August 28th, 2011 :: In Maastricht, in Berlin, then on to Riga ... :: Report, pictures, video of the dismantling of Stefan Rummel's installation "Articulated Chambers" in stormy weather, on Friday August 2011, at the Bassin in Maastricht... [ ]

august 20th, 2011 :: R.I.P.-1: 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 ... [ read more __ ]

july 25th, 2011 :: 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. Get it now! [ read more __ ]

July 21st, 2011 :: Something you walk into, something that surrounds you :: I talked with Stefan Rummel about his sound installation Articulated Chambers, which can be heard-seen at the Bassin in Maastricht (the Netherlands) until the end of August. 'It says: “Oh yes, this is where I belong!” but at the same time it is asking: “What the hell am I doing here?”' [ ]

july 03th, 2011 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

june 25th, 2011 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

May 16th, 2011 :: Sound City - De Klinkende Stad :: "With all windows of my room wide open I fell asleep, listening to the loud, excited and piercing screams of bunches of young fair-goers, that continued to fall from the Kortrijk sky..." A colorful and sounding report on the opening of the Resonance exhibition, on Saturday May 7th in Kortrijk, Belgium [ ]

april 30th, 2011 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

april 29th, 2011 :: The Human Measure :: I talked with Paul Devens about essentials, control, dead kittens and his recent works: 'Probe', for the Diapason Gallery in Brooklyn NY; and the new Resonance installation 'City Chase', which will première next week at the Festival van Vlaanderen in Kortrijk, Belgium [ ]

april 9th, 2011 :: "Meanwhile, somehow, something ..." :: A conversation with Norvegian artist Maia Urstad, about radio, and the new Resonance sound installation that she is currently producing for this year's Festival van Vlaanderen, which will be taking place in May, in Kortrijk, Belgium. "We are all 'radio amateurs' these days, without even knowing..." [ ]

march 14th, 2011 :: SB Tweet Digest #12 :: The ookoi's exploring of a Small World * All about Einstein's Errors * Why are Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony and Yes's Tales from Topographic Oceans so very similar? * Silence is a sound, stretched to last forever... [ read more __ ]

february 28th, 2011 :: Sound/Spaces in, and of, art :: ‎"If even a dog can understand it, then the audience should have no problems at all." In the Dominicanen kerk in Maastricht, German sound artist and scholar Peter Kiefer presented his 'Klangräume der Kunst', a collection of texts focussing on the complex and multifaceted relations of sound, art & space. [ ]

feburary 11th, 2011 :: Found Tapes Exhibition: update :: Latest addition to the Found Tapes Exhibition (nr. 119) includes de Mosselman, Bianca's telephone answering tape and a recording of a Parisian rock band's rehearsal. Total number of documented finds: 706, duration of ound tapes random collage 24/7 audio stream: 13,5 hours. "The Found Tapes project was emblematic for the best pieces of art in the SHIFT galleries, mining beneath the surface of simple visual appeal to conjure richly suggestive narratives." - The Wire (february 2011)

january 25th, 2011 :: The Bells are the Sound of the City :: With Esther Venrooy and city carilloneur Frank Steijns I climbed the belfry of the Maastricht town hall to visit the ancient city carillon. On our way up steep 17th century ladders, we passed three successives stages in the automatization of its chiming. [ ]

january 10th, 2011 :: 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... [ read more __ ]

january 01st, 2011 :: Happy New Prime Year! (SB Tweet Digest #10 - nov/dec 2010) :: We break the ice with a deviciously poppy happy happy track, all and only for your new prime year's pleasure, meanwhile debunking the Google Translate beatbox... Then read on to find how I managed to beat Marcel Duchamp at his own game. There ain't no escaping it: 2011's gonna be magic! [ read more __ ]

december 29th, 2010 :: 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 three days of Obsolescence at the Parisian La Générale Nord-Est, where I retro-projected De Ingenieur and stood in awe before a future without face... [ read more __ ]

december 19th, 2010 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

december 08th, 2010 :: "Sound creeps into a space's every little corner..." :: I talked with Esther Venrooy about sound, space and her installation A Shadow of A Wall, that can be viewed in Intro In Situ's workspace in Maastricht (nl) until january 30th, 2011, as part of Intro's Resonance presentation.

december 02nd, 2010 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

november 19th, 2010 :: SB Tweet Digest #9 :: * 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 [ read more __ ]

october 13th, 2010 :: Introducing Resonance : a European sound art network :: 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 ... [ read more __ ]

october 07th, 2010 :: Roaming Running Recorders :: Lauri Warsta sent a parcel with a recording dictaphone through the European snail mail system. It made me so curious that as an experiment I played mr. postman myself 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? [ read more __ ]

october 1st, 2010 :: SB Tweet Digest #8 :: * 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... [ read more __ ]

september 20th, 2010 :: Life is a Color Wire 2 (Heat Leuven is en Esker Dread) :: 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). [ read more __ ]

september 04th, 2010 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

august 10th, 2010 :: Shake your booty (on the workfloor) [ 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... [ read more __ ]

july 22th, 2010 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

july 19th, 2010 :: '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! [ read more __ ]

july 18th, 2010 :: 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 ... [ read more __ ]

july 14th, 2010 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

july 13th, 2010 :: SB Tweet Digest #5 :: * TINT Arts Lab online residencies, * Momus' Hypnoprism uTube album, * Vive la Vuvuzela! [ read more __ ]

june 23th, 2010 :: 'Raise the trumpet, sound the drum' :: After a stunning demonstration of their out-of-the-ordinary use of the vuvuzela on wednesday June 16th 2010 in Amsterdam, the ookoi are currently available for short notice field missions to South Africa ... [ read more __ ]

june 29th, 2010 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

june 25th, 2010 :: Read me a poem, Yi Sang! / 나에게 시를 읽어주세요, 이상! [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. [ read more __ ]

june 13th, 2010 :: Yi Sang à Paris [i] :: "If one cannot even know oneself, how could one know Yi Sang?" A gentle prelude and introduction to the upcoming Yi Sang à Paris events, that will take place in and around the Parisian La Générale from June 23rd to July 4th: Est-ce que la ligne a assassiné le cercle ? [ read more __ ]

june 12th, 2010 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

june 09th, 2010 :: 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 ... [ read more __ ]

june 04th, 2010 :: Table archaeology: unearthing the picture trap :: I had the good luck to be able to meet 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 ... [ read more __ ]

june 02nd, 2010 :: 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... [ read more __ ]

may 18th, 2010 :: 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 ... [ read more __ ]

may 15th, 2010 :: Paris Visite :: Thanks to Blenno und die Wurst-Brücke, who sent us a picture of another mighty fine audiophile endroit in the French capital. Let the SoundBlog be your guide, on the other sides of town ... [ read more __ ]

may 04th, 2010 :: SB Tweet Digest #3 . [2/2] :: ... * Start Learning Squirrels To Read A Poem, with the online free-form scores of Jason Freeman's Piano Etudes ...
** Serendipity lurking in every corner of the Amsterdam Mediamatic Bank, during last week's 24 hour Music Hack Day ... [ read more __ ]

may 02nd, 2010 :: SB Tweet Digest #3 . [1/2] :: ... * Diablito - the mechanical imp, or how to define a fieldrecorder ** A Digital Folklore Reader *** "Drs. P is lang nog niet dood // Hij was heel op dreef bij Radio Rood" **** thirty (30) times Jandek ... [ read more __ ]

april 22nd, 2010 :: '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 remain utterly misty to me... [ read more __ ]

april 02nd, 2010 :: SB Tweet Digest #2 :: ...

march 20th, 2010 :: Paris Tape Run (2009): tous les sens uniques :: 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 cassette culture's second coming? [ read more __ ]

march 18th, 2010 :: Le son de l'art à sa naissance (Art's Birthday 2010) :: Commissioned by the Swiss RSR Espace 2, my present to art on the occasion of its this year's birthday 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... [ read more __ ]

february 24th, 2010 :: "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 ...[ read more __ ]

february 17th, 2010 :: public places, hidden islands :: Every once in a while I have this sudden urge to hear Beethoven symphonies all day long. Why? I went through this, ad nauseam, with my analyst. She thinks I keep the reason stowed away on a little ile, that I've been hiding ever since my early youth. Bref. I guess she's right. But once more I gave in to the urge... and found Ludwig Van leading me to the perfect scene for a Diktat... [ read more __ ]

february 16th, 2010 :: twitter.com/soundblog :: Now follow @soundblog, where 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 ... [ read more __ ]

february 05th, 2010 :: syntax, semantics and landscape with trains (Audiotoop [ii]) :: About Alessandro Bosetti's The Pool and the Soup, a fine guided spoken improvisation (as performed october last year at Extrapool in Nijmegen), which actually reminded me of Diktat. That same day at Extrapool there were Jason Zeh and Ben Gwilliam, the view of whose BromBron table suddenly reminded me of a small room in the flat of friends of my parents, in the very early 1960s. [ read more __ ]

january 23rd, 2010 :: Rowland S. Howard † :: Just before the turn of the decade, on december 30th 2009, Rowland S. Howard died. Some thoughts and some relics: a couple of b&w pictures that I took on one of the evenings The Birthday Party hit the London Venue (july 16th, 1981). [ read more __ ]

january 13th, 2010 :: Art fleas :: 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 still 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. Our Wilhelmus Van Nassouwe is the edition's podcast. [ read more __ ]

january 01st, 2010 :: Y've got the music in ya :: Here's some good news to kick-start you off into a new decade: we're all musical! It's a matter of scientific fact! And I got it from the horse's mouth, as I spent Christmas with Dutch music cognition pioneer Henkjan Honing's book. It carries the message as its title: Iedereen is muzikaal. About rhythm and auditory perspective. And how we landed within time. [ read more __ ]

december 05th, 2009 :: Naughty noughtie (-) / chop shop (-) :: Will that day be warm and bright? Or will it snow? It's not-another noughties flashback, but a firm jump ahead to an even earlier future: that of the 1990s and my chop shop crammed with its n(a)(o)ghties. Well... anything for you, dear !... So now hush, and get me that recycled cassette tape necktie ... [ read more __ ]

november 11th, 2009 :: Waiting in the Wings, often :: I asked Maja whether she could get me a typewriter.
"I have a Hermes Media 3," she told me ...
And thus I sat in my writer's bin, Waiting in the Wings, the first weekend of october, in the Wunderkammer that is the Maastricht Artspace Het Rondeel, at the time of this writing sadly threatened to soon no longer be ... [ read more __ ]

october 26th, 2009 :: Minisec :: A yellow Trabant Tropicale, contemplating Musikhaus Hans Tappert, and how, in order to record the conversations that passed along the evergrowing number of tapped telephone lines, the East-German Stasi (the Minisec) stole the musicassettes that friends and family sent over by mail from the West. [ read more __ ]

January 22nd, 2011 :: Sound Forest & Unsound: Resonance in Riga & Krakow :: A lavishly illustrated report of the presentations of the Resonance sound art installations last fall, at the Sound Forest Festival in Riga, Latvia and the Audio Art Festival in Krakow, Poland...[ ]

january 01st, 2012 :: Seventy Seconds [ 52/52 ] :: Mission completed: the 52nd & final edition of my 10-secs-per-day sound diary for the prime year 2011, which appeared every Sunday on the Dutch hard//hoofd web daily, with a short text and a picture by photographer Pieter van Wynsberge... [ Find the full series on soundcloud ]

december 31st, 2011 :: 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 ... [ read more __ ]

december 24th, 2011 :: Touching base :: Hi there! Season's greetings! 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 ... [ read more __ ]

December 7th, 2011 :: Resonance in Maastricht - 2nd edition :: December 2011 showcase of Resonance sound art works at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (the Netherlands): Evelina Deicmane, Paul Devens ans Maia Urstad [ ]

August 11th, 2011 :: "There's these noises in my head, they just do not let me in peace" :: In Berlin I talked to Latvian artist Evelina Deicmane in her studio at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien. About a flying lake, emotional machines and waking up in Berlin, with a drilling... Evelina's Resonance installation The Long Day can be seen/heard at Kunsthaus Meinblau, until September 11th. [ ]

august 05th, 2011 :: (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. [ read more __ ]

july 31st, 2011 :: '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. [ read more __ ]

july 29th, 2011 :: '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. [ read more __ ]

july 23rd, 2011 :: 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 - full & unabrigded - as the 10th episode of Chicago based experimental radio broadcast Radius. [ read more __ ]

june 28th, 2011 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

april 19th, 2011 :: (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. [ read more __ ]

march 10th, 2011 :: Alle utopieën zijn van gisteren :: Short story (in Dutch) dedicated to Jean Bordé, 'contrebassiste militant de l’improvisation libre' (Jazz Magazine): the Jimi Hendrix of the double bass... With a rare & previously unreleased DIKTAT track, recorded live at Le CLeUB in Paris, on november 15th, 2008... [ read more__ ]

feburary 10th, 2011 :: SB Tweet Digest #11 :: Esther et Pierre * Did Captain Beefheart sell Filter Queens? * Why the Bells in Maastricht did not ring this winter * Esther will sell me anything I want * A QR Code * The Unbearable Fleeting of Time * The Best Things in Life are Utterly Useless [ read more __ ]

january 11th, 2011 :: Caught in the flux of history :: Belgian musician and sound artist Pierre Berthet talks with Har$ on hitting things, Filter Queens, drops on tin cans and extending deliberately broken speakers. His installation Extended Drops is currently showing in Intro In Situ's workspace in Maastricht (nl). [ ]

november 28th, 2010 :: Foundtaping, Maps & Shadows (@ Shift Basel, 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. [ read more __ ]

november 04th, 2010 :: Noise and 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... [ read more __ ]

september 26th, 2010 :: Bonjour Schiphorst! Farewell Blue Vase! [ 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. [ read more __ ]

september 15th, 2010 :: Life is a Color Wire [i] (Het Leven is een Gekleurde Draad) :: 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. [ read more __ ]

august 22th, 2010 :: 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... [ read more __ ]

august 14th, 2010 :: 'And what about Yi Sang?' (... à Paris, iv) :: 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... [ read more __ ]

august 02nd, 2010 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

july 06th, 2010 :: 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 one of our best performances sofar this year. [ read more __ ]

june 17th, 2010 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

june 10th, 2010 :: 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... [ read more __ ]

june 03rd, 2010 :: Classified

may 30th, 2010 :: Autonoom en untitled :: 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... [ read more __ ]

may 13th, 2010 :: 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. [ read more __ ]

april 18th, 2010 :: 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 ... [ read more __ ]

march 30th, 2010 :: ong'luk = un-luck, that is: malheur, twice... :: 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... [ read more __ ]

march 01st, 2010 :: SB Tweet Digest #1 :: ...

february 20th, 2010 :: White Fungus :: is the name of a bi-annual politically outspoken and independent experimental art magazine, now spreading from Taichung City in Taiwan, but still with firm roots in New Zealand... "Magazine? You can't mean... printed...? As on... paper!?" Ah! Yes, I can! Printed. As on... paper! [ read more __ ]

february 13th, 2010 :: If only the goal of our journey were nearer, we all would be jolly long less :: Twelve particularly fine minutes of music, brough to you in a podcast recorded live during last month's edition of the Rhinoceros' laboratory, on sunday january 24th at Les Combustibles in Paris, France. Hear my Korg MS20, listen to my dictaphone, feel how they are hitting the Yamaha... Feat. Anthony Carcone (_*****_), on guitar & electrix. [ read more __ ]

february 04th, 2010 :: 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 book called Médium Hang Esztétika - Zeneiség a mediális technológiák korában. (That Google-translates: "Medium Sound Aesthetics - Performance in the medial age of technology".) [ read more __ ]

february 01st, 2010 :: 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 for your download-ing pleasure, and the evocation of ghosts and voices from within the electromagnetic field on a path, rough 'n' lonely, towards an art built from sole fact and nil fiction... [ read more __ ]

january 05th, 2010 :: ookoi: onderood :: You dug it while it was happening, live on twitter. Now read the full report on the ookoi's blitz-appearing in the Rotterdam Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, as opening act for last sunday's 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. [ read more __ ]

december 12th, 2009 :: years will have to run out sometime (Audiotoop [i]) :: About the weekend that the good people from the Nijmegen Extrapool descended upon the Amsterdam Occii. About guitars, drums 'n' tape; and about the audiotoop that I performed there: why did that particular piece become the way it was? In the mindbogglingly deep faraway end of it none of this would have ever been, were it not for the right honourable, for the baroness Thatcher. [ read more __ ]

november 17th, 2009 :: Soli Deo GLoria ! :: Quote from Sandberg's director and art tycoon Jos Houweling's speech at friday 13th's launch in the Amsterdam Paradiso: "The first Dutch use of a device like the iPhone as a platform for works of art such as RAUDIO IIIII is a shake without precedent" ... You were there, you had a blast. Now read all about it. Available on the iTunes app store. Free. Grab it! ... [ read more __ ]

november 15th, 2009 :: Prof. dr. Cassette :: "How do you do it?" asked Cecilia A. (from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) in a recent email. "What's the best method? Crack open a cassette shell? Reel-to-reel?" ... Cecilia posed honest questions. Here they get honest answers ... [ read more __ ]

november 08th, 2009 :: A found tapes meta-map :: More dates with Penelope Audela, and a first mention of the writing of "Alle Geluid Van De Wereld", my dutch/english monograph on the noble art of foundtaping (to appear early 2010 at the very latest). Acoustic fingerprinting is the method that underlies commercial audio search applications like Shazam and Midomi. We spent a little time with both of them. [ read more __ ]

november 03rd, 2009 :: Penelope Audela: das leipziger kleine :: While reading all about last month's das leipziger kleine, you may listen to the 'Broken Fieldrecording' that I made while travelling from Nijmegen to Leipzig, where my kleine performance was a bit of a coming out: I played, for the very first time, three tapes from the archive of Penelope Audela, a Dutch woman who had a hobby stranger than Arnold Layne's ... [ read more __ ]

october 22nd, 2009 :: Founded Tapapes :: Die Kassette is a nice and cosy place in Leipzig-Lindenau, dedicated to the ancient art of the personal mixtape. As part of a couple of days of foundtaping in Leipzig, I went there to present the Found Tapes Exhibition, made a Found Tapes Mixtape especially for Die Kassette, and had visitors experience how it feels to be a tête-de-cassette, or a tête-de-tettine ... [ read more __ ]

october 10th, 2009 :: Project Icarus OST :: On the last minute/short notice mini RjDj sprint we did in cooperation with Mediamatic at this year's Amsterdam Picnic, lots of reactive theory, and all about the ookoi's second RjDj scene: a reactive version of their original soundtrack for Project Icarus, part of Dick Tuinder's feature-film "Winterland", which on september 29 had its sold-out premiere at the NFF in Utrecht. [ read more __ ]

august 30th, 2009 :: Summer Sagas Sale! (i) :: Some of the events & places I skimmed over in Amsterdam, Maastricht and Paris this summer: the Salon d'Amitié on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Peter Giele's demise, in Arti Amsterdam; an antiNoise Brigade that led us into and around the former quarters of Napoléon III in the Paris Louvre, with guards keeping a close watch on the devious things we were trying to do; and the Prospects & Exiles in the Maastricht Bonnefantenmuseum. [ read more __ ]

august 14th, 2009 :: Les Favoris Favorites, Comelade ... and Faust :: After 36 years, this july 4th in Paris, I discovered that my favorite krautrocker is french. I sat at a wooden table in the sun next to Faust's Jean-Hervé Péron, who had come together with Zappi Diermaier and Rei Mayazaki to perform at the Schizophonic Cabaret, organized by Vert Pituite with and around catalan maestro Pascal Comelade. We talked about Faust, about the passage of time. And about Music with an Attitude, which, that sunny saturday in Paris, was plentiful indeed. [ read more __ ]

august 01st, 2009 :: Sound Souvenirs: Music Out Of The Moon :: I read 'Sound Souvenirs', a recent collection of articles edited by Karin Bijsterveld and José van Dijck on audio technologies, memory and cultural practives. It evoked a whole series of personal memories, anecdotes, reflections and sound souvenirs for me to share with you, like how I found myself lying all greasy and smelling of mosquito oil that mother had smeared all over our faces and limbs to repel the buzzing blood suckers, breathlessly awaiting the sound bite that would come with the mission commander's stepping down the Eagle's ladder and into our moon's dust ... [ read more __ ]

july 26th-28th, 2009 :: "You, a bed, the sea" :: "I arranged for the squirrels to come and eat those walnuts that they have eh ... they look like walnuts, but they are not, because they actually have condoms inside. If you break them, if you smash them, there is a condom inside" ... A series of 3 consecutive daily posts bringing you the story of a Greek Eloise who after a 1994's summer of love left her Dutch Abelard behind in Amsterdam. Read it on the beach, preferably a Greek one ... ! [ read more __ ]

july 21st, 2009 :: Schizophonic Cabarets [i] :: I set out to do a write-up on the Schizophonic Cabaret with and around Pascal Comelade, a couple of weeks ago in the Parisian Les Voûtes, organized by Vert Pituite. But then I found myself drifting off reminiscing on the 2003/04 series of la belle soirées, and dug up one (1) remaining shrinkwrapped copy of a historical document. For the highest bidder ...
More on Comelade, My Favorite Sideburns and (!) Faust in a next post ... [ read more __ ]

july 20th, 2009 :: General Acoustics :: Rébus phoned up, and asked us to come over to the La G. space in the avenue Parmentier, have an apéro, and test the acoustics of this fine early 20th century industrial building. After the drinks we set into an impromptu rendering of ookoi's "Winterland Aria", the atmosphere of which was quite remarkably captured by Rébus in this uTube ... [ read more __ ]

july 18th, 2009 :: Pure . Reactive . Music . Hack Day :: Over the weekend of july 11/12th I joined a swarm of digital music hackers that, on the occasion of the London Music Hack Day, occupied the first floor of the brand new offices of the Guardian near King's Cross, for a full and busy 32 hours in-one-stretch. I crossed the Channel for one of the workshops that were part of the event, the one that was held by deferred form and inter/re/active music prophets RjDj, who - after all these years - managed to provide me with a great excuse for learning PD. It was with the help of RjDj's Florian and Frank, that within less than 24 hours, early sunday afternoon I had a test-version of ookoi's ShakeNRoll up and running on the iPhone ... Pure Image _ Pure Sound _ Pure Data ... It makes a lot of sense ... [ read more __ ]

august 08th, 2009 :: (Le) CLeUB, Placard, CLeUB :: From july 24th till july 27th, Paris saw its 12th grand placard. Back from Sèvres this year, and anew someplace around the 20th arrondissement. Entering Au Vaisseau (Le CLeUB's new space in the rue Stendhal), which contained le placard and arriving au placard which was au CLeUB ... It was a true homecoming, indeed. A unique event, impossible to faithfully picture. Still, this entry's much just like that: a 12th Grand Parisian Placard Picture Book. [ read more __ ]

august 24th, 2009 :: ookoi ShakeNRoll - s/t :: All about ShakeNRoll, the scene that the ookoi cooked up for RjDj's 'reactive music iThing application' during last month's Music Hack Day in London. ShakeNRoll is now available for download from the RjDj scenes list. Learn about the 28 states of 7 sound-bites, and how ShakeNRoll splits the atom ... Enfin bref ... Go find how-to-ShakenRoll. With or without your iThing ...[ read more __ ]

september 20th, 2009 :: Found Lost Sound :: Earlier this summer in London I met John Smith and Graeme Miller, who, almost ten years ago, made a short film in 28 tableaux, showing discarded cassette tapes caught by a variety of objects in the streets of the north-eastern part of London where they live. Together with the soundtrack consisting in a mix of the sounds of the city with that on the tapes, it makes for a great city-portrait, that I knew about, but never yet had the chance to see. But now I did. I found Lost Sound. [ read more __ ]

SB Audio Diary 2012
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January 01-16 , 2012 - Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
January 16-28 , 2012 - Paris (France)
Jan. 29 - Feb. 1 , 2012 - Ghent (Belgium)
February 2-... , 2012 - Paris (France)

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