gert-jan prins

sound artist
 "You can control it more easily. I like to work with
something that is a little bit unstable and out of control.”
 I started by taking a portable
household radio and putting small homemade transmitters directly onto the
speaker cones," says Prins,
explaining the evolution of his system."If you put too much signal into the
transmitter it feeds back".
 he was invited to create a group composition for Quartetto New Amsterdam.
"The piece came out like electronically distorted chamber music,"he remembers,"and that
was the beginning
of a new period". The electronics gave me more developed sound possibilities. Some
people liked it, others said,
'Why don't you play percussion, what is that shit?'
Prins suggests his work is closest to the no-input mixing
desk system used as a
performance instrument by Toshimaru Nakamura, Jeff
Carey and Marco Ciciliani, since his radios can also form
feedback loops with his mixing desk.
 Meanwhile, Prins was slowly establishing Prins is a trained percussionist. His first serious
himself as a creative force in and around group was Gorgonzola Legs, an industrial-free
Amsterdam. His first solo album, Noise Capture jazz outfit that released one CD, Piscatorial

bio/info
Debris, in 1988. Four years later, he founded wit
(1998), went largely unnoticed, but an invitation saxophonist Luc Houtkamp the record label X-
to join the trans-European ensemble MIMEO OR. The two performed extensively as a duo
gave his career a boost and allowed him to (documented on Houtkamp's The Duo
develop his art further. In the course of the next Recordings) and in various groupings that have
three years, he radicalized his approach to included such important names of the European
music. The critical acclaim of MIMEO's Electric free improv scene as Johannes Bauer, Misha
Mengelberg, and Fred Van Hove. Many albums
Chair + Table for Grob in 2000 led to his
born 1961, ijmuiden, the netherlands: electronics, second solo album being released by this
featuring Prins came out on X-OR during the
1990s, but relations between the owners
percussion. highly regarded label. The first CD from his duo deteriorated and in 2001 he officially left the
with pianist Cor Fuhler, The Flirts, was released label.
gert-jan prins focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of
the following year on the American label
electronic noise and percussion and investigates its Erstwhile. Another semi-regular project is the
trio E-RAX with Peter Van Bergen and Thomas
relationship with the visual. Lehn. Experimental electronica star Christian
while he started his career as a drummer, his works include
Fennesz replaced the later for a concert at the
Total Music Meeting in 2000, a session released
performances, sound-installations, compositions, as Dawn two years later.
electronic circuits and collaborations with other
musicians, visual artists, composers, and dancers.
besides his long-term collaboration with video artist bas van
koolwijk, with whom he designed the synchronator and the
mole-rat,
current projects include: black smoking mirror with martijn van boven, a new group
with drummer balász pándi and peter van bergen,
several collaborations with de player rotterdam, the synchronator orchestra.
he has collaborated with pita, thomas lehn, lee ranaldo, cor fuhler, keith rowe, tomas
korber, fennesz,
jérôme noetinger, peter van bergen, domenico sciajno, marcus schmickler, mats
gustafsson, alan courtis, thomas ankersmit,
koen nutters, raed yassin, sharif sehnaoui, dirar kalash, giuseppe ielasi,carlos giffoni,
luc houtkamp, misha mengelberg,
anne la berge, david dramm, fred van hove and many others.
with audio / visual artists: martijn van boven, peter fengler, dennis de bel, bas van
koolwijk, gijs gieskes, greg pope, tina frank,
billy roisz, rob flint, xavier quérel, manel esparbé i gasca, petra dolleman, martha colburn,
cyrus frisch.
he is a longtime member of m.i.m.e.o. (the 12-piece movement in music electronic
orchestra).
performances, on international festivals & clubs throughout europe, north america, south-
africa, russia, central asia, australia.
 selected performances

• http://www.gjp.info/history.html

• https://synchronator.com/

• https://www.noizumashin.com/

• http://www.gjp.info/installations.html

• http://verticalcinema.org/film_filmmakers/
walzkorpersperre/
 live in Replica
he owes his reputation as a live improviser
more than anything else to his unusual gear.
Prins has developed an electronic setup
that includes radios and televisions. He
transforms signals; modulates FM airwaves;
and extracts clicks, cuts, and noise out of
airborne transmissions to create harsh but
spacious textures.

• https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=4-ER4ln4Yro

• Replica 2007: Gert-Jan Prins

 Raponjse

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=p7X1gamq1ys
• Album: Escaping from Color - Rapoon Recomposed and Remixed (2006) Label: Quasi Pop
Records (Ukraine)
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=gPsocRzxQJ0&list=PLy6lpXP8wP2og0I-
RiqO2Soj__6labiyc&index=2
• sub 8 · Huba de Graaff · Robert van Heumen · Roderik de Man · Anne La Berge · Thomas
Ankersmit · Kees Tazelaar · Gert-Jan Prins · Justin Bennett · Marko Ciciliani · René
UijlenhoetAnthology of Dutch Electronic Music (1999-2010) ℗ 2011 Basta Audio-Visuals
 voltageSpa
Bidirectional
performance involving
the sonic and musical
qualities of electronic
music and percussion
and the human body as
a conductive matter
and amplifying mirror.
VoltageSpa involves
sonic and musical
qualities of electronic
music and percussion
and the human body as
a conductive matter
and amplifying mirror.
With time these
premisses evolve into a
performative voyage
through mental and
physical
conceptions of sound
and space. Bodies,
human and those of the
objects in the
room, charge with a
voltage created by
methods of suspension,
deep listening,
containment of inner
tensions, controlled
madness and mutual
juxtaposition.