Karst van Oosten 
       -  Guitarist, Composer, Music Technologist

Karst van Oosten is an Amsterdam based guitarist and composer with nearly 17 years of field experience working with various musical styles and genres.

Soon after Karst first picked up the guitar at around age 16, he found out all he wanted to do was rock, and dropped out of school to focus on his music. After gaining experience playing in various bands, and learning about music theory from Raise the Roof guitarist Sander Hop, he attended the Utrecht School of Arts at age 21, where he majored in Music Composition. On the side he learned about music technology, recording, and music production.

As a Guitarist Karst participated in projects ranging from funk, rock, grunge, metal, punk and electronical music, to classical music and jazz. Some of the bands and projects Karst participated in so far are: Punk-Jazz-Metal Ensemble 'Tsja...' (with Moke bassplayer Marcin Felis on Drums), The Phonetics feat. ex-urban dance squad's DJ DNA, Boy Edgar Prize winner Alan Laurillard's In Da Da pocket (avantgarde, jazz, funk), Live Hiphop project Skizm (with Boemklatsch's Mc.Atactic), Danarama (singer-songwriter meets beats), Lupo (retro pop/rock), Live Soundscape Project with Michiel Bertens & Mark Nieuwenhuis, and Skiff (singer-songwriter). Also in 2010 Karst contributed guitar parts to Roy Avni feat. Mason's release 'Horz'.

As a Composer of music for media productions Karst delivered music for (short)film, documentaries, corporate film, and other media productions, such as: Parels en Zwijnen (TV series), Avro's Ziezo (children's program), World press Photo (documentary), and composed music for commercials and corporates for a.o. General Electrics, Volkskrant Banen, Akzo Nobel and Kennisnet. In 2011 Karst composed a short piece of music that was used in Tape, a dutch feature film by Diederik van Rooyen featuring Barry Atsma and Susan Visser.

As a Music Technologist and Producer Karst recorded, mixed and produced most of his compositions for media productions, and also contributed to recordings of a few independed releases for bands and acts such as: Pony Camp (post-rock), In Da Da Pocket (jazz-funk), Lupo (pop-rock), Danarama (singer-songwriter meets beats), Michael Beard's Trendy 3D Junk (live @ sju jazzpodium), Subbacultcha (rock), Norman Kapoyos (funk-soul), and Dodewaard (emo core).