Mensimonis is the coming together of two counterfigures in
counterculture; Radboud Mens and Lukas Simonis. Although the two
gentlemen liked and knew each other for some time now, this teaming up
was not the most obvious thing to do. Radboud coming from
electronic/industrial/noise music, being a sort of whiz-kid in the
studio and in general a controlfreak who doesn't like things to slip out
of his hands, and Lukas, with a
background in noise and improv and ecclecticism in general (all projects
he does seem to come from a totally different source...). Lukas and
Radboud met up musically a few years back when they were doing recording
& improv workshops for Secondary Schools (VMBO mostly) and in the
end found themselves together on the stage where they played noisy
improv music for teenagers that would rather watch a stupid game on
their iphones... (well, the teachers that accompanied them were not much
better). So this must have been the starting point that lead to the
project (or is it a band) Mensimonis.
Mensimonis try to do a
'musical' thing with the idea of droning away at it. It seems a very
simple and basic concept but it always leads to quite different results.
Radboud takes care of the lower parts of the sound, using oscillators
and effects, Lukas is allowed to stay on top with an accumulation of
looped guitarattacks that slowly evolve into drones as the overtones
take over. That's only the description of HOW to make these sounds.
