Jacq Palinckx

Jacq Palinckx is a Dutch guitarist, composer and multidisciplinary artist born in Tilburg in 1959. His work brings together free improvisation, avant-rock, theatre, film, visual art and an interest in Dada and Surrealism. He has been active professionally since the early 1980s.

With his brother Bert, he developed the experimental group Palinckx and went on to work with ensembles and artists including John Zorn, Evan Parker and Guus Janssen. He has composed for theatre and directed performance projects. Creative Sources released fraqx (CS482), a guitar duo with Frank Crijns, documenting electric guitar and devices in a collaborative experimental setting.