Lux In Wonderland
May 28, 2011 Leave a comment
Oddstream
May 16, 2011 Leave a comment
Oddstream is the name of big local event here in Nijmegen where I’ll be playing two, hopefully, special concerts. On Saturday June 4th the very last concert as Zèbra. An American band named Zebra doesn’t like other bands to use that name, and hunt them down and smoke ‘m out of their caves. They own the trademark to that name for entertainment purposes since 1974. As obviously you know Zèbra contracts Wibra and Zeeman. From the letters we didn’t use from those names to make up Zèbra we created a new name, Wieman. Meeuw supplied us with a fine logo. Expect some highlights from the excellent Zèbra career. We play from 17:00-18:00.
The next day I play solo as Freiband. I realize I am not using that name a lot for concerts, since they are strictly laptop based, and that’s not something I do since about one and half year. The current concerts also involve radio, walkman, contact microphones and laptop, and go by my own name. But for this occasion I will present a laptop concert and most likely will play something from my Freiband LP which is due out on ini.itu anytime soon. Perhaps I have copies of them on the 5th. For a while I thought to no longer use that name, but I still do strict computer based compositions as Freiband, so I stick to it. Apart from the ini.itu LP there will be a 3″CDR by Freiband on Kaon soon. There you go.
Lecture & Leisure Tour
April 23, 2011 Leave a comment
Wouter Jaspers and me will be presenting a bunch of workshops in The Netherlands, some with additional concerts:
May 10th 2011
STEIM – Amsterdam (NL)
Masterclass together with Frans de Waard
May 11th 2011
St. Joost Art Academy – ‘s Hertogenbosch (NL)
Masterclass together with Frans de Waard
May 12th 2011
Etalage 3e Wal – Nijmegen (NL)
Masterclass together with Frans de Waard
May 13th 2011 (afternoon)
TBA – Arnhem (NL)
Masterclass together with Frans de Waard
May 13th 2011
Bosch Acousmatic – Arnhem (NL)
Solo live performance by Wouter Jaspers
May 14th 2011 (afternoon)
Worm – Rotterdam (NL) (actual location is at Theater Grrr)
Masterclass together with Frans de Waard
May 14th 2011
Theater Grrr – Rotterdam (NL)
Live performance together with Frans de Waard (Ezdanitoff)
Odd movie
April 19, 2011 Leave a comment
An odd movie showed up on youtube, found by Peter Duimelinks:
Two things
April 5, 2011 Leave a comment
First of all, this Friday there will be a solo concert by me, and a solo by Roel and a Kapotte Muziek concert at Bosch in Arnhem. Check this
I just received some copies of the Tobacconists ‘Ocean Drama’, the long version. Its released by Songs From The Floorboards, a more than excellent side division by Intransitive Recordings. They look damn fine professional, and Karla Borecky did a great job on the cover. There has been a manufacturing error, which means that the copies I now have contain audio data and not music. Fine to play in a computer. Extended info here
Scott and me are now working on a radio play ‘Smoking Is Green’, with lots of previous music work mixed with spoken word and even songs. Its for Dutch radio 6.
Penus Rectus
March 31, 2011 Leave a comment
This is the title of three 90 minute cassette release from the 90s put out by my old friend Peter Zincken. Kapotte Muziek has a track on there. Its now re-released, partly on CD and 7″. Oddly enough the 7″ has a tracklist, but not the CD. Kapotte Muziek is track 8. I asked for tracklist from the label but no reply. Odd. If you like harsh noise, this the place. I have some for sale.
New Cassette
March 1, 2011 Leave a comment
Today I got, finally, my copies of a cassette release, a split with Carlos Villena. He runs the label that released it, Mantricum. Late 2009 he approached to do some collaborative work and I work quickly on a piece based on his radio sounds. The idea was that it was it was to be a CD in an edition of 200 copies. I think the Freiband work, all computer based, fits best on CD or CDR. It was to be out soon (February last year). But it didn’t happen. In November it was still announced as a CD, so much to my unpleasant surprise, it became a cassette. I probably whined too much as Villena announces also a CD version of it, in an edition of 100. I have some for sale.
Frans de Waard 