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31st :: The small world daisychain mail tongue tape A fine analogue art tale, that brings several of this past year's SoundBlog threads together, pulls us over into 2012, as always quoting a wise man: you ain't seen nothing yet... [416]
24st :: Touching base After near to four months of writing, in Dutch, 'Ultra. Opkomst en ondergang van de ultramodernen (1978-1983)', published by Lebowski Publishers, and available as of March 1st, 2012, the SoundBlog is back [415]

20th :: Recycling Pervasive Media, Intervening in Planned Obsolescence, and Practicing Technological Sustainability at the Banff Centre i - The Francis Cook landfill, and other dumps We started our R.I.P. summit and workshop at the Banff Centre on July 9th with a field trip that took us to the Francis Cook Landfill and Banff's Recycling Depot. A Rocky Mountains junk hunt, and lots, lots of great garbage pics [414]
5th :: (I can't get no) Immediate Satisfaction __Diktat in Berlin [iii] And the evening and the morning were the third day... On Sunday June 19th, Diktat Sucked Orange... Third in a series of fine illustrated & sounding underground fringe reports: Out on the Tempelhof, and living rooms as a natural habitat. [sbpc 47 | 413]

31st :: 'Komm raussi!' __Diktat in Berlin [ii] And the evening and the morning were the second day... Diktat in Berlin. Second in a sunny series of fine illustrated & sounding underground fringe reports. On the IN-side, and on the OUT-side. Deep thoughts. [sbpc 46 | 412]
29th :: 'Where ist Ausland?' __Diktat in Berlin [i] And the evening and the morning were the first day... Over the weekend of June 17-19, Diktat went to Berlin. First in a fine summer series of lively and illustrated reports, including extracts from Diktat's Berlin performances. [sbpc 45 | 411]
25th :: Discuts Suddenly, there's pics of last year's parisian Estafette Rue Cassette on the blog. How come!? They're a prelude to my praise for the new edition of Discuts Magazine, that comes with a fine Found Tapes interview, and a special limited edition Discuts Found Tapes cassette[410]
23th :: Halfway Some reflections on a first half year of Seventy Seconds, my 10-seconds-per-day audio diary for the year 2011, which you can listen to - complete & unabrigded - as the 10th episode of Chicago based experimental radio broadcast Radius. [409]
03rd :: Life is a Color Wire 3 (table version / KT2011) A short tour of this year's Kunsttour in Maastricht, for which, in the Hoofdwacht on the Vrijthof, I set up a table version, a miniature, of my last year's Life is A Color Wire installation. Also: a procession, Stichting Intro's Klankpaal and Stefan Rummel's Articulated Chambers, a 24/7 installation out at the Bassin. [408]

28th :: the end of an arm, the end of an era A couple of pictures from Jorge Macchi's Music Stands Still, now showing at the S.M.A.K. in Ghent. From there with Paul Devens I drove on to Maastricht, just in time to one more time see Vasiliki Tsagari dance her heart out, at the Last but Least Party, that was bidding farewell to the Art Space Rondeel in Maastricht. [407]
25th :: Listen! (Sound - Art - Music) During the closing day of last month's Listen symposium, David Toop tried to not give a lecture. He reminded me of how many, many years ago I discovered William Faulkner's fabulous writing because of Ian Curtis's t-shirt... About a ghost travelling a half mile ahead of its own shape, lousy music, great art and the nightly tasting of Belgium beer in the private back room of De Dingen. [406]

30th :: Hear It! (Sound - Art - Music) The full and illustrated text, complete & unabridged, of my introductory talk at Hear It!, an extra-ordinary evening full of sound, art & music, that - if only for some hours - turned the, usually so solemn & silent, Stedelijk Museum for modern and contemporary art in Amsterdam into a 'happily noisely' one. [405]
19th :: (Topographic [Table) Topographique] A pittoresque report of A Table!'s eventful recording sessions in the Pianofabriek in Brussels, laying down the sound material for the A Topographic Table album. Two weeks full of musical ambition and sonic extravagance. [404]

14th :: SB Tweet Digest #12 (February 2011) The best of February tweets: Impronet, Einstein's Mistakes, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Stijn Demeulenaere's Soundtracks. [403]

10th :: SB Tweet Digest #11 (January 2011) A QR Code, The Best Things In Life are Utterly Useless, The Unbearable Fleeting of Time, Some words on Resonance sound artists Esther Venrooy and Pierre Berthet and a final urgent question: Did Captain Beefheart Sell Filter Queens? [402]

10th :: Seventy Seconds Almost seven years ago, in the conclusion of my SB review of the My2k project, I promised that for each of the remaining prime years of my life, I would keep a 10-seconds-per-day sound diary. 2011 is a prime year. I am keeping my promise... [401]
01st :: Happy New Prime Year! [ SB Tweet Digest #10 (nov/dec 2010) ] Google translates beatbox, How I Managed To Beat Marcel Duchamp At Chess, Reading On Kawara, Football Sound Narratives and more ...[400]