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Using prepared re-recorded cassettes, iPad apps, sound effects, laptop, shortwave radio, small synthesizers, ancient 2bit sampling device, all recorded on the spot without multi-tracking or extensive post-editing, Frans de Waard's 2017 Modelbau release presents 22 concise recordings of joyfully quirky electronic expression, from Kraftwerkian sound to curious peculiarity; wonderful. |
In Stock Shipping Weight: 8.00 units Quantity in Basket: None Log In to use our Wish List ![]() Label: Aubjects Catalog ID: Aujx13 Squidco Product Code: 30861 Format: CASSETTE Condition: New Released: 2017 Country: USA Packaging: CASSETTE in Plastic Snap Case w/ inserts Recorded in January and February, 2017. Personnel: Frans de Waard-composer, performer Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist. Highlight an instrument above and click here to Search for albums with that instrument. ![]() ![]() Artist Biographies: • Show Bio for Frans de Waard "Frans de Waard (1965) has been producing music since 1984. First as Kapotte Muziek, but throughout the years, he also worked as Beequeen (with Freek Kinkelaar), Goem (with Roel Meelkop & Peter Duimelinks, both of whom are also a member of Kapotte Muziek these days), Zebra (with Roel Meelkop) and such solo projects as Freiband, Shifts as well as his own name. He has worked for Staalplaat (1992-2003) and since 1986 as a reviewer for his own publication Vital, now only Vital Weekly, an online music magazine, which has been the online source for underground music since 1995, and which celebrated it's 1000th issue in 2015. In February 2007 he played various solo concerts as Goem|FDW in Japan, as part of a package tour with Pan Sonic. Frans de Waard also likes to play sets of improvised music with whoever is available, just as he did with people like Guiseppe Ielasi, Jaap Blonk, Howard Stelzer, Roel Meelkop, Andrew Liles, Radboud Mens and the mayor of his home city Nijmegen. In 2008 film maker Harrie Timmermans made a small documentary about his work with Kapotte Muziek under the title 'What You See Is What You Hear'. He has given workshops and lectures at various places, such as Extrapool, the art academy of Maastricht en 's-Hertogenbosch, the Glinka Conservatorium in Moscow and Lithuania. With Scott Foust he formed the duo The Tobacconists in 2009, with Wouter Jaspers the duo Ezdanitoff in 2010, with Jos Smolders he started playing as WaSm in 2015 and in 2016 a new duo With Sindre Bjerga as Tech Riders. In 2012 he added Modelbau to his long list of names, this time for all things lo-fi and noise based. In 2016 Timeless in France published his first book, an autobiography of life in Staalplaat called 'This Is Supposed To Be A Record Label'. Frans de Waard has played concerts in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, UK, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Lithuania, Canada, Japan, United States, Russia and Italy." -Frans de Waard Website (https://fransdewaard.com/biography/)8/8/2022 Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography. ^ Hide Bio for Frans de Waard ![]() 1. 20170131-Iii 2:35 2. 20170131-Iv 2:23 3. 20170115-I 3:38 4. 20170120-Iii 2:23 5. 20170115-Vi 2:10 6. 20170115-Iv 2:40 7. 20170205-Iii 1:43 8. 20170120-I 3:39 9. 20170120-Vi 3:00 10. 20170205-V 2:04 11. 20170131-Vii 2:23 12. 20170115-V 2:29 13. 20170120-Iv 2:23 14. 14-20170205-Iv 2:01 15. 20170120-Ii 2:05 16. 20170205-Vi 3:25 17. 20170205-Iv 2:02 18. 20170131-I 2:41 19. 20170205-I 3:09 20. 20170118-Vi 3:18 21. 20170131-Ii 2:33 22. 20170125-Ii 3:33 |
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![]() "22 newly created & selected (by the Aubjects staff) works by veteran sound artist Frans de Waard under his Modelbau category. Frans de Waard has been actively participating in the underground experimental music scene since the early 80s under many names and with many collaborators. Projects of note include Kapotte Muziek, Goem, Beequeen, Zebra, and Shifts. The list of projects and collaborations is long and interesting. Frans' philosophies are quite in harmony with Aubjects'. He offers us the following text to inform the curious on what it is that this work Qonrad and what the Modelbau project as an entity are about:
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