avont

avont is a music project by Amsterdam based artist Arjan Timmermans.

The music on Avont’s #1 EP was mainly created with the use of a four-track tape machine, guitar, hardware synths and a eurorack modular synthesizer. Avont juxtaposes the element of chance and the glitches that are inherent in the use of tape loops, with meticulous sound design and synthesizer programming.

Genres that influenced this collection of recordings range from krautrock and noise to jazz and ambient. This resulted in combining atmospheric tape loops with the lush rhodes piano improvisations of Onno Beukenhorst on ‘Camtas’, while the ambient of ‘Even’ is based on a classic jazz chord progression.

Arjan Timmermans studied music at London’s Middlesex University, has been a successful sound designer for creative brands such as Van Gogh Museum and Bas Kosters, and gained notoriety with new wave and electro infused solo performances in European clubs in the early 00’s. For the music on this EP, he was equally influenced by electronic acts like Bitchin Bajas, the krautrock of Harmonia and jazz artists such as Jakob Bro and The Necks.

Unobvious Creative Studio created the concept & design for the cover. They asked collage artist Dewy Karouw to create the artwork. Dewy combined fragments of black and white photo’s from vintage adult magazines. By adding geometric shapes and colour to these images, Unobvious found a way to underpin the contrast of organic and artificial sounds found in the music.