Jos Smolders
Albumin
Tip! Jim O'Rourke and Jos Smolders teamed up again after their first collaboration, Additive Inverse from 2021. Over a period of three years, both artists worked in sessions of a day, each in their own studio.The result is sometimes like a warm cloud…
25 Years Of Kapotte Muziek
2010 release ** Cardboard sleeve. “2009-2010 sees the celebration of twenty years of Kapotte Muziek, the first musical project of Frans de Waard. Expanded in 1993 with members Peter Duimelinks and in 1995 Roel Meelkop, this trio explores the world of…
Twice Removed
*100 copies limited edition* Twice Removed is the tangible-auditory outcome of a collaborative artistic "game" between Texas-based multidisciplinary artist TJ Norris and Dutch sound artist Jos Smolders. The process was a dynamic, cyclical exchange: t…
Textuur 1
*200 copies limited edition* "This album is part 1 in a series where I investigate processes with which to strip sounds from their original context and slice them into tiny bits. By doing this, sounds are separated from their source and as such sever…
Smolders / Delaere / Nijs
Composition trio between Jos Smolders (electronics), Guido Nijs (saxophone) and painter Koen Delaere, whose abstract pigment surfaces serve as compositional model. Five tracks named after pigments (Aureolin, Barium, Diarylide, Bianco di Titanio, Indi…
Dream Sequences Volume 1 Orphax Reframed
First compilation in a series where other musicians reframe pieces from Orphax's ongoing Dream Sequence cycle, an open-ended sequence of experimental ambient and drone works. Haarvöl, Jos Smolders and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) each take a di…
Additive Inverse
* Stunning collaborative work of field recordings and electronics by Jos Smolders and Jim O'Rourke * What if sounds were to fold in on themselves? Quite quickly after being 'born', even. Only to be released back into the 'normal' world of linear proj…
Orphax Reworked (4CD Box)
Four-CD box collecting reworks of Orphax's 44 Sketches of 44 Seconds, in which Sietse van Erve handed forty-four short source sounds to friends with an open brief to take them outside their usual practice. The contributing artists - TVO/Ruaridh Law, …
Spaces
**200 copies** "Spaces is a series of compositions based on recordings in museums. Each work builds on a binaural recording of the environmental sounds a museum and each has been processed based on different concepts. The approach for processing and …
Gaussian transient (megaphone)
There are few sound artists out there that rival the diverse and extensive modus operandi that Jos Smolders brings to his work. Recently, Smolders releases have focused around self-similar sequences, loose narratives, or some kind of overarching cent…
Territorium
2005 release ** Hand-numbered edition of 300 copies. "Territorium will not play the game of a hermetic work and will immediately reveal the topography of its ambitions: to draw an incomplete and fragmentary map of field recording and ambient music. B…