Last night my family and I went to see Jaap Blonk perform at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in a Non-Event event. This amazing Dutch sound poet and vocalist had been staying with us for a couple of days, and it was great to see him in concert again. Our daughters loved the huge range of nonsense sounds Jaap can produce. The were buzzing and honking the whole way home (and the funny thing is, on the train we ran into two young women who had been at the concert, too, and were also producing all kinds of weird sounds).
My little video clip doesn't do him justice... but you can see him perform a piece of Kurt Schwitter's Ursonate, augmented by live topography, here. Jaap has perforrmed the entire Ursonate from memory more than a thousand times.
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