12.24.2011

Gert-Jan Prins

This guy has made his way into my top 5 favorite noise artists of all time. I just cannot get enough of searching out all of his works include the large amount of collaborations he's done. He's a 50 year old Dutch dude into free improvisation. He started out doing free jazz drums but now does stuff with a lot of home-made or altered electronics and visuals. He does a lot with manipulating white and pink noise and also uses FM radio transmitters. It's truly hypnotic. Sometimes his material gets pretty mangled and mutilated with careful use of feedback and oscillators.

I really like something he said in an article in The Wire years ago. "A solo performance is about getting them to go in the direction you want, in accordance with how you feel and what sounds good in the room with the PA, then bringing that energy to the public and cleaning the club walls with the sound system. Some people seemed even to like the PrinsLive CD (released on GROB) for that reason;
they listen to it loud and start cleaning their house."

And the same article described him as "a more abrasive Keith Rowe with radio shards roughened up, spurting, spluttering and stammering."

Here are two albums of his I haven't posted yet.

Gert-Jan Prins - Cavity

Gert-Jan Prins - Prins Live

3 comments:

the static fanatic said...

Prins is THE MAN!!!

Justin Marc Lloyd said...

if you have releases prins related that is not the following, i would loooove to get it...

cavity
dawn
the flirts
noise capture
prins live
risk

the static fanatic said...

Noise Capture
thestaticfanatic.blogspot.com/2010/04/gert-jan-prins-noise-capture.html

The Flirts (this is amazing!)
thestaticfanatic.blogspot.com/2011/04/cor-fuhler-gert-jan-prins-flirts.html

Risk
thestaticfanatic.blogspot.com/2009/11/aaron-dilloway-modern-jester.html