Great emotions also lie at the heart of the work of her colleague Joeri Woudstra, aka TORUS. The Hague-based musician and artist does not shy away from pathos and kitsch, accessibility or musical clichés; on the contrary, he filters emotional peaks out of pop songs, embeds them in atmospheric, hazy synths and creates effective, sentimental-metamodern tracks. Free of irony, Torus draws on pop culture and trance music, moving from individual feeling toward collective sentiment.