Dutch avant-garde composer and performance artist Jaap Blonk presents his absurd performance YappiScope. It is Jaap Blonk’s show with visual projections.
It is in ongoing progress, new inventions being added frequently. It contains short videos, scores he wanders through, interactive animations, live soundtracks to silent films and other new multi-media work, with a lot of extended voice work as well as live electronics.
“Blonk’s avant-garde performances channel the provocatively pioneering nonsense of Dadaism. His work is tremendously complex, but his brilliance makes it easy to think the opposite.”
Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Netherlands) is a self-taught composer, vocalist, poet and visual artist. His unfinished studies in mathematics and musicology created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein, as did several unsuccessful jobs in offices and other well-organised systems.
In the early 1980s he discovered the power and flexibility of his voice, and set out on a long-term research of phonetics and the possibilities of the human voice.
At present, he has developed into a specialist in the creation and performance of sound poetry and a unique vocal improviser, supported by a powerful and uninhibited stage presence. He performs and gives workshops worldwide on a regular basis. With the use of live electronics and projection of visuals the scope and range of his concerts has acquired a considerable extension.