JAAP BLONK

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Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Holland) 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. 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 animation and poetry.

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JAAP BLONK Liederen Uit De Hemel album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Liederen Uit De Hemel
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1993
JAAP BLONK Flux De Bouche album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Flux De Bouche
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1993
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk, Jan Nijdam & Bart Van Der Putten : Improvisors album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk, Jan Nijdam & Bart Van Der Putten : Improvisors
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1996
JAAP BLONK Splinks album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Splinks
Avant-Garde Jazz 1997
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Michael Zerang ‎: First Meetings album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Michael Zerang ‎: First Meetings
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1998
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk & Bart Van Der Putten & Paul Pallesen ‎: Off Shore album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk & Bart Van Der Putten & Paul Pallesen ‎: Off Shore
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2004
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk & Cor Fuhler ‎: Pre-Zoic Cellways album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk & Cor Fuhler ‎: Pre-Zoic Cellways
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2005
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk & Dylan Nyoukis ‎: Dubbletwee album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk & Dylan Nyoukis ‎: Dubbletwee
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2008
JAAP BLONK Traces Of Speech / Sprachspuren album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Traces Of Speech / Sprachspuren
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2012
JAAP BLONK Keynote Dialogues album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Keynote Dialogues
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2012
JAAP BLONK Songs Of Little Sleep album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Songs Of Little Sleep
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2013
JAAP BLONK Polyphtong album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Polyphtong
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2013
JAAP BLONK Lifespans album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lifespans
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2013
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk, Damon Smith, Sandy Ewen, Chris Cogburn ‎: North Of Blanco album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk, Damon Smith, Sandy Ewen, Chris Cogburn ‎: North Of Blanco
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2014
JAAP BLONK August Ananke - Eight Meditations on Just Intonations album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
August Ananke - Eight Meditations on Just Intonations
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2014
JAAP BLONK Irrelevant Comments album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Irrelevant Comments
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2017
JAAP BLONK De Grote Grebbegraai album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
De Grote Grebbegraai
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2017
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk / Terrie Ex : Thirsty Ears album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk / Terrie Ex : Thirsty Ears
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2018
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk's Retirement Overdue : New Start album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk's Retirement Overdue : New Start
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
JAAP BLONK Antonin Artaud : To Have Done With the Judgment of God album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Antonin Artaud : To Have Done With the Judgment of God
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk & Mama Baer: Ger​ä​usche album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk & Mama Baer: Ger​ä​usche
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
JAAP BLONK Antonin Artaud album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Antonin Artaud
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk / Damon Smith / Ra Kalam Bob Moses : Rune Kitchen album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk / Damon Smith / Ra Kalam Bob Moses : Rune Kitchen
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2023

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JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk, Mats Gustafsson & Michael Zerang : Improvisors album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk, Mats Gustafsson & Michael Zerang : Improvisors
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1996
JAAP BLONK Vocalor album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Vocalor
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1998
JAAP BLONK Reverof Zrem : Ursonate album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Reverof Zrem : Ursonate
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1999
JAAP BLONK Averschuw album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Averschuw
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2001
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk & Koichi Makigami & Paul Dutton & Phil Minton & David Moss ‎: Five Men Singing album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk & Koichi Makigami & Paul Dutton & Phil Minton & David Moss ‎: Five Men Singing
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2004
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk, Ingar Zach & Ivar Grydeland ‎: Improvisors album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk, Ingar Zach & Ivar Grydeland ‎: Improvisors
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2004
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk & Machinefabriek ‎: Deep Fried album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk & Machinefabriek ‎: Deep Fried
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2012
JAAP BLONK Blonk, Jaap / Damon Smith - Hugo Ball: Sechs Laut- Und Klanggedichte 1916 (Six Sound Poems, 1916) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blonk, Jaap / Damon Smith - Hugo Ball: Sechs Laut- Und Klanggedichte 1916 (Six Sound Poems, 1916)
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2014
JAAP BLONK Songs of Little Sleep album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Songs of Little Sleep
Avant-Garde Jazz 2014
JAAP BLONK Jaap Blonk / Lou Mallozzi / Ken Vandermark : Improvisers album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jaap Blonk / Lou Mallozzi / Ken Vandermark : Improvisers
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
JAAP BLONK Six sound Poems 1916 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Six sound Poems 1916
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2021

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JAAP BLONK The Splinks And BRAAXTAAL Recordings | 1993 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Splinks And BRAAXTAAL Recordings | 1993
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2011
JAAP BLONK Klinkt album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Klinkt
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2013

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