Yuri Landman

Yuri Landman (born January 2, 1973) is a Dutch artist most well known for his work as an experimental luthier, but also active as a comic artist, musician, singer.

Comic books

Self-taught artist Yuri Landman made his debut in the comics field in 1997 'Je Mag Alles Met Me Doen' (in Dutch language only). In the follow-up, released in 1998, 'Het Verdiende Loon', Landman described the suffocating atmosphere of a mediocre office, where all the employees are small-minded and egocentric. Landman worked for an advertising company himself, and when he was fired in 1997, he put all his experiences in this autobiographical comic. For the second title he received the Price from Breda 1998, an award for rising new comic artists in Holland. Since then he has published no other comic books.

Musician

Together with Cees van Appeldoorn, he formed the lo-fi band Zoppo. After 2 albums and several 7”singles, Landman left the band. Landman then formed the noise band Avec Aisance (aka Avec-A) with drummer/producer Valentijn Höllander and released a CD, Vivre dans l’aisance.

Music Instrument Builder

During his period in Zoppo, Yuri played bass and prepared guitar. Tired of the difficulties of sound reproduction of his guitar recordings, Landman began creating and building several experimental string instruments.

Landman has made electric zithers, electric Cymbalum, electric 3rd bridge guitars, and electric Koto.

Early prototypes

four early prototypes

In the period 2000-2005 Landman created 9 prototypes.

• The black 4-string movable 3rd bridge zither.
• The red capozither, shown on the cover of Vivre dans l’aisance.
• Robocop, a 6 string heavily adjusted guitar with 2 additional bridges and 3 outputs.
• The 12 string overtonezither, the first prototype of Aaron Hemphill’s Moodswinger.
• The blonde 3 string stereo-guitar, 1 bassstring tuned B, and 2 thin B tuned guitarstrings.
• The green 7 string trio-guitar, 1 bassstring, DAD tuned guitarstring and 3 G#-strings.
• The Electric Spring"
• The electric cymbalum, 72 strings, 12 pickups, one for each tone.
• The blue 4 string supertremolo-guitar, with no fretboard, but an adjustable pitchcontroll for the left hand.

Instruments for other bands

The Moonlander for Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) and the Moodswinger for Aaron Hemphill, (Liars)

main article: Moodswinger

In March 2006 Landman contacted The Liars to make an instrument for them. After 6 months he finished 2 copies of The Moodswinger, an electric 12 string 3rd Bridge overtone koto, one for guitarist/drummer Aaron Hemphill and one for himself.

main article: Moonlander

In November 2006 Landman contacted Sonic Youth to make an instrument for them. After 3 months he finished 2 copies of The Moonlander, a biheaded electric 18 string drone guitar, one for guitarist Lee Ranaldo and one for himself.

Discography

with Zoppo

audio

• Chi pratica lo impare zoppicare (1998)
• Nontonnen promo 7" (1998)
• Double the fun splitt 7" (1999)
• Belgian Style Pop (1999)

video

• Flooded made by Dan Geesin (1999)

with Avec Aisance

albums

• Vivre dans l'aisance (2004)

video

• Not like my sister behaves (2004)
• A second too lazy (2005)
• Like my friend blue (2005)

Other sources

In Dutch

• [3] Zoppo bio in Dutch on The Dutch Rock & Pop Institute
• [4] Avec-A bio in Dutch on The Dutch Rock & Pop Institute
• [5] Yuri Landman referencelist in Dutch on The Dutch Rock & Pop Institute
• Article on popmuzikant.nl (in Dutch)
• Dutch article on spunk.nl

External links

• www.hypercustom.com
• The Official Avec-A Site
• Avec-A at music.download.com 10 mp3 downloads