Project Wildeman Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

Amsterdam

Robin Block (1980) is a writer, musician and performer. He studied English literature at the Free University of Amsterdam, specializing in dystopian literature. His first collection of poems, Bestialen (Bestials) was published in September 2005. The reviews were enthusiastic and various poems from the collection were featured in anthologies. Making his debut as a performing poet, Robin won the Festina Lente Poetry Slam in 2004. In the same year he went on to win the Poetry Slam in Rotown. In 2005 he founded Project Wildeman, with whom he has performed at numerous venues and festivals in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany. As a singer-songwriter, Robin won the Grand Prize of the Netherlands award for best musician. He subsequently appeared on Dutch national TV, in shows including the popular magazine programme De Wereld Draait Door. He has recently released a new album, Comfort Zones. His musical expression explores the boundaries of language, sound and movement.

Amsterdam

Milan Mes (1981) is a trumpet player, voice artist and science analyst (Science and Technology Studies). Over the past 18 years he has studied the trumpet with teachers ranging from David Rockefeller (New Cool Collective) to Nico Gerarts. He has also gained experience playing with well-known groups including the live hip hop band Relax. In 2009 Milan won a Grand Prize of the Netherlands award for best musician in the singer-songwriter category. He has increasingly focused on voice art. Through self-study and experiment, over a two-year period he devised a unique electronic set-up that enables him to produce his own distinctive and original vocal sound. In his music Milan explores the tension between electronic and acoustic sound. He performs with Project Wildeman and The Benelux.

Amsterdam

Maarten Vinkenoog (1976) is a percussionist and anthropologist with much love for traditional West African music and drumming. He trained for many years at Ponda O’Bryan’s Wulabakan International School for African Art. In 2006 he played and studied with the celebrated master drummer Sega Sidibe in Bamako, Mali. In this musical metropolis, he joined a group of traditional drummers and griots – the singing bards of West Africa. For six weeks he played with them during a range of ritual meetings and ceremonies. Maarten’s musical quest took him to Brazil, where in 2001 he studied the ritual rhythms of Afro-Brazilian heritage at religious temples and dance academies in the city of Salvador, Bahia.In recent years, Maarten has increasingly concentrated on exploring new artistic grounds in which he can translate old African techniques and styles into contemporary Western disciplines such as theatre, pop music, poetry and modern dance.

Amsterdam

Sven Hamerpagt (1979) is a guitarist, composer and sound artist. He completed a BA and MA in Composition in Context at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. During his studies he concentrated on sound composition, extending his instrument using electronic elements such as a computer or effects units. At the same time, for many years he has been active in the Dutch pop scene as a musician and producer. He plays guitar and bass with the bands The Benelux and Bird on the Wire. Much of his work is currently devoted to sound design for theatre and film.