Website www.waveworld.tv Genre Electronica | Active from 1998 Record label Virtual Factory Records | |
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Labels Virtual Factory Records Members Gert van Santen
Harry Kessels Albums The Falls of Varnal, Structures, Tableaux, Hieroglyphs | ||
Wave World is a Dutch-Canadian multi media act, consisting of musicians Gert van Santen and Harry Kessels, in conjunction with 3D computer graphics artist Rolf van Slooten. They are famous for their impressive live shows that combine ambient electronic music with 3D computer graphics, weird costumes and extraordinary make-up. Wave World has produced 7 albums, a video and a DVD, mostly released independently through their own record label Virtual Factory Records.
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Background
Harry and Gert have a long history in music. Gert, having started out with the recorder, acoustic guitar and piano in his early years, got involved in new wave, progressive rock and electronic and experimental music in the eighties and nineties. He has composed half a library of pieces, and performed as multi-instrumentalist in numerous bands and projects. Amongst others, he has been a member of Modern Management, De Rest, What's Left and since a couple of years De Hufters. Harry, who is currently living in Canada, is a gifted vocalist, thereminist, composer and piano improviser and has been a choir vocalist since he was young. He recently started singing with Vocal Horizons in Toronto. He is also the developer of the Wave World Language Lua Lengua. Together with vocalist Jesso, Harry and Gert formed Solipsist Paradise, a short-lived act that, out of the blue, was launched into airplay on national public radio, but without time for gigs or a new album. Rolf, apart from having been keyboardist and graphics artist for the Real Virtuality Project, has been specialized in computer graphics since the early nineties. As a visual genius, he has worked for leading post production company Valkieser Capital Images, and now has his own company, Virtual Factory. For 2009, Wave World has planned to release 2 DVDs, a comic, an iPhone game and is working on the presentation of their new live show A detailed and entertaining story on Wave World’s formation process, together with some exhilarating ‘behind the scenes’ insights, can be found in the ‘Fundamentals’ DVD and accompanying booklet (2006)
Discography
Collaborations
Patrick Kosmos (Sherazade, La Loungerie)
Songs
TrasyyqhuAnother Strange Day on Gonxa · 2002
Desert MoonsThe Winds of Laax · 2005
The Moons Above Laax - "Tubular Bells" ThemeAnother Strange Day on Gonxa · 2002