Yuri Landman (born 1-2-1973) is a dutch multi disciplined artist most well known for his work as an experimental luthier, but also active as a comic artist, illustrator, musician, singer, graphic designer and furniture designer. An engravers impression of Antonio Stradivari examining an instrument. ...

Comic books

Landman has published 2 comicbooks in 1997 (in dutch language only), Je mag alles met me doen and Het verdiende loon in 1998. For the second title he received the Price from Breda 1998, an award for rising new comic artists in Holland. Since then he published no other comic books, because he lost interest in the artform.

Musician

Together with Cees van Appeldoorn he formed the lo-fi band Zoppo. After 2 albums and several 7”singles Landman left the band, because he couldn’t combine it with his own comicbookstore at that time. Lo-fi — from Low Fidelity — describes a sound recording which contains accidental artifacts, like distortion, or environmental noise, or a recording which has a limited frequency response. ...

After leaving Zoppo he formed the noise band Avec Aisance (aka Avec-A) with drummer/producer Valentijn Höllander and releases a cd Vivre dans l’aisance. Live a bassplayer is added to the line-up. Currently they are working on a 2nd album.

Music Instrument Builder

During his period in Zoppo, Yuri played bass and prepared guitar. Tired of the difficulties of sound reproduction of his guitar recordings, Landman began creating and building several experimental string instruments. The first album of Avec-A contained pictures of these instruments, but they were not used in the recording. For live shows, these instruments were used in the song from the album during noise solos. Avec-A has recorded a second album with these custom-made instruments, though it is not yet released. A prepared guitar is a guitar which has had its timbre altered by placing various objects on or between the instruments strings, including other extended techniques. ...

Landman has made electric zithers, electric Cymbalum, electric 3rd bridge guitars, and electric Koto. A Musima Guitar Zither 45 strings with 21 melody, 24 chords The zither is a musical string instrument, mainly used in folk music. ... Cymbalum // Overview The cymbalum, cymbalom, cimbalom (most common spelling), Å£ambal, tsymbaly, tsimbl or santouri is a musical instrument found mainly in the music of Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Greece and Ukraine. ... Masayo Ishigure plays the koto The Koto (âµ) is a traditional stringed musical instrument from Japan resembling a zither. ...

Early prototypes

In the period 2000-2005 created Landman 8 prototypes.

• The black 4-string movable 3rd bridge zither.
• The red capozither, shown on the cover of Vivre dans l’aisance.
• Robocop, a 6 string heavily adjusted guitar with 2 additional bridges and 3 outputs.
• The 12 string overtonezither, the first prototype of Aaron Hemphill’s Moodswinger.
• The blonde 3 string stereo-guitar, 1 bassstring tuned B, and 2 thin B tuned guitarstrings.
• The green 7 string trio-guitar, 1 bassstring, DAD tuned guitarstring and 3 G#-strings.
• The electric cymbalum, 72 strings, 12 pickups, one for each tone.
• The blue 4 string supertremolo-guitar, with no fretboard, but an adjustable pitchcontroll for the left hand.

Cymbalum // Overview The cymbalum, cymbalom, cimbalom (most common spelling), ţambal, tsymbaly, tsimbl or santouri is a musical instrument found mainly in the music of Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Greece and Ukraine. ...

Instruments for other bands

In 2006 luthier Yuri Landman built the Moodswinger, a 12 string overtone koto for Aaron Hemphill of the noiseband Liars

In March 2006 Landman contacted The Liars to make an instrument for them. After 6 months he finished 2 copies of The Moodswinger, an electric 12 string 3rd Bridge overtone koto, one for guitarist/drummer Aaron Hemphill and one for himself. In December 2006 he met Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Currently Landman is building an instrument for him too. An engravers impression of Antonio Stradivari examining an instrument. ... Masayo Ishigure plays the koto The Koto (âµ) is a traditional stringed musical instrument from Japan resembling a zither. ... Liars can refer to: The album by Todd Rundgren The indie rock band. ... Liars can refer to: The album by Todd Rundgren The indie rock band. ... Masayo Ishigure plays the koto The Koto (âµ) is a traditional stringed musical instrument from Japan resembling a zither. ... Lee Ranaldo at Ilosaarirock 2003 Lee Ranaldo (b. ... Sonic Youth is a rock group formed in New York City in 1981. ...

Discography

with Zoppo

audio

• Chi pratica lo impare zoppicare (1998)
• Nontonnen promo 7" (1998)
• Double the fun splitt 7" (1999)
• Belgian Style Pop (1999)

1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

video

• Flooded made by Dan Geesin (1999)

with Avec Aisance 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

albums

• Vivre dans l'aisance (2004)

2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

video

• Not like my sister behaves (2004)
• A second too lazy (2005)
• Like my friend blue (2005)

2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• The Myspace-site of Yuri's Instruments
• The Official Avec-A Site