KRK:
Drawing on their more than 40 years of combined experience working in a variety of genres with such artists as Evan Parker, John Zorn, and Nicolas Collins, KRK is a collaborative project which aims to synthesize and interpret the neo-postmodern musical landscape. Ghosts of reductionism, noise music, free jazz, and the classical tradition all may or may not appear in any given performance. To date, KRK has performed in Austria, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal and the US.
JASPER STADHOUDERS (Tilburg, NL, 1989) is a versatile musician, based in Amsterdam, NL. Jasper started the guitar at the age of 6 and, thanks to the musical family he grew up in, was engulfed in music since birth. After years of studying jazz and classical Jasper jumped into the improvised music scene. His involvement in experimental free / semi-structured improvised music, mostly based on creating sounds uncommon to the guitar, using effect pedals to process the sound, and using objects to prepare his guitar, has led him to record and perform with musicians from across the world, including Jim Black, Andrew DʼAngelo, Michael Moore, Trevor Dunn, Peter Evans, Michael Vatcher, Wilbert de Joode, Jeb Bishop, Noel Redding, and many others. Jasper has performed in all kinds of venues and festivals, both above and underground (also in the literal sense), including ZXZW Festival (now Incubate), Moers Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Bimhuis, OT301, Paradox, Vooruit, AB and many more.
JOHN DIKEMAN is an American saxophonist currently residing in Amsterdam. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources, John’s playing runs the gamut of improvised music and technique, ranging from reductionist improvisation to full throttle free jazz. The underlying characteristic of his music is an unnerving commitment, a total abandonment to sound. John has performed across the U.S.A., Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. He has recorded/performed with many of the most notable improvisers from the USA and abroad including Joe McPhee, Han Bennink, Jeb Bishop, Fred Londberg-Holm, Jack Wright, Daniel Carter, Tatsuya Nakatani, Mike Pride, Nate Wooley, etc... He is also a member of the Royal Improvisers Orchestra and curator for the improvised music series: Tabula Rasa at the Maarten Luther Kerk in Amsterdam.
XAVIER LOPEZ (b.1981) developed an autodidact approach to laptop playing based on feedback processing and sin-waves. His work deals with space and silence perception using memory as a time matrix, creating situations of highly demanding listening who question the concert situation as well as cultural consumption habits. He performs in different settings with a main focus on electro-acoustic sound blendings, often minimalistic, sometimes noisy.His influences range from Free-jazz to Jazzcore, noise music, reductionist approaches to improvisation, onkyo and world music.
He lives in Paris since 2007.
ONNO GOVAERT (Tilburg, NL, 1987) started playing the snare drum at the age of 10. At 11 he got a drumset and joined a hardcore/punk band. At 13 he was part of a classical percussion ensemble. When he was 14 Onno discovered jazz and within a few years was playing with many of Holland's biggest jazz stars. From 18 he started playing in more experimental bands (improv and such) and began touring internationally. In the past years Onno has played in places like Bimhuis, Blå, Mozg, Landmark, Wind up Space, North Sea Jazz Festival, Moers festival and Incubate Festival. He performed with Michael Moore, Frank Gratkowski, Theo Loevendie, Audrey Chen, Trevor Dunn, Gilbert Nouno, Dirk Bruinsma, Royal Improvisers Orchestra and more. Onno lives in Amsterdam.
A New York City native, MATTHEW OSTROWSKI has been working with electronics since the early 1980s, working in improvised music, music theater, and audio installations, with a continuing interest in density of microevents, rapid change, and using technology to stretch the bounds of perception and experience. He has also worked extensively as an an improviser, having played with such luminaries as Anthony Coleman, Andrea Parkins, Nicolas Collins, John Butcher, o.blaat, Paul Lovens, Ikue Mori, Anne Wellmer, David Linton, Charles Cohen, Alfred Zimmerlin, and a host of others. His work appears on over a dozen recordings. His work has been seen on four continents, including the Wien Modern Festival, the Kraków Audio Art Festival, Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, PS 1 and The Kitchen in New York , the Melbourne Festival, and Unyazi, the first festival of electronic music on the African continent. He has received a NYFA Fellowship for Computer Arts, awards from the Media Alliance, Arts International, and many others, and was a nominee for the prestigious Alpert Award in 2006.
GEORGE CREMASCHI was born in New York City, and studied music and composition there. He has played with, and written for, dancers, rock bands, installation artists, improvisers, poets, film, folk musicians, theater groups, new music ensembles, jazz groups, orchestras, and pop divas.
Greg Goodman, Liz Allbee, Gino Robair, Dieb13, Kai Fagaschinski, Evan Parker, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Saadet Türköz, Christof Kurzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Lê Quan Ninh and Jon Raskin are some of his favorite people to work with. He has appeared on over 30 recordings on the Apestaartje, Evolving Ear, Black Saint, Leo, Beak Doctor, Emanem, Rastascan, Music & Arts, Nine Winds and 482 Music labels. He currently lives in Tábor, Czech Republic, where he is a curator and administrator at CESTA, an international arts center.