JNNK by Janneke van der Putten
Experimental vocalist Janneke van der Putten presents her debut solo album JNNK.
Debut LP by Dutch vocalist Janneke van der Putten. Her voice emerges from deeper grounds, shaping the acoustic aura of architectural and natural spaces, exploring the limits of vocal techniques through site-specific performances. Becoming siren, becoming storm, a rose of resonance for a new world.
Janneke van der Putten (Amsterdam, 1985) is a visual artist and vocalist based in Rotterdam. Her voice is her main tool, guiding her through physical and sonic explorations in different landscapes. In her site-specific performances she uses extreme vocal techniques and architectural features to relate with the here and now.
Janneke is autodidact in various extended vocal techniques and studied North-Indian Dhrupad singing with Amelia Cuni and Marianne Svašek (Berlin & Rotterdam, 2009 – 2014). She completed her MMus in Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire (The Hague, 2013) and her BDes in TXT (Textile), Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam, 2009).
Solo exhibitions include: ‘All Begins with A’, TENT, Rotterdam, 2015; ‘Directed to the Sun’, Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, 2017; ‘Quitsa’, CINNNAMON, Rotterdam, 2017; and duo-show ‘[to]’, Kunstraum 34, Stuttgart, 2020. Her solo debut album ‘JNNK’ was released on the June 21st Solstice 2023. Her previous album was made together with Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta (PE) for their project 'Invisible Architecture' (Aloardi, 2015). Other composers Janneke collaborated with are Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (IN), Werner Durand (DE), Yvan Etienne (FR), Philemon Mukarno (ID/ NL), Rory Pilgrim (UK) and Marcus Schmickler (DE).