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Yuri Landman (born January 2, 1973) is a Dutch multi disciplined artist most well known for his work as an experimental luthier, but also active as a comic artist, illustrator, musician, singer, graphic designer and furniture designer.

Contents 1 Comic books 2 Musician 3 Music Instrument Builder 3.1 Early prototypes 3.2 Instruments for other bands 4 Discography 4.1 audio 4.2 video 4.3 albums 4.4 video 5 External links

Self-taught artist Yuri Landman made his debut in the comics field in 1997 'Je Mag Alles Met Me Doen' (in Dutch language only). In the follow-up, released in 1998, 'Het Verdiende Loon', Landman described the suffocating atmosphere of a mediocre office, where all the employees are small-minded and egocentric. Landman worked for an advertising company himself, and when he was fired in 1997, he put all his experiences in this autobiographical comic. For the second title he received the Price from Breda 1998, an award for rising new comic artists in Holland. Since then he has published no other comic books.

Together with Cees van Appeldoorn he formed the lo-fi band Zoppo. After 2 albums and several 7”singles Landman left the band, because he couldn’t combine it with his own comicbookstore at that time.

After leaving Zoppo he formed the noise band Avec Aisance (aka Avec-A) with drummer/producer Valentijn Höllander and releases a cd Vivre dans l’aisance. Live a bassplayer is added to the line-up. Currently they are working on a 2nd album.

During his period in Zoppo, Yuri played bass and prepared guitar. Tired of the difficulties of sound reproduction of his guitar recordings, Landman began creating and building several experimental string instruments. The first album of Avec-A contained pictures of these instruments, but they were not used in the recording. For live shows, these instruments were used in the song from the album during noise solos. Avec-A has recorded a second album with these custom-made instruments, though it is not yet released.

Landman has made electric zithers, electric Cymbalum, electric 3rd bridge guitars, and electric Koto.

In the period 2000-2005 Landman created 9 prototypes.

• The black 4-string movable 3rd bridge zither.
• The red capozither, shown on the cover of Vivre dans l’aisance.
• Robocop, a 6 string heavily adjusted guitar with 2 additional bridges and 3 outputs.
• The 12 string overtonezither, the first prototype of Aaron Hemphill’s Moodswinger.
• The blonde 3 string stereo-guitar, 1 bassstring tuned B, and 2 thin B tuned guitarstrings.
• The green 7 string trio-guitar, 1 bassstring, DAD tuned guitarstring and 3 G#-strings.
• The Electric Spring"
• The electric cymbalum, 72 strings, 12 pickups, one for each tone.
• The blue 4 string supertremolo-guitar, with no fretboard, but an adjustable pitchcontroll for the left hand.

main article: Moodswinger

In March 2006 Landman contacted The Liars to make an instrument for them. After 6 months he finished 2 copies of The Moodswinger, an electric 12 string 3rd Bridge overtone koto, one for guitarist/drummer Aaron Hemphill and one for himself. In December 2006 he met Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Currently Landman is building an instrument for him too.

with Zoppo

• Chi pratica lo impare zoppicare (1998)
• Nontonnen promo 7" (1998)
• Double the fun splitt 7" (1999)
• Belgian Style Pop (1999)

• Flooded made by Dan Geesin (1999)

with Avec Aisance

• Vivre dans l'aisance (2004)

• Not like my sister behaves (2004)
• A second too lazy (2005)
• Like my friend blue (2005)

• The Myspace-site of Yuri's Instruments
• The Official Avec-A Site