Olivier Schreuder

Composer, performer, DJ, label CEO

Olivier Schreuder composes & produces electronic and acoustic music.
His work ranges from contemporary electroacoustic compositions and orchestral works to dub-infused outernational dance music.
As a performer he often uses a mix of digital and analog (modular) synthesizers, turntables and Southeast Asian instruments.
Furthermore he performs with bespoke electroacoustic instruments, to explore new textures and expressive possibilities.
He is especially interested in how traditional cultures and new technologies meet, and often works together with musicians from these cultures to make new music together.
He is most well-known as leader of Thai-Lao-Dutch group Apichat Pakwan.

Under his alias Lucid Voyages he designs electroacoustic ecosystems with his modular synthesizer, centered around fieldrecordings he made in Southeast Asia.
From this project his collaboration with Dutch flutist-composer Han Litz evolved. Together they record the album 'Off-Grid' in 2024.

As Hiss Sound he produces outernational electronic music, of which the album 'Taraf' is the first artefact.
In 2024 Hiss Sound debuts live on the Amsterdam Dance Event.

Olivier Schreuder studied Musictechnology at the HKU (University of the Arts Utrecht) in the Netherlands where he graduated with a MA with honors in 2013.
His graduation project was nominated for the HKU Award 2013 as most innovative and enterprising sound design project, and got selected for the Hot 100 as one of the most talented graduates of 2013 in e-culture.

His compositions have been performed on the Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Utrecht, NL), ICMC, TodaysArt Festival (The Hague, NL), the Đương Đại Contemporary Music Festival (Saigon, Vietnam), Lasalle University of the Arts & School of the Arts in Singapore, the Isan Creative Festival in Khon Kaen and the Jai Thep Festival in Chiang Mai (Thailand) amongst others. The music he composed for Apichat Pakwan also made its way to exhibtions like 'Re-Connect. Art and Conflict in Brotherland' in the MdbK museum in Leipzig, 'In Nobody's Service' at Galerie Wedding in Berlin, and into Mike White's TV serie The White Lotus on HBO in 2025 (Ep.8 S3).

Olivier Schreuder's musical foundation is in playing the piano, saxophone and jazz. In his teenage years he played the alto saxophone in Dutch ska-band the Tiny Tones, with whom he toured throughout the Netherlands.
His interest shifted somewhat to turntablism in this time, and a collaboration with Tiny Tones saxophonist Roeland Hollander followed with the foundation of hiphop-jazz ensemble HSS, which later changed to Djazz, in 1998.

As DJ Phaze he has played in many clubs and festivals in and around the Netherlands.
His mixtape-series Present Revival of Futuristic Classics features local rap heroes like Osdorp Posse's Def P & Oscar X. With MC Oscar X and producer Werner Urban he releases an EP called Hollands Licht and performs live around the Netherlands with a classic DJ-MC live show.

Starting out as a turntablist and organizer with roots in hiphopculture, he also organizes many events in and around the Netherlands like the legendary Hiphopcafe 4 Elementz in Amsterdam, and a tribute to John Coltrane for the Kindred Spirits recordlabel.

As a composer, sound designer and performer he is part of several (live) music projects.
Currently these include Thai-Dutch collective Apichat Pakwan, Hiss Sound and The Lucid Voyages.

With Apichat Pakwan he regularly tours in Southeast Asia & Europe, with highlights playing shows at WOMEX in Portugal, the Amsterdam Roots Festival, Fusion Festival (Germany), World Experience Festival (Romania), Na Fir Bolg Festival (Belgium), Thailand Grand Festival in The Hague (NL), Isan Creative Festival in Khon Kaen, the Jim Thompson's Molam Bus Stage at the Jai Thep Festival in Chiang Mai (Thailand).

Love for vinyl, Southeast Asian music and electronics lay the foundation for his own recordlabel Animist Records he starts in 2016.