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Lukas Simonis
Lukas Simonis is a Dutch composer, improviser and writer, mainly active in experimental music and sound art. Besides his career as a musician he’s also involved with the Rotterdam-based avant garde venue WORM, runs the music lab of this Institute for Avantgarde Recreation and he is one of the three people who organise stuff around the InstrumentsMakePlay-community.
Being a part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-postrock combos) he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. In the meantime & after he played in bands like Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W, Morzelpronk, AA Kismet, Liana Flu Winks, VRIL, Stepmother, Perfect Vacuum and Coolhaven. At the same time he was/is organizing concerts, events and films, first at the Jazzbunker in Rotterdam later on the Dissonanten festival, the Dissidenten festival, Popifilm, Dodorama, WORM, a multimedia centre for experimental art and finally Stichting KLANGEDUM since 2013.