buy me a drink! May 1st, 2013 :: Holes, caves, archives and inscriptions :: 
"It is strange," Signe Lidén said, "I think it is the strangest piece I ever made..." Signe's installation 'Writings', commissioned by the Resonance network, which premiered as part of this years Flanders Festival's Sounding City, turned out an atmospheric and mysterious, but also quite hermetic work. [ 
]
april 10th, 2013 :: Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling :: 
Muzikale verwarring in de Do-Re-Mix. In de honderd-en-veertiende editie - maart/april 2013 - van Gonzo (Circus) bespreek ik Eduardo Navas' boek over de theorie van de remix. Ik heb er geen al te hoge pet van op. "Een zouteloze academische oefening." Lees meer in de [ Gonzo __ ]
March 11th, 2013 :: The Beaters :: 
Is it a sculpture? Is it a dance? Is it a bug? Is it a composition? Is it a painting? Is it an instrument? ... It's "THE BEATERS", the follow-up to their public hubbub interventions, that Jitske Blom and Thomas Rutgers's made for the Resonance network. Read all about a wooden wall and 31 electric woodpeckers. [
]
february 22nd, 2013 :: Higgs singlet decay particles pop into my universe at random times :: 
Every now and then I set loose the sounds I find on there. But most of them we'll never hear. Suddenly, without warning, they pop into our universe at random times, like the decay particles of a Higgs singlet traveling in a fifth dimension. [ read
more __ ]
February 18th, 2012 :: Memory as a dorsal spine :: 
Pascal Broccolichi on the rhythm of gestures, rituals & memory’s time-lapse. "How can I create accident, fracture, misunderstanding, confusion and paradox in the midst of it all? Something that departs from the evident that one tends to imagine?”
" [
]
february 14th, 2013 :: Culturomics, n-grams & sound artists :: 
"Wollt ihr die totale Digitalisierung?" ... Data is the 21st century's gold, Babe! - Babel, Car and Can - And lots about the frequency of occurrences and the semantics of fuck, sound art and related terms in the 2012 Google Books Ngram Corpus... [ read
more __ ]
december 31st, 2012 :: Große_Fuge.mp30000 :: 
Iterating mp3 encodings of a recording of Beethoven's opus 133 - up to 30.000 times! - Har$, on the verge of 2013, puts the 'experimental' back into 'experimental music' ... a viola line cut through her, like cheese-wire ... ... An essay in feedback. [ Get the album, and read
more __ ]
December 15th, 2012 :: Ephemeral Sustainability 1 - Sound Art ::
Is a Beethoven symphony in a toilet the same as a Beethoven symphony in a concert hall? Sound wants to be free. Sound is a liberator. Sound needs sound to explain sound... All about the first day of the Ephemeral Sustainability conference, on November 1st 2012 in Bergen, Norway. [
]
January 19th, 2013 :: Ephemeral Sustainability 2 - Curating, Presenting, Writing :: 
The second day at the Bergen Ephemeral Sustainability conference: on 'no-sound' sound art, an extract from Seth Cluett's video lecture, and a loud and clear message from two expat sound writers turning sound art 'punks', Daniela Cascella and Salomé Voegelin.[ ]
december 09th, 2012 :: Curiosity, Cubes & Numbers :: 
What's inside the Cube? A wacky sci-fi script - all about Peter Molyneux's Curiosity - a truly and unimaginably geeky part - includes an overview of all the fascinating Cube formulas that i am sure all of you have tried, but were unable, to derive... ;) ... [ read
more __ ]
november 08th, 2012 :: Muziek voor Kattenkoppen :: 
In de honderd-en-twaalfde editie van Gonzo (Circus): mijn bespreking van en wat overdenkingen rond Jonathan Sterne's 'MP3, the Meaning of a format', een recent verschenen geleerde geschiedenis van de mp3. (Duke University Press, ISBN 978-0-8223-5287-7) [ teaser (in Dutch) ___ ]
september 14th, 2012 :: R.I.P. Yvonne Oerlemans (1945 - † 2012) :: 
"… dat jij een tumor spéélt, in muziek & geluid, hè? Want een tumor, dat is natuurlijk ook een vibratie, een resonantie." ... Na 'n rot, ongelijk en oneerlijk gevecht tegen haar kanker, overleed Yvonne Oerlemans op vrijdag 14 september in Amsterdam, de stad waar ze tientallen jaren woonde, werkte en kunst maakte. (Luister hier nog één keer naar Yvonne.)
august 11th, 2012 :: Diktat inside/outside the Manufactured Normalcy Field :: 
Help the mighty DIKTAT cover the costs of their upcoming stay in America by buying a download of their thrilling new DIKTAT in Berlin digital album, and find out why this illustrious quartet is the happening future of rock 'n' roll, be it somewhat outside of our manufactured normalcy field. 'If this were the 1960's, DIKTAT'd be the fucking Ronnettes'. [ read
more __ ]
august 01st, 2012 :: In Eigen Beheer: Unofficial Release :: 
A (slighty revised and expanded) *Dutch* version of the SoundBlog entry on and around Unofficial Release, Thomas Bey William Bailey's book on cassette culture and audio networks... [ read
more __ ]
july 26st, 2012 :: UnOfficial Release :: 
On Thomas Bey William Bailey's recent book about self-released & handmade audio: a dazzling, be it fragmentary, tour of the history and development of autonomous ('underground') music networks since the late 1970's, which played a pivotal role 'in the survival of radical sonic eclecticism into the 21st century'... [ read
more __ ]
july 18th, 2012 :: The World As We Found It (Ludwig & Ludwig for Dummies :: 
In Sub071, arguably the world's smallest underground venue, with the Haarlem 5 piece La Vie De Bohème I did a live pre-view of Het Moet Zo Zijn, a track to appear on the Dutch Smikkelbaard label as part of an upcoming 7" vinyl release... 'A record of utter wanton libidinousness'... [ read
more __ ]
july 10th, 2012 :: The Sound Barrier :: 
A NATIONAL, MONUMENTAL & EPHEMERAL PUBLIC URBAN SPACE ARTWORK BY GEERT-JAN HOBIJN, HAROLD SCHELLINX AND KEVIN SCHUIT, conceived FOR THE 55TH VENICE BIENNALE (JUNE-NOVEMBER 2013). "Futures have to be thought before they can be built or sold..." [ read
more __ ]
july 1st, 2012 :: CityNumberScapes 
are field/quotidian recordings of urban space, peppered with recited numbers found within the landscape, done as 'artlessly' as possible: just press record, look, walk & speak... Read about the making by Louis Lamp and myself, of 3 one hour citynumberscapes for ResonanceFM's Clear Spot, in London, Amsterdam and Paris. [ read
more __ ]
june 24th, 2012 :: A Night at the Museum (One big sweep,
iv) :: 
About an album's worth of juicy Ninja Fruits, Retromania, Big Data Crunchers' colonization of subcultures,
the Future of Popp & the ookoi Plus Instruments writing plus-post-retro-ULTRA history, one April night at the Amsterdam STEIM. [ read
more __ ]
May 8th, 2011 :: Before,
during and after the deluge: Sounding Kortrijk ::
At Sounding City: Public Sound in Kortrijk, the 'rumble and roar'
of eleven outdoor sound art installations competed with the contingent
soundscape of the old Belgian town. The competition was ... stiff
... Chris Watson lost. American sound art pioneer Leif Brush was among
my winners. [
]
may 06th, 2012 :: Y.3 = YltrA! (One big sweep,
iii) :: 
An extra-ordinary workshop and experience: 30 hours of sound & music making the ULTRA-way, with 13 students of the Rietveld Academy for Fine Arts and Design,
in Club Karlsson on the Amsterdam Keizersgracht. From scratch to concert in less than 2 days... [ read
more __ ]
december 24th, 2011 :: Touching
base :: 
Hi there! Season's greetings! After near
to four months of writing, in Dutch, 'Ultra. Opkomst en ondergang
van de ultramodernen (1978-1983)', published by Lebowski Publishers,
and available as of March 1st, 2012, the SoundBlog is back ... [ read
more __ ]
february 27th, 2012 :: Flies,
not in the ointment... :: 
On how and why I recently became a dedicated follower of a swarm
of tweeting houseflies ... [ read
more __ ]
February 26th, 2012 :: 'But
what about the children?' ::
Maia Urstad's & Paul Devens' Resonance installations, showcased
at the Lydgalleriet in Bergen, Norway, had a fine & festive opening,
where there was only one thing missing: "This is the music of the
future. It dearly needs our childrens' ears..." [
]
february 19th, 2012 :: Magnetic
Remanence: Another Paris Tape Run :: 
An exciting presentation at the Instants Chavirés,
richly topped with bourbon, beer & snacks, and a far, far more sober
& austere Diktat performance at the wonderful-but-cold-in-wintertime
La Générale Nord-Est ... [ read
more __ ]
january 01st, 2012 :: Seventy
Seconds [ 52/52 ] :: 
Mission completed: the 52nd & final edition of my 10-secs-per-day sound diary for the prime year 2011,
which appeared every Sunday on the Dutch hard//hoofd web
daily, with a short text and a picture by photographer Pieter van Wynsberge... [ Find the full
series on soundcloud
]
december 31st, 2011 :: The small world daisychain
mail tongue tape :: 
A fine analogue art tale, that brings several of this past year's SoundBlog threads together, pulls us over into 2012, as always
quoting a wise man:
you ain't seen nothing yet ... [ read
more __ ]
August 28th, 2011 :: In Maastricht, in Berlin, then
on to Riga ... ::
Report, pictures, video of the dismantling of Stefan Rummel's installation "Articulated Chambers" in stormy weather, on Friday August 2011, at the Bassin
in Maastricht... [
]
august 20th, 2011 :: R.I.P.-1: The
Francis Cook Landfill and other dumps :: 
We started our R.I.P. summit and workshop at the Banff Centre on July 9th with a field trip that took us
to the Francis Cook Landfill and Banff's Recycling Depot. A Rocky Mountains junk hunt, and lots, lots of great garbage pics ... [ read
more __ ]
july 25th, 2011 :: Discuts
:: 
Suddenly, there's pics of last year's parisian Estafette Rue Cassette on the blog. How come!?
They're a prelude to my praise for the new edition of Discuts Magazine, that comes with
a fine Found Tapes interview, and a special limited edition Discuts
Found Tapes cassette. Get
it now! [ read
more __ ]
July 21st, 2011 :: Something
you walk into, something that surrounds you ::
I talked with Stefan Rummel about his sound installation Articulated Chambers, which can be
heard-seen at the Bassin in Maastricht (the Netherlands) until the end of August.
'It says: “Oh yes, this is where I belong!” but at the same time it is asking: “What the hell am I doing here?”' [
]
july 03th, 2011 :: Life
is A Color Wire 3 (table version/KT2011) :: 
A short tour of this year's Kunsttour in Maastricht, for which, in the Hoofdwacht on the Vrijthof, I set up a table version, a miniature, of
my last year's Life is A Color Wire installation. Also: a procession, Stichting Intro's Klankpaal and Stefan
Rummel's Articulated Chambers, a 24/7 installation out at the Bassin. [ read
more __ ]
june 25th, 2011 :: Listen!
(Sound-Art-Music) :: 
During the closing day of last month's Listen symposium, David Toop tried to not give a lecture. He reminded me of
how many, many years ago I discovered William Faulkner's fabulous writing because of Ian Curtis's t-shirt... About a ghost travelling
a half mile ahead of its own shape, lousy music, great art and
the nightly tasting of Belgium beer in the private back room of De Dingen. [ read
more __ ]
May 16th, 2011 :: Sound City -
De Klinkende Stad ::
"With all windows of my room wide open I fell asleep, listening to the loud, excited and piercing screams of bunches of
young fair-goers, that continued to fall from the Kortrijk sky..." A colorful and sounding report on the opening of the
Resonance exhibition, on Saturday May 7th in Kortrijk, Belgium [
]
april 30th, 2011 :: Hear
It! (Sound-Art-Music) :: 
The full and illustrated text, complete & unabridged, of my introductory
talk at Hear It!, an extra-ordinary evening full of sound,
art & music, that - if only for some hours - turned the, usually
so solemn & silent, Stedelijk Museum for modern and contemporary
art in Amsterdam into a 'happily noisely' one. [ read
more __ ]
april 29th, 2011 :: The Human
Measure ::
I talked with Paul Devens about essentials, control, dead kittens and his recent works: 'Probe', for the Diapason Gallery in Brooklyn NY;
and the new Resonance installation 'City Chase', which will première next week at the Festival van Vlaanderen in Kortrijk, Belgium [
]
april 9th, 2011 :: "Meanwhile,
somehow, something ..." ::
A conversation with Norvegian artist Maia Urstad, about radio, and
the new Resonance sound installation that she is currently producing for this
year's Festival van Vlaanderen, which will be taking place in May,
in Kortrijk, Belgium. "We are all 'radio amateurs' these days, without
even knowing..." [
]
march 14th, 2011 :: SB
Tweet Digest #12 :: 
The ookoi's exploring of a Small World * All about Einstein's
Errors * Why are Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony and
Yes's Tales from Topographic Oceans so very similar? * Silence
is a sound, stretched to last forever... [ read
more __ ]
february 28th, 2011 :: Sound/Spaces
in, and of, art ::
"If even a dog can understand it, then the audience should have no
problems at all." In the Dominicanen kerk in Maastricht, German sound
artist and scholar Peter Kiefer presented his 'Klangräume der
Kunst', a collection of texts focussing on the complex and multifaceted
relations of sound, art & space. [
]
feburary 11th, 2011 :: Found
Tapes Exhibition: update :: 
Latest addition to the Found Tapes Exhibition (nr. 119) includes de Mosselman, Bianca's telephone answering tape and a recording of a Parisian rock band's rehearsal.
Total number of documented finds: 706, duration of ound tapes random collage 24/7 audio stream: 13,5 hours.
"The Found Tapes project was emblematic for the best pieces of art in the SHIFT galleries, mining beneath the surface of
simple visual appeal to conjure richly suggestive narratives." - The Wire (february 2011)
january 25th, 2011 :: The
Bells are the Sound of the City ::
With Esther Venrooy and city carilloneur Frank Steijns I climbed the
belfry of the Maastricht town hall to visit the ancient city carillon.
On our way up steep 17th century ladders, we passed three successives
stages in the automatization of its chiming. [
]
january 10th, 2011 :: Seventy Seconds
:: 
Almost seven years ago, in the conclusion of my SB review of the My2k project, I promised that for each of
the remaining prime years of my life, I would keep a 10-seconds-per-day sound diary. 2011 is a prime year.
I am keeping my promise... [ read
more __ ]
january 01st, 2011 :: Happy
New Prime Year! (SB Tweet Digest #10 - nov/dec 2010) :: 
We break the ice with a deviciously poppy
happy happy track, all and only for your new prime year's pleasure,
meanwhile debunking the Google Translate beatbox... Then read on to
find how I managed to beat Marcel Duchamp at his own game. There ain't
no escaping it: 2011's gonna be magic! [ read
more __ ]
december 29th, 2010 :: Obsolescence
:: 
A panoply of media formats and media players, from the very old to
the shiny new, all fighting for the best of our attention during three
days of Obsolescence at the Parisian La Générale
Nord-Est, where I retro-projected De Ingenieur and stood
in awe before a future without face... [ read
more __ ]
december 19th, 2010 :: Composing
with mushrooms :: 
All about my Mushroom Music, which was given a premiere of Portsmouthian beauty and charm at Schunck's Restaurant 5.0
on November 28th, as part of the grand final of
the John Cage 'Anarchy of Silence' exhibition, by 5 brave musician's from village community bands from the south
of the Netherlands. [ read
more __ ]
december 02nd, 2010 :: STRP
S K7 HISSSS :: 
In the former heart of Philips Electronics Inc., we met up with veterans from the Dutch DIY cassette scene of the
1980s, marveled at the wondrous tape sounds of Prezlav, Tapetronic, Wouter van Veldhoven en Aki Onda
and almost shook hands with Ir. Lou Ottens, inventor of both the compact cassette and the compact disc. [ read
more __ ]
october 07th, 2010 :: Roaming
Running Recorders :: 
Lauri Warsta sent a parcel with a recording dictaphone through the
European snail mail system. It made me so curious that as an experiment
I played mr. postman myself to a parcel with a recording dictaphone.
I took it all the way from Amsterdam to Maastricht... Could it be that barking dogs are
a roaming running recorder's destiny? [ read
more __ ]
september 20th, 2010 :: Life
is a Color Wire 2 (Heat Leuven is en Esker Dread)
:: 
How with the help of Stichting Intro's technical staff I became a telecom provider: we gave Minckeleers and 't Mooswief
a 90 meters long tin can telephone connection, stretching all the way across the town hall from one side to the other of the Markt in
Maastricht (the Netherlands). [ read
more __ ]
september 04th, 2010 :: The strange case of the quite honorable
Justin Bieber's temporal stretching (SB Tweet Digest #7) :: 
How a recent Internet-meme suddenly doubled the SoundBlog's traffic, about audio time-stretching becoming
part of the musical mainstream, a playful yet serious
Cupertino pitch and a number of clear-cut promises for the Future of Music Consumption. [ read
more __ ]
august 10th, 2010 :: Shake your
booty (on the workfloor) [ and
then I joined the Avantgarde (ii) ]
:: 
When up on the Avantgarde Festival's workfloor Lainhart & Zunk performed Messiaen's Oraison, outside even the Schiphorst birds
for a moment held their breath. But there also was welding and cutting
and sawing and hammering. And our Re:Carcassonne Table that, eventually, had to give in to
the Avantgarde's strain, and crashed... [ read
more __ ]
july 22th, 2010 :: And
Then I Joined The Avantgarde (i)
:: 
The morning after I slipped out of the bed and had a solitary early breakfast in the cottage's front garden, where I
watched a lama and a camel grazing in the meadow just across the street. [ read
more __ ]
july 19th, 2010 :: 'Die
Sonne scheint mit Glitzerstrahl' :: 
Still on our way to the Avantgarde festival in Schiphorst (Germany): a revelation, misfortune,
high way sausages and how a car's loose bottom caused Holland to win miraculously against Brazil... Nothing that a bit of tape won't fix! [ read
more __ ]
july 18th, 2010 :: From
(h)ear to avantgarde :: 
On our way to the Avantgarde festival in Schiphorst (Germany), with Maurice JJ we made a stop at (h)ear in Heerlen (the Netherlands), where we
went 'A Table!' with Kaspar König and witnessed Vulvax & S.N.O.T., like diver and duckling,
set out on a mission of bourgeois revenge ...
[ read
more __ ]
july 14th, 2010 :: The
Final Soundtrack :: 
The SoundBlog proudly presents _Finale_: the full soundtrack of the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup final between
the Netherlands and Spain, slightly (but ever so subtly) edited [re-composed], for an optimal listening experience.
[ read
more __ ]
june 23th, 2010 :: 'Raise
the trumpet, sound the drum' :: 
After a stunning demonstration of their out-of-the-ordinary use of the vuvuzela on wednesday June 16th 2010 in Amsterdam, the ookoi are currently available for short notice field missions to South Africa ... [ read
more __ ]
june 25th, 2010 :: Read
me a poem, Yi Sang! / 나에게 시를 읽어주세요, 이상! [Yi Sang à Paris, ii]
:: 
In a small transparent suitcase there is an audio cassette, which
contains a copy of 'Read me a poem, Yi Sang!', a one hour sound composition
based on my recent reading of French and English translations of Yi
Sang's poems. [ read
more __ ]
june 04th, 2010 :: Table
archaeology: unearthing the picture trap :: 
I had the good luck to be able to meet Daniel Spoerri in the park of the Domaine du Montcel in
Jouy-en-Josas, where the first week of June 2010 the Société du Déterrement du Tableau_Piège set out, with the professional help
of a team of archaelogists of the INRAP, to meticulously excavate the remnants of the Déjeuner à l'occasion de l'enterrement
du tableau-piège, which took place there 27 years ago ... [ read
more __ ]
June 06th, 2013 :: A Carcassonne Yodel in Blue [Kunsttour 2013] :: 
It was not a joke. It was also not merely some random act. I could not have painted the Carcassonne table in some other color. Not that painting it in blue had some sort of a meaning. Though you of course are free to give it any f**king meaning you like, for me painting the table in blue meant 'painting the table in blue'... [ read
all about it __ ]
may 21st, 2013 :: Pure Dingen van Puur Geluid :: 
Bij gelegenheid van de onlangs verschenen Engelse vertaling van zijn dagboeken uit 1949-1951, overweeg ik, in de 115e editie - mei/juni 2013 - van Gonzo (Circus), Pierre Schaeffers spagaat, op zoek naar een concrete muziek in de tijd dat muziek 'muziek' werd. "Mooi en soms ook hilarisch." Lees het zelf in de [ Gonzo __ ]
May 11th, 2013 :: Playing with your ears :: 
A conversation with David Helbich, on his performative soundwalk for the city of Kortrijk (be). "When people are walking around wearing headphones and holding a booklet, the world for them has become a theater. But it is also a stage. And they are the actors." [
]
May 06th, 2013 :: ::
The 2013 edition of Y, a yearly event carrying the name of the artist Yariv Alter Fin (1968-2007), focused on numbers, art, music & measure - with a series of morning lectures & presentations, and an instructive and entertaining workshop followed by a public presentation at the NASA, the New Art Space Amsterdam. [ read
more __ ]
march 23rd, 2013 :: "Ma première cassette était vierge..." :: 
Mourning & celebrating 50 years of the compact cassette: 2013 = C50. The first - and probably not the last - of this year's celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the compact cassette, was transatlantic: Paris - New York. Proud to be a cassetteur! [ read
more __ ]
january 11th, 2013 :: Muziek is groot, en ik ben klein :: 
Een sympathieke & integere muzikant, die dagelijks degelijk aan veel degelijks werkt. Lees in de honderd-en-dertiende editie van Gonzo (Circus) wat ik over wat David Byrne over muziek schrijft schreef. (How Music Works, Canongate, ISBN 9 780857 862532) [ teaser (in Dutch) ___ ]
october 20th, 2012 :: Audio Monitoring the Watergate Hotel :: 
The first in a series of DIKTAT americana: how a small sticker in the lower left corner of one of the glass doors of the former lobby of the empty and desolate Watergate Hotel in Washington DC became the cherry on our US Dikta-cake [ read
more __ ]
august 04th, 2012 :: 72 Hours of Post-Nuclear Survival :: 
July 27th-30th. The 15th grand & post-apocalyptic Parisian Placard dropped its anchor at four fine counter cultural shelters in the French capital. With my own little post-experimental sub-Placard, I sailed along, while Rébus' sound fooding provided both the alpha and the omega... [ read
more __ ]
july 7th, 2012 :: A Forest Hanging from A Tree :: 
With E t c ... we performed 3 x 2 x 30 minutes of dark, electric urban (un)nature scapes, at the intriguing (devious, unobtrusive and tentacular) three day Festival des Ephémères in the Parisian
Jardins d'Eole. I edited a 5-track digital album from the recordings made on June 30th and July 1st. [ read
more __ ]
may 03rd, 2012 :: One big sweep,
from ULTRA-modern to post-experimental (ii) :: 
My favorite swarm of houseflies by now also knowing how to U-L-T-R-A, lots of other ding-dong, a brandnew T-shirt, tasty cakes, high expectations, a great many Minny Pops, all sort of liquids and
a canceled last New Moons performance... I carried all of it back home with me. [ read
more __ ]
april 02nd, 2012 :: One big sweep,
from ULTRA-modern to post-experimental (i) :: 
A (1st) ULTRA-craze wrap up, about the author of the ULTRA book becoming a Thai music
playing, mice torturing Deadhead, and in-cluding an ex-clusive, post-experimental, New Moons track: Back to Nature
(based on Hanns Eisler's Rückkehr zur Natur). [ read
more __ ]
February 4th, 2011 :: "Is it Music?
Is it Art?" ::
Resonance & sound art at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, the Netherlands, during the last three weeks of December 2011.[
]
January 22nd, 2011 :: Sound
Forest & Unsound: Resonance in Riga & Krakow :: A lavishly
illustrated report of the presentations of the Resonance sound art
installations last fall, at the Sound Forest Festival in Riga, Latvia
and the Audio Art Festival in Krakow, Poland...[
]
December 7th, 2011 :: Resonance
in Maastricht - 2nd edition ::
December 2011 showcase of Resonance sound art works at the Jan van
Eyck Academy in Maastricht (the Netherlands): Evelina Deicmane, Paul
Devens ans Maia Urstad [
]
August 11th, 2011 :: "There's these noises
in my head, they just do not let me in peace" ::
In Berlin I talked to Latvian artist Evelina Deicmane in her studio at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien. About a flying lake, emotional machines
and waking up in Berlin, with a drilling... Evelina's Resonance installation The Long Day can be seen/heard at Kunsthaus Meinblau, until September 11th. [
]
august 05th, 2011 :: (I
can't get no) Immediate Satisfaction - Diktat in Berlin [iii]
:: 
'... and the evening and the morning were the third day...'
On Sunday June 19th, Diktat Sucked Orange... Third in a series
of fine illustrated & sounding underground fringe reports: Out on
the Tempelhof, and living rooms as a natural habitat. [ read
more __ ]
july 31st, 2011 :: 'Komm
raussi!' - Diktat in Berlin [ii] :: 
'... and the evening and the morning were the second day...' Diktat in Berlin.
Second in a sunny series of fine illustrated & sounding underground fringe reports.
On the IN-side, and on the OUT-side. Deep thoughts. [ read
more __ ]
july 29th, 2011 :: 'Where
ist Ausland?' - Diktat in Berlin [i] :: 
And the evening and the morning were the first day... Over
the weekend of June 17-19, Diktat went to Berlin. First in a fine
summer series of lively and illustrated reports, including extracts
from Diktat's Berlin performances. [ read
more __ ]
july 23rd, 2011 :: Halfway
:: 
Some reflections on a first half year of Seventy Seconds, my 10-seconds-per-day
audio diary for the year 2011, which you can listen to - full &
unabrigded - as the 10th
episode of Chicago based experimental radio broadcast Radius.
[ read
more __ ]
june 28th, 2011 :: the end of an arm, the end
of an era :: 
A couple of pictures from Jorge Macchi's Music Stands Still, now showing at the S.M.A.K. in Ghent. From there with Paul Devens I drove on to
Maastricht, just in time to one more time see Vasiliki Tsagari dance her heart out, at the Last but Least Party, that was bidding farewell to the Art Space
Rondeel in Maastricht. [ read
more __ ]
april 19th, 2011 :: (Topographic
[Table) Topographique] :: 
A pittoresque report of A Table!'s eventful
recording sessions in the Pianofabriek in Brussels, laying down the
sound material for the A Topographic Table album. Two weeks
full of musical ambition and sonic extravagance. [ read
more __ ]
march 10th, 2011 :: Alle
utopieën zijn van gisteren :: 
Short story (in Dutch) dedicated to Jean Bordé, 'contrebassiste militant de l’improvisation libre' (Jazz Magazine):
the Jimi Hendrix of the double bass...
With a rare & previously unreleased DIKTAT track, recorded live at Le CLeUB in Paris, on november 15th, 2008... [
read more__
]
feburary 10th, 2011 :: SB
Tweet Digest #11 :: 
Esther et Pierre * Did Captain Beefheart sell Filter Queens? * Why
the Bells in Maastricht did not ring this winter * Esther will sell
me anything I want * A QR Code * The Unbearable Fleeting of Time *
The Best Things in Life are Utterly Useless [ read
more __ ]
january 11th, 2011 :: Caught
in the flux of history ::
Belgian musician and sound artist Pierre Berthet talks with Har$ on
hitting things, Filter Queens, drops on tin cans and extending
deliberately broken speakers. His installation Extended Drops
is currently showing in Intro In Situ's workspace in Maastricht (nl).
[
]
november 28th, 2010 :: Foundtaping,
Maps & Shadows (@ Shift Basel, i) :: 
I lost my soles in Basel. But also premiered the brand new Found
Tapes Map interface and presented an overview of my 8 full
years of foundtaping brought together in the Found Tapes Exhibition, that dazzling "siren song of decaying media",
at the 2010 Shift Electronic Arts Festival. [ read
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november 04th, 2010 :: Noise
and Capitalism :: 
I read 'Noise &
Capitalism', a bundle of essays published about a year ago by the audiolab division of Arteleku.
I also listened to the 26 minutes piece that noish~ made from the sound he obtained
by reading the book.pdf as an audio file...
[ read
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september 26th, 2010 :: Bonjour
Schiphorst! Farewell Blue Vase! [ and then i joined the avantgarde
(iii) ] :: 
A colorful and re:sounding
description of A Table's sunday morning performance at this summer's
Schiphorst Avantgarde Festival, and how, by throwing in a tenner taken
from their hard-earned fee, the illustrious duo together with Jean-Hervé
Péron and his family became the proud co-owners of a freshly
sprayed Danner. [ read
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september 15th, 2010 :: Life
is a Color Wire [i] (Het Leven is een Gekleurde Draad)
:: 
We get to know Minckeleers and 't Mooswief, two statues on
the marketplace in Maastricht (the Netherlands). The one is situated
to the north of the old town hall, the other to its south. One holds
an eternal burning flame, the other spits water into a pentagonal
basin through five metal fish-heads. [ read
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august 22th, 2010 :: Yi
Sang in Seoul: Rebirth :: 
A distant view on the second part of the Yi Sang project, in the Space Hamilton in Seoul (South Korea): bicycle rides, Read me a Poem, and a streaming pulp performance
with a pale red-haired woman, bathing, a strong taste for chocolate hard as stone and a
gramophone for a suitcase... [ read
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august 14th, 2010 :: 'And
what about Yi Sang?' (... à Paris, iv) :: 
At the soirée littéraire in La Générale, Paris XI, I introduced three fine ladies who honored the elusive Korean poet.
One wore a white mask. They made him blush and
sometimes chuckle. A strange/ideal symmetrical translation, a Lego architect, Yi Sang in the box, and
the unbearable reversal of time... [ read
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august 02nd, 2010 :: SB
Tweet Digest #6 :: 
* A German Twietenstelle, * Rietveld graduation show pics, * Chinoiseries d'été,
AND * six (6) classic SB-related
albums now available as high quality digital downloads @Bandcamp,
including the first ever official digital re-issue of two very rare and
highly collectible early 1980 releases by the legendary Young Lions.
[ read
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july 06th, 2010 :: The
Great Johnny Hallyday Meltdown :: 
On the sunny Sunday afternoon of June 27th with the Wurst-Brücke and Tapetronic I swang, swinged and swung in Blenno's Povera Park down
in Viroflay. That very same evening Aux Combustibles yet another Parisian club manager threw a tantrum
in view of our public appeal. Still, Ultimate Capitalists was one of our best performances sofar this year.
[ read
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june 17th, 2010 :: Sunny
soundy days [KT2010, iii] :: 
In Maastricht, along with a tree, I dreamt of Uirapuru, I strummed an electric egg cutter guitar, watched lava dance and then solemnly reflected upon the sense
of it all in
a room set up to that very purpose by Bonne Knibbe. Afterwards, we had a beer. [ read
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june 10th, 2010 :: A
kitchen table and a game of cards [KT2010, ii] :: 
(Spoerri, Filliou, Coca Cola) - About three 'empty rooms' that were on show at three different locations of this year's euregonial, untitled, Kunsttour in Maastricht,
the Netherlands, and how all three of them were connected... [ read
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june 03rd, 2010 :: Classified
may 30th, 2010 :: Autonoom
en untitled :: 
The 11th Maastricht Kunsttour opened on May 22nd with a sunny breakfast discussion on art, autonomy and cultural politics
in the Timmerfabriek's backyard.
Read about Karl Marx's sister Sophie and how I and myself (geen woorden, maar daden!) became future tenants of 1 square meters of
Maastricht's most exciting Artspace... [ read
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may 13th, 2010 :: attention
! oeuvre d atable :: 
A Table! re-made Daniel Spoerri's kitchen table,
the way it was on October 17th, 1961, at precisely 15h47, in his Parisian hotel room.
It is our principal instrument in an upcoming series of A
Spoerri Table! events. The premiere was on May 7th,
during the Parcours d'Artistes Saint-Gilles, in Brussels. [ read
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april 18th, 2010 :: Fecit
Venetiis 1754 (Muzzix #10, Lille) :: 
With both the Ana-R and A Table! we recently spent a great weekend of sonic demo(n)creation
at the Muzzix festival in Lille (France). Read, see and hear in
this colorful report all about new blood,
the fine but long forgotten art of Stradivarius bashing,
and Rébus' Red Hatter: a solipsist-musician's wet dream ... [ read
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april 02nd, 2010 :: SB
Tweet Digest #2 ::
...
march 30th, 2010 :: ong'luk
= un-luck, that is: malheur, twice... :: 
Late february Diktat did a very fine performance at La Machinante.
But when we packed our gear, JB found the neck of his 150 year old
double bass had been broken (repair: 5000 €)... Even
more memorable and unique was our rendering of Stockhausen's Right
Durations, some weeks later at the Eglise Saint-Merry. But the
morning after we found some rascal stole the wheels of JJ's car (repair:
700 €)... If someone wants to stop us that badly, it surely
means we're on to something BIG... [ read
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march 20th, 2010 :: Paris
Tape Run (2009): tous les sens uniques :: 
Also pop hop pretty girls are onomato-peeing
"Pfffjizzzz, schroenkkk, zschroenkkkk !" these days. And Staaltape's release party for the 2009 Parisian Tape Run (a relay recording compilation cassette in '70/80's mail art style) was a big hit.
Another collectors' slum? Or cassette culture's second coming? [ read
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march 18th, 2010 :: Le
son de l'art à sa naissance (Art's Birthday 2010) :: 
Commissioned by the Swiss RSR Espace 2, my present to art on the occasion of its this year's birthday became an elaborate
audio-bio-faction and a sonico-musical reflection on the concept of being born.
Its key-ingredient is a recording made one summer night in 2003, when I
found myself tumbling into a hole in the floor of a dark garage somewhere in Paris,
with my dictaphone on and recording... [ read
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march 01st, 2010 :: SB
Tweet Digest #1 ::
...
february 20th, 2010 :: White
Fungus :: 
is the name of a bi-annual
politically outspoken and independent experimental art magazine, now spreading from Taichung City in Taiwan,
but still with firm roots in New Zealand...
"Magazine? You can't mean... printed...? As on... paper!?"
Ah! Yes, I can! Printed. As on... paper!
[ read
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february 13th, 2010 :: If
only the goal of our journey were nearer, we all would be jolly long
less :: 
Twelve
particularly fine minutes of music, brough to you in a
podcast recorded live during last month's edition of the Rhinoceros'
laboratory, on sunday january 24th at Les Combustibles in Paris,
France. Hear my Korg MS20, listen to my dictaphone, feel how they are hitting the Yamaha... Feat. Anthony Carcone (_*****_), on guitar &
electrix. [ read
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february 05th, 2010 :: syntax,
semantics and landscape with trains (Audiotoop [ii]) :: 
About Alessandro Bosetti's The Pool and the Soup, a fine
guided spoken improvisation (as performed october last year at Extrapool
in Nijmegen), which actually reminded me of Diktat.
That same day at Extrapool there were Jason Zeh and Ben Gwilliam,
the view of whose BromBron table suddenly reminded me of
a small room in the flat of friends of my parents, in the very early
1960s. [ read
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february 04th, 2010 :: Médium
Hang Esztétika :: 
The
first part of the ongoing study on EAI
as a metalanguage, that, together with Rébus, I embarked upon a couple
of years ago, just recently was published as part of an Hungarian
book called Médium Hang Esztétika - Zeneiség a mediális technológiák
korában. (That Google-translates: "Medium Sound Aesthetics -
Performance in the medial age of technology".) [ read
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february 01st, 2010 :: 18
x 100 Sec. Sound <.best_before.> Letters :: 
"Yesterday's a work in progress" ... Wrapping up the 2009 Best Before Sound Art Tour with a fine free CD for your
download-ing pleasure, and the evocation of ghosts and voices from within the electromagnetic field on
a path, rough 'n' lonely, towards an art built from sole fact and nil fiction... [ read
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january 05th, 2010 :: ookoi:
onderood :: 
You dug
it while it was happening, live on twitter. Now read the full report on the ookoi's blitz-appearing in the Rotterdam Boijmans
Van Beuningen Museum, as opening act for last sunday's live broadcast
of Moritz Ebinger's Radio Red, hitting the pitch and setting the tone for pop
and social media, new
and old, in the early tens. [ read
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december 12th, 2009 :: years
will have to run out sometime (Audiotoop [i]) :: 
About the weekend that the good people from the Nijmegen Extrapool
descended upon the Amsterdam Occii. About guitars, drums
'n' tape; and about the audiotoop that I performed there:
why did that particular piece become the way it was?
In the mindbogglingly deep faraway end of it none of this would have ever been, were it not for the right honourable, for the baroness Thatcher.
[ read
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january 01st, 2010 :: Y've
got the music in ya :: 
Here's some good news to kick-start you off into a new decade: we're all musical! It's a matter of scientific fact!
And I got it from the horse's mouth, as I spent Christmas with Dutch music cognition pioneer Henkjan Honing's book. It carries
the message as its title: Iedereen is muzikaal.
About rhythm and auditory perspective. And how we landed within time. [ read
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november 15th, 2009 :: Prof.
dr. Cassette :: 
"How do you do it?" asked Cecilia A. (from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) in a recent email.
"What's the best method? Crack open a cassette shell? Reel-to-reel?" ... Cecilia posed honest questions. Here they get honest answers ...
[ read
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november 08th, 2009 :: A found tapes
meta-map :: 
More dates with Penelope Audela, and a first mention of the writing of "Alle Geluid Van De Wereld", my dutch/english monograph on
the noble art of foundtaping (to appear early 2010 at the very latest). Acoustic fingerprinting
is the method that underlies commercial audio search applications like Shazam and Midomi. We spent
a little time with both of them. [ read
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november 11th, 2009 :: Waiting
in the Wings, often :: 
I asked Maja whether she could get me a typewriter.
"I have a Hermes Media 3," she told me ...
And thus I sat in
my writer's bin, Waiting in the Wings, the first weekend of october, in the Wunderkammer that is the Maastricht
Artspace Het Rondeel, at the time of this writing sadly threatened to soon no longer be ...
[ read
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december 05th, 2009 :: Naughty
noughtie (-) / chop shop (-) :: 
Will that day be warm and bright? Or will it snow? It's not-another
noughties flashback, but a firm jump ahead to an even earlier future:
that of the 1990s and my chop shop crammed with its n(a)(o)ghties.
Well... anything for you, dear !... So now hush, and get me that recycled
cassette tape necktie ... [ read
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january 23rd, 2010 :: Rowland
S. Howard † :: 
Just before the turn of the decade, on december 30th 2009, Rowland
S. Howard died. Some thoughts and some relics: a couple of b&w
pictures that I took on one of the evenings The Birthday Party
hit the London Venue (july 16th, 1981). [ read
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january 13th, 2010 :: Art
fleas :: 
Pushing last Christmas we set up a table at the Générale's Puces de l'Art. Even though we failed
to sharpen my toppling cassettes world record, we still were the tropical spice
in the Art fleas' ice, and joined forces with Blenno and the Wurst-Brücke for a memorable rendering of
the Dutch national anthem. Our Wilhelmus Van Nassouwe is the edition's podcast.
[ read
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february 17th, 2010 :: public
places, hidden islands :: 
Every once in a while I have this sudden urge to hear Beethoven symphonies all day long. Why?
I went through this, ad nauseam, with my analyst. She thinks I keep the reason stowed away on a little ile, that I've been hiding ever since my early youth. Bref.
I guess she's right. But once more I gave in to the urge... and found Ludwig Van
leading me to the perfect scene for a Diktat... [ read
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Lang Leve Lou Ottens!
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