Jos Smolders (1960) was raised in a relatively remote village in the south of the Netherlands. He is self-taught. The music of Jos Smolders is always on the border of abstraction and narration. An important influence in his artistic development was a confrontation with the early works of Willem De Kooning whose work in the 1950s was both abstract ánd concrete. With Smolders’ music concrete, everyday sounds meld into intricate and abstract layers of sound. Zooming in and out, exploring the techniques for crossing the borders the listener is drawn into the journey just as much as the composer. Sometimes it’s harsh though not for long because things are constantly evolving like a river of also constantly changing matter. The works sometimes can be experienced as landscapes are objects, at other times they are quite moving and the listener is carried away with the narrative of sound.