8EAST meets Jaap Blonk!

8 East Pender StreetFriday, October 16 at 8pm, doors 7:45 By Donation $10/$20/FREEPay for two so someone else can attend for free Set one: Jaap Blonk – voice and electronics Johanna Hauser – bass clarinetJP Carter – trumpetMatthew Ariaratnam – guitarBahar Khazei, Lisa Cay Miller – piano Adriana Camacho – bass moving to..   Jaap Blonk solo Set two: everyone! we all join together for more improvised music Poster design: Clint Hutzulak Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Holland) is a self-taught composer, performer and poet. He went to university for mathematics and musicology but did not finish those studies. In the late 1970s he took up saxophone and started to compose music. A few years later he discovered his potential as a vocal performer, at first in reciting poetry and later on in improvisations and his own compositions. For almost two decades the voice was his main means for the discovery and development of new sounds. From around the year