About
Marco Kalnenek [*1969] is a musician and internet
entrepreneur from Heerlen, the Netherlands. Marco initially
released music under the nom-de-plume Weirdomusic, a name which
was first used for his 1992 cassette release "Someweirdomusic".
It is now the name of his website
Weirdomusic.com and various
related musical activities.
Marco started playing the piano at age 9. His first band Foolish
Behaviour was formed around 1982, when he started jamming and
recording tapes with his pal Marco Dörenberg and assorted other
friends. Hundreds of hours of music and other noises were
recorded in the 12 years that followed. A few cassettes and
cd-r's were privately released and a couple of tracks turned up
on compilations made by other people. Most of the home
recordings from 1982-1994 still survive in Marco's cassette
archive. These will hopefully be transferred to digital formats
in the not too distant future.
In 1994 Marco's interest in writing and recording music started
to fade, mainly due to his bad experiences at the Conservatory
of Music in Maastricht, where he studied jazz piano for 6 years
between 1987 and 1993. No new music was created and Marco
started writing for various magazines and, since 1998, internet
sites.
In 2001 two older recordings were remixed by Dutch musician Ton
Rückert and Japanese dj Hideo Nakai for an as yet unreleased
cd-compilation of Weirdomusic's work. Meanwhile Marco began
experimenting with pc based composing and recording. His first
new recording in nearly 10 years was released on a
Comfort
Stand Recordings compilation in april 2004, but there was
still no sign of a full-blown creative rebirth, and only a
handful of tracks were made public between 2004 and 2008.
The end of 2008 saw a couple of changes in Marco's private life,
which finally led to the decision to make the new year a special
one: 2009 will be the year of Marco's return to the world of
arts!