Dutch lutist Jozef Van Wissem adapted the Renaissance instrument to the 21st
century via sampling, field recordings, minimalist repetition and improvisation
on works such as
Retrograde Renaissance Lute (2000),
Narcissus Drowning (2001),
Simulacrum (BVHaast, 2003),
Stations of the Cross (2007),
A Priori (2008),
It Is All That Is Made (2009),
Ex Patris (2009),
The Joy That Never Ends (2011),
etc.
He collaborated with
rock guitarist
Gary Lucas
on Diplopia (BVHaast, 2002) and The Universe of Absence (BVHaast, 2004), and
with
Mitchell Akiyama
on
Proletarian Drift (2004) and
Hymn for a Fallen Angel (2007).
Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity (Important, 2012)
was a collaboration with film-maker Jim Jarmusch.
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