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D I K T A T

September 26th - October 3rd 2012, DIKTAT performed - inside/outside - in Allentown, Bethlehem, Washington & New York, meanwhile recording material for a Staaltape limited edition documentary pocket tape audiozine cassette-only release...

Latest: Audio Monitoring the Watergate Hotel

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"DIKTAT's concerts are recorded in the emergency of a wild energy. A little punks, a little academicians, they play outside, along a river, sometimes in galleries and walls disappear... The more one listens to this fierce album, the more comes to one's mind Moondog, who played in streets and ended his life in Germany. The choice to record this 'DIKTAT in Berlin' makes even stronger the assertion that these 4 are indeed the dignified heritors of the incredibly missed Louis Thomas Hardin..."
Flavién Gillié (The Field Reporter, Dec. 09, 2012)

DIKTAT 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...


Jean Bordé - double bass
Emmanuel Rébus - dictaphones
Rinus van Alebeek - dictaphones
Harold Schellinx - dictaphones

r e a d

  1. - Audio Monitoring the Watergate Hotel (2012)
  2. - Diktat outside/inside the Manufactured Normalcy Field (2012)
  3. - Magnetic Remanence (2012)
  4. - (I can't get no) Immediate Satisfaction (2011)
  5. - 'Komm raussi!' (2011)
  6. - 'Where ist Ausland?' (2011)
  7. - Alle utopieën zijn van gisteren (De Optimist 2011, in Dutch)
  8. - Diktat à La Machinante (2010)
  9. - Diktat @ SOP and Le Grand Cirque (2009)
  10. - Diktat: Sturm der Liebe (2009)
  11. - Diktat met double Swiss (2008)
  12. - Diktat and Boezem (2007)
  13. - Diktat in Breda (2007)
  14. - Diktat in Den Haag (2007)

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,=)

contact

diktatkwartet [at] harsmedia [dot] com

performances

  1. ... a r c h i v e d
  2.  /\*/\  [10_02nd, 2012 ] Incubator Arts Project, New York, USA
  3.  /\*/\  [10_01st, 2012 ] Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brooklyn, New York, USA
  4.  /\*/\  [09_28th, 2012 ] Sonic Circuits Festival, Washington DC, USA
  5.  /\*/\  [09_27th, 2012 ] Martin Art Gallery, Allentown, USA
  6.  /\*/\  [09_13th, 2012 ] Trash Vortex, Ivry s/ Seine, France
  7.  /\*/\  [01_17th, 2012 ] La Générale Nord-Est, Paris, France
  8.  /\*/\  [07_19th, 2011 ] Sucked Orange Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  9.  /\*/\  [07_19th, 2011 ] Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany
  10.  /\*/\  [07_18th, 2011 ] Staalplaat store, Berlin, Germany
  11.  /\*/\  [07_18th, 2011 ] Rütlistrasse + Lohmühlenbrücke + Wachtturm, Berlin, Germany
  12.  /\*/\  [07_17th, 2011 ] Ausland, Berlin, Germany
  13.  /\*/\  [02_27th, 2010 ] La Machinante, Montreuil, France
  14.  /\*/\  [12_14th, 2009 ] Café de Paris, Paris XI, France
  15.  /\*/\  [03_13th, 2009 ] - "Friday 13th: Le Grand Cirque". DIKTAT meets NOZAL CUBE and BROCANTE SONORE. La Comète 347, Paris X, France
  16.  /\*/\  [03_09th, 2009 ] - Unplugged live@SONGS OF PRAISE, Radio AligreFM, Paris XI, France
  17.  /\*/\  [02_21st, 2009 ] - with Anthony Carcone (g.), Les poissons noiseux / rue de la Glacière, Paris XIII, France
  18.  /\*/\  [11_29th, 2008 ] - DIKTAT meets BROCANTE SONORE, La Petite Rocquette, Paris XI, France
  19.  /\*/\  [11_15th, 2008 ] - with Anthony Carcone (g.), Le CLeUB, Paris XI, France
  20.  /\*/\  [07_15th, 2008 ] - "Unplugged", la Veilleuse, Paris XX, France
  21.  /\*/\  [07_14th, 2008 ] - "Branché" (Placard XI), with Jean-Jacques Duerinckx (s), Elena Dunkelman (voc), Yoko Miura (toy-piano), la nouvelle Générale, Sèvres, France
  22.  /\*/\  [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
  23.  /\*/\  [06_15th, 2008 ] - DIKTAT meets JEUDI, l'Ogresse, Paris XX, France
  24.  /\*/\  [11_09th, 2007 ] - DIKTAT meets BUG, La Comète 347, Paris X, France
  25.  /\*/\  [09_30th, 2007] - Academiesingel, Breda, the Netherlands
  26.  /\*/\  [09_29th, 2007] - BUTT Festival, Electron, Breda, the Netherlands
  27.  /\*/\  [09_08th, 2007] - On the beach, Scheveningen, the Netherlands
  28.  /\*/\  [09_07th, 2007] - Ground Two Festival, King Kong, The Hague, the Netherlands
  29.  /\*/\  [04_29th, 2007] - La Générale, Paris XX, France
  30.  /\*/\  [12_15th, 2006], with Jean-Jacques Duerinckx (s) - Rotonde de Choc, Paris X, France
  31.  /\*/\  [12_08th, 2006] - Gallerie Immanence, Paris XV, France
  32.  /\*/\  [04_07th, 2006] - Project 101, Paris IX, France