Lukas Simonis

Lukas Simonis
Lukas Simonis at Apricot My Lady @ ass-crack stage-hack, 2009
Background information
Genres	noise rock, experimental music, improvised music
Occupation(s)	Guitarist, Composer
Instrument	guitar
Years active	1979–present

Lukas Simonis is a Dutch guitarist, mainly active in experimental music and sound art.^[1] Besides his career as a musician he's also involved with the Rotterdam-based avant garde venue WORM.^[2] and runs the music lab of the venue.

Simonis published a book in 1979 entitled Slime in the early '80s. At the same time Simonis started his musical career in Dutch punk and experimental bands such as Demogorgon, Dull Schicksal, Morzelpronk, Trespassers W and later Aa Kismet, Vril (both with Bob Drake), Static Tics, Coolhaven and became involved with the venues The Jazz Bunker and Dodorama. Dodorama would later become the venue WORM.

Dull Schicksal is a band active from 1984 til 1997 consisting (ao.)^{[clarification needed]} of Simonis, Hajo Doorn, Colin Mclure, Henk Bakker. From the mid-1990s on, Simonis started doing projects with a large series of experimental musicians such as Pierre Bastien, Eugene Chadbourne, and Anne La Berge. VRIL is a collaboration of Chris Cutler, Bob Drake, Lukas Simonis and Alan Jenkins.^[3] Apricot My Lady is Adam Bohman, Anne La Berge, Jonathan Bohman and Simonis. In 2006 the CD Collaborations was released on which Simonis works with Anne La Berge, Greg Malcom, Henk Bakker, Hilary Jeffery, Huib Emmer, Julia Eckhardt, Paolo Angeli, Paul Dunmal, and Rohan Thomas. In 2007 he made the CD A Sure Sign Of Something with Peter Stampfel, (and Nina Hitz and Alan Purves). Ornament & Crime Arkhestra consisted of Alain Neffe, Han Buhrs, Harald Ingenhag, Lukas Simonis, Nadine Bal, Viola Kramer. In 2011 he did the movie sound track for the short film Illusies with G.W. Sok (ex-singer of The Ex), after which they started the band 'Zoikle'. Simonis is also working for Dutch (VPRO Radio 6, Cafe Sonore) and international (ao. Radia network) radio, producing and curating radiophonic pieces and radioplays.