Yuri Landman
| Yuri Landman | |
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Yuri Landman @ Output Festival 2007
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Yuri Landman |
| Born |
February 1, 1973 Zwolle |
| Origin | The Netherlands |
| Occupation(s) | Experimental luthier, musician |
| Years active | 1996 - present |
| Labels | Thick Syrup, Geertruida Records, Siluh Records |
| Associated acts | Bismuth, Sonic Youth |
| Website | www.hypercustom.nl |
| Notable instruments | |
| Moodswinger, Home Swinger, Long-String Instrument | |
Yuri Landman (born February 1, 1973) is a Dutch experimental luthier and musician who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a list of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth,Liars,Jad Fair of Half Japanese, Liam Finn and Laura-Mary Carter.
Yuri Landman started as a comic book artist and made his debut in the comics field in 1997 with 'Je Mag Alles Met Me Doen' (in Dutch). In the follow-up, released in 1998, 'Het Verdiende Loon', Landman described his negative experiences on a daily job. For the second title he received the 1998 Breda Prize, an award for rising new comic artists in the Netherlands. Since then he has published no other comic books.
Together with Cees van Appeldoorn, he formed the lo-fi band Zoppo playing bass and prepared guitar in 1997. After 2 albums and several 7” singles, Landman left the band in 2000. Landman then formed the noise band Avec Aisance (aka Avec-A) with drummer/producer Valentijn Höllander and released a CD, Vivre dans l’aisance in 2004. After quitting Avec-A in 2006, he focused mainly on instrument building.
Landman is musically untrained and cannot play chords. While with Avec-A, Landman began creating and building several experimental string instruments, including electric zithers, electric Cymbalum, and electric Koto. Most of them are not regular instruments, but look more like multi-string crossbows, with their sounds derived from string resonance, microtonality and an overtoning spectra based on the no wave aesthetics of Glenn Branca and the microtonal consonant theory developed by Harry Partch.
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