Ha Ha Said The Car

Ha Ha Said The Car is JOHANN KLOOS. I am composer/songwriter based in Salford in the United Kingdom. When I was a few years old I heard Manfred Mann's song Ha Ha Said the Clown and misheard the title! The strange instrumentation evoked a world of talking cars. Even the Beatles in their early days sounded strange to my ears. I caught on to their surrealism very early. Then, each new record would surprise me with a new sound that I had never heard before. My job has been to continue that search for new sounds. I am pushed by the aim to make music I have heard in my dreams, and capture feelings and moods. I was born in Bishop's Stortford on the 6th November 1960. My interest in music began as soon as I heard it...at the age of TWO I hummed back a twenty minute classical piece after hearing it only ONCE, according to my mother Irmeli. When FIVE years old I wanted to play the school piano, and felt sure I could read notation in a child's songbook. I was not allowed to play.. At NINE YEARS OLD I made a tape loop to create a soundscape for a school dinosaur project! I began making music from the age of 15 when I got my first cassette recorder as a birthday present. I had made a simple voltage controlled oscillator and started making electronic soundscapes, overlaying sounds by covering the cassette's erase head. I also took up guitar and clarinet. I took my tin whistle down to the M11 underpass to record the reverberations, and made a tape of me accompanied by the sound of cars. I became interested in the magical effects of random musical "accidents"..derived from my overdub experiments, not hearing the previously recorded sounds.