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2004 - december

• 31th :: pure sound injury "On the rise and fall of 'Sound Injury', a netsound project that creatively exploited the possibility provided by 'Yahoo groups' to attach sound files to group messages. The article accompanies a Raudio Stream Special, bringing you a 24/7 continuous webstream built from 12+ hours of archived sounding results of pure Sound Injury (2001-2003) ..." [133]
• 08th :: pure sound "There is no such thing ..." [132]

2004 - november

• 27th :: fear of silence "Not one sound fears the silence that ex-tinguishes it..." [131]
• 24th :: other, and good news! "Michael Peter's 'My2k' available at Burning Shed, and about all that's new on Raudio #01..." [130]
• 16th :: vicky's mosquitos: update #01 "On saturday october 23th, 2004, DaveX world-premiered a 'play with Vicky', live on his "It's Too Damn Early" show, broadcasted from WDBX 91.1FM, a not-for-profit community radio station in Southern Illinois..." [129]
• 15th :: water, wind, zeilen "Water, wind, sails is both the 46th Splogweek and a netCD-release, a 'themed' compilation of 18 mp3's, including DJ Harsman's oerdvlieg..." [128]
• 09th :: machines sonores "There was something magical about this box-on-a-table... it grinded on and on, until the cylinder gradually slowed down, and there was this last and ultimate !>ping<! that sounded, or a final !>ranggg<! of one of the bells, fading me back into the silence of the empty room..." [127]
• 06th :: à la tranquilité "The findings. That's one thing not likely ever to stop. For it doesn't take much. Just open your eyes. And look down..." [126]
• 03th :: ... [125]

2004 - october

• 31th :: sergeant pepper taught the band to play "Splogweek 45: It wasn't twenty, though, but thirty years ago, that I found myself diving head-first into 'progressive rock music', playing a 'mean' e(c)lect(r)ic guitar in "Quirass", my first-ever 'band' and first-ever musical project..." [124]
• 10th :: raudio launched "On october 7th, in a sunny Amsterdam, in front of the RAI building, we quietly launched Raudio, Park's brand new one audio thing mainstream..." [123]
• 03th :: shoboshobo #8 "Adventurous, energetic, at times humorous and subtle. These are fine musicians. And really now, doesn't that, more often than not, make all the difference?..." [122]

2004 - september

• 18th :: made in ameland "Some of the au- and video results of the Ameland project as a continuous 24 hours Park4DTV full screen webcast..." [121]
• 06th :: vicky's mosquitos "An open call to performing musicians all over the globe to 'come and play with Vicky'..." [120]

2004 - august

• 25th :: sonic ghosts "Five of my Sound Chronicles are included in the third edition of Drift's Sonic Ghosts programme..." [119]
• 21th :: icepie " ... for a moment one might suspect these transmissions to be en direct from the Kettenberg in Kürten ... but they soon turned out to be 'the stuff that spies are made of' ..." [118]
• 21th :: philippa's dream "'Philippa dreamt of a magical orchestral instrument, an electric triangle which you draw in the air ...' ... " [117]
• 19th :: alLicht "On wednesday evening's concert, at the 7th edition of the yearly Stockhausen Courses in Kürten, Hubert Mayer, dressed in Thursday's blue, threw a small handful of fresh incense into a metal bowl standing before him. 'Lasset mich komponieren ewig Musik ...,' he sang: 'Let me eternally compose music...'... " [116]

2004 - july

• 22th :: splogman's grand tour "Get back to 1987, meet a proud american radio maker in a French TGV, having a keen interest in the spelling of Dutch names, and join Splogman on a Beatles tour through Liverpool... " [115]
• 20th :: instructions in arabic "About the latest additions to our Found Tapes Exhibition, which include three bits of cassette tape containing spoken text, among which we stumbled upon, well ... instructions in arabic ... " [114]
• 09th :: face the music (the great vibrator) "One for the one that's moooving, the Great Vibrator ... On the 'what is?' of music and the 'art of vibrations' ... " [113]

2004 - june

• 19th :: cassette memories "When I read in the liner notes that Aki Onda is using 'cassettes he has been recording everywhere he goes for about ten years now', I said to myself: 'Well, well, well ...'... " [112]
• 08th :: boyzz buzz # listen!global corpus "... 'I will listen only once'..." [111]
• 07th :: dada instants "Yes , when the rather yet échte sketch been were , with gas tube onttrokken upon darmeigen fermentation, not within tardy, with doorgekookte sprout , sodden bonen kledders sauce and braadworst for instance , until enough bulk and the necessary blaaskracht ..." [110]

2004 - may

• 20th - 31th :: Ameland Diary

  1. 20th - tafelmuziek placard "Micro and macro, and all that's in between. From epsilon to infinity ... like a huge blank canvas waiting to be filled ..." [109]
  2. 26th - "... uuut hollum komt de musiek" "Just in case you're wondering, i mean ..." [108]
  3. 28th - "... met vele artiesten ..." "For I really do consider the fanfare to be one of the great 'sonic treasures' of the village ..." [107]
  4. 31th - old bears new tricks "There's drops, and there's clips, and there's glitches, but probably the interesting first thing one should mention about streaming live on the internet is the amazing lag, that, in our case, turned out to be as large as 6-10 seconds ..." [106]
• 08th :: fug like a bug "Breedster's major adult attraction however is this: fornication..." [105]
• 08th :: phound stufphs "A 'Found Sounds & Footage' event, in Project 101 in Paris. And all about finding baby soothers..." [104]

2004 - april

• 28th :: project > soundwave "Alan So's San Francisco based Me'd1.ate network have released the compilation cd 'Project > Soundwave', an eclectic collection of works from musicians, composers, sound, visual and installation artists, accompanied by a series of performance/listening events. The CD includes the HarS' piece 'Les années pop'. A very careful and well designed production. Recommended!..." [103]
• 12th :: more!!y2k "An extremely long post on the My2k project. A 'final report', that just kept growing and growing, until it stopped, and I decided to have a go at a year-long sound diary myself, 'for every remaining year of my life whose number is prime' ..." [102]
• 03th :: preconceived notions "One hour and a half of free, fun plunderphonics - from Chicago, Illinois..." [101]
• 03th :: googlism "Soundblog is due to search engines ? ..." [100]

2004 - march

• 22th :: olfasonority "I wouldn't smell a dead rat if I tread in one. It made me like the deaf man watching Don Giovanni at the opera, like the blind man at the movies listen to A clockwork orange, the evening I went to smell, ... eh... hear! ..., an 'olfasonoric improvisation'..." [99]
• 22th :: virtual theremin "About a fun little shockwave application, that used to be available as a free download from the BBC's web site, but it no longer is..." [98]
• 14th :: dead letters spell out dead words "Mostly melody is in the cracklings. Or rather: melody is suggested by the cracklings, as much as it is suggested by the few samples of actual 'note playing'. Together they give rise to layers that are as clear as they are hard to grasp. (But then isn't it in its cracklings that a lot of the true meaning of this world resides?)..." [97]
• 14th :: back up "The beauty and deep philosophy is in its use of the file-system..." [96]

2004 - february

• 26th :: bulimia, luilekkerland! "Funny it was, to come across that name 'Desiderio' again... two weeks earlier it had been also the name of a painter, third one ..., when I accidentally hit upon an article in the web-edition of the New York Times, opening big with a picture of a table and art books unorderly spread across the floor around it, sea like..." [95]
• 23th :: maarten ploeg (1958-2004) "Thursday february 19th, 2004, Dutch 'pure sound and image' artist Maarten van der Ploeg died, at his home in Amsterdam..." [94]
• 21th :: supersonic "Difficult as it was to take a good look at anything other than one's fellow guests, the show did convey the impression of a collection of things that miss a guiding line. Have 39 artists paint the parts of one and the same airplane obviously is not enough to create that oneness..." [93]
• 14th :: twos [niblock || palestine] "Two performances, two Americans. Both 'early minimalists'. Both 'unjustly neglected', the write ups said. (But, surely, justice here is not our concern.) The article includes a literal transcription of the main parts of my dictaphone recording of Charlemagne Palestine's (French) introduction to his performance on january 30th, 2004 at the Instants Chavirés in Montreuil..." [92]
• 06th :: accidental musics (s.i.w. 3) "Sirens started wailling. Not because of sudden war, or some other natural disaster. It was because they always do in Paris, as in many (most?) other European cities, the first wednesday of each month. At noon..." [91]

2004 - january

• 21th :: mosquitos "A chapter from Mars & other Stars appeared as part of the second issue of the Canadian online literary journal Woodenfish..." [90]
• 17th :: my2k "It was one of those things that are easier said than done ... Michael Peters, three years later, has completed his year 2k sound diary, in the originally intended form..." [89]
• 12th :: 52 splogweeks "Music teacher and 'obsessive collector of amazing sounds' Jan Turkenburg (aka Splogman), from Zwolle, the Netherlands, started a one-year project inspired by and in the spirit of Otis Fodder's 365Days..." [88]
• 06th :: manou "And through all this hiss and distortion, twice or thrice, there resounds a human voice. Whispering. As if spoken by a sick, old and physically very weak person..." [87]