GENERAL INFORMATION

I see instruments as colours you can use to paint the canvas of a composition. The last 25 years I collected a lot of colours. Live I play mainly windinstruments and percussion. The electronic instruments like the fingerboard continuum and the Nord Electro 2 I use mainly for composing and recording.

I only added audio to the instruments you don’t hear much or maybe never heard in your live at all.

ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS

 
FINGERBOARD CONTINUUM FROM HAKEN AUDIO

I bought the instrument in 2021. It’s an amazing instrument, very expressive and versitale. On every gesture it reacts subtle and the sounds you can choose are just so well designed. Every sound is a new music landscape you can explore. And there are many, many sounds in it to explore.

YOU CAN HEAR SOME EXPLORATIONS ON THE RIGHT

NORD ELECTRO 2
 

WINDINSTRUMENTS

Moeck Tenor Recorder

 

KAVAL

A flute crafted by Winne Clement, a Belgian instrument maker

 

WATERFLUTE own invention

 

When I was seventheen, this flute was the first instrument I bought.

This was recorded before the weekly meditation session that I participate  in Ledeberg.
 

I stumbled upon the maker of this flute while he was collecting branches for building new instruments. What he creates is so well crafted and has a very rich sound. And I just love how you can manipulate the sound with your mouth.

These 5-holed flute is traditional a sheperd instrument in a “gipsy scale”. The fragment is from the intro to a Meditation session were I play each week.
 

It’s really simple and cheap to create you’re own waterflute. Buy a tin whisle and some tape. You cover the holes in the flute (where you put your fingers) with tape. You fill a bottle with water and you’re ready to play.


 

ALT SAXOPHONE

The Martin Elkhart Trad.

crafted around 1946

 

YAMAHA Bb CLARINET

 
 
 

The genres I explore with my sax are African music, blues, world music, crosover genres like worldbeat, ethiopique jazz, ska, …

Clarinet melt with so many genres: folk, blues, klezmer, ethnic, … And in every register you have a different character of the instrument. From woody and sensual over soft and melancholic to put itself in the spotlights in the high notes.

 

PERCUSSION

 
Drum Stand
 

I don’t use my feed playing this set that’s between a drumset and a percussion set. Due to that my playing is more pattern based compared to a drum-player. The rhythms of world music are a greater influence than rhythms of a pop or rock drummer. Sometimes I follow the groove but sometimes I want to create an extra melody. On the right are some little percussive elements and sound gadgets I add to this set.

 
Percussion and other gadgets I add too the Drum Stand
 

Some objects I bought, some I found in my kitchen or elsewhere. Some are subtle, some give a cartoonesque accent.

 

Some examples of little percussion: acme sirene, vibraslap, cuica, African Flame Tree Seeds (large beens you can use a shaker), shekere, several claxons, pots and pans, …