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Jaap Blonk (born 1953,
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Jaap Blonk (born 1953, Woerden
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) is a Dutch avant-garde
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composer and performance art
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ist.
Blonk is primarily self-taught both as a sound artist and as a visual/stage performer.Jaap Blonk
Jaap Blonk (born 1953, Woerden) is a Dutch avant-garde composer and performance artist.
Blonk is primarily self-taught both as a sound artist and as a visual/stage performer. Jaap Blonkat Allmusic He studied physics, mathematics, and musicology f ...
at Allmusic
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He studied physics
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, mathematics
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, and musicology
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for a time, but did not complete his studies.Jaap BlonkBBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
...Kurt Schwitters
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Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, pain ...
, whose ''Ursonate'' he first heard in 1979; he memorized the entire work, and it became one of the cornerstones of his repertory; he has recited portions of the piece hundreds of times in various public places. His compositions and performances are examples of sound poetry
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, making use of words and phonetic
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snippets as well as clicks, hisses, and other vocal manipulations. He works as a solo performer, in collaboration with avant-garde music
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ians such as John Tchicai
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Biography
Tchicai was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to a Danish mother and a Congolese father. The family moved to Aarhus, where he st ...
, Tristan Honsiger, and Mats Gustafsson
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Career
Gustafsson came to the attention of lovers of improvised music as part of a duo with Christian Munthe (started in 1986), as member of Gunter Chri ...
, and with his own ensembles Splinks and BRAAXTAAL. His live performances involve humor and improvisation, and are occasionally received poorly by audiences, as when he was booked as an opener for punk rock band The Stranglers
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early in the 1980s.. ''
Ottawa XPress
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The paper was launched in April 1993 by Jim Creskey and Ross Dickson, who both also founded ''The Hill Times''. Its origina ...
'', June 5, 2008.Discography
*''Baba-Oemf'' (1989) *''BRAAXTAAL'' (1991) *''Splinks'' (1992) *''Flux - De Bouche'' (1992) *''Improvisors'' (1996) *''Improvisors Vol. 2'' (1996) *''Speechlos'' (1997) *''Vocalor'' (1998) *''Consensus'' (1998) *''First Meetings'' (1999) *''Averschuw'' (2001) *''Dworr Buun'' (2001) *''Electric Solo Improvisations'' (2001) *''Improvisors, Vol. 3'' (2003) *''Five Men Singing'' (2004) *''Pre-Zoic Cellways'' (2005) *''Sprachspuren/Traces of Speech'' (2012) *''Das Kapital'' (2017) withKommissar Hjuler Kommissar Hjuler (born Detlev Hjuler; 1967) works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist, film maker and police officer at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. He often works together wit ...
& J. O. Olbrich
*''Geräusche'' (2020) with Mama Baer Mama Baer (born Andrea Katharina Ingeborg Göthling; 29 October 1981) is a German sound recordist of noise music and post-industrial music. She is a filmmaker and visual artist at Flensburg. She has had solo and group art exhibitions around the wo ...
*'' Antonin Artaud's To Have Done With the Judgment of God'' (2020)
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