Jaap Blonk

Jaap Blonk (born 1953, Woerden) is a Dutch avant-garde composer and performance artist. Career Blonk is primarily self-taught both as a sound artist and as a visual/stage performer. He studied physics, mathematics, and musicology for a time, but did not complete his studies. One of his early influences was Kurt Schwitters, whose Ursonate he first heard in 1979; he memorized the entire work, and it became one of the cornerstones of his repertory; he has recited portions of the piece hundreds of times in various public places. Discography *Baba-Oemf (1989) *BRAAXTAAL (1991) *Splinks (1992) *Flux - De Bouche (1992) *Improvisors (1996) *Improvisors Vol. 2 (1996) *Speechlos (1997) *Vocalor (1998) *Consensus (1998) *First Meetings (1999) *Averschuw (2001) *Dworr Buun (2001) *Electric Solo Improvisations (2001) *Improvisors, Vol. 3 (2003) *Five Men Singing (2004) *Pre-Zoic Cellways (2005) *Sprachspuren/Traces of Speech (2012) *Das Kapital (2017) with Kommissar Hjuler & J. O. Olbrich *Geräusche (2020) with Mama Baer *Antonin Artaud’s To Have Done With the Judgment of God (2020) References