BIOGRAPHY
Tamara van der Laarse is an Amsterdam-based music director, DJ, curator, and electronic music producer working across fashion, performance, and contemporary art.
Her practice focuses on music direction and sound design for live contexts, where sound operates as narrative structure, spatial composition, and emotional dramaturgy. She creates sonic environments for fashion shows, performances, installations, and moving image works in close collaboration with designers, choreographers, and artists.
With a background in audiovisual art and graphic design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, her approach is concept-driven and visually informed. Trained in classical music from an early age (piano and cello), she developed a strong foundation in composition and structure that continues to shape her electronic music practice.
In 2001 she began her career as a DJ within Amsterdam’s underground club and electronic music scene, performing in cultural and nightlife contexts. This experience formed the basis for her later transition into fashion and contemporary art environments.
Since 2005, she has developed The No, an ongoing conceptual electronic music project exploring identity, absence, and sound as artistic material.
Her practice expanded into fashion in 2010, beginning with assisting Salvador Breed in music research for shows for Iris van Herpen. This led to an ongoing trajectory in conceptual music direction for fashion shows and interdisciplinary performance works.
She collaborates with international fashion designers during fashion weeks, developing sound as an integral part of narrative and spatial design. Alongside her artistic practice, she has been involved in educational contexts, coaching graduationstudents at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in the development of fashion show presentations.
At the core of her practice is the creation of immersive sonic environments—temporary worlds where sound, performance, and visual culture intersect.