Kontrans Snippet of the Week: excerpt of "Tambey" by Ivar Grydeland (banjo), Ingar Zach (percussion) and Jaap Blonk (voice). From "Blonk, Zach & Grydeland", Kontrans 950.

https://jaapblonk.bandcamp.com/album/blonk-zach-grydeland

Improvisors

Tambey (excerpt)

Kontrans Snippet of the Week: excerpt from "Gadji Beri Bimba" by Damon Smith (double bass) and Jaap Blonk (voice). From the double CD "Hugo Ball's Six Sound Poems, 1916", Kontrans 1167 / BPA -4.

https://jaapblonk.bandcamp.com/album/hugo-balls-six-sound-poems-1916

Hugo Ball: Sechs Laut: Und Klanggedichte 1916 (Six Sound Poems, 1916)

Gadji Beri Bimba (excerpt)

Kontrans Snippet of the Week: excerpt of "Muzikaret" by BRAAXTAAL. From "Speechlos", Kontrans 244.

https://jaapblonk.bandcamp.com/album/speechlos

Speechlos

Muzikaret (excerpt)

Snippet of the Week: excerpt of "Obbele Boep 'm Pam" by Jaap Blonk. From "klinkt", het balanseer 03.

https://jaapblonk.bandcamp.com/album/klinkt

Klinkt

Obbele Boep 'm Pam (excerpt)

Kontrans Snippet of the Week: excerpt of "Spraakwater". From "BRAAXTAAL", Kontrans 939.

https://jaapblonk.bandcamp.com/album/braaxtaal

Braaxtaal

Spraakwater (excerpt)

Kontrans Snippet of the Week: excerpt of "Go Heitel" by HüBeBlo. From "Hübsch, Van Bebber & Blonk", Kontrans 749.

https://jaapblonk.bandcamp.com/album/h-bsch-van-bebber-blonk

Hübsch, Van Bebber & Blonk

Go Heitel (excerpt)

Kontrans Snippet of the week: fragment of "First Dialogue" by Tomomi Adachi and Jaap Blonk. From "Asemic Dialogues", Kontrans 264.

https://jaapblonk.bandcamp.com/album/asemic-dialogues

First_Dialogue (excerpt 2)

Theme of "Hotel Vergetelheid" ("Oblivion Hotel"), played by Angelo Verploegen (fluegelhorn) and Jacko Schoonderwoerd (double bass). From "Consensus", Kontrans 1545.

https://jaapblonk.bandcamp.com/album/consensus

Consensus

Hotel Vergetelheid (theme)

Kontrans Snippet: ending of "Dirges" by Jaap Blonk. From "Irrelevant Comments", Kontrans 164.

Based on Hugo Ball's sound poem "Totenklage" ("Dirge").

https://jaapblonk.bandcamp.com/album/irrelevant-comments

Dirges (ending)

My contribution to the album that's part of the crowdfunding project to save the MS Stubnitz: https://www.nordstarter.org/stubnitz-voll-voraus

Find the full album here: https://dutch-experimental-musicscene-supports-ms-stubnitz.bandcamp.com/album/sos-save-ms-stubnitz-release

Save Our Stubnitz

Four 1-minute fragments of our concert on June 10, 2024
Photo by Gero Sander

fragment 3

fragment 4

fragment 2

fragment 1

Concert at Stromraum, Stuttgart, May 16, 2025

Stromraum_Set_1

Recorded live at Quiet City, Vancouver, April 20, 2018

Part of Jaap Blonk's show "Dr Voxoid's Next Move"

Photo by Etang Chen

First Class Nightmares

Stereo mouth sounds, done with 2 microphones

Recorded live in Coimbra, Portugal, May 20, 2019

Part of Jaap Blonk's show "Dr Voxoid's Next Move"

Solo For Cheek Synthesizer

Another track of the CD with my limited-edition book "Fehlberliner U-Wirr" (something like “Mistaken Berlin Subway Tangle”), scrambling the station names of the Berlin subway.

http://jaapblonk.com/Pages/fbuw.html

Snippet of the Week: excerpt of "Yapp Yapp". From “Keynote Dialogues”, Monotype 053.

https://jaapblonk.bandcamp.com/album/keynote-dialogues

Yapp Yapp (excerpt)

Snippet of the Week: excerpt of "Quiet Neighbours Moaning" by Paul Dutton, Koich Makigami, Phil Minton, David Moss and Jaap Blonk. From "Five Men Singing", VICTO CD 092.

https://jaapblonk.bandcamp.com/album/five-men-singing

Jaap Blonk

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