ABOUT ME

Hi there, my name is Geert Dijkstra and I'm living in beautiful Amsterdam. Knooiwark is the alias for the music I create. I've been playing guitar all my life and had a great time playing in all kind of bands during the 90ties.

Nowadays I make music on my own using self made instruments. Initially I started to build digital instruments using tools like Max MSP but more recently I really enjoy making physical instruments using stuff like wood, strings and diy electronics.

Besides all that I'm also into playing classical guitar, tai chi and gardening.

ABOUT KNOOIWARK

Knooiwark is a legendary yet very beautiful word from the local languague spoken in the North and Eastern part of the Netherlands. It can have several meanings:

  • Exploring the unknown
  • Into obscure matters
  • Strugling to get something done
  • No clear goal in mind

This idea that your goal isn't to be efficient necessarily, but is more about having fun making things atrracts me. It's what keeps me going making stuff...

MUSIC

Concerto for 7 Instruments

Six tracks with generated music from a Max MSP patch inspired on "concerto for 9 instruments by Anton Webern.

Multilingualism

A Max MSP project using poetry generated through code, recited by digital voices and a piano who repsonds to the poem.

A walk through the Vondelpark

Recording from the app Amsterdam Trees which uses tree data to generate music while walking through Amsterdam.

Kom we gaan

Just a deep and trippy minimal track back from 2008.

Bedroom Recordings

A selection of (unfinished) tracks made between 1995 and 2015.

INSTRUMENTS

String Organ

Self vibrating strings using a string sustainer electronic circuit and strings on a box

Granular Accompaniment

Max MSP patch producing weird granular sounds from live audio input

Amsterdam Trees

Interactive-geo-music-app using tree data to generate music while walking through Amsterdam

Harm

Max Msp patch generating music based on live keyboard playing

Poetry gen

Generative Abstract Poetry generator in Javascript

Roundheaded Cigarbox guitar

Experimental 6-string cigarbox guitar

Hillbilly Cello

Generative Abstract Poetry generator in Javascript

Electromagnetic Sensor

Creates weird sounds from electronic devices tracking electromagnetic fields

Modular Synth

Endless project of a diy modular synth made from wood