Gerard van Dongen/Gilcher passed away on Friday the 4th of March, after a brave battle with colon cancer. Gerard worked as a composer, musician and computer programmer in Rotterdam as well as played live with many improvisational and electronic musicians in the Netherlands including Bart Maris, Tom Wouters, Joe Williamson, Henk Bakker, Peter van Bergen and Ann LaBerge. He performed solo-concerts with electronics and/or piano compositions and played for numerous dance and theatre productions, produced radio-plays for the internet, and was a technical designer and software programmer for multimedia theater. Gerard was also an active member of the Pure Data and Linux Audio Developers communities, and contributed code for the user interface of the Ardour project.
Gerard kept a very positive outlook throughout his illness, and he will certainly be missed.
Marie Louise Gilcher has organized a memorial service for Thursday, 9 March at the "Crooswijk" Cemetery in Rotterdam.
sincere condolences from me to his wife and all who are concerned.
it hurts to see that the good ones pass away so early in their life.
chris
Am Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 05:56 schrieb derek holzer:
Gerard van Dongen/Gilcher passed away on Friday the 4th of March, after a brave battle with colon cancer. Gerard worked as a composer, musician and computer programmer in Rotterdam as well as played live with many improvisational and electronic musicians in the Netherlands including Bart Maris, Tom Wouters, Joe Williamson, Henk Bakker, Peter van Bergen and Ann LaBerge. He performed solo-concerts with electronics and/or piano compositions and played for numerous dance and theatre productions, produced radio-plays for the internet, and was a technical designer and software programmer for multimedia theater. Gerard was also an active member of the Pure Data and Linux Audio Developers communities, and contributed code for the user interface of the Ardour project.
Gerard kept a very positive outlook throughout his illness, and he will certainly be missed.
Marie Louise Gilcher has organized a memorial service for Thursday, 9 March at the "Crooswijk" Cemetery in Rotterdam.
I only met Gerard during last year's Linux Audio conference. I approached him after his first performance with my german-accent-ridden English and we had a first long conversation in English.
Later that evening I met him again at the bar where this tall man was talking to someone I don't remember - and he spoke in perfect German!
He was just too kind and too friendly to tell me immediatly that he knew German much better than I know English and that we could just as well switch languages to the one, his wife grew up with.
The next evening he rocked the house with his feedback joystick.
His passing is a huge loss.
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
That is indeed hard news. I only had the pleasure of working with
him from a far. His force feedback work was one of the key elements
which lead me to the [hid] toolkit stuff...
He will indeed be missed...
.hc
On Mar 8, 2006, at 4:52 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I only met Gerard during last year's Linux Audio conference. I approached him after his first performance with my german-accent-ridden English and we had a first long conversation in English.
Later that evening I met him again at the bar where this tall man was talking to someone I don't remember - and he spoke in perfect German!
He was just too kind and too friendly to tell me immediatly that he knew German much better than I know English and that we could just as well switch languages to the one, his wife grew up with.
The next evening he rocked the house with his feedback joystick.
His passing is a huge loss.
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
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