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Full Name	Yuri Landman
Occupation	Guitar Maker
Date Of Birth	Feb 1, 1973(1973-02-01)
Age	51
Birthplace	Zwolle
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	Overijssel
Horoscope	Aquarius

Yuri Landman Biography

Yuri Landman is one of the most popular and richest Guitar Maker who was born on February 1, 1973 in Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands. Yuri Landman, a Dutch musician and inventor of musical instruments, was born February 1, 1973. He has created several electric string instruments for a variety of artists, including Liars, Jad fair of Half Japanese, Liam Finn and Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth.

Landman built 9 prototype instruments between 2000 and 2005. Landman changed his musical focus in 2006 and stopped performing and started building instruments for other bands. Landman’s first instrument was the Moodswinger. Landman began making instruments for other bands after the Moodswinger.

The Springtime is an experimental electric guitar with seven strings and three outputs. The first prototype of this instrument, created in 2008, was made for guitar player Laura-Mary Carter of Blood Red Shoes. Afterwards he also made copies for Lou Barlow and dEUS’ Mauro Pawlowski. For John Schmersal of Enon he built the Twister guitar, an alternate version of the Springtime. In 2009 he finished instruments for The Dodos, Liam Finn, HEALTH, Micachu and Finn Andrews of The Veils. For The Dodos and Finn he created electric 24 string drum guitars called the Tafelberg and for Andrews an electric 17-string harp guitar called the Burner guitar. He also started to perform again after a Perpignan Festival hosted by Vincent Moon and Gaspar Claus. Meanwhile, he continued to build instruments for artists such as These Are Powers, Women and Kate Nash. For his own musical career he develops a 25-meter electric long- string instrument, often featured at his performances.

His lectures and presentations with his instruments prompted a request in 2009 for a practical building workshop. This gave rise to his Home Swinger project, which allowed people to participate in DIY workshops where they could build their own copy of his newly created instrument the Home Swinger. Often this was followed by a rehearsal and ensemble performance, with multiple copies of the Home Swinger, drums, basses, and guitars, in the style of the Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca compositions. Events took place throughout all European countries and the US. The Home Swinger was selected as one of the instruments for the second Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, in February 2010. Along with the Moodswinger, this instrument is included in the permanent collection of the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. Soon after the start of the Home Swinger workshops his job as a teacher/artistbecame a full-time activity with an ongoing tour schedule throughout the whole year. He developed a wide of range of workshops with different kinds of instruments, and created this way thousands of DIY kalimbas, triochords, plates with crossed strings, and mallet guitars.

Landman made 9 prototype instruments between 2000 and 2005.

Yuri Landman Net Worth

Yuri Landman is one of the richest Guitar Maker from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yuri Landman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He formed Zoppo in 1997 with Cees van Aappeldoorn as a bass player and guitarist. Landman quit the band after two albums and several singles on 7-inch vinyl. Landman formed the noise group Avec Aisance (aka Avec-A), with Valentijn Hollander, drummer/producer. In 2004, Vivre dans l’aisance was released. He then focused his efforts on instrument building after he left Avec-A in 2006. He closed his comic shop in 2001. From 2001 to 2010, he was Oog & Blik’s graphic designer until the instrument business became full-time.

Yuri Landman began his career as a comic-book artist in 1997. His debut comics book, ‘Je Mag Alles Met Me Doen’ was released in Dutch. Landman wrote about his daily struggles in the 1998 follow-up, ‘Het Verdiende Loon. He was awarded the 1998 Breda Prize for his second title, which is an award that recognizes emerging comic artists in the Netherlands. He has not published any other comic books since then. He took over the local comic shop and opened his own graphic design studio within the shop.

From November 2006 to January 2007 Landman finished 2 copies of The Moonlander, a biheaded electric 18 string drone guitar, one for Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo and one for himself.

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The March 2013 edition of Premier Guitar featured a cover story written by Landman about a guitar modification he did on request of the magazine. Later that year the documentary Alles, Tot Dit was published. In April 2014 Bismuth released their first debut album. This album was published in a limited deluxe edition as well with a special designed instrument called ‘Svikt’ mounted to the album cover. In the same year he starts his solo performances and collaborates with the Dutch noise rock act Those Foreign Kids, functioning as his backing band on his European solo tours. Occasionally Landman performs together with Dutch sound artist Wessel Westerveld, who has built a collection of replicas of Luigi Russolos Intonarumori. Stichting De Stilte created a dance production with Landman playing live during the dance performances.

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Since 2015, he has built a series of kinetic objects made with motors and pendulums that together operate as a sound installation. He exhibits this project in addition to his on stage performances. 2016 Premier Guitar approached him for the second time for a guitar building request, which resulted in an experimental guitar built for Thurston Moore. Similar to the first project the building process was published as an article in Premier Guitar and he did a 20-minute YouTube interview with Thurston when he handed over the guitar. In the same year he developed a DIY daxophone workshop. In May/June 2017 he was artist-in-residence for one month at iii in The Hague where he developed the motorized sound installation Helicopters. For Lee Ranaldos Lost Ideas Festival in Menen, Belgium he developed a harmonic guitar based on a predecessor, invented by Branca in the early 80s, Ranaldo played in Glenn Brancas orchestra. At the invitation of Harman Kardon he built a 24 string drone sonometer for J.Views during a documentary shoot in the spring of

2018. In October 2018 he published an 8-page musicological essay in Soundest

      1 in which he states that the configuration of the musical keyboard is

      mathematically based, rather than a cultural evolutionairy phenomenon. He shows the pattern in several non-Western scales such as the Indian 22 shruti system, the 19-tone scales on the Iranian tar and the Turkishsaz, an out-of- place Coptic artifact and his own tuning system applied on the Moodswinger. This explanation of the origin of the keyboard is in conflict with the Western consensus story that the pattern on the keyboard evolved culturally from originally seven white keys, adding one black key, followed by more into the twelve-tone Halberstadt Keyboard from 1361. In December that same year Musical Instrument Museum put on a large overview exhibition of his invented instruments. In 2019 he build a follow up series of rhythmic helicopters as a part of Nora Mulder’s ‘7090 Abstraction Parc’ that was exhibited at Gaudeamus Music Week, Open NDSM and several other Dutch festivals.

Top Facts about Yuri Landman

1. Yuri Landman is a Dutch experimental musician and instrument builder.
2. He has built instruments for Sonic Youth, Lou Reed, and others.
3. Landman’s “Home Swinger” guitar was featured in the Museum of Modern Art.
4. He has written two books on instrument building and music theory.
5. Landman has given lectures at universities around the world.
6. His music combines elements of noise rock, avant-garde, and experimental pop.
7. Landman’s instruments often feature unconventional tunings and playing techniques.
8. He has collaborated with artists such as Jad Fair and Half Japanese.
9. Landman’s work has been featured in documentaries and exhibitions worldwide.
10. He continues to innovate in the field of experimental music and instrument building.