Apero Terminal: Truus [Plus Instruments], Radboud Mens/Lukas Simonis

Friday, April 22, 18:00-20:00, Free entrance [suggested donation: 5 €]

18:15 TRUUS DE GROOTPLUS INSTRUMENTS
Truus’ musical career spans close to 4 decades. Born in Eindhoven, The Netherlands she debuted as a chanteuse just at the beginning of the Punk craze in 1976. In 1979 she established her very own project “Plus Instruments”. All the while she was also fronting the popular Dutch (experimental, wave) band “Nasmak”. Her path took her into a more electronic improvisational direction after she teamed up with Michel Waisvisz, the inventor of the Crackle Synthesizer. Waisvisz suggested she take the only other proto type on an indefinite loan, which led to a number of performances by the two and Truus introduced it into a pop environment with Nasmak and Plus Instruments. This established Truus as one of the few female experimental electronic pioneers of that time. Playing odd electronic instruments, from the Crackle Synth, toy instruments to the legendary Putney synthesizer, bass, guitar, drums and vocals or whatever would be handy, most of her performances were improvised. In 1981 she left for New York City and continued her Plus Instruments adventure with a number of line ups to date, occasionally interrupted by various endeavors in a number of genres. Truus lives in Southern California.

19:00 RADBOUD MENS & LUKAS SIMONIS

« Mens & SImonis produceren met liefde een bak monumentale herrie, graag met wat op & afbouw en hier en daar een verfrissend anomalietje. Een BAD herrie zelfs, waarin je heerlijk ondergedompeld jezelf mag vergeten (omdat alles pijn doet). Wellness voor de ziel. »

Mens & Simonis pretend to produce nothing but a big loud bunch of noise, of monumental noise to be precise. Yes, their noisedrone is overwhelming, immersive, healing. But they ease you into it gently – with love as they say – and the immersion feels actually very pretty.

Lukas Simonis has his roots as an instrumentalist and musical ‘activist’ in the industrial music and noise rock of the Eighties (Throbbing Gristle, the Residents, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth and beyond). Being a part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-postrock combo’s) he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. At the same time he was/is organising concerts, events and films, first at the Jazzbunker in Rotterdam later on the Dissonanten festival, the Dissidenten festival, Popifilm, Dodorama , WORM, a multimedia centre for experimental art and finally stichting KLANGENDUM since 2013.

Radboud Mens is a sound-artist and composer who started experimenting with sound in the 1980’s, creating audio-installations and noise-machines, and has released his music on many differenet labels under different names since 1994. While his interest in the physical effects of sound on the body gave him a preference for noise in his early work, his later music has contributed more to the development of minimal electronic music, glitch and minimal-dub-techno. Mens uses electronic technology to render audible microscopic sound processes. His sound-world is in a constant state of spatial and temporal flux.

IN TERMINAL: TOYDINGEN installatie Toymaffia + sculpture Jeroen Diepenmaat.