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aboutEver since the early eighties, like many, I have a regular companion: a Sony walkman. (It was a stereo one, at first. But already for many years now, I use a mono machine, which in fact is only suitable for use with the 'normal type' cassette tapes.) Unlike most, however, I never ever use my walkman to listen to music. It's my dictaphone. I use it to record. Whichever sounds for whatever reason wherever suddenly make me listen. I have a series of little notebooks (on the cover of the first one of which, long ago, I wrote the Dutch word 'snapschoten' - you will not find this in a dictionary; it is kind of a dutchification of the english word 'snapshots', of course) in which I write down date, place, time and a short description of each recorded fragment. In the course of the years this gave rise to an extensive collection of 'lo fi' recorded real life sound samples. Sound Chronicles
("Chronique Sonore") is a series of montages that I started
early 2000, making - pretty much exclusive - use of this collection of
'real life' recordings. 2. The second volume of the Sound Chronicles is the first in a series of (almost) unedited and (almost) one-take monophonic dictaphone recordings, that I call 'Zuivere Slaolie'. It has been recorded in Amsterdam on october 26th, 2005 between 12h00 and 13h00. The few edits and the compilation were done in the spring of 2006. |
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