ExArt Mo(nu)ments selection 1

1/8/2019

During the early days of home taping (1978-80) we regularly gathered @ Queekhoven estate in Utrecht. Every month Willem de Ridder did his Radiola Improvisatie Salon, a live radio broadcast for VPRO radio, instantly playing received music cassettes from people who visited the show live in Queekhoven or who had sent the tapes by mail.

Picture was made @ the salon where the broadcast was going on. With Rotterdans members Kees Beukelaar and Jos van Ommen and Hessel & Nicole.

Hessel during his three days Radiola session @ Queekhoven 1980.

Willem de Ridder @ Queekohoven during the three days Radiola session in 1980.

The original tape cover of Roots Off….#2. (1981)

Original painting (by Hessel) of Nicole. Used for the ’S.M. Tape’ cover. (The 4th ExArt release). Listen to and download an excerpt from the tape, below.

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Herman te Loo & Hessel Veldman during a live performance with Gorgonzola Legs. Already in 1982 Hessel and Herman started doing impro-sessions @ the ExArt studio’s. Listen to and download an early recording. Also released on the music-cassette Y Create Grey.

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Hessel
'sanYo CreatE' Veldman

Hessel Veldman (1956), musician, composer and radio-producer, started his search for uncomfortable music during his teens.
An early fascination for electronic noise and dissonance, from the beginning of the 1970s,
in combination with a preference for writing and performing extremely idiosyncratic music, has created a wide range of experimental compositions and radio productions.

For the Dutch broadcasting company VPRO, Hessel produced his first experimental solo work 'I Can Hear Trumpets?' (1980). During the Holland Festival of 1983 in Amsterdam, 'Portable Vaudeville' with Willem de Ridder was created. Four nights in a row this sound-poetry show was presented in the Schouwburg in Amsterdam. Under the name FNTC many experimental radio plays were made during the 80s and 90s and broadcasted worldwide.

Via his private cassette label Exart (1982-1995), music albums and video productions were released under all kinds of artists-names (including Y Create [electro-psych-pop], Forbidden Photographs [noise], Gorgonzola Legs [impro industrial-jazz;
a live on stage experience], Austin & Kelly [plunderphonics]).
And since the last few years, after the release of the CD 'Madadayo' in 2004 on EE Tapes, Hessel regularly performs solo or together with other like-minded artists on special request.

In 2004 Hessel Veldman started producing for Concertzender public-radio in The Netherlands.
Also he’s director and coordinator of live-productions and from 2010 chief-editor for the Contemporary Music department: Crosslinks.

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