The experimental guitar maker
Yuri Landman
will give a lecture/demonstration about his musical instruments. How
they are constructed, how they sound, and what aestethics are behind the
designs. Besides the instruments, Landman will also speak about the
history of experimental musical instruments (from Russolo, Partch, Cage,
Moog, etc to present inventors) and he will explain in a nutshell how
nature, physics, sound and music are related and our perception as
humans on this.
Yuri Landman (1973) is a musician and an inventor
of musical instruments. Based on prepared guitar techniques, he built
his first instrument in 2001 to solve the inaccuracy of instant
preparations. He has built experimental instruments for acts such as
Sonic Youth, Einstürzende Neubauten, dEUS, Melt-Banana, Rhys Chatham,
Ex-Easter Island Head, Half Japanese, Kaki King and others.
Besides
performing and inventing instruments, his main co-activity is giving
instrument building courses and lectures. Since 2009 he has given over
200 DIY-instrument building workshops in Europe and the US at music
festivals, music academies, art academies, concert venues and art
spaces. In 2012 Yuri Landman and Bart Hopkin published Nice Noise, a book about string preparations and extended techniques for guitar.
Institutes
such as MIM (Phoenix), Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, WORM, Extrapool,
Radiona, Matrix, Sonoscopia own collections of his instruments. Articles
about his work have appeared in Pitchfork, The Guardian,
CNN, Libération, El País, Frankfurter Algemeine, Republica, and many
others.