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Besides recording music and touring, Wouter Jaspers also works on different special projects which focus on sound, storytelling and documentation. In the beginning of 2011, four of these projects will be published by Vatican Analog. More information about these projects you’ll find on this page. More of his past projects will be published here soon.
Projects to be released by Vatican Analog:
HIBAKUSHA – January 22th 2011 (limited c-60 tape )
THE WILD – February 22nd 2011 (12 page photobook + 3″ cd)
PLACES YOU DON’T REALLY WANT TO GO TO – March 22nd 2011 (2 x cd)
IT ALL STARTS WITH AN IDEA – April 22nd 2o11 (book + 3″ cd)
UPCOMING PROJECTS:
BROMBRON SERIES: WOUTER JASPERS / AUDREY CHEN (scheduled for 2011)
In the end of January 2011, Wouter Jaspers and Audrey Chen will both come to Nijmegen, The Netherlands, to record their first duo cd for the BromBron series of Extrapool. For one full week they will record all the songs and sounds that come to their mind and present this on January 30th in Extrapool. A cd of these sessions will be released by KormPlastics.
INTERVIEW SERIES / CONVERSATIONS (scheduled for 2011)
Wouter has alwaysbeen interested in how people create art and how they organise their lives around their art. With his new project CONVERSATIONS (scheduled for 2011) he interviews artists he admires for their workethics and the output they deliver about one main question: What drives them and how do they make it happen?
The conversation will take place in wherever the guest wants it to take place. It will be only Wouter and the guest, two chairs and whatever the guest decides for them to drink. The conversation will be recorded on video (no cameraman) and the final outcome of all conversations will be released on a DVD by Vatican Analog and -with special permission of the people involved- on a special website on the internet. This is the first project of this kind Wouter will be doing, main theme of the first one is WORK.
THE OTHER WORLD (scheduled for 2011)
Due to fights, murders and kidnapping activities in the region, Wouter couldn’t travel to Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania and Senegal in November 2010, this because the Dutch Embassy couldn’t guarantee his safety and the insurance company didn’t want to take the risk. When all goes well, and that is ofcourse what we hope for, he can travel to Africa in April 2011, to do why he wanted to come there in the first place: play, record and talk about art, music and religion with musicians of different backgrounds in the Sahara desert. The sessions and the performances will be postponed untill the Dutch Government gives a positive traveladvise.
The trip will be filmed for the documentary THE OTHER WORLD. The recordings of the sessions will be released by Vatican Analog. Now let’s wait till the region is back in peace…
PAST PROJECTS:
IT ALL STARTS WITH AN IDEA (2010)
When his full-length album Glorious Days was his official goodbye to Tilburg, IT ALL STARTS WITH AN IDEA will be Wouter’s written testimonial on how the experimental scene of his 2nd hometown developed in the period 2005 – 2010, the role of the collective Vatican Analog in creating a platform and how he as a young artist, together with his friends worked on getting their -more obscure- sound to the masses. The book will be published together with a 3″ cd with recordings of Wouter Jaspers, Steffan de Turck, Vincent Koreman and Bas Verbeek. IT ALL STARTS WITH AN IDEA (with a 3″ cd), will be published on April 22th 2011 by Vatican Analog.
THE WILD (2010)
In July 2010 Wouter left his safe life in the city for five days surrounded by nature deep in the forests of Czech Republic. No running water, no electricity, no toilet; only a tent, some matches and his instruments and plenty of time to record and write. The outcome of the recordings, a 12 page photobook with a 3″ cd, will be published on February 22th 2011 by Vatican Analog.
PLACES YOU DON’T REALLY WANT TO GO TO (2006 – now)
Over the last years Wouter visited many places in the world where sane people don’t want to go. This resulted in many recordings of strange places, like toxic dumpgrounds in Russia (December 2007), a prison in The Netherlands (June 2008), concentrationcamps Theresienstadt (August 2009) and Auschwitz (October 2002, March 2008 and July 2009) and the site of the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl (August 2006). His main goal for visiting these places is to document forgotten disasters and to tell a story many people don’t want to hear. A compilation of 5 years of travelling will be published on March 22th 2011 by Vatican Analog
HIBAKUSHA (2009)
In October 2009 Wouter visited the exact place where the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” hit the skies over Hiroshima and recorded the sounds of people mourning, the sounds of lifes that continue. HIBAKUSHA will be published on January 22th 2011 by Vatican Analog
BABI YAR, AN EXPLORATION (2007)
In 2007, Jaspers released the cd “Babi Yar, an exploration” as an honor to the victims of the mass murder in Babi Yar, Kiev, Ukraine in 1941. His first release as Frans Fjödor. He visited the spot where the massacre took place and recorded the sound of silence. These recordings led to the project “PLACES YOU DON’T REALLY WANT TO GO TO (2006 – now).”
