Gert-Jan Prins ( IJmuiden, the Netherlands, 1961): Electronics, Percussion
currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Prins has built various analogue- and digital electronic systems that create
signals within the listenable audio domain.
Besides his solo-project, current projects include MIMEO, Synchronator (with
Dutch video artist Bas van Koolwijk), The Flirts (with Cor Fuhler),
he has collaborated with Pita, Thomas Lehn, Lee Ranaldo, Anne la Berge,
Fennesz, the Vacuum Boys, Peter van Bergen, Domenico Sciajno, Marcus Schmickler, Thomas Ankersmit, Giuseppe Ielasi, Carlos Giffoni, David Dramm, Luc Houtkamp and Misha Mengelberg.
with visual artists: Bas van Koolwijk, Rob Flint, Xavier Quérel, Manel Esparbé i Gasca, Petra Dolleman, Martha Colburn, Cyrus Frisch, Kjell Bjørgeengen.
Performances, on international festivals & clubs throughout Europe, North America, South-Africa, Russia, Central-Asia, Australia.
selected cd's & records, dvd
Gert-Jan Prins: Break Before Make CD, DeMEGO 002, Editions Mego expected 04.01.2008
2007 mimeo sight, cd, cathnor004
2005 mimeo-lifting concrete lightly- live at the serpentine gallery pavilion 2003
2004 the vacuum boys space breakdance challenge, cd takashi mobile 01
2004 e-rax (van bergen lehn prins dolleman) antics, dvd infim
2004 gert-jan prins risk mego 072 mini-cd
2003 sciajno / prins the d&b album featuring: do shine'o & prinsjan cd bowindo
2002 the vacuum boys play songs from the sea of love cd fire inc
2002 gj prins rg 58 gj lp creamgarden
2002 mimeo / john tilbury the hands of caravaggio cd erstwhile
2002 van bergen / prins / fennesz dawn cd grob
2001 fuhler / prins the flirts cd erstwhile
2000 gert-jan prins prinslive cd grob
2000 mimeo electric chair + table 2-cd grob
2000 e-rax van bergen lehn prins live at the bimhuis 99 cd x-or
1999 gert-jan prins sub 8 & 9 maxi single a-musik sieben
1999 mimeo music in movement electronic orchestra cd perditionplastics
1999 anne la berge / gj prins united noise toys live in utrecht '98 cd x-or
1998 gert-jan prins noise capture cd x-or
1997 houtkamp / van hove / prins live in canada cd x-or
1997 mengelberg / gustafsson / prins live in holland cd x-or
1994 analecta body o' graphic cd x-or
1994 houtkamp / beukman / prins / bauer metslawier cd x-or
1993 analecta what you hear is where you are cd x-or
1988 gorgonzola legs piscatorial debris cd exart
Two abstract urban meditations composed by French visual artist Jérôme Schlomoff.
Both filmed with a pinhole movie 35mm camera, these two films create mysterious and eerie portraits of the two cities, a ghostly New York City under a snowstorm and a poetical exploration of Amsterdam as a city suspended between past, present and future, in a visual voyage filmed at some of the city’s building sites.
Both films are going to be presented with a live soundtrack performed by experimental hip-hop producer Smooth One and bass player Mouard Baali.
Smooth One biographical notes:
Smooth One comes from the abstract hip-hop scene. He wrote with Dj cam the two first album in 1996 and 1998, Underground Vibes and Substance. After a live album recorded in « Transmusicales » festival in Rennes and many remix for Air, Tek9 and Silent Poets, Smooth One decided to work alone, mainly on film music, and managing his own label, Superflux, which also published the soundtrack of
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