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Sonic
12/20/2009 7:00 PM at Wouter Jaspers, Bas Verbeek, Bram Stadhouders, Yutaka Makino
Pyramid Atlantic, 8230 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
Cost: $8
WOUTER JASPERS (NL) Wouter Jaspers (b. 1986) is a experimental musician and writer from Tilburg, The Netherlands, who lives in Berlin, Germany. In 2008 he recorded his second album with Emil Nikolaisen from Serena Maneesh and Woven Hand, toured several times in Europe, Russia, the USA and even got invited to play festivals in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. His musical style consists of repetitive drone music, 60’s psychedelics combined with noise and experimental folk. (www.myspace.com/wouterjaspers)
BAS VERBEEK (NL) Former male model, journalist, artist avant la lettre and a comedian all combined in one person: Bas Verbeek (b. 1983). His musical performances are always different, but never boring. As part of the now legendary group The Jim Morrisons he became notorious for his in-your-face stage presence, which consisted of attacking the audience. No more time for being the pretty boy: it’s show time. (http://www.myspace.com/thedaytheblackmandied)
BRAM STADHOUDERS (NL) Bram Stadhouders (b. 1987) is a jazz guitarist and composer from Tilburg, The Netherlands, currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. Playing the guitar from age 6, he won several classical guitar competitions during his childhood years and got the chance to play with his rock and jazz groups on major Dutch festivals. His own talent, both in playing the guitar as in improvising music was recognised in 2008 when he was elected the most promising improvisation talent of The Netherlands, a very prestigious price for up and coming musicians. His music is very atmospheric, meandering in between free jazz, ambient and classical composed music. (http://www.myspace.com/bramstadhouders)
YUTAKA MAKINO Yutaka Makino is an artist and researcher currently based in Los Angeles. He seeks to amalgamate the historic precedents of computational composition and science, involving research in non-standard sound synthesis, spatial perception, collective behavior, complex dynamical systems and emergence. His works range from sculpture to sound works including computer music compositions and spatial sound installations, which utilize spatial projection processes such as Wave Field Synthesis.
His works have been recognized/performed at numerous festivals and competitions internationally. He has been awarded the Prix Ton Bruynèl 2007 and the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm 2010. He was in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Visby International Center for Composers, TU Berlin Electronic Music Studio and STEIM.
With the turntablist Takuro Mizuta Lippit alias dj sniff of STEIM, he frequently performs as Audile.
In 2009, he founded an independent computer music label, Strukto.
http://www.yutakamakino.com http://www.myspace.com/yutakamakino
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