Jaap Blonk

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

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… More