Source: Tobias Fischer, Tokafi With the right set of ears, listening is anything but a passive process. Until he emerged as a recording artist under the Premonition Factory banner with last year’s 59 Airplanes waiting for New York, Antwerp-based Sjaak Overgaauw spent fifteen years...

Here’s a copy of an EM  article covering the concept of live looping and mentions Terry Riley, Brian Eno, Ian Boddy and Premonition Factory. Very nice to read! :) Source:  German Keyboards magazine, October ’11. Written by: Bernhard...

[Dutch] – Premonition Factory is het pseudoniem voor de Nederlandse muzikant Sjaak Overgaauw. De negen tracks op zijn tweede worp, de opvolger voor ‘59 Airplanes Waiting For New York’, zijn stuk voor stuk gebaseerd op live gespeelde improvisatie sessies. Overgaauw gebruikt de...

The Sense of Time may be expansive, but it’s not infinitely so. This is the sort of ambience that sounds as if it’s lapping up against the concrete walls of aircraft hangers rather than drifting into space without return, and I find myself reminded of Deep Listening (collaboration between...

Impresses as a contemporary update of classic ambient space cadence that manages to both lull and engage, to be serene, even blissful, without falling prey to the insipid tendencies of some of the recent jumpers on the No-Age and post-Kosmische synth bandwagon. [Release page] Sjaak...

Premonition Factory ist der in Antwerpen ansässige Niederländer Sjaak Overgaauw. Mit “The Sense Of Time” hat der Gründer des Antwerp Live Looping Festivals sein zweites Album veröffentlicht. Premontion Factory spielt auf “The Sense Of Time” mit den verschiedenen Gemütszuständen,...