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Emiel Stöpler

Emiel Stöpler - Acoustic guitarist & composer

About Me

I like to sing out of tune. I like to play guitar. I like to compose string quartets. I like composing for orchestra.
My fascination with music began at an early age, although I didn’t become seriously interested in it until I took classical guitar lessons at the age of seventeen. Initially, I just wanted to learn some chords so I could play in a band, but I wound up studying classical music in college. I have very mixed feelings about formal music education; it’s like they try to stuff you into a mold. I liked music theory, but generally not the guitar or composition lessons.
I feel this is the place where I must impart to you my life’s wisdom and tell you this: please eat your vegetables and stop living off pizzas and McShit. Thank you. The world will seem nicer and prettier.


Artwork by Dutch artist Mari Boer

Nightowl

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/6/2007
Band Website: emiel-stopler.nl
Band Members: Anyone who ventures to play my music...
Influences:

Michael Hedges, Frank Zappa, Kraftwerk, Astor Piazzolla, Miles Davis, Don Ross, Turtle Island String Quartet, Leo Brouwer, Sade, Diana Reeves, Ralph Towner, Jose Gonzalez, Allan Holdsworth, Kronos Quartet, Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Johann Sebastian Bach...


Sounds Like:

Guitar music, although I've also written for string quartet, string trio and various other ensembles...


Type of Label: None

My Blog

New video up

A couple of days ago, I recorded one of my more spectacular guitar pieces with a webcam. If you’d like to see it, it’s on my MySpace page, or you can see it here....
Posted by Emiel Stöpler on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:35:00 PST

Wisdom...

When I was a teenager, I remember that many people tried to "be different". We were all trying to get attention for something. Today it struck me as odd that we were all so alike in trying to be diffe...
Posted by Emiel Stöpler on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:45:00 PST

New Cool Collective

I'm a great fan of the Dutch latin/jazz combo the "New Cool Collective". There is a perfectly legal live concert of them online that I've embedded in this post. Enjoy! ...
Posted by Emiel Stöpler on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:01:00 PST

New song posted

I posted a new song I recently composed called "Nocturnal Highway". For me, it conjures up images of driving down a German Autobahn at night, doing 160 km/h.
Posted by Emiel Stöpler on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:00 PST

Bonzo Dog Band

I recently bought a hard disc recorder, to make studio quality recordings on hard disc (Korg MR-1000). It arrived by mail yesterday. I also got some good microphones, so I can make good quality record...
Posted by Emiel Stöpler on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:47:00 PST

New year

Happy new year everybody!
Posted by Emiel Stöpler on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:21:00 PST

Have a sneak preview in the WDP Laboratory

I've been working on a new site called the WDP Lab. Unintentionally, it actually sounds a bit pretentious, because it stands for the Website Design and Programming Lab. It's just that I like the idea...
Posted by Emiel Stöpler on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:34:00 PST

New songs posted

As announced in my previous blog, I did post a few new songs. "Quiet Longing" had been on there for a while, but "Nightowl" is new.Enjoy.
Posted by Emiel Stöpler on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:03:00 PST

A radical decision

Today, while working on something else, I decided to remove my website www.emiel-stopler.nl. For many years, I have had a homepage/website where I showed off my music. In order to attract more visitor...
Posted by Emiel Stöpler on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:28:00 PST

Global Warming?

They call it "global warming", but "global warning" might be just as good a term. We are constantly warned that we are basicly going to hell (rising sea levels, etc) and if we don...
Posted by Emiel Stöpler on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:04:00 PST