Timo van Luijk Archieven - A S T R E S D'OR

August 31, 2025November 30, 2025

TIMO VAN LUIJK / JON MUELLER ~ UNKNOWN PLACES

LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by Timo van Luijk and Jon Mueller
Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex.
d’or090
Date of Publication: 6 September 2025
Price: 120 euro

Timo van Luijk is an autodidact sound instrumentalist / improvising composer, photographer and printmaker. An appearing constant in all his work is a profound attraction to an irrational, organic and delicate stilled world observed through antique lenses, a fin de siècle aura faded through erosion of time. He is a founding member of the Noise-Maker’s Fifes collective (1989-2006) and since 2000 he publishes his solo music (Af Ursin) and collaboration projects with a.o. Andrew Chalk, Bart De Paepe, Christoph Heemann, Frederik Croene, Kris Vanderstraeten, Raymond Dijkstra on his La Scie Dorée imprint. In 2007 he founded the Metaphon record label releasing a releasing archive works of experimental music composers and sound artists like Michael Ranta, Arsène Souffriau, Rolf Gehlhaar, Robert Fesler …

Jon Mueller studied jazz drumming with Hal Russell at Columbia College in Chicago, and singing with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York. A prolific performer, he tours extensively and has appeared at festivals and venues throughout the United States, Canada, England, Europe and Japan. In addition to his solo work, his collaborations include Olivia Block, Aaron Turner, Jason Kahn, Hal Rammel, Asmus Tietchens, Z’EV, Rhys Chatham, Jarboe, James Plotkin, Duane Pitre, and Raymond Dijkstra.

Artwork description:
Half of the edition by Timo van Luijk. Special prints of photos of old graves on cemeteries throughout Belgium
Half of the edition by Jon Mueller. Conceptual work consisting of prints and drawings

February 4, 2021December 1, 2025

eau ~ O

Project by Timo van Luijk.

LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by Timo van Luijk
Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex.
d’or048

Price 120 euro

Timo van Luijk born in Finland (1967) and living in the Belgian countryside is an autodidact sound instrumentalist / improvising composer, photographer and printmaker.

Started in the mid 80’s with improvisation and experimental music.

Formed, together with Geert Feytons, the audio-visual experimental music collective Noise-Maker’s Fifes in 1989 using selfmade instruments and field recordings to create complex, surreal audio-visual live happenings, including dance, projected sound and video installations.

Solo music project – Af Ursin – since 1990.

Hand-played improvisations conducted by an attraction for intimate and hermetic atmospheres, psychedelic and mystique spaces, wear of sound and silence.

Music is recorded and produced in the ‘Kulta Saha’ home studio and since 2001 published on LP format through the private ‘La Scie Dorée’ imprint.

Frequent collaborations with ao Andrew Chalk (Elodie, Mirror), Christoph Heemann (In Camera, Mirror), Raymond Dijkstra (Asra, La Poupée…), Frederik Croene, Kris Vanderstraeten, Bart De Paepe (Ilta Hämärä).

Member of the group Onde, formed together with Greg Jacobs and Marc Wroblewski (both from Noise Maker’s Fifes) and occasional live guest with Nurse With Wound.

Van Luijk’s photography, collage and print work radiates a dismal mood with reflections of pictoralism, symbolism and surrealism.

An appearing constant is a profound attraction to an irrational, organic and delicate stilled world, observed through antique lenses, a fin de siècle aura, faded through erosion of time.

Timo van Luijk also runs Metaphon, a concert organisation (till 2012) and record label releasing archive works of experimental music composers and sound artists like Arsène Souffriau, Baudouin Oosterlynck, Michael Ranta. Timo van Luijk Homepage

Listen to full album / Digital download

eau – O

A – O I – 19:00
B – O II – 19:00

…scating the lemniscate, the undulating stream of linear circles…

Multitracked double quartet for drums, bass, guitar and organ.
Recorded in 2005 (Aura Legato daze) and resculptured from the original stereo mix at Kulta Saha.

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Artwork Description:
Rorschach monotype
Chinese ink on inner gatefold panels