Document Type
Grant Application
Project/Presentation Title
Participants
see attached
Date
10-2013
Project Period
FY 2013-2014
Event Sponsor
Cultural Affairs/ Distinguished Lecture Series
Project Abstract/ Summary
He went to university for mathematics and musicology but did not finish those studies. In the late 1970s he took up saxophone and started to compose music. A few years later he discovered his potential as a vocal performer, at first in reciting poetry and later on in improvisations and his own compositions. For almost two decades the voice was his main means for the discovery and development of new sounds. From around the year 2000 on Blonk started work with electronics, at first using samples of his own voice, then extending the field to include pure sound synthesis as well. He took a year off of performing in 2006. As a result, his renewed interest in mathematics made him start a research of the possibilities of algorithmic composition for the creation of music, visual animation and poetry.
Repository Citation
English Department, "New Writing Series Fall 2013" (2013). Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series. 305.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ca-lectureseries/305
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