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RAUDIO directs ookoi@E@rport, in Amsterdam on January 31st, 2009 :: twitterA live streaming audio & video extravaganza, from 12 - 17h (GMT + 1), in the Theaterzaal of the Amsterdam Conservatory ... with live contributions by the ookoi, Cécile Zylberajch, Tim Benjamin, Aris Baymzter, and more; live streaming contributions from around the world; video projections include the premiere of 'Icarus', part of Dick Tuinder's upcoming road movie 'Winterland' (read more in the previous post), with live sound by the ookoi ... Expect l'Ecoute, 2525, 1024 ... Watch out for Heesbeen !...
_useful links :_
Watch the ookoi@E@rport YouTube promo clip ... Follow the live text and image Twitters at twitter.com/ookoi ... Live audio stream url will be announced at raudio.nl, during the time of the event ...

A Glimpse of Heesbeen

january 31, 2009.

Yesterday fPcM and Jan Dietvorst drove from here to there, to the Nationaal Museum van Speelklok tot Pierement in Utrecht, to get Heesbeen, the street-organ that we are going to use in ookoi@E@rport, and bring her back over to the Amsterdam Conservatory ...
Here's a first glimpse ...

heesbeen
heesbeen


tags: Heesbeen, street organ, E@rport

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Read about the ookoi elsewhere:
ANNUAL, 1, december 2023 (Korm Plastics) - Green-tainted hyperbole, quailish quirks and summer-flies. The inscrutable genius of the ookoi.
eContact! 21.2, july 2023 - Towards an Unhearable Music. Conceptualism in the ookoi's art.
Gonzo #88, september/october 2008 - Zelfcomponerende Klankstukken

Read about the ookoi and Raudio and Stduio on the SoundBlog:
(2023, december 31) - d.ookoi writes b.ookoi (ii) - A Year in the Rear (2023)
(2023, december 16+) - Awesome Foursomes (xi) - No. 178
(2023, december 16+) - Awesome Foursomes (x) - No. 789
(2023, december 16+) - Awesome Foursomes (ix) - No. 329
(2023, august 20) - Three days of residency at Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels
(2022, april 25) - Awesome Foursomes (viii) - No. 664
(2022, march 31) - Awesome Foursomes (vii) - No. 138
(2022, february 20) - Awesome Foursomes (vi) - No. 419
(2021, november 01) - Awesome Foursomes (v) - No. 954
(2021, august 20) - Awesome Foursomes (iv) - No. 793
(2021, july 18) - Awesome Foursomes (iii) - No. 562
(2021, july 09) - Awesome Foursomes (ii)- No. 284
(2021, june 21) - Awesome Foursomes (i) - No. 019
(2021, may 31) - d.ookoi writes b.ookoi (i)
(2020, january 26) - STDUIO Arti: aLife @Hal-fIve
(2020, january 25) - STDUIO Arti: The LⒶst Weekend
(2019, march 03) - ookoi 2.0: the remake of a spect[r]al b[r]and
(2017, april 12) - 1024
(2015, march 07) - The men once in green are now writing a book!
(2014, may 09) - You are NOT Hier!
(2013, july 03) - How to keep devils away
(2013, may 06) - Next Numbr!
(2012, june 24) - Ninja Fruit Plus Instruments
(2012, may 06) - Y.3 = Yltra !
(2012, may 06) - Our final gig / Ons laatste optreden
(2010, may 23) - 'Raise the trumpet, sound the drum'
(2010, april 02) - [Second Life and WudyWudy]
(2010, january 05) - ookoi: onderood
(2009, november 17) - Soli Deo Gloria !
(2009, october 10) - Project Icarus OST
(2009, august 24) - ookoi ShakeNRoll
(2009, july 18) - Pure . Reactive . Music . Hack Day
(2009, april 07) - "Blood and Bottom" (Raudi0GaGa)
(2009, february 21) - Insular arithmetic (ookoi toont)
(2009, january 31) - A glimpse of Heesbeen
(2009, january 15) - Rien à voir
(2008, october 02) - The right to be slow
(2008, june 06) - Raudio Graffiti: almost live !
(2008, february 24) - The Great Washing
(2007, december 04) - I'm an island
(2007, november 20) - Live Beyond the Paradiso, Amsterdam
(2007, september 04) - leve ookoi! (3)
(2007, august 22) - leve ookoi! (2)
(2007, august 12) - leve ookoi! (1)
(2007, april 12) - Back to Berlin [Raudio 11/15]
(2007, march 24) - Vicky, Killers and Avatars
(2007, february 15) - Every presentation is a premiere
(2007, january 25) - 1024 Waarden, by ookoi
(2007, january 19) - Preparations for a Second Life
(2006, november 05) - Cellarlar Heroes
(2006, october 20) - Funky shit
(2006, august 14) - placard : la générale
(2006, july 07) - de-'tails of lite house keeping'
(2006, may 06) - jam karet?
(2006, april 04) - 100+ new (r)audio philes ... [3] [Raudio 07]
(2006, march 20) - raudio @cosman's
(2006, march 12) - 100+ new (r)audio philes ... [2] [Raudio 07]
(2006, march 03) - 100+ new (r)audio philes ... [1] [Raudio 07]
(2005, october 12) - Raudio #06 [Raudio 06]
(2005, september 25) - 0 OK, 0:1, life on ze road
(2005, july 31) - Outside - Inside Paradiso
(2005, june 18) - Sand-Y da-Y #5-7 [Raudio 05]
(2005, june 05) - Sand-Y :: da-Y #04 - da birds
(2005, may 26-24) - Sand-Y :: da-Y #03, #02, #01 - Crew cut ; "The truth is out here" ; ::
(2005, may 14) - 9 Beet Stretch [Raudio Special]
(2005, march 31) - Raudio #04 :: "GespRek 1982-2005" [Raudio 04]
(2005, february 10) - raudio #3 (drie/three) [Raudio 03]
(2004, december 08) - pure sound [Raudio 02]
(2004, november 24) - other, and good news! [Raudio 01]
(2004, october 10) - raudio launched
(2004, september 24) - made in ameland
(2004, june 09) - boyzz buzz # listen!global corpus
(2004, may 20-31) - >∞-îl_o_tré

Read some of the ookoi's papers in pdf:
(2014) - Localized Sounds, Sounding Locations.
Presented at the International Symposium "Locative Media and Sound Art", Kortrijk (be)
(2007) - ookoi - Uptime Publishing Demonstration. (With Jay Needham.)

ookoi - The works:
(2015—now) :: writing b.ookoi: pick a number!
(2017) Weekly, 10'24" :: ookoi dooki podcast
(2014) HIER - iPhone app, 4 track album of localized Future Popp
(2013) Y ¬ Y.1024 (HTML5 web app)
(2013) Wandelzand - iPhone app, soundwalk for the Dutch isle of Ameland
(2012) Palm Top Theatre V2
(2010) WudyWudy, machina movie, filmed in Second Life by Evo Szuyuan (trailer)
(2009) ookoi_@_E@rport, Amsterdam - channel 19 of the RAUDIO IIIII streaming audio art iThing app
(2009) ShakeNRoll, Project Icarus OST - scenes for the RJDJ reactive music iPhone platform
(2009) iRingg®, iPhone ringtones
(2009) 2525 (video)
(2008) L'Ecoute - public space screen video
(2008) Jam Karet I & Jam Karet IV - pocket movies
(2007) Live beyond the Paradiso (USB-stick data-dump)
(2007) Leve ookoi! - channel 16 of the RAUDIO IIIII streaming audio art iThing app
(2007) 1024 (DVD)
(2007) 1024 Waarden - flash animation
(2006) "Roam Stroam" - channel 12 of the RAUDIO IIIII streaming audio art iThing app
(2006) Tijdrekken - flash animation
(2005) Sand-Y (Zandoog) - channel 7 of the RAUDIO IIIII streaming audio art iThing app
(2004) Muziektafel-Tafelmuziek (CD)
...
(1980) Signs and Symptoms




A Tingel Tangle Tape Machine
"? Footage or Fetish" @ Käämer 12, Brussels (i)

january 30, 2009.

When I arrived at Käämer 12 precisely two weeks ago, in the late afternoon of friday january 16th, it was still smelling of fresh paint. A band worth of beer-zipping polish workers were about to almost finish the make-over of the sort-of duplex gallery space at number 12 in the rue Crickxstraat, in the Saint-Gilles neighborhood in Brussels. Frans Claus had driven his small van up to Amsterdam earlier that day, to pick me up in Amsterdam, and transport the stuff to Brussels that I wanted to use for "? Footage or Fetish", my found tapes exhibition and installation, that was to open there on monday january 19th.

ateliers clausTrue to the Ateliers Claus's motto ("Between art and rock 'n' roll"), Gaia Carabillo intends to run Käämer 12 as a pole and partner of Les Ateliers - located just on the other side of the street - by opening up the space to expositions and events that often will be closely related to the music and performances happening there.
On the street-side the Käämer 12's ground and first floor have been merged into a single, about six meter high, space.

When Gaia and Frans first showed me the place (some time end of november last year), it was still filled up with quite a bit of bric-à-brac, and there were a couple of fragile looking but pretty large objects lying and hanging around. Flying creatures, sort of like chinese dragons. These 'mobiles' were works of the artist that used to have his studio there at the ground floor of rue Crickxstraat 12, and who is still living in one of the upper floor apartments in the building. His names is Martin Jauniaux. Small, thin, shabby appearance, and with no teeth left, Martin looks like one of the little gnomes that surely inhabit worlds similar to that of his flying dragons. But though being somewhat peculiar and unworldly, he seemed a nice enough person. (During the opening we found out, btw, that Martin is the brother of Tom Cora's widow, Catherine Jauniaux.)

I did not bring flying dragons, but took the rim of a bicycle wheel and three old record players with me to Brussels, wheel rim to use in a variation on the hanging cassette cemetery wind chimes that I installed at the door of the Raum für Kunst und Musik in Cologne, during the Tapemosphere event, in april 2007 (here is a direct link to the chimes' YouTube).
A bicycle wheel of course, like the hub caps (which I used in Takt in Berlin), is one among objects pretty likely to 'catch' and 'tangle' up free roaming tape ... Especially in the Netherlands, where so many people use bicycles, which sometimes are 'parked' outside for prolonged periods of time. (Found tape #316 is an example of tape found entangled in a bicycle wheel.)
It was the rim which during set-up found its place hanging from the high ceiling in the gallery's front space.

It has 36 spokes. To each, using a stretch of cassette tape, I attached parts of the broken plastic bodies of my collection of 'dead cassettes'; that is, the plastics that came with (some of) my found tapes ... Under the bungling bodies, I placed a square table. And on that table I put the three old record players.

tangle machine before tangle machine after

Onto each of the record players' turntables I glued a cassette-box.
In the middle of it all I put a plastic doll, that I found in Käämer 12's cellar and which reminded me of the doll's head that I had used in 2006 in the Klankwerkplaats in Maastricht, during the Sound Souvenirs event there. It was part of the stuff that Martin Jauniaux had left there, who was so kind as to allow me to use it.

When the record players are set into motion, the cassette boxes start to rhythmically hit the dangling cadavers, which in turn start hitting each other, and making their plastic 'clink-clanky' sounds ...

tangle machine

What I had not foreseen, but - in hindsight - is only logical, is that the periodic 'swooping' of the dangling cassette plastics leads to a 'tangling up' of the stretches of tape and the bits of plastics they are suspending. And over time, they wind up together, in groups of four, five or six ...

before after

In the YouTube clip below you see the 'Tingel-Tangle Tape Machine' in action. It was shot in the afternoon of friday january 23rd, while Jean-Jacques Duerinckx was warming up his sopranino saxophone.


That evening we did the first of three successive quartet performances (with Jonas Kocher on accordion and Raed Yassin on double bass). I had performed before with Jonas (though never as an accordionist), I performed before with Jean-Jacques; and Raed 'did it' before with Jonas ... But it was to be the first time the four of us we would play together.

Jean-Jacques took Raed and the double bass (which Frans had managed to borrow for him for use over the weekend, from one of the musicians rehearsing in the Ateliers' cellar spaces) in his car. I went with Jonas by tube, first walking from the rue Crickxstraat to the Porte de Hal. Brussels was wet and cold, like it had been pretty much all of the week. We took the metro to Botanique, and then walked again in the rain, to the rue Thiéfrystraat.

The evening had been proposed to us and was organized by Zahava Seewald, who cooked and served us a wonderful meal and had invited her friends to come over to listen to us perform in her living room. That was, of course, a very nice thing to do. It also come with the fait divers that this was the second time that Zahava organized a concert in her living room. The first time was a little over three years ago in november 2005, when it was Michel Doneda that played. I was one of the guests back then, completely by chance.
It was there that I first met Jean-Jacques.

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As said, in the YouTube clip you hear Jean-Jacques warming up his sopranino. He also recorded the second layer of the clip's soundtrack. That was on the evening of the opening, monday january 19th.

Of course I had to regularly disentangle the 36 cassette cadavers in Käämer 12, in order to allow for my Tingel-Tangle Tape Machine to make a brand new start ...

- next: Time and the weather -

[ related: More Tingel Tangle (feb. 04, 2009 - written for the Les Ateliers Claus Blog) ; A Tingel Tangle Found Tapes Machine (jan. 28, 2009 - written for the Les Ateliers Claus Blog) ]

tags: Brussels, found tapes, Zahava Seewald, Les Ateliers Claus

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Read all about Found Tapes, Foundtaping and Audio Cassettes (K7s) on the SoundBlog:

(2023, september 21) - Holland[s] Spoor
(2022, january 11) - 'The Art of K7', vol. 1
(2021, september 11) - The Art of K7 :: Sudokaising [ii] Time Folds
(2020, march 21) - The Art of K7 :: Sudokaising [i]
(2019, november 17) - Foundtapers & Foundtaping in Porto
(2019, februay 08) - CCNL :: Cassette Culture in Linz, Austria [ii] The aesthetics of erasure
(2019, januay 18) - CCNL :: Cassette Culture in Linz, Austria [i] Oral history
(2015, november 22) - Situasonnisme: the City Sonic Festival
(2014, june 19) - Lecture de Cassette
(2013, october 25) - The Art of K7 (prelude) [sketch/book, 1]
(2013, march 23) - "Ma première cassette était vierge..." Mourning & celebrating 50 years of compact cassette
(2012, july 26) - UnOfficial Release
(2010, november 28) - Foundtaping, Maps & Shadows at the Basel Shift Festival (i.)
(2009, november 15) - prof. dr. Cassette
(2009, november 08) - A found tapes meta-map
(2009, october 22) - Founded Tapapes
(2009, september 20) - Found Lost Sound
(2009, july 26) - "You, a bed, the sea ..." [ 1. Athens, sept. 28th 1994 ]
(2009, may 23) - It feels like summer in the city [KT2009, i]
(2009, february 19) - Time and the weather - "? Footage or Fetish" @ Käämer 12, Brussels (ii)
(2009, january 30) - A Tingel Tangle Tape Machine - "? Footage or Fetish" @ Käämer 12, Brussels (i)
(2009, january 15) - Kassettenkopf
(2008, december 08) - un-Tuned City (foundtaping in Neukölln)
(2008, september 14) - Psycho/Geo/Conflux in Brooklyn, NY __i.
(2008, august 31) - " Le chasseur " (foundtaping in brussels_ii)
(2008, june 18) - "Sing Laping, Sing !" (foundtaping in brussels_ i)
(2008, january 06) - Mo' Better Mo-Tapemosphere, 2. Restmuell
(2007, june 16) - Mo' Better Mo-Tapemosphere, 1. "chase away all my fear"
(2007, march 07) - Back to Berlin 2. Found Tapes
(2006, september 28) - jenny likes poets
(2006, september 06) - the sound of almost-no-more words
(2006, june 13) - fotex #49-51
(2006, june 04) - Sonofakunsttoer
(2006, april 17-25) - 'sudoku-solution' in 'de nor'
(2006, january 19) - ride, buggy, ride ... !
(2006, january 13) - axiologie for dummies
(2005, november 06) - found in maastricht
(2005, august 28) - tête-de-tettine / tête-de-cassette
(2005, august 23) - tape busters and coordinates
(2005, july 02) - Conquering America ...
(2005, june 03) - stationed soother
(2005, april 21) - Low-fi : the new Readymades
(2005, march 24) - d_Revolution #1 ...
(2005, february 07) - found tapes for spies
(2005, january 28) - "parfois l'amour tourne à l'obsession ..."
(2004, november 06) - à la tranquilité
(2004, july 20) - instructions in arabic
(2004, may 08) - phound stufphs
(2003, august 04) - new acquisitions #7, #8
(2003, may 04) - r2r
(2003, april 24) - splice and tape
(2003, april 15) - new acquisitions #5,#6
(2003, january 09) - finders keepers
(2002, november 24) - exhibit #4
(2002, november 08) - what fascinates me
(2002, november 07) - more on found tape montage
(2002, september 14) - detour
(2002, september 09) - 2 down, 3 to go
(2002, september 06) - magnetic migration


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