Yuri Landman (1973) is a musician and inventor of musical instruments. Based on prepared guitar techniques, he built his first instrument in 2001 to circumnavigate the inaccuracy of instant preparations. He has built experimental instruments for acts such as Sonic Youth, dEUS, Melt-Banana, Rhys Chatham, Ex-Easter Island Head, Half Japanese and Kaki King. In 2012, Landman and Bart Hopkin published Nice Noise, a book about string preparations and extended techniques for guitar. In the same year Landman started his band Bismuth with Arnold van de Velde followed by an album in 2014. Over the past seven years, Landman has given over 100 DIY instrument-building workshops in Europe and the US at music festivals, music academies, art academies, concert venues and art spaces. Institutes such as MIM (Phoenix), Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, WORM, Extrapool and Sonoscopia own collections of his instruments. Articles about his work have appeared in Pitchfork, The Guardian, CNN, Libération, El País, Frankfurter Algemeine and many others.