Member Since: 1/20/2008
Band Website: treffpunkt.nu/
Band Members: Anders Lindsjö - guitar
Jakob Riis - laptop
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The digital-acoustic, free improvised duo wrrp´s members Jakob Riis and Anders Lindsjö, with the polarized setting of laptop and acoustic guitar, are improvisers creating music in a centrifugal way, characterized by its instant variations. The music takes routes through screeching landscapes, noisebased environments, hollow spaces and humorous platforms.Jacob Riis, composer, improviser, noise-musician.
After several years focusing on research and developing soundtextures, Riis switched as a performer instrument from trombone to laptop in the year 2000 and can be heard in such various contexts spanning from big band to sololaptop
Among the project Riis is currently involved in are: An Auf (with Jacob Anderskov), Copenhagen Art Ensemble, Expanded Botanics (trio with Philipp Wachsmann and P. O Jørgens),
Jassem Hindi + Jakob Riis duo, Rød Planet (with Liudas Mockunas and Stefan Pasborg), SonicEscape (solo laptop project), The Ghettoblaster Ensemble, The Minijacks (laptop quartet)Anders Lindsjö, improviser, sciencerock-musician,
stepped in to the swedish improvised music arena 1989, after a couple of years playing the New York scene, participating on the legendary double albumâ€SOUNDSâ€
a result of a first music festival presenting swedish improv music.
Among the projects Lindsjö has participated in: Bad Quartet (N.Y) Maxcolic
(trio with Mats Gustafsson, Raymond Strid) David Moss (with Maxcolic) Eugene Chadbourne, Or Never (with Sten Sandell) Wildsmoke (with Stry Terrarie)
The artfarmer (with Clay Ketter, Jon Eriksson)
Record Label: Treffpunkt
Type of Label: Indie