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Wave World is a Dutch multimedia project, conceived by <i>Harry Kessels, Gert
van Santen and Rolf van Slooten</i>, who share a common passion for music, computer graphics, and science fiction.<br><br>
Gert has a long history of making music in, and producing music for numerous
acts and projects, from jazz-rock to techno and completely spaced out
electronic stuff. He has released many cassettes and CD's. Examples are
<i>Modern Management (1987), Bats in the Belfry (1992) and Tibet Passage
(1993)</i>.<br><br>
Gert and Harry met in 1995 at a local concert in The Netherlands, where they
decided <i>"to produce a commercial album"</i>. This resulted in the album <i>"Aware"</i>,
which was released under the name of <i>"Solipsist Paradise"</i>. The track
<i>"Biosphere"</i>, which is also on this album, was remixed by <i>Klaus Schulze</i>, when
Gert won a contest for German magazine <i>Keyboards</i>.<br>
<b>"Aware"</b> received great reviews and got quite some airplay on Dutch regional
and national radio. A popular dj mentioned that the songs were of <b>"un-Dutch
quality."</b> Solipsist Paradise was even asked to perform a live-song on a
national television show. At the moment, Gert and Harry are working on a
follow-up, including a CD-single. They are working together now with
longtime friend and producer <i>Diff.</i><br><br>
In 1997, Harry and Gert decided they needed a new challenge. One year later
they finished their first Wave World album <b>"Species"</b> with modern Ambient
music and slowly evolving soundscapes. Dutch label <i>Quantum Records</i> was very
much impressed by the music, and released it on CD during the spring of
1999. <b>"Species"</b> got raving international reviews, resulting in the duo being
asked to perform live. This was when they met <i>Rolf van Slooten</i>, one of
Holland's leading computer graphics artists and managing director of <i>Virtual
Factory</i>, who, amongst others, produced all special effects for the popular
motion picture <b>"Abeltje"</b>. Rolf was very much inspired by Wave World's music,
and after some hours of extremely productive brainstorming, the triumvirate
boldly decided they would create a complete universe around Wave World by
producing a motion picture and lots of music.<br>
Since Gert is also a longtime translator for <i>Meulenhoff - the largest
publisher of science fiction novels in The Netherlands</i> - and because he had
already written other stories, he decided to start writing the tale of Wave
World also in the form of a science fiction novel - of course with the help
of his two partners in crime.<br><br>
While Gert and Harry started rehearsing for the concert, Rolf developed a
completely strange and wondrous world with his computers. During the
concert, Rolf's movie was projected on a huge 7x3 screen with a powerful
3,000 ANSI-lumen video-beamer. It was was a huge success. Many visitors
mentioned they had <b>"never seen anything like it."</b><br>
Immediately after this first gig, Wave World was asked to perform at the
<i>Netherlands Film and Television Academy</i> in Amsterdam. Rumours about the
show were spreading fast, and Wave World was soon invited - always as a main
act - at international festivals and concerts, e.g. the <b>7th Alfa Centauri
Festival in The Netherlands (March 2000), the 'Music for the Third
Millennium' Festival in London (October 2000), the KOMP festival in Poland
(June 2001) and a concert at 'The Gathering' in Philadelphia, U.S.A. (autumn
2001).</b><br><br>
At present, Wave World has produced three albums with modern Ambient
Music: <b>"Species", "Structures" and "Dimensions"</b>, also available
in a luxurious box-set containing all three CD's.<br>
Currently, Wave World is working on a CD single to be released at the KOMP
festival in Poland, June 15, containing a dance, club and ambient mix of
it's brand new track <b>"SPHERE"</b>. The track will be performed with new,
mindblowing computer graphics.<br>
A video with the live concert movie is scheduled for December 2001, as well
as a DVD with dance remixes of a selection of Wave World songs and a special
club edition of the concert movie.<br><br>
The biggest challenge for Wave World is finding sponsors for producing a
science fiction movie where computer graphics and live action are invisibly
blended together. The movie, with the working title <b>"Wave World - The Last
Fundamental"</b> will be based on the novel Gert is writing.<br>
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