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2010 - december

• 29th :: Obsolescence A panoply of media formats and media players, from the very old to the shiny new, all fighting for the best of our attention during a 3 day mini-festival at the Parisian La Générale Nord-Est, where I retro-projected De Ingenieur and stood in awe before a future without face. [399]
• 19th :: Compositie met Champignons (Composing with Mushrooms) All about my Mushroom Music, which was given a premiere of Portsmouthian beauty and charm at Schunck's Restaurant 5.0 on November 28th, as part of the grand final of the John Cage 'Anarchy of Silence' exhibition, by 5 brave musician's from village community bands from the south of the Netherlands. [398]
• 02nd :: STRP S K7 HISSSS In the former heart of Philips Electronics Inc., we met up with veterans from the Dutch DIY cassette scene of the 1980s, marveled at the wondrous tape sounds of Prezlav, Tapetronic, Wouter van Veldhoven en Aki Onda and almost shook hands with Ir. Lou Ottens, inventor of both the compact cassette and the compact disc. [397]

2010 - november

• 28th :: Foundtaping, Maps & Shadows at the Basel Shift Festival (i.) I lost my soles in Basel. But also premiered the brand new Found Tapes Map interface and presented an overview of my 8 full years of foundtaping brought together in the Found Tapes Exhibition, that dazzling "siren song of decaying media", at the 2010 Shift Electronic Arts Festival.[396]
• 19th :: SB Tweet Digest #9 (october 2010) * Reading out loud in ancient Babylonian * A brilliant future for process music * A Funneling Stone for a tweet * Virtually squatting the Moma * Eartwits * Birth of the terrible Kasettouokuman [395]
• 04th :: Noise & Capitalism I read 'Noise & Capitalism', a bundle of essays published about a year ago by the audiolab division of Arteleku. I also listened to the 26 minutes piece that noish~ made from the sound he obtained by reading the book.pdf as an audio file. [394]

2010 - october

• 13th :: Introducing Resonance Resonance is a European sound art project & network that - for starters - will run until May 2012. I will be monitoring that project, a task which includes editing the Resonance blog. [393]
• 07th :: Roaming Running Recorders I played mr. postman to a parcel with a recording dictaphone. I took it all the way from Amsterdam to Maastricht... Could it be that barking dogs are a roaming running recorder's destiny? [sbpc42 / 392]
• 01st :: SB Tweet Digest #8 (september 2010) * The SoundBlog Tweets Daily, * A musical instrument of microscopic scale * Matthew Herbert's hypertextual translation of Mahler's Adagio , * 2011 is a prime year, * Vuvuzela blues... [391]

2010 - september

• 26th :: And then I joined the Avantgarde [iii] A colorful and re:sounding description of A Table's sunday morning performance at this summer's Schiphorst Avantgarde Festival, and how, by throwing in a tenner taken from their hard-earned fee, the illustrious duo together with Jean-Hervé Péron and his family became the proud co-owners of a freshly sprayed Danner. [390]
• 20th :: Life is a Color Wire 2 How with the help of Stichting Intro's technical staff I became a telecom provider: we gave Minckeleers and 't Mooswief a 90 meters long tin can telephone connection, stretching all the way across the town hall from one side to the other of the Markt in Maastricht (the Netherlands). [389]
• 15th :: Life is a Color Wire [i] We get to know Minckeleers and 't Mooswief, two statues on the marketplace in Maastricht (the Netherlands). The one is situated to the north of the old town hall, the other to its south. One holds an eternal burning flame, the other spits water into a pentagonal basin through five metal fish-heads. [388]
• 04th :: The strange case of the quite honorable Justin Bieber's temporal stretching (SB Tweet Digest #7) How a recent Internet-meme suddenly doubled the SoundBlog's traffic, about audio time-stretching becoming part of the musical mainstream, a playful yet serious Cupertino pitch and a number of clear-cut promises for the Future of Music Consumption. [387]

2010 - august

• 22nd :: Yi Sang in Seoul: Rebirth A distant view on the second part of the Yi Sang project, in the Space Hamilton in Seoul (South Korea): bicycle rides, Read me a Poem, and a streaming pulp performance with a pale red-haired woman, bathing, a strong taste for chocolate hard as stone and a gramophone for a suitcase [386]
• 14th :: "And what about Yi Sang?" At the soirée littéraire in La Générale, Paris XI, I introduced three fine ladies who honored the elusive Korean poet. One wore a white mask. They made him blush and sometimes chuckle. A strange/ideal symmetrical translation, a Lego architect, Yi Sang in the box, and the unbearable reversal of time. [385]
• 10th :: And then I joined the Avantgarde [ii] When up on the Avantgarde Festival's workfloor Lainhart & Zunk performed Messiaen's Oraison, outside even the Schiphorst birds for a moment held their breath. But there also was welding and cutting and sawing and hammering. And our Re:Carcassonne Table that, eventually, had to give in to the Avantgarde's strain, and crashed. [384]
• 2nd :: SB Tweet Digest #6 * A German Twietenstelle, * Rietveld graduation show pics, * Chinoiseries d'été, AND * six (6) classic SB-related albums now available as high quality digital downloads @Bandcamp, including the first ever official digital re-issue of two very rare and highly collectible early 1980 releases by the legendary Young Lions. [383]

2010 - july

• 22nd :: And then I joined the Avantgarde [i] The morning after I slipped out of the bed and had a solitary early breakfast in the cottage's front garden, where I watched a lama and a camel grazing in the meadow just across the street. [382]
• 19th :: 'Die Sonne scheint mit Glitzerstrahl' Still on our way to the Avantgarde festival in Schiphorst (Germany): a revelation, misfortune, high way sausages and how a car's loose bottom caused Holland to win miraculously against Brazil... Nothing that a bit of tape won't fix! [381]
• 18th :: From (h)ear to avantgarde On our way to the Avantgarde festival in Schiphorst (Germany), with Maurice JJ we made a stop at (h)ear in Heerlen (the Netherlands), where we went 'A Table!' with Kaspar König and witnessed Vulvax & S.N.O.T., like diver and duckling, set out on a mission of bourgeois revenge. [380]
• 14th :: The Final Soundtrack The SoundBlog proudly presents _Finale_: the full soundtrack of the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup final between the Netherlands and Spain, slightly (but ever so subtly) edited [re-composed], for an optimal listening experience. [sbpc40 / 379]
• 13th :: SB Tweet Digest #5 * TINT Arts Lab online residencies, * Momus' Hypnoprism uTube album, * Vive la Vuvuzela! [378]
• 06th :: The Great Johnny Hallyday Meltdown On the sunny Sunday afternoon of June 27th with the Wurst-Brücke and Tapetronic I swang, swinged and swung in Blenno's Povera Park down in Viroflay. That very same evening Aux Combustibles yet another Parisian club manager threw a tantrum in view of our public appeal. Still, Ultimate Capitalists was to be one of our best performances sofar this year. [377]

2010 - june

• 29th :: Ceremonies [Yi Sang à Paris, iii] Est-ce que la ligne a assassiné le cercle ? opened on wednesday June 23rd with a performance composed by daily, incorporating an ancient Korean rite. On saturday June 26th we saw Ryu Biho launching baseball messages among Korean soccer fans watching their team's world cup match outside in Seoul's pouring evening rain. [376]
• 25th :: Read me a poem, Yi Sang! [Yi Sang à Paris, ii] In a small transparent suitcase there is an audio cassette, which contains a copy of 'Read me a poem, Yi Sang!', a one hour sound composition based on my recent reading of French and English translations of Yi Sang's poems. [375]
• 23rd :: 'Raise the trumpet, sound the drum' In the wake of a stunning demonstration of their out-of-the-ordinary use of the vuvuzela on wednesday June 16th 2010 in Amsterdam, the ookoi were available for short notice field missions to South Africa. [374]
• 17th :: Sunny soundy days [KT2010, iii] In Maastricht, along with a tree, I dreamt of Uirapuru, I strummed an electric egg cutter guitar, watched lava dance and then solemnly reflected upon the sense of it all in a room set up to that very purpose by Bonne Knibbe. Afterwards, we had a beer. [sbpc39 | 373]
• 13th :: Yi Sang à Paris [i] "If one cannot even know oneself, how could one know Yi Sang?" A gentle prelude and introduction to the Yi Sang à Paris events, that took place in and around the Parisian La Générale from June 23rd to July 4th: Est-ce que la ligne a assassiné le cercle ? [372]
• 12th :: Jean Bordé's Electric Dream Friday June 11th 2010, when Jean Bordé presented his electric oc(VIII)tet at La Comète in the rue du Faubourg du Temple, outside in the courtyard we watched the most incredible and mesmerizing of electric colored skies linger over Parisian rooftops. [371]
• 10th :: A kitchen table and a game of cards [KT2010, ii] (Spoerri, Filliou, Coca Cola) - About three 'empty rooms' that were on show at three different locations of this year's euregonial, untitled, Kunsttour in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and how all three of them were connected. [370]
• 09th :: Kunstvlaai 2010 - some im/pressions A frozen audio cassette tape, photographs of jolly Germans, the advent of the singularity, heavy metal and a couple more im/pressions of a walk around the 2010 edition of the Amsterdam Kunstvlaai, on May 19th 2010. [369]
• 04th :: Table archaeology: unearthing the picture trap I met Daniel Spoerri in the park of the Domaine du Montcel in Jouy-en-Josas, where the first week of June 2010 the Société du Déterrement du Tableau_Piège set out, with the professional help of a team of archaelogists of the INRAP, to meticulously excavate the remnants of the Déjeuner à l'occasion de l'enterrement du tableau-piège, which took place there 27 years ago. [368]
• 03rd :: Classified [367]
• 02nd :: SB Tweet Digest #4 How the Dutch Socialist Party won my vote * a free vuvuzela * about private Wilhelm's on-screen screaming, since 1951 * legendary 1980s mag "Vinyl" now online * the free improviser as a model of the ultimate capitalist. [sbpc38 | 366]

2010 - may

• 30th :: Auto*noom en un*titled [KT2010, i] The 11th Maastricht Kunsttour opened on May 22nd with a sunny breakfast discussion on art, autonomy and cultural politics in the Timmerfabriek's backyard. Read about Karl Marx's sister Sophie and how I and myself (geen woorden, maar daden!) became future tenants of 1 square meters of Maastricht's most exciting Artspace. [365]
• 18th :: Instant coffee and (b)[re](a)d wine Roy Santiago thoughtfully & deliberately messed up the Re:Carcassonne table during its Dutch premiere at the Nijmegen Extrapool, on Friday May 14th. In a grand final gesture, Eva van Deuren, his Belgian complice, then covered it all up. [364]
• 15th :: Paris Visite Rue du Disque, Paris XIII [363]
• 13th :: attention ! oeuvre d atable A Table! re-made Daniel Spoerri's kitchen table, the way it was on October 17th, 1961, at precisely 15h47, in his Parisian hotel room. it is our principal instrument in an upcoming series of a Spoerri Table! events. The premiere was on May 7th, during the Parcours d'artistes Saint-Gilles, in Brussels. [362]
• 04th :: SB Tweet Digest #3 [2/2] The best of april tweets, widened ... [sbpc37 | 361]
• 02nd :: SB Tweet Digest #3 [1/2] The best of april tweets, widened ... [360]

2010 - april

• 22nd :: 'noem me black & decker, want ik ga je boren' I found 7 crumbled pages with Dutch raps on a corner of the Amsterdam 'jewel hood'. Inspired by American rap megastar 2pac (shot in 1996), much of the lyrics' seemingly far more local references remained utterly misty to me. [359]
• 18th :: Fecit Venetiis 1754 (Muzzix #10, Lille) With both the Ana-R and A Table! we recently spent a great weekend of sonic demo(n)creation at the Muzzix festival in Lille (France). Read, see and hear in this colorful report all about new blood, the fine but long forgotten art of Stradivarius bashing, and Rébus' Red Hatter: a solipsist-musician's wet dream. [358]
• 02nd :: SB Tweet Digest #2 The best of march tweets, widened ... [sbpc36 | 357]

2010 - march

• 30th :: ong'luk = un-luck Late february Diktat did a very fine performance at La Machinante. But when we packed our gear, jb found the neck of his 150 year old double bass had been broken (repair: 5000 €). Even more memorable and unique was our rendering of Stockhausen's Right Durations, some weeks later at the Eglise Saint-Merry. But the morning after we found some rascal stole the wheels of jj's car (repair: 700 €). If someone wants to stop us that badly, it surely means we're on to something big. [356]
• 20th :: Paris Tape Run (2009) Also pop hop pretty girls are onomato-peeing "pfffjizzzz, schroenkkk, zschroenkkkk !" these days. And Staaltape's release party for the 2009 Parisian tape run (a relay recording compilation cassette in '70/80's mail art style) was a big hit. Another collectors' slum? Or is this cassette culture's second coming? [355]
• 18th :: Le son de l'art à sa naissance Commissioned by the Swiss RSR Espace 2, my 2010 Art's Birthday present became an elaborate audio-bio-faction and a sonico-musical reflection on the concept of being born. Its key-ingredient is a recording made one summer night in 2003, when I found myself tumbling into a hole in the floor of a dark garage somewhere in Paris, with my dictaphone on and recording... [354]
• 01st :: SB Tweet Digest #1 The best of february tweets, widened ... [353]

2010 - february

• 24th :: "Zonder vreesch, want immer dapper ..." I had my hair cut by charming and talented Vasiliki Tsagari, in Kaspar and Maja's kapsalon, on february 7th, where 3 boys and 3 girls sang my sudoku, Matthijs Vincent Kouw's compossibilities of sonic trajectories revealed topological features, and Rod Summers re-enacted one of the greatest death scenes in cinematic history. [352]
• 20th :: White Fungus is the name of a bi-annual politically outspoken and independent experimental art magazine, still with firm roots in New Zealand now spreading from Taichung City in Taiwan. "Magazine? You can't mean... printed...? As on... paper!?" Ah! Yes, I can! Printed. As on... paper! [351]
• 17th :: public places, hidden islands I sometimes get this sudden urge to hear Beethoven symphonies all day long. Why? I went through this, ad nauseam, with my analyst. She thinks ... anyway ... I once more gave in to the urge. This time Ludwig led me to the perfect scene for a Diktat. Also: the Rue Cassette... [350]
• 16th :: twitter.com/soundblog @soundblog each update is a link to something we just read, heard and/or saw, and that we think you should read, hear or/and see as well [349]
• 13th :: If only the goal of our journey were nearer, we all would be jolly long less Live podcast, recorded at the Rhino's Laboratory at Les Combustibles, on january 24th, 2010. [sbpc35 | 348]
• 05th :: Syntax, semantics and landscape with trains (Audiotoop, ii) About Alessandro Bosetti's "The Pool and the Soup", a guided spoken improvisation as performed october last year at Extrapool in Nijmegen. That same day there were Zeh and Gwilliam, the view of whose Brombron table reminded me of a small room that I peeked into, in the very early 1960s. [347]
• 04th :: Médium Hang Esztétika The first part of the ongoing study on EAI as a metalanguage, that, together with Rébus, I embarked upon a couple of years ago, just recently was published as part of an Hungarian monograph on media, sound and technology. [346]
• 01st :: 18 x 100 sec.: Sound .best_before. Letters "Yesterday's a work in progress" ... Wrapping up the 2009 Best Before sound art tour with a fine free cd. [345]

2010 - january

• 23rd :: Rowland S. Howard † [1959-2009] Just before the turn of the decade, on december 30th 2009, Rowland S. Howard died. Some thoughts and some relics. [344]
• 13th :: Art fleas (puces de l'art) Pushing last Christmas we set up a table at the Générale's Puces de l'Art. Even though we failed to sharpen my toppling cassettes world record, we were the tropical spice in the Art Fleas' ice, and joined forces with Blenno and the Wurst-brücke for a memorable rendering of the Dutch national anthem. [sbpc34 | 343]
• 05th :: ookoi: onderood Full report on the ookoi's blitz-appearing in the Rotterdam Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, as opening act for a live broadcast of Moritz Ebinger's Radio Red, hitting the pitch and setting the tone for pop and social media, new and old, in the early tens. [342]
• 01st :: Y've got the music in ya Review of Henkjan Honing's book "Iedereen is muzikaal". About rhythm and auditory perspective, and how we landed within time. [341]