Roel Meelkop

Roel Meelkop is a Dutch sound artist who trained as a visual artist at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. In the early 1980s he was part of the beginnings of THU20, a Dutch sound collective, and from the mid-1990s he built a solo body of work with samplers and computers. His pieces range from concert works and multichannel installations to soundtracks for contemporary dance. THU20 grew out of Club Rialto, a band whose members included Meelkop, Jac van Bussel and Guido Doesborg, and Jos Smolders and Peter Duimelinks were also part of THU20.