Senjan Jansen
Senjan jansen currently lives in Antwerp, where he works as composer and sound designer for film, theatre and in the fashion industry.
His work alternates between sound design and film scoring, DJ performances, theatre and fashion runway shows.
As a sound designer, Jansen has a long working relationship with left field film directors such as Fien Troch, Felix Van Groeningen en Pieter Van Hees, providing the sound design for movies such as Anyway the wind blows (2003), Someone else's happiness (2005), With friends like these (2007), Left Bank (2008), Unspoken (2008), Dirty Mind (2009) and Bo (2010) among others.
By 2003 he started composing for theatre. Maison Fragile, a collaboration with Toneelhuis directors Abke Haring and Bart Meuleman , was to be the first of a series of collaborations with renowned directors such as Peter Missotten (De Filmfabriek) and Jan Lauwers (Needcompany).
Together with Joris Vermeiren Jansen forms Discodesafinado; under their label they produce minimal techno that symbiotically touches experimental electronics. Under the same name they also organised a series of concerts with line-ups containing Thomas Brinkmann, Pan Sonic, Pole, Vladislav Delay, Dettinger…
In 2008 his work as a composer for Fashion shows, such as Bruno Pieters, Haider Ackermann, Christian Wijnants, Dries van Noten and Hugo Boss also led to a cooperation with Flanders Fashion Institute on the annual fashion event “Vitrine.” He was appointed as curator of the 2008 edition “Vitrine: Music/Sound,” which focussed on installations of several designers such as A.F. Vandevorst, Alex Salinas, Hannelore Knuts, Nicolas Provost, Walter Verdin…