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line-up
Harry Kessels (synthesizers, theremin, vocals) Gert van Santen (synthesizers, programming) Rolf van Slooten (3D computer graphics)setlist
Wave World will play a 45 minutes show with mostly new tracks from the Membrane album.homepages
www.waveworld.tv; www.myspace.com/waveworld. zie ook: WaveWorld op NSN2WaveWorld in short
Wave World is a Dutch/Canadian multimedia project, attracting quite a lot of attention for its fascinating music and enchanting shows. During live performances, their impressive music is blended with computer-generated graphics of a virtual world, projected on a huge screen. Wave World's extraordinary music style can best be described as modern space music with dance influences. The enthralling shows carry the audience away to an alien world, that might exist in another time and another dimension.In addition to the audio-visual concert format, Wave World releases CD's, DVD's and other media, continually expanding their spectacular universe.
Biography
Wave World members Harry Kessels, Gert van Santen and Rolf van Slooten share a common passion for music, computer graphics, science fiction, conspiracy theories and weirdness in general. Gert van Santen has a long history of composing music in, and producing music for numerous acts and projects, from jazz-rock to techno and completely spaced out electronic stuff. Back in the eighties and nineties, he already released many cassettes and CD's. Examples are Modern Management (1987), Bats in the Belfry (1992) and Tibet Passage (1993). Gert and Harry met in 1995 at a local concert in The Netherlands, where they decided on ‘producing a commercial album’. This resulted in the album Aware, which was released under the artist name of ‘Solipsist Paradise’. The track Biosphere, which is also on this album, was remixed by Klaus Schulze when Gert won a contest for German magazine Keyboards. Aware received great reviews and got quite some airplay on Dutch regional and national radio. A popular dj mentioned that the songs were of ‘un-Dutch quality.’ Solipsist Paradise was even asked to perform a live-song on a national television show. At the moment, Gert and Harry are working on a follow-up, including a CD-single. They are working together now with longtime friend and producer Dif. In 1997, Harry and Gert decided they needed a new challenge. One year later they finished their first Wave World album Species with modern Ambient music and slowly evolving soundscapes. Dutch label Quantum Records was very much impressed by the music, and released it on CD during the spring of 1999. Species got raving international reviews, resulting in the duo being asked to perform live. This was when they met Rolf van Slooten, one of Holland’s leading computer graphics artists, managing director of Virtual Factory and at present one of the big honcho’s at Valkieser Capital Images (post production for film and tv), who, amongst others, produced all special effects for the popular motion picture Abeltje and Phileine zegt sorry. Rolf was very much inspired by Wave World's music, and after some hours of extremely productive brainstorming, the triumvirate boldly decided they would create a complete universe around Wave World by producing a motion picture and lots of music. Since Gert is also a longtime translator for several big Dutch publishers, and because he had already written other stories, he decided to also start writing the tale of Wave World in the form of a science fiction novel – of course with the help of his two partners in crime. While Gert and Harry started rehearsing for the concert, Rolf developed a completely strange and wondrous world with his computers. During the concert, Rolf’s movie was projected on a huge 7x3 screen with a powerful 3,000 ANSI-lumen video-beamer. It was a huge success. Many visitors mentioned they had ‘never seen anything like it.’ Immediately after this first gig, Wave World was asked to perform at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam. Rumours about the show were spreading fast, and Wave World was soon invited - always as a main act - at international festivals and concerts, e.g. the 7th Alfa Centauri Festival in The Netherlands, the ‘Music for the Third Millennium’ Festival in London, the KOMP festival in Poland and concert in the USA, e.g. at ‘The Gathering’ and famous radio show ‘Star’s End’ in Philadelphia. Wave World has produced seven albums with modern Ambient Electronic Music: Species, Structures, Dimensions, Another strange day on Gonxa, Cloudseeder, The Falls of Varnal (compilation album) and The Winds of Laax. The first three albums are also available as a box-set, containing all three CD's. Wave World also released a CD single called Sphere, that was released at the KOMP festival in Poland, containing a dance, club and ambient mix of the dance track Sphere. The track is accompanied by mind-blowing computer graphics. Wave World has also produced a video and a DVD, titled Fundamentals. At the moment Wave World is working on 2 new DVDs, Membrane, which will be ready somewhere in 2008 and will contain modern ambient music with a lot of rhythm, and The lax Enigma, a rendering of the Laax show, Wave Worlds second show. A world tour is on its way. In 2009, when the 2 new DVDs are out, Wave World will visit North America, Europe and Asia.
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