJ New Music Monthly Magazine (1999–2002) and worked as a Video Editor for Izotope Software, Down Under Horsemanship, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and Fragile, a short film that won the Short Corner: Cannes Film Festival Award.
Netherlands Soundscapes brings all of my influences into the present — combining music, visuals, and atmosphere into quiet, poetic snapshots of place and mood.
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Loved this one. The music drew me into the video and I love how you were able to catch those huge snowflakes. You made a city appear calm.
Gorgeous, hypnotic, and meditative. I feel like these should be hour-long loops that can be used instead of benzos.