may 14th, 2008 :: free
lodgings, free food :: 
In Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's From here to ear some thirty small, but loud and boisterous, sing birds are
kept in a wide and light room of a parisian gallery, thus turned aviary. Flitting around and perching on
a number of horizontally supported electric guitars, each connected, via a 'big muff' distortion unit, to
a stage amplifier, the guitar-birds make 'sweet, sweet music'. They get their free lodgings, drink and
food in return. It's the way of the world. Elegant and simple ...
may 11th, 2008 :: a
new kind of water :: 
there's a giant blue Boeing tjif tjaf flying overhead, the silent un-sound
of water and a police car rushing backwards along a forest path in 'Air, Earth,
Water, Fire', six-and-a-half minutes of uTube with sounds and visions from
our soundwalk in the Amsterdam Forest ... In Seconds all falls into place,
in one more pretty uTube signed by Rebus: 'The Music Box' ...it is about vibrations,
which is the stuff that sounds are made of, and how with Jodi Rose we made
a brand new passerelle across the Seine sing, on a funny sunny friday afternoon
in april ... 'See me, feel me, touch me, steel me' ...
may O4th, 2008 :: i-tag-u
| u-tag-me :: 
a portrait of the author as a musical tagcloud, derived from the traces kept
by LastFM of his listening habits ... Alfa jazz, beta pop, experimental, the
vitamin b12, field recording, avantgarde, ultra, krautrock, faction ... just
to name a few, all were grabbed and put together by a little online script
written and made available by Anthony Liekens ...
april 22nd, 2008 :: Saskatoon:
à demain (tot morgen !) :: 
'Tot Morgen' is part of Simulcast 1.0b: Saskatoon. It's a sound piece for
seven consecutive nights in Saskatoon, Canada. It plays from sunset to sunrise, 'until, again the roar of dawn.'
It was made from one single chord, and a whole lot of flies ... Maybe you should drink.
Maybe you shouldn't. But if you do, then take care to stick to whiskey or vodka or beer. 'Tot morgen (à demain)' is
no wine-piece ...
april 18th, 2008 :: Mythical beasts, corsets and kites
:: As a sonic environment for Yvonne Oerlemans' Mythical Beasts installation (to be visited still,
daily until the end of the first week of may, in the Visitor's Center of the Amsterdamse Bos), I
composed an hour-long soundtrack, that is endlessly repeating.
It is called: Where are you, Wolf? ...
On the occasion of the show's opening, on sunday march 2nd, we went for a walk to discover and
record the sounds of this 'Amsterdam Forest': an isle of artificial green, cut in the middle by a busy
highway like a pie by a chainsaw, enveloped in the continuous distant low-ish drone of the busy life
in the dutch capital, and whipped by the roar of airliners soaring onto the adjacent Schiphol airport
every other minute or so ...
april 14th, 2008 :: Dung, dung, dung, beetle, bone, bone, dung, dung
:: In the Louvre's 39 galleries dedicated to paintings from the northern schools, the flemish artist
Jan Fabre traced a meandering monodic path marked by many large but often transient and
fragile looking objects built from thousands of iridescent dung beetle elytra, slices of bone and
angel hair.
A flamboyant, repetitive and obsessive mix of body fluids, angels, warriors and carnivorous insects,
that is cartoonish, jubilant ... and profoundly optimistic ...
march 30th, 2008 :: Boezem (suite)
:: Thanks to Diktat's secret action in Breda on sunday september 30th, 2007 (that is, today precisely half a year ago),
and the 'noise' we made, the city of Breda has assured Marinus Boezem that his 'Visual Sound Project' will be restaured
and that soon his voice will sound again on the corner of the Academiesingel and the Willemstraat ...
march 30th, 2008 :: Au clair de la lune :: "... if
the air we breathe is the never-failing historian of the sentiments we have uttered, earth, air, and ocean, are
the eternal witnesses of the acts we have done," Charles Babbage wrote, in 1837 in his 'Ninth Bridgewater Treatise' ...
So listen to the sound that was inscribed on a phonautogram made in France, in april 1860, and recently dug up from a parisian
archive. Then read about ancient pottery recordings, and sound inscribed in paint stroked along an artist's canvas ...
march 16th, 2008 :: "I did not need that string
anyway ..." :: Reverberations Paris-New York : everybody having an awful lot of art/rock/FUN with Rhys Chatman's Guitar Trio
at Studio Campus in Paris, and - not lightly to forget - David Watson's bagpipes ...
march 15th, 2008 :: 
:: For Décibels, a saturday evening
program of the french national radio France Culture, Anthony Carcone
made a reportage about and around the Found
Tapes Exhibition ... Now
listen to this ...
february 24th, 2008 :: The
Great Washing :: In search of a music that does not make sound ... about
ookoi's l'Ecoute, 'Live Beyond the Paradiso' and the end of art ... about
Olivier Vadrot's 'kiosque electronique' (a mobile placard), and the Brocante
Sonore and Har$ performing chez Fukiko, a japanese hairdresser in Vincennes,
France ...
february 12th, 2008 :: Karlheinz' Song of Praise ::
For a special tribute edition of Aligre FM's "Songs of Praise" I dug up the original audio cassette recording of
our 1982 interview with Karlheinz Stockhausen; on the process of composing the thirteenth piano piece (Lucifer's Dream),
on the nature of time, on pop music, on what's wrong with collage, and on the 'terrible decadence' of western culture,
and western music in particular ...
february 08th, 2008 :: Dead composers and a hairdresser (japanese) :: About
an upcoming performance with the brocante sonore at a japanese salon de coiffure in the heart of Vincennes,
about Avraamov's 'Symphony of Sirens' and how I found a trace of the mysterious long lost pre-futurist 'Symphonie
des Forces Mecaniques', written by the french composer Carol-Berard in 1908 (or was it 1910 ?) ...
january 06th, 2008 :: Restmuell
:: Tapes found on a german Restmuell bin and elsewhere in Cologne, about a
pretty poetic sort of inversion, a crown of thorns, a hanging cassette cemetery,
fast-forward-ing your granny, and restauring found cassettes while zipping
champagne at december's Dorkbot ...
december 05th, 2007 :: Kh Stockhausen (1928-2007)
december 04th, 2007 :: I'm
an island :: "It's not easy to be an island. There's water all around
you"... Read all about ookoi's residency at the Archipel Medialab on the dutch
isle of Ameland, november 13-20, 2007 ...
november 26th, 2007 :: All Hallow's Trivia (ii)
:: About a phonecall from Rob Scholte and 39 dutch names for marbles. How I became a member of the Andy Warhol Club, sneak pictured "Other Voices, Other Rooms" at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and way too much watched and listened to the Velvet Underground's "Symphony in Sound" from 1966. I then went to see Lou Reed's rather nondescript New York photographs in Rob Malasch's "Serieuze Zaken" gallery, only to buy a black bag with a yellow drawing of a cassette tape entitled "Music to Fuck and Fly" in the store next door. I took that bag to go shopping at Mediamatic's "El Hema" ...
november 08th, 2007 :: All Hallow's Trivia (i)
:: About free improvisation and the art of wearing ties, Brooklyn, celebrating Wiel's
birthday in Montevideo, a video impression of the Brocante Sonore from Brussels, and
playing live sudoku's at the Agence XP placard in Paris XIV ...
october 19th, 2007 :: Diktat in Breda - 2. boezem
:: Diktat squatted an abandoned piece of public sound art, on the corner of the Academiesingel
and WIllemstraat in Breda. We secretly performed, but many questions remained unanswered.
How was this 'open air sound cube' supposed to work? What sounds should one hear? Why is it
no longer functioning? What is going to happen to this piece of 'art refuse'? Who is
responsible? ... "A la recherche du Boezem perdu" ...
october 14th, 2007 :: Diktat in Breda - 1. dutch angle
:: about snackbars and post-trash, about doctor Bibber
and princess Maxima ... about how dutch tolerance at heart is merely *apparent*
acceptance of many_thing 'other', and covers up a deep-rooted
xenophobia ...
september 25th, 2007 :: New York @ 9/11 :: Two weeks ago I took an early plane from Paris to New York. It may have been mere
coincidence, but there were not very many with me on this particular 9/11 flight,
apart from a large group of orthodox american jews that, as so many Jack-in-the-boxes,
all the way kept on jumping up from their seats to lay tefillin ...
september 20th, 2007 :: Diktat in Den Haag :: Diktat went to The Hague in the Netherlands, to perform at a Tic-Tac feast in King-Kong.
All part of the Ground 2 festival. With retro-early-1980s feelings, an interlude for 67 trucks
and other assorted vehicles, a mysterious whitish powder, and a secret performance on the
Scheveningen beach ...
september 04th, 2007 :: "leve
ookoi !", 3. About Vicky's Tapemosphere at the Maastricht Kunsttour, and
the Vogelvlucht/Downunder event of sunday may 27th, with contributions by
Wiel's and students from the dutch Academy for Pop Culture (who were in Hollum,
on the isle of Ameland), by ookoi (in the Art Garage in Maastricht), and from
Xiamen, China by Yariv Alter Fin, who las week unexpectedly and to great dismay
of his many friends, students and colleagues, choose to end his life.
august 19th 31st, 2007 ::
hurts like a warehouse ... Celebrating five years of soundblog ...
Watch me sing and dance among, with and inside
degraded german bunkers on the isle of Rhe ...
august 22th, 2007 ::
Let's Dance ... ! all about avatars ... and
das kleine in Second Life ... about Hefferman dancing ... Dresscode Avatar ... Transponderfish's Transversalia & SL-art in general,
loving one's virtual double, and how even ookoi went all SL-psychedecybercosmic at the opening of the Maastricht Kunsttour ...
"Then later that evening it rained cats and dogs..."
august 12th, 2007 ::
Certified Reconditioned At this year's Kunsttour in Maastricht,
the Netherlands the ookoi were the invité d'honneur of the Urban Myths New Media project ...
Now that's B I G ... ! Including dreams of Mick Jagger, a wooden cabin in the midst of Sologne woods,
blackberries, fox pee and mushrooms ...
july 16th, 2007 :: Wash (Not Wash) ::
Unlike Didier C., who on 3 consecutive evenings of collective cleansing at Montreuil's
MACH'Inante transformed himself into a cloud, while driving along the french highway
at 80 miles an hour and listening to Ornette Coleman playing, I suddenly and quite
unexpectedly - bljoeeppp! - disappeared ...
july 01st, 2007 :: Back to Berlin, 3_iii. ('dinges' - final) ::
In the fifth and final entry dedicated to the second edition of das kleine field recordings festival, that
took place in Berlin in february of this year, we finalize 'Back to Berlin', and tell all about our own
contributions to the festival ...
june 23rd, 2007 :: The Ministry of Silly Crackles ::
"Je n'aime pas la musique contemporaine ..." We pulled our crackle boxes and started our noisy business, right on the doorstep of the french ministry of culture,
which thus for some thirty, forty minutes became the Ministry of Silly Crackles ...
june 16th, 2007 :: Mo' Better More-Tapemosphere ::
"Chase away all my fear ..."
may 17th, 2007 :: Zang-ussi :: Oh,
and by the way, monsieur Satie, weren't you gay? Sure that you would have
l o v e d Madame P.'s act in your lifetimes ...
may 16th, 2007 :: Washing,
dirtying, multiplexing :: De la de-lavage a la cis-avantgarde ... getting
down to it at Montreuil's MACH'Inante
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