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Christiaan de Jong, guitarist |
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| Location: | Weesp / Barcelona, |
| Country: |  Netherlands |
| Last Login: | Aug 11, 2008 (472 days back) |
About Me |
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This is my guitar space. Allthough for me composing is the most important musical activity, playing my three instruments: flute, electric guitar and classical guitar play a big role in my life. Here I only post my guitarwork. I had a classical guitar training, my main teacher was Wim Spruijt in Rotterdam. Later I studied compostion and flute in France and Holland. I composed for and worked with great guitarists and lutenists like Wiek Hijmans, Michael Benedik, Naoki Fujii, Javier Alfonso, Alfonso Marin and Sadahiro Otani, mostly playing flute myself. Some 8 years ago I decided to come back to guitar and I bought an electric guitar. Really great to be able to use pedals and have sustained notes and play very loud if wanted. A whole other image as well! I like to use the instrument not only in jazz, but also in contemporary classical ensembles. I played as a electric guitar soloist with the main wind orchestra of Barcelona (Banda Municipal de Barcelona) and Grupo Circulo, a great new music ensemble from Madrid which was great fun and I had the chance to play duos and trios with great musicians like Robert Dick, Harry Sparnaay, Markus Stockhausen and Tara Bouman, Garth Knox and Jorrit Dijkstra to mention some. But now 2 years ago I felt like using again more flamenco-like sounds and techniques and that goes better with a classical guitar. I bought a semi acoustic one. Now I play in fact amplified classical guitar, which is another concept then just classical guitar and still very many aspects of it can be develloped. It's very inspiring for me in this moment. As a composer: I am right now composing a new guitar quartet, and will soon start composing duo pieces for guitar, tape and recorder, guitar and pipa, guitar, violin and tape and guitar and saxophone as well as a flamenco project for Mediterranean Art Ensemble (before EBNM).Thanks for listening to the tracks. I will post very regularly new tracks, since my playing is developping very fast in many new directions. Be my spaceguest! Any comment is welcome! And ofcourse visit also www.myspace.com/christiaancomposer and www.christiaandejong.com Try the BEST MySpace Editor and MySpace Backgrounds at MySpace Toolbox ! Create your own visitor map! |
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Music:Member Since: 9/2/2007Band Website: christiaandejong.com Influences: Julian Bream, Frank Zappa, Ralph Towner, Paco de Lucia, Steve Vai, John Dowland, Luys de Nervaez, J.S. Bach, S.L. Weiss, Antonio Lauro, Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Varese Leo Brouwer, Ferran Sor, Francesc Tarrega, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, Theo Loevendie, Louis Sclavis, Louis Andriessen, Maarten Altena, Heitor Villa Lobos, Incredible Stringband, Pink Floyd, Antoni Tapies, Antoni Gaudí, all the fine musicians I have played with, nature, my family.... Sounds Like: track 1: "Onweer en Klaprozen" an atonal composition with some imprivised part, use of pitchswift pedal and electronic playback (2007) track2: "Omotose" is a free improvisation with some little use of pedal and elecotronic playback (2007)track 3: "Lemontreeinabluesky" free jazzy improvised piece with additional electronics and drumloops (2007) track 4: "Caminos" is flamenco inspired, just solo guitar with a litlle intro in the rhytm of bulerias(2007) track 5: "Rainbow above the Roof" free improvisaton based on a twelve tone row: Wu Wei: sheng and Christiaan de Jong: amplified classical guitar Record Label: auto edit Type of Label: None |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Jazz / Classical / Flamenco) |
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Christiaan de Jong, composer, Mediterrani Art Ensemble, Intelligent Sound Ensemble, Projecte Internacional d-Influencies Musicals, Globus Ensemble, Liu Fang 劉芳, Valeria Mignaco, soprano & Alfonso Marin, lute, Flamenco JERONIMO MAYA, Michael OToole Guitar, Francesca Ghilione, Italian Classical Guitarist, Quique Sinesi, The Amit Chatterjee Alliance, Ana Vidovic, Nguyen Le, Juan Martin, Seth Josel, Luis Balaguer, John Oliver, composer, guitarist, MYRDDIN, Sören Leupold, Corrie van Binsbergen, Arthur Kampela, concentusduo, Raphael Vanoli, Michael Kent Smith, Manuel Lavandera, heavyclassic, Alain Labrie, Paco Fernandez, Jason Yoshida, Denis Azabagic, quartet galiu, Anton Goudsmit, Duo46, Tomatito, Catch Electric Guitar Quartet, Mehmet Polat, Joan Sanmarti, Dirks und Wirtz, OREGON, APSARA, Gestão Cultural, Mónica Meneses, Dany Leblanc, ViBeJays, sistaclarisse, Sheyla Costa, SILVINA TABBUSH, Nenad Kukic, E.R.A, Hermine Deurloo, NO blues, Hatmangary, Helmut Engel-Musehold, The YOMO Sound, Alcides Larrosa, George Pepper, Robin Hill, Eduardo Dall’Ara, the Czech Cellist Frantisek Brikcius, Gabriel Ayala, Marla Worley, Lydia Damala, Sora, KEVIN BUXTON, France Flory -Mon MySpace officiel-, cheryl pyle, Ted Mann, Composer, agata, Crystina Maez, Greg Lyons, Covalblú, jordibonell, Radha, Lua, diablo, Sandy Dane, Kingsley Dinnaram, Miryam ''La Lucha", Paolo Jacopino (Jaco), Martin Fedyna, Marc Ayza, JULIAN VAUGHN, Matthias van Olst, Marlene Souza Lima, The New York Arabic Orchestra, Katja
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