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bleeding soul PietJanBlauw 130 views music track and video by Piet Jan Blauw studio bluezone www.bluezone.nl
SOL festival Extremadura Spain 25/29 Aug. 2011 PietJanBlauw 400 views SOL festival Extremadura Spain 25/29 Aug. 2011
performance SOL festival Spain 28 Aug. 2011 PietJanBlauw 337 views performance SOL festival Spain 28 Aug. 2011
"Fonoteca Nacional" Mexico City PietJanBlauw 351 views performance by Piet Jan Blauw and Cheko Mosquiera "Fonoteca Nacional" Mexico City - January 21 - 2011 bluezone production the Netherlands 2010
videoclip for the cd "movimiento del sexto sol" PietJanBlauw 2,047 views played by Cheko Mosqueira and Piet Jan Blauw bluezone production the Netherlands 2010
"movimiento del sexto sol" part 2 PietJanBlauw 822 views homage performance to Jorge Reyes - Nov. 2009 in Huelva - Spain - by Ariane Pellicer, Cheko Mosqueira and Piet Jan Blauw
"movimiento del sexto sol" part 1 PietJanBlauw 1,586 views homage performance to Jorge Reyes - Nov. 2009 in Huelva - Spain - by Ariane Pellicer, Cheko Mosqueira and Piet Jan Blauw
mosquitos on ice 2009 part 1 PietJanBlauw 742 views Promotion performance for school concerts in Arnhem NL
mosquitos on ice 2009 part 2 PietJanBlauw 321 views Promotion performance for school concerts in Arnhem NL
Drup&Blauw part2 2008 PietJanBlauw 272 views performance "kunst op kamers" in de Rijp Holland Jaap Drupsteen - compositions / motiongraphics / berimbass Piet Jan Blauw - compositions / electr.instruments / midi con...

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Piet Jan Blauw  
He started his artistic carreer making;  paintings ( water paint, oilpaint and other mixed techniques ),  etchings, silkscreens, jewelery ( silver, acrylic and rubber ), bronze sculptures and kinetic objects.  He was a member of the artist union "BBK 69" (1970-1989 ). He has been teaching at the Folk High School in Bergen n.h., the N.S. training school for teachers in Haarlem  and the International Make Up Art School in Koln - Germany.  

Piet Jan Blauw has highly sensitive antennae wich serve him. His multi-facetted work is  strongly devoted to communication in a rapidly changing society. Visual artist, musician,  the inventor of instruments and installations: this amiable artist from the North Holland  town of Hoorn is impossible to pigeonhole. He's always had an aversion to categories.  He quickly developed a love for interactive media. Blauw explains " I was looking for  other means to communicate, because the language didn't seem to achieve what I wanted.  Later on, I began to identify with the objects I created. I wanted to feel what I had made ".  

Blauw's vision is not just the mere manipulation of technological gadgets. Their use is  meant to ultimately evoke an emotional response from the audience and spur them on to  discover lost domains within themselves. His objects are of sophisticated craftmanship.  Blauw's instruments produce archetypal sounds. The didgeridoo he built from aluminium  also serves as a cello and a berimbau. Little details defy the ideal. His music can never  be played in exactly the same way and demands improvisation. He sculpts sound-scapes  as he plays. He can manipulate radiowaves with the inpedance of his body. Seemingly  anonymous ultrasonic waves are invoked into being by Blauw's conjurations. This results  in a pantheon of sounds that are ministered by samplers, sequencers, and processors.  He drives his own aural sculptures to their limits in every performance. Technology enables  him to push the limits, yet he always uses it as a tool of creation.

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