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"The Brombron project of Extrapool and Staalplaat is one of those rare opportunities for artists to exchange ideas and work together in a very close way. To be locked up for one week in a recording studio and live only one flight of stairs up is very intense and also very productive. When I was invited to do the project I had no idea what it would become. After some initial time scheduling problems, I invited Tore do to the collaboration with me. We did not decide on any theme or concept before we started, so we were basically blank when we entered the studio. The studio itself, with all its equipment and its specific acoustic qualities, became our source of inspiration. Working with the analogue synths in there and making room recordings, we gradually built up a body of raw material that led the way to the construction of the tracks on this CD. I am very happy with the result, because it is indeed a reflection of what happened between Tore and me in that space during that period. We slept very well.
About Tore Honore Boe: '...a link between Dada, Merz or the long collage and concrete music tradition: Boe creates a personal, crystalline and sparklingly clear sound constructed out of microphysic elements of chance and risk by occasionally using amplified everyday objects and, in other instances, field recordings and processing of all these. A personal creator with a style avoiding comparison and whose choice of unusual formats has led him to work with records, floppy disks or micro-cassettes. The singular beauty of his music stems from this premises, but also from the emotional atmosphere of the spaces where his live interventions take place...' (www.kunst.no/origami/tore)
About Roel Meelkop: Roel Meelkop (1963) studied visual arts and art theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. During a post-graduate course at the same academy he decided to dedicate his work to sound and music. His musical activities date back to the early 1980s when he started influential group THU20, with Jac van Bussel, Peter Duimelinks, Jos Smolders and Guido Doesborg. The working method of THU20 included many discussions about how to compose and why. This period was crucial in forming his ideas and concepts about sound and how to organise it, but it was not until the mid nineties that he was able to fully realise these ideas. The purchase of a sampler and later a computer radically changed his possibilities of working with sound, offering infinitely more control and freedom. Since then he has worked steadily on a body of work with releases on such labels as Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Staalplaat (Netherlands) and Intransitive (US). His other activities include working as a member of both Kapotte Muziek and GOEM with Peter Duimelinks and Frans De Waard and organising sound events in Rotterdam. Aside from releases, Meelkop also creates site-specific sound installations, often in collaboration with other artists and has performed live around the world.