Download Milan Mes (1981) is a trumpet player, voice artist and science

Milan Mes (1981) is a trumpet player, voice artist and science analyst. Over the
past 18 years he has studied the trumpet with teachers ranging from David
Rockefeller (New Cool Collective) to Nico Gerarts. He has also gained experience
playing with well-known groups including the live hip hop band Relax. In 2009
Milan won a Grand Prize of the Netherlands award for best musician in the
singer-songwriter category. He has increasingly focused on voice art. Through
self-study and experiment, over a two-year period he devised a unique electronic
set-up that enables him to produce his own distinctive and original vocal sound.
In his music Milan explores the tension between electronic and acoustic sound.
He performs with Project Wildeman, Supercity and The Benelux.
Maarten Vinkenoog (1976) is a percussionist and anthropologist with a love of
traditional West African music and drumming. He trained for many years at
Ponda O’Bryan’s Wulabakan International School for African Art. In 2006 he
played and studied with the celebrated master drummer Sega Sidibe in Bamako,
Mali. In this musical metropolis he joined a group of traditional drummers and
griots – the singing bards of West Africa. For six weeks he played with them
during a range of ritual meetings and ceremonies. Maarten’s musical quest took
him to Brazil, where in 2001 he studied the ritual rhythms of Afro-Brazilian
heritage at religious temples and dance academies in the city of Salvador, Bahia.
In recent years, Maarten has increasingly concentrated on exploring new artistic
spaces in which he can translate old African techniques and styles into
contemporary Western disciplines such as theatre, pop music, poetry and
modern dance.
Robin Block (1980) is a writer, musician and performer. He studied English
literature at VU University Amsterdam, specialising in utopian literature. His first
collection of poems, Bestialen (Bestials) was published in September 2005. The
reviews were enthusiastic and various poems from the collection have featured in
anthologies. Making his debut as a performing poet, Robin won the Festina Lente
Poetry Slam in 2004. In the same year he went on to win the Poetry Slam in
Rotown. Since then he has performed at numerous venues in the Netherlands,
Belgium and Germany with Project Wildeman. As a singer-songwriter, Robin won
the Grand Prize of the Netherlands award for best musician. He subsequently
appeared on Dutch national TV, in shows including the popular magazine
programme De Wereld Draait Door. Robin recently brought out a new album,
Comfort Zones. His musical expression explores the boundaries between
language, sound and movement.
www.robinblock.nl
Sven Hamerpagt (1979) is a guitarist, composer and sound artist. He
completed a BA and MA in Composition in Context at HKU University of the Arts
Utrecht. During his studies he concentrated on sound composition, extending his
instrument using electronic elements such as a computer or effects units. At the
same time, for many years he has been active in the Dutch pop scene as a
musician and producer. He plays guitar and bass with the bands The Benelux and
Bird on the Wire. Much of his work is currently devoted to sound design for
theatre and film.