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"Jaap kent verdorie de gehele Ursonate van Schwitters uit zijn hoofd." 1986 Sint Joost Breda. Ik was oprecht verbaasd en hing ademloos aan z'n lippen in de aula van het oude gebouw in de binnenstad. 38 jaar later treedt Jaap op in Koffie & Ambacht. En nog steeds RAKKETA BEe BEE. Wellicht, T'is in ieder geval geschiedenis wat zich presenteert, donderdag 13 juni 2024, aan de Ebenhaezerstraat. Een fijn concert ism stichting KLANGENDUM
Jaap Blonk and Richard Scott
Jaap – voice
Richard – modular synthesiser
Jaap and Richard have performed together over the last few years in a
variety of contexts, most often as a duo. Voice and electronics here
share a surprising amount in common. Jaap self-processing as if he was
a broken sampler and Richard’s modular synthesiser creating an
impressive array of vocaloid and percussive events, which come
together as if two aliens were attempting to discuss something quite
important but which turns out to be quite amusing.
Richard Scott Over the past two decades he has been working intensely
with a variety of technologies, methods and musical forms. In recent
years he has concentrated his energies on creative composition,
improvisation and production, with a particular emphasis on analogue
modular synthesisers; including those remarkable instruments created
by Don Buchla, EMS, Serge Tcherepnin, Émilie Gillet and Rob Hordijk.
Richard has performed widely with many groups, as a soloist, and
recently with visual artists and with a 23-piece choir and a symphony
orchestra. He has curated concerts, several festivals, and helped
found and curate multiple concert series in Berlin. He has released a
handful of out-of-the-ordinary albums as a solo composer and
performer, and many more recordings and performances with a slew of
remarkable collaborators, including; Axel Doerner, Ute Wasserman,
Richard Barrett, Audrey Chen, Nicolas Collins, Phil Minton, Shelley
Hirsch, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Evan Parker, Sidsel Endresen, David
Sylvian, Clive Bell, David Ross and Thomas Lehn.
Richard is recognised as one of the first wave of composer-performers
who helped set the scene for the recent resurgence of interest in
analogue modular synthesis. In 2011 he started a concert series Basic
Electricity with Navs (and later with Hainbach) in Berlin, one of the
first regular modular synthesiser nights dedicated to international
live performers. He instigated two editions of the Sines and Square
festival in Manchester, dedicated to analogue and modular synthesis,
and edited a related edition of the online journal eContact!. Since
then, he has been performing regularly with his suitcase modular and
Hordijk instruments, both solo and with many great musicians on
Berlin's fertile improvised, electroacoustic and experimental music
scenes.
Jaap Blonk is a self-taught composer, performer and poet.
He went to university for mathematics and musicology but did not
finish those studies.
In the late 1970s he took up saxophone and started to compose music.
A few years later he discovered his potential as a vocal performer, at
first in reciting poetry and later on in improvisations and his own
compositions. For almost two decades the voice was his main means for
the discovery and development of new sounds.
From around the year 2000 on Blonk started work with electronics, at
first using samples of his own voice, then extending the field to
include pure sound synthesis as well as work with analog synthesizers.
He took a year off of performing in 2006. As a result, his renewed
interest in mathematics made him start a research of the possibilities
of algorithmic composition for the creation of music, visual work and
poetry.
As a vocalist, Jaap Blonk is unique for his powerful stage presence
and almost childlike freedom in improvisation, combined with a keen
grasp of structure. He has performed around the world, on all
continents. With the use of live electronics and interactive visuals
the scope and range of his concerts has acquired a considerable
extension.
Besides working as a soloist, he collaborated with many musicians and
ensembles in the field of contemporary and improvised music, like Maja
Ratkje, Mats Gustafsson, Joan La Barbara, The Ex, the Netherlands Wind
Ensemble and the Ebony Band. He premiered several compositions by the
German composer Carola Bauckholt, including a piece for voice and
orchestra. A solo voice piece was commissioned by the Donaueschinger
Musiktage. On several occasions he collaborated with visual computer
artist Golan Levin, for the Ars Electronica Festival.
Blonk's work for radio and television includes several commissioned radio plays.
He also makes larger-scale drawings of his scores, as well as visual
poetry, which is being exhibited.
He has his own record label, Kontrans, featuring a total of 29
releases so far. Other Blonk recordings appeared on various labels,
such as Staalplaat, Basta, VICTO, Ecstatic Peace, Monotype Records,
Terp and Relative Pitch.
Several books with his visual work were published by Hybriden-Verlag,
Berlin, each one with a CD and an original drawing. Other books came
out at Simulacrum Press and Xexoxial.
A comprehensive collection of his sound poetry appeared as a book with
2 CDs in 2013, entitled "KLINKT".
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ebenhaezerstraat 52a, 3083RP Rotterdam, Netherlands, Ebenhaëzerstraat 52A, 3083 RP Rotterdam, Nederland,Rotterdam, Netherlands
