Jaap Blonk

Jaap Blonk (born 1953, Woerden) is a Dutch avant-garde composer and performance artist.

Career Blonk is primarily self-taught both as a sound artist and as a visual/stage performer. He studied physics, mathematics, and musicology for a time, but did not complete his studies.

One of his early influences was Kurt Schwitters, whose Ursonate he first heard in 1979; he memorized the entire work, and it became one of the cornerstones of his repertory; he has recited portions of the piece hundreds of times in various public places.

Discography Baba-Oemf (1989) BRAAXTAAL (1991) Splinks (1992) Flux - De Bouche (1992) Improvisors (1996) Improvisors Vol. 2 (1996) Speechlos (1997) Vocalor (1998) Consensus (1998) First Meetings (1999) Averschuw (2001) Dworr Buun (2001) Electric Solo Improvisations (2001) Improvisors, Vol. 3 (2003) Five Men Singing (2004) Pre-Zoic Cellways (2005) Sprachspuren/Traces of Speech (2012) Das Kapital (2017) with Kommissar Hjuler & J. O. Olbrich Geräusche (2020) with Mama Baer Antonin Artaud's To Have Done With the Judgment of God (2020)