Wim Mertens
Wim Mertens (born 14 May 1953) is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist.
Life and work
Mertens was born in Neerpelt, Belgium. He studied social and political science at the University of Leuven (graduating in 1975) and musicology at Ghent University; he also studied music theory and piano at the Ghent Conservatory and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
In 1978, he became a producer at the then BRT (Belgian Radio and Television, now called Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep). For Radio 2 (Radio Brabant) he produced concerts by Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Meredith Monk, Urban Sax and others, and hosted a program called Funky Town together with Gust De Meyer (with whom he recorded the experimental album For Amusement Only).
Known primarily as a composer since the early 1980s, Mertens is best known for his opus "Struggle for Pleasure". He is also well known for his piece "Maximizing the Audience", which was composed for Jan Fabre's play The Power of Theatrical Madness, which premiered in 1984 in Venice, Italy.
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ALBUMS
- Series of Ands / Immediate Givens released: 2011
- Zee Versus Zed released: 2010
- Partes Extra Partes released: 2008
- Sin Embargo released: 2008
- Receptacle released: 2007
- Un Respiro released: 2005
- Not Yet, No Longer released: 2003
- Skopos released: 2003
- Moment released: 2002
- Years Without History, Volume 1: Moins de mètre, assez de rythme released: 2002
- In the Absence of Hindrance released: 2002
- Ver-Veranderingen released: 2002
- Cave Musicam released: 2002
- Kaosmos released: 2001
- If Five Is Part of Ten released: 2001
- aRe released: 2001
- Aren Lezen released: 2001
- At Home - Not at Home released: 2001
- Der Heisse Brei released: 2000
- Kere Weerom, Part I: Poèma released: 1999
- Molokai: The Story of Father Damien released: 1999
- If I Can released: 1999
- Integer Valor Integrale released: 1999
- Integer Valor released: 1998
- Best of Wim Mertens released: 1997
- Jardin Clos released: 1996
- Lisa released: 1996
- Jérémiades released: 1995
- Gave van niets, Part II: Divided Loyalties released: 1994
- Gave Van Niets: Reculer pour mieux sauter released: 1994
- Gave van niets released: 1994
- Close Cover released: 1993
- Epic That Never Was released: 1993
- A Sense of Place released: 1992
- Shot and Echo released: 1992
- The Belly of an Architect released: 1991
- Alle Dinghe released: 1991
- Sources of Sleeplessness released: 1991
- Strategie de la Rupture released: 1991
- Motives for Writing released: 1989
- Struggle for Pleasure released: 1988
- Maximizing the Audience released: 1988
- Instrumental Songs released: 1988
- After Virtue released: 1988
- Educes Me released: 1987
- The Belly of an Architect released: 1986
- Vergessen released: 1982
- For Amusement Only released: 1981
- Platinum Collection released:
- Retrospectives, Volume 1 released:
- A Man of No Fortune, and With a Name to Come released:
aRe
Released 2001- Next Nearest
- Various Alphabets
- For the Ausführbarkeit
- At Every Instant
- Method of Intuition
- Sine Missione
- Benen Bol
- Alongside and Successfully
- Arranged, Simplified
- You Northerners
- Fewer Refrains
- Most Untamed
- In Fits and Starts
- Luxta et post
- As a Fabulated Giant
- Bodies Into Planes
- Periods of Fasting
- Far Enough
- Within a Wider Cartography
- Most Secure Bastion
- Into a Bundle
Sources of Sleeplessness
Released 1991- Geschuifel (Mein Leib ist muede, Part 1)
- Lenige Spieren (Mein Leib ist muede, Part 2)
- Katachtig op hun gemak (Mein Leib ist muede, Part 3)
- Kronkelen de Armen (Mein Leib ist muede, Part 4)
- Kruislings (Mein Leib ist muede, Part 5)
- Gerekt Geding (Mein Leib ist muede, Part 6)
- Fore-Hatch (Venerandam, Part 1)
- Feline-Leisure (Venerandam, Part 2)
- Pad-Foot (Venerandam, Part 3)
- Lithe Sinews (Venerandam, Part 4)
- Twsited Arms (Venerandam, Part 5)
- Cross-Hold (Venerandam, Part 6)
- Sea-Foam (Venerandam, Part 7)
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Wim Mertens~Ver-Veranderingen (1981')
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The larger-than-life choreography of (LA)Horde
Claude Brumachon’s Les Indomptés (The Untamed), inspired by the Aids crisis, stands out thanks to Jonatan Myhre Jørgensen and Titouan Crozier’s pas de deux, and Wim Mertens’ score ... (LA)Horde has turned eccentricity into an art form ... Roommates.
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Wim Mertens~ Double Entendre (2012')
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Wim Mertens~ SHOT AND ECHO- A SENSE OF PLACE (1992')
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Wim Mertens~ Jardin Clos (1996') Inspired by "CLOSED GARDEN": A Medieval Woman's Monastery
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Wim Mertens~ INESCAPABLE 1980'-2020'
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Behind the music - Guilherme Cosme
We asked him the BIG questions . ... Tell us three things about yourself . ... Let’s say Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Mark Lanegan, Iggy Pop, Layne Stanley, Wim Mertens, John Cage, Arvo Part, Patricia Barber, Milton Nascimento, Andy Bey to name a few ... .
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Wim Mertens - NATURE'S LARGESS live at BOZAR (2016)
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Wim Mertens~ Voice of the Living (2023')
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WIM MERTENS~ HEROIDES SOLO PIANO AND VOICE AND ENSEMBLE (2022')
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The Columbus Dispatch
08 Mar 2023
BalletMet dancer channels first love into newfound passion: choreography
The Columbus Dispatch
08 Mar 2023
Charles first settled on a score consisting of pieces by Belgian composer Wim Mertens, but when he found that he had tired of the music, he decided to use works by Antonio Vivaldi — a favorite of the choreographer’s.
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Wim Mertens~ Solo Piano and Voice, Selections from Five Albums (1986'-2005')
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MIXTAPE 9: MUSICA EXOTICA~ Wim Mertens (NOT FOR EVERYONE)
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Wim Mertens~ L'HUERE DU LOUP Du Loup (Hour of the Wolf) 2008'
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Wim Mertens~3 Recent Live Performances: Constance, Sappho, Phaedra
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