F.N.T.C. Group, they are: Willem de Ridder, Cora [Emens], Hessel and Nicole Veldman, as well as other artists.

[FLUXUS AND THE TAPE UNDERGROUND SCENE] Our Nebula Incured, vol. 5 (only tape in the series of six including a contribution by the F.N.T.C. Group). Audio tape in a cassette with a silkscreen print by Ivan Sladek titled “Goya In Red”.

[Netherlands]: Corrosive Tapes, 1990. Cassette tape with printed label and pictorial J-Card. Not played by us; very good. Item #55569

The tape recording contains, alongside other contributions from the “Tape Underground Scene,” a 19-minute piece by the Dutch group F.N.T.C. entitled “x 1000.” The four members of the group (Willem de Ridder, Cora Emens, and Hessel Veldman and Nicole Veldman) experiment primarily with their voices, which are interwoven into a dense sonic tapestry. From the tangle of non-semantic vocal sounds, individual voices repeatedly emerge, only to reintegrate into the collective sound structure or be replaced by another voice. Motifs such as the cries of children and infants, chatter, shrieks, low- and high-pitched singing, humming and droning, sounds of lamentation and terror, and meowing alternate in both harmonious and disharmonious succession. (Listen to the digitized version here: https://corrosivetapes.bandcamp.com/album/our-nebula-incured-volume-5)

One of the members of F.N.T.C., Willem de Ridder, was a key figure in the Dutch Fluxus movement. In 1965, on behalf of George Maciunas, de Ridder organized the "European Mailorder Warehouse" as a conceptual mail-order distribution system. This marketing platform for Fluxus multiples and prints is also known under the title "Fluxshop" (cf. Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, pp. 231ff.). In the 1970s, de Ridder turned to radio and eventually to the audio cassette, transforming his radio program De Radiola Improvisatie Salon in the 1980s into a prefiguration of a social media feed. The program consisted of playing cassettes that listeners mailed to the studio. De Ridder made no prior selection; instead, he opened the envelopes containing the tapes live on air and played them in arbitrary order. Whenever possible, each submission was allotted five minutes of airtime. In this way, de Ridder became a catalyst of the Dutch "Tape Underground," which consisted primarily of independent neo-avant-garde artists experimenting, among other things, with synthesizer music, proto-noise, and industrial. The program became so popular that de Ridder released tape compilations under the Radiola label. In 1986, together with Cora Emans and members of the Dutch Tape Underground scene, de Ridder developed the FNTC Opera. (Antoni Michnik, "The Story of a Performer, the Story of an Item: Willem de Ridder's Tape Experiments," Glissando 23, 2014.)

As of June 2026, not in KVK, OCLC.

Price: €350.00

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