Polymer is Daniel Maalman, a producer, DJ and sound artist from The Netherlands, obsessed with sound in the broadest sense. From a young age Daniel was tinkering with computers and disassembling devices around the house to look how they worked. From the age of thirteen he started making electronic music with computers and tapedecks. Later, in art academy, his passion for sound evolved into building large installations, merging technology and sound, showing his sound obsession in an art context.
Since many years Daniel moves back and forth between the world of electronic music, playing his music productions in parties and festivals as Polymer, and the world of sound art, exhibiting his creations as art installations. Performances together with visual artists and other performers has resulted in the audiovisual concept of The Polymer Experience, a liveshow where Polymers music is presented with an immersive visual show.
In the last years he has created collaborative ‘exhibition concerts’, with his project Foundscape Orchestra, where he makes musical compositions using industrial buildings, materials and objects as a sound source. These two worlds in which Daniels projects exist, sometimes collide and overlap, and sometimes run parallel to each other, but they always feed and inspire one another.
Through his projects, Daniel wants to immerse the audience in a world of sound, where they can catch a glimpse of another world outside the mundane, and inspire them to playfully explore their inner universe.
Over the years Daniels musical mission as Polymer became to distill his broad taste in music into one elixir that can be used to turn any dance floor into a festive multiverse. Genres such as organic house, dub, techno, psychedelic techno, ambient and world music are stirred together into a big genre defying stew that is always brewing and evolving.