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D I K T A T

is a Dutch/French electroacoustic alliance, that combines the idiomatics of EAI (Electro Acoustic Improvisation) with extreme contrapuntal thinking, the asymmetry of free declamation and the spontaneity of associative, surrealist collage. The playback and manipulation of a multitude of (often voice based) lo-fi analog recordings (either found or custom made) and the occasional use of odd home-built electronic contraptions, provide the threads, that, through the double bass's steer and stitch, are woven into a tense, coherent & multi-layered sonic fabric of varying narrational density. There's no sound without a story. There are no stories without sound ...

  1. Jean Bordé - double bass
  2. Emmanuel Rébus - dictaphones
  3. Rinus van Alebeek - dictaphones
  4. Harold Schellinx - dictaphones

... in silence [and / then / or] in whirls of voices, sounds and furies ... [while] ... sometimes they speak together ... they sometimes fight ... sometimes they clash ... [and / then / or] cook, bottle, break, jump, hump, thump, friggle, giggle, wiggle, cheat, beat, read, lower, higher, upper, nozzle, bottle, bumper, whimper, slimper, rimple ... [out / in] dutch, french, japanese, german, english, arabic, spanish, thaï, arabic, italian, korean, swahili, vietnamese, yo, arabic, and ...

r e a d

  1. - (I can't get no) Immediate Satisfaction
  2. - 'Komm raussi!'
  3. - 'Where ist Ausland?'
  4. - Diktat à La Machinante
  5. - Diktat @ SOP and Le Grand Cirque
  6. - Diktat: Sturm der Liebe
  7. - Diktat met double Swiss
  8. - Diktat in Breda
  9. - Diktat and Boezem
  10. - Diktat in Den Haag
  11. - Alle utopieën zijn van gisteren (in Dutch)

b u y

"Sturm der Liebe" [bootleg]
This DVD contains the full 50 minutes long video montage of 'Sturm der Liebe' footage taken from YouTube that was projected during the july 13th, 2008, DIKTAT Big Band performance at La Comète 347, Paris X. The DVD's soundtrack consists in the full live recording of the 'Big Band' performance. All SdL television footage was used without permission. For collectors, limited & numbered edition. (€ 13,=)

l i s t e n

  1. Hollywood Live au CLeUB, Paris - November 15th, 2008
  2. In Berlin (IN-side / OUT-side) - June 17-19th, 2011

contact

diktatkwartet [at] harsmedia [dot] com

performances
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  1.  /\*/\  [01_17th, 2012 ] La Générale Nord-Est, Paris, France
  2.  /\*/\  [07_19th, 2011 ] Sucked Orange Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  3.  /\*/\  [07_19th, 2011 ] Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany
  4.  /\*/\  [07_18th, 2011 ] Staalplaat store, Berlin, Germany
  5.  /\*/\  [07_18th, 2011 ] Rütlistrasse + Lohmühlenbrücke + Wachtturm, Berlin, Germany
  6.  /\*/\  [07_17th, 2011 ] Ausland, Berlin, Germany
  7.  /\*/\  [02_27th, 2010 ] La Machinante, Montreuil, France
  8.  /\*/\  [12_14th, 2009 ] Café de Paris, Paris XI, France
  9.  /\*/\  [03_13th, 2009 ] - "Friday 13th: Le Grand Cirque". DIKTAT meets NOZAL CUBE and BROCANTE SONORE. La Comète 347, Paris X, France
  10.  /\*/\  [03_09th, 2009 ] - Unplugged live@SONGS OF PRAISE, Radio AligreFM, Paris XI, France
  11.  /\*/\  [02_21st, 2009 ] - with Anthony Carcone (g.), Les poissons noiseux / rue de la Glacière, Paris XIII, France
  12.  /\*/\  [11_29th, 2008 ] - DIKTAT meets BROCANTE SONORE, La Petite Rocquette, Paris XI, France
  13.  /\*/\  [11_15th, 2008 ] - with Anthony Carcone (g.), Le CLeUB, Paris XI, France
  14.  /\*/\  [07_15th, 2008 ] - "Unplugged", la Veilleuse, Paris XX, France
  15.  /\*/\  [07_14th, 2008 ] - "Branché" (Placard XI), with Jean-Jacques Duerinckx (s), Elena Dunkelman (voc), Yoko Miura (toy-piano), la nouvelle Générale, Sèvres, France
  16.  /\*/\  [07_13th, 2008 ] - "Big Band" (Sturm der Liebe / Orage d'Amour), with Jean-Jacques Duerinckx (s), Elena Dunkelman (voc), Yoko Miura (p), Pascal Marzan (g), Anthony Carcone (g), Frantz Loriot (v), Comète 347, Paris X, France
  17.  /\*/\  [06_15th, 2008 ] - DIKTAT meets JEUDI, l'Ogresse, Paris XX, France
  18.  /\*/\  [11_09th, 2007 ] - DIKTAT meets BUG, La Comète 347, Paris X, France
  19.  /\*/\  [09_30th, 2007] - Academiesingel, Breda, the Netherlands
  20.  /\*/\  [09_29th, 2007] - BUTT Festival, Electron, Breda, the Netherlands
  21.  /\*/\  [09_08th, 2007] - On the beach, Scheveningen, the Netherlands
  22.  /\*/\  [09_07th, 2007] - Ground Two Festival, King Kong, The Hague, the Netherlands
  23.  /\*/\  [04_29th, 2007] - La Générale, Paris XX, France
  24.  /\*/\  [12_15th, 2006], with Jean-Jacques Duerinckx (s) - Rotonde de Choc, Paris X, France
  25.  /\*/\  [12_08th, 2006] - Gallerie Immanence, Paris XV, France
  26.  /\*/\  [04_07th, 2006] - Project 101, Paris IX, France