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Johan Zwart

About Me

I was born in April 1947 in Haarlem (The Netherlands)
My 'musical carrier' started when I was about 8 years old with the harmonica in an ensemble of the playground club.
At 9 years old I had my debut in a concert with that ensemble at an theater in the Smedestraat in Haarlem.
When I was 10 years old I joined the 'Sint Joris Drum Band' where I played the signal trumpet and at the age of 16 a friend from the drum band invited me at his home and introduced me to the music of Bartok. I must admit, until then I wasn't aware contemporary music. So it was a real eye-opener for me. From there I started exploring other music like jazz (Bebop, Modern jazz i.e.).
My first record was 'Brass Bag', a trombone choir with Gerald Wilson Arrangements on Fontana Pacific Jazz. And then I came across electronic music. I was home.
I started making my own electronic music with a simple cassette recorder, then my first tape deck and a pair of microphones. I learned about electronics's and build a few project's like an simple oscillator and a stylophone.
Later I bought a second tape deck and build a simple mixer. In 1972 I bought my first synthesizer, a Synthy AKS.
Later in 1980 I finally quit my job as a dental technician and did a course at the 'Institute for Sonology' in Utrecht the Netherlands (analog sound syntheses and composition of electronic music). Around the same time I started to work as a studio technician at a small AV-studio.
From 1987 to 1989 I did a course about "The Esoteric Approach of music" with Jan Duindam. A course about the regenerative powers and psychoacoustic qualities of music. During this course I also learned the basics of overtone singing and in 1989 I explored the art of overtone singing with Diem Groeneveld.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 15/06/2007
Band Website: www.jzwart.eu
Band Members: Just me
Influences: I have great respect for the early pioniers of electronic music like Varese, Henk Badings, Dick Raaimakers, Jan Boerman, Ton Bruynel and many others.
I'm also influenced by the jazz. To name a fiew; Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, Albert Ayler, Jusef Jateef, Eric Dolphy, Miles Davis...
But also I find mutch inspiration in the music of; Bartok, Stravinky, Frank Zappa, Morton Subotnick, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Pink Floyd, Robert Frip, Jaap Vink, John Cage and many many others.
And last but not least by a great veriety of "world music"
Sounds Like: My music (or audio art) find it's roots in the "Classical" electronic music of the early 20st century .

My current works on the CD "Out There" (except for “No Exit”) evolves around the extensive use of granulation technics. This gives me a wide palette of complex sounds and compositional structures
The compositios are inspired by astronomical views of galacties, star clusters, nebulas etc. But also the express the qualities of the natural elements and forces that are involved in the cosmic processes.

More music at
electro-music.com

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