Kapotte Muziek
Encyclopedia
Kapotte Muziek is the musical improvisation
project of Frans de Waard, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. Active since 1984, it is one of the most internationally visible improvisation and experimental project hailing from the Netherlands
. The group began as the solo noise music
project of Frans de Waard, who published more than fifty cassettes and several LPs using this name. Duimelinks joined to make it a duo for Kapotte Muziek's first US tour, then Roel Meelkop was added later. The trio toured the US once, playing as both Kapotte Muziek and as Goem, their techno music alter ego. Currently, all Kapotte Muziek music is recorded live by the trio, while de Waard's solo work is published using a variety of aliases, such as Quest, Shifts, and Freiband.
Here is a list of the artists involved :
share the same members. In Dutch, Kapotte Muziek means broken music.
Musical improvisation
Musical improvisation is the creative activity of immediate musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians...
project of Frans de Waard, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. Active since 1984, it is one of the most internationally visible improvisation and experimental project hailing from the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
. The group began as the solo noise music
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
project of Frans de Waard, who published more than fifty cassettes and several LPs using this name. Duimelinks joined to make it a duo for Kapotte Muziek's first US tour, then Roel Meelkop was added later. The trio toured the US once, playing as both Kapotte Muziek and as Goem, their techno music alter ego. Currently, all Kapotte Muziek music is recorded live by the trio, while de Waard's solo work is published using a variety of aliases, such as Quest, Shifts, and Freiband.
Kapotte Muziek Archives
Since october 2009, and on the occasion of Kapotte Muziek's 25th birthday, Frans de Waard is putting online archival material from Kapotte Muziek on his blogKapotte Muziek by..
Several artists have been reworking pieces or live documents by Kapotte Muziek into a serie of new pieces generically called Kapotte Muziek by.Here is a list of the artists involved :
- (1) RLWRLWRLW is the abbreviation for two different rugby league magazines, one in the UK and the other in Australia:* Rugby League Week, an Australian publication* Rugby League World, a British publication...
( 7", 1997, Korm Plastics ) - (2) Illusion of Safety ( 7", 1997, Korm Plastics )
- (3) Lasse MarhaugLasse MarhaugLasse Marhaug is a Norwegian musician who primarily works in the field of noise music but frequently drifts into other areas such as improvisation, jazz, rock and extreme metal. Marhaug has also been involved in creating music for theatre, dance, art installations and video art...
( 7", 1998, Korm Plastics ) - (4) Leif ElggrenLeif ElggrenLeif Elggren , is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm.Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of audio and visual...
( 7", 1998, Korm Plastics ) - (5) DMDN ( not released )
- (6) Radboud Mens ( 7", 1998, Korm Plastics )
- (7) Wiklund / Stavöstrand ( 7", 1999, Korm Plastics )
- (8) Asmus TietchensAsmus TietchensAsmus Tietchens , who also records under the monikers Hematic Sunsets and Club of Rome, is a German composer of avant-garde music....
( 7", 2000, Korm Plastics ) - (9) TroumTroumTroum is a German project of drone music, ambient music, noise music, and experimental music. It was founded in the late 1990s by Stefan Knappe and Martin Gitschel . It is sometimes considered to be the follow-up project to Maeror Tri...
( 7", 2001, Korm Plastics ) - (10) Stephan MathieuStephan MathieuStephan Mathieu is a German musician and sound artist whose work is based on digital and analog processing techniques. He lives and works in Saarbrücken, Germany.-About:...
( CD-EP, 2003, Korm Plastics ) - (11) Toshiya Tsunoda ( CD, 2004, Korm Plastics )
- (12) Thurston MooreThurston MooreThurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
( CD, 2004, Korm Plastics ) - (13) Richard ChartierRichard ChartierRichard Chartier is a sound/installation artist and graphic designer. Chartier is works in reductionist microsound electronic music, a form of extreme minimalism in which the music is sometimes very quiet, sometimes very sparse, often both.-About:Since 1998, Chartier has created recordings for...
/ Boca Raton ( CD, 2005, Korm Plastics ) - (14) Peter RehbergPeter RehbergPeter Rehberg is an author of electronic audio works.He has collaborated with: Jim O'Rourke, Christian Fennesz, Dennis Cooper, Gisèle Vienne, Stephen O'Malley , Tina Frank, Matmos, Tujiko Noriko, Kevin Drumm, Marcus Schmickler, Michaela Schwentner , Matt "Skitz" Sanders, Russell Haswell, Florian...
( CD-EP, 2006, Korm Plastics ) - Freiband ( CD-R Business card, 2007, Moll )
- Five Elements Music ( CD-R, 2008, Moving Furniture Records )
Trivia
Kapotte Muziek and GoemGoem
Goem is the electronic music project of Frans de Waard, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. Active since 1996, it is one of the most internationally visible project hailing from the Netherlands. They have released about twenty CDs and vinyls on various labels from Europe and North...
share the same members. In Dutch, Kapotte Muziek means broken music.