Jan Kees Helms
is a sound and visual artist based in The Netherlands. In the eighties
he made music with others like Viviane Marc from France, Peter Versteeg
and Andrea Sturkenboom. He made music and recorded his experimental
musical journeys and released them at Lor Teeps. The tapelabel Lor
Teeps cooperated with lot of other musicians in The Netherlands, but
also worldwide. Lor Teeps released the first tape in 1983 with
punkmusic of L'Oraagje. In 1987 Lor Teeps was more into the
experimental tape-scene and released a lot of tapes.
But now...
after many years of silence and making short movies with music of other
musicians he started in 2009 to make visual sounds. Spring 2009 he
starts with a collaboration with Billy Gomberg from New York and
created the cd and short movie ANYpark with fieldrecordings of
parksounds.
Contact t.b.d.
released about 20 years ago many tapes at several tapelabels. For now
Jan Kees Helms explores in this musical project the dark side of sound
with guitardrones, synthesizers, piano and fieldrecordings.
StrangString is recorded and composed during november 2009 - januar
2010.