Gert-Jan Prins
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Gert-Jan Prins is a Dutch
musician active in free improvisation
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Initially a free jazz
percussionist, Prins now focuses on producing and manipulating sound, especially white
and pink noise
, using a collection of custom-built FM radio transmitters and receivers, similar to the instruments of American composer David Tudor
.
Prins is a member of M.I.M.E.O.
, a twelve-piece electronic orchestra led by Keith Rowe
(formerly of the British free-improvisation trio AMM). He has groups with synthesizer players Thomas Lehn
and Thomas Ankersmit
, pianist Cor Fuhler
and composer and reed player Peter van Bergen.
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...
musician active in free improvisation
Free improvisation
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....
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Initially a free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...
percussionist, Prins now focuses on producing and manipulating sound, especially white
White noise
White noise is a random signal with a flat power spectral density. In other words, the signal contains equal power within a fixed bandwidth at any center frequency...
and pink noise
Pink noise
Pink noise or 1/ƒ noise is a signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the power spectral density is inversely proportional to the frequency. In pink noise, each octave carries an equal amount of noise power...
, using a collection of custom-built FM radio transmitters and receivers, similar to the instruments of American composer David Tudor
David Tudor
David Eugene Tudor was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.- Biography :Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano with Irma Wolpe and composition with Stefan Wolpe and became known as one of the leading performers of avant garde piano music. He gave the...
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Prins is a member of M.I.M.E.O.
M.I.M.E.O.
M.I.M.E.O. is an experimental electroacoustic free improvisation group formed in 1997 on the initiative of several independent concert promoters in Europe. The abbreviation stands for "Music In Movement Electronic Orchestra"...
, a twelve-piece electronic orchestra led by Keith Rowe
Keith Rowe
Keith Rowe is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter. Rowe is a founding member of both the hugely influential AMM in the mid-1960s and M.I.M.E.O. Having trained as a visual artist, Rowe's paintings have been featured on most of his own albums...
(formerly of the British free-improvisation trio AMM). He has groups with synthesizer players Thomas Lehn
Thomas Lehn
Thomas Lehn is a German-born piano and synthesizer player active in free improvisation and contemporary music.Lehn has recorded with Marcus Schmickler, Keith Rowe, John Butcher, Phil Minton, Phil Durrant, Radu Malfatti, Axel Dörner, Cor Fuhler, Gerry Hemingway and is a member of the electronic...
and Thomas Ankersmit
Thomas Ankersmit
Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam. Initially an improvising saxophonist, his activities expanded to include live electronic music and installation pieces based on architectural acoustics and infrasound...
, pianist Cor Fuhler
Cor Fuhler
Cor Fuhler is an Amsterdam-based musician who plays in the style of electroacoustic improvisation. His primary instrument is the piano . He explores the possibilities of the piano, manipulating it’s sound with use of various string stimulators like ebows, rotating threads and spinning disks...
and composer and reed player Peter van Bergen.