Marco Raaphorst (Artist)

I like those blackout poems. They are a great way to remix newspapers and other printed stuff. It's Recycle Art and Minimalistic. Anyone can do one. It's easy.

In Holland and Belgium we call them Stiftgedichten.

I did a few myself. And liked it. But somehow last sunday I started thinking about making them differently. Then I thought about adding the things I love: spoken word & music. So *bang* that idea hit me straight away: blackout poems with the text as spoken words by someone and my music to go along with it.

On monday I did one with my daughter's voice. Her name is Puck Raaphorst. I love it. It's also easy to combine both things in a video, see my vimeo.

I noticed that when I upload a song with a filename link marco_raaphorst_-_songx.mp3 the songtitle is not extracted correctly so an url like http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Marco_Raaphorst/KlankBeeld/marco_raaphorst_-_songx will be the result.

So this is a reminder to self, or other people noticing this issue: change the filename before uploading.

Field recordings are great when combined with music. I love to make field recordings myself but for my track Taperecorder going I used some recordings I found at SoundTransit and combined it with me playing a dirty Fender Rhodes piano.

I has something to do with combining depth and colors I guess.

I will post my own music here now and then.

My English is far from perfect.

I am Dutch. I love free music. No barriers. No rules. Organized sound. Something like that...

I remixed the vocals of Kristin Hersh and combined it with a few reversed piano-chords I played.

One sentence of the original version of Hersh I couldn't use because it didn't fit the chords, which was strange because the rest fitted so well.

here's a ringtone:

Ringmorriconetone.mp3