ABOUT

Hi there, my name is Geert Dijkstra and I'm living in Amsterdam with my lovely girlfriend and two crazy cats. Knooiwark is the alias for the music, code and diy projects I'm creating. The love for making music started long time ago when I got my first guitar somewhere around 1983. It was just a cheap crappy guitar and it took me a few months to figure out the strings where upside down (as I'm lefthanded...) Maybe my interest for strange sounds comes from this first few months :)

Besides having a great time playing guitar in all kind of bands, I also started to create tracks on my own using stuff like the Atari St computer, sound modules, a 4 track cassette recorder, an Akai sampler and a 70s Solina organ (and guitars of course...)

When it comes to making music nowadays I'm a big fan of tools like Ableton Live, Max MSP and Supercollider. I also very much enjoy building acoustic/electronic musical instruments outside of the digital domain.

Besides all that I try to find time for playing classical guitar, gardening, practicing tai chi chuan and digitizing tapes from the Gaudeamus & Donemus archives, Dutch Jazz Archive and Dutch Pop Institute as a volunteer at the Allard Pierson Museum. And yes, I also just have a (parttime) job to pay my bills...

Cheers!