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S.I.N - a music of numbers that count themselves

Sat, 17 May 2025 13:13:41 +0100

[May 17, 2025 | #556]
A few reflections and a personal / private homage to Tom Johnson (1939-2024), in the form of a 'counting' score in the spirit of some of his 'counting' works, based on the generation of numbers that count themselves, like 3122331415: that number has three occurrences of the digit 1, 2 of 2, 3 of 3, 1 of 4 and 1 of 5. For two saxophones. Maybe some day.

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A decom-.pomdipem-padopi-dompade.-posed suso

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 10:31:14 +0100

[April 18, 2025 | #555]
Every suso is a superposition of nine disjoint permutation matrices of order nine (its nine colors, or nine voices), and you can dissect it accordingly. Such a dissection of a suso is materialized in the object shown in the pictures in this post.

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Doux Massacres (Gentle Slaughter, or My Xmascoat in Brussels)

Mon, 7 Apr 2025 10:27:34 +0100

[April 7, 2025 | #554]
In the Grand Hospice in Brussels, on March 26th, I had the great pleasure of performing with Huijun Yi (voice, guzheng) and Shih-wen Lee (double bass) in the 54th edition of the series of One Moment Free Improvisation (OMFI) events. As part of that performance, quite unexpectedly and unprepared, I recounted the story of my mother's Xmas-trees. Read it all, and listen to the evening's finale!

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Going Dutch in the KunschTTurm Club, Mulhouse

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 12:17:31 +0100

[March 15, 2025 | #553]
On Tuesday February 18th I was Nicholas Horber's telephone guest in the first edition of his 'The Yellow Submarine' emission on radio TT-Node, broadcast live from the KunschTTurm Club in an apartment on the 22nd floor of the Tour de l'Europe in Mulhouse, France. This linked text is an edited version of a transcript of the archived recording of our conversation, in Dutch. With playlist!

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Full coloration set sudoku solution pieces

Sat, 1 Mar 2025 02:07:31 +0100

[March 1, 2025 | #552]
'Applaus!' and 'Rites' are two recent rhythm based suso pieces that ideally will run through the full set of distinct colorations of the initial sudokos. 'Applaus!' then will last one, and 'Rites' will play for five full years. Read here all the combinatorial details, and some reflections on the signification of this 'sudokist serrealism'.

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The Ontological Primacy of Parasitism. An essay in Speculative Parasitology (i)

Tue, 4 Feb 2025 12:04:51 +0100

[February 4, 2025 | #551]
In this paper based upon a Rebus/Har$ presentation at the PoM (Politics of the Machines) 2024 conference in Aachen, Germany, on April 25 2024, we analyse the re-evaluation of parasitism in art and contemporary music as a crucial catalyst for creativity and evolution, emphasizing ideas on the ontological anteriority of the continuous over the discrete, as articulated e.g. in mathematics by Rene Thom.

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Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:41:11 +0100

[January 20, 2025]
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'War drift' for violoncello, and other sudoku, latin and costas grids

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:11:11 +0100

[January 23, 2025 | #550]
In this new chapter documenting my sudokist dreams and adventures, besides a number of technicalities, there is a detailed description of 'war drift', a sudoku piece for violoncello and voice(s) speaking (Dutch) words, of how to generate 12-sudokus in which all rows (or columns) are costas arrays, and a whole lot of additions to my list with things that one day may be.

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Art History -)) Histoire de l'Art

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 08:41:11 +0100

[July 14, 2022 | #524]
On this year's Bastille Day, 'Histoire de l'Art' became available on the Athens based Coherent States label, with catalogue number CS.44. It can be had as a digital download, but also as a carefully crafted and packed CDr... : "The history of art is a history of repetition. Like the history of man, like the history of worlds." ...

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Berlin: Zero Cohesion (1)

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:16:51 +0100

[July 12, 2022 | #523]
Over this year's last weekend of June, we trained over from Paris to Berlin, to partake in Jeff 'Zeromoon' Surak's series of 'Zero Cohesion' events, at Liebig12 in Friedrichshain's Liebigstrasse. The first of 3 'zero-coh unPublics' was the 82nd one, when on the evening of Friday 24th in sound making we united with Jeff Surak and Chester Hawkins.

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X-unPub

Sat, 2 Jul 2022 08:46:11 +0100

[July 02, 2022 | #522]
The 81st unpublic came to be on June 22nd in La Generale Nord-Est, when a group of 12 XPUB artists/students of the Rotterdam Piet Zwart institute were joined by Mr. Lili on violin and me dictaphoning, in an elliptical configuration along which the imaginary hands of a watch (a short one and a long one) erred between 30 randomly picked clock-positions... We thus became Masters of Time... for as long as it lasted

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Awesome Foursomes (vii - 138)

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:54:16 +0100

[March 31, 2022 | #520]
"Stduio ookoi" is a musical anthology accompanying the ookoi's writing-in-progress of b.ookoi: an evolving series of sets of 4 tracks ('awesome foursomes') of about average pop hit duration, picked from the vast catalogue of musics that the ookoi, as a duo, individually, or in one or other of their wide range of collaborations and projects, recorded sometime between 1971 and today. "No. 138" is the seventh set, and here's a detailed description for each one of the 4 tracks

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Manifeste

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:26:19 +0100

[March 13, 2022 | #519]
A mere day after the onset of the new War of Worlds we gathered in the Espace Vitet (Paris XX) for the 80th unPublic, inspired by the finding of a copy of Isidore Isou's "Manifeste pour une nouvelle psychopathologie et une nouvelle psychotherapie" (1971). History did not end. It just took a turn for the worst... [ a slightly different version of this text can be read (and heard) on Medium/SoundBlog ]

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The Art of K7 :: Sudokaising [ii - Time Folds]

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 08:46:11 +0100

[September 11, 2021 | #513]
This is the second in a series of texts on 'music from sudoku solutions' (music by numbers :-). It accompanies a set of four digital 'sudokaising' albums, that will become available on Bandcamp this autumn. The first volume (release-date: September 27th) is a set of recordings of K7 sudoku's made in 2006 and 2007. The second volume and the third (release-dates: October 9th and 18th) each contain a selection of 14 tracks from the 52 weekly K7 sudoku's that I produced over the year 2020. The fourth upcoming release is the fifth volume in the series (release-date: October 25th). Titled "Sudo, Kiss Me!", it is pure electronic sound, pure sudokism, generated in Sonic Pi using a script that interprets sudoku solution columns and rows as series of durations and series of pitches.

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Time-, for 12 upright piano's

Sun, 22 Aug 2021 10:54:16 +0100

[August 22, 2021 | #512]
The upright piano's may be of any kind. Preferably old, worn, untuned, maybe even no longer 'tune-able'. Objects with their proper, known or unknown, history, with their very 'personal' path through time. The curator / director / organiser of a (series of) 'Time-' performances will start preparing the event by collecting a set of twelve such piano's; like the one my mother left behind, stored now in a garagebox within a stone's throw of my apartment.

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Awesome Foursomes (iv - 793)

Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:54:16 +0100

[August 20, 2021 | #511]
"Stduio ookoi" is a musical anthology accompanying the ookoi's writing-in-progress of b.ookoi: an evolving series of sets of 4 tracks ('awesome foursomes') of about average pop hit duration, picked from the vast catalogue of musics that the ookoi, as a duo, individually, or in one or other of their wide range of collaborations and projects, recorded sometime between 1971 and today. "No. 284" is the second set, and here's a detailed description for each one of the 4 tracks

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Awesome Foursomes (iii - 562)

Sun, 18 Jul 2021 12:34:57 +0100

[July 18, 2021 | #510]
"Stduio ookoi" is a musical anthology accompanying the ookoi's writing-in-progress of b.ookoi: an evolving series of sets of 4 tracks ('awesome foursomes') of about average pop hit duration, picked from the vast catalogue of musics that the ookoi, as a duo, individually, or in one or other of their wide range of collaborations and projects, recorded sometime between 1971 and today. "No. 562" is the third set, and here's a detailed description for each one of the 4 tracks

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Awesome Foursomes (ii - 284)

Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:54:16 +0100

[July 09, 2021 | #509]
"Stduio ookoi" is a musical anthology accompanying the ookoi's writing-in-progress of b.ookoi: an evolving series of sets of 4 tracks ('awesome foursomes') of about average pop hit duration, picked from the vast catalogue of musics that the ookoi, as a duo, individually, or in one or other of their wide range of collaborations and projects, recorded sometime between 1971 and today. "No. 284" is the second set, and here's a detailed description for each one of the 4 tracks

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Awesome Foursomes (i - 019)

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 10:54:16 +0100

[June 21, 2021 | #508]
"Stduio ookoi" is a musical anthology accompanying the ookoi's writing-in-progress of b.ookoi: an evolving series of sets of 4 tracks ('awesome foursomes') of about average pop hit duration, picked from the vast catalogue of musics that the ookoi, as a duo, individually, or in one or other of their wide range of collaborations and projects, recorded sometime between 1971 and today. "No. 019" is the first set, and here's a detailed description for each one of the 4 tracks

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Die Stillgestandenen (The Stillstands / Standstills / Stillstanders)

Sun, 13 Jun 2021 21:14:56 +0100

[June 13, 2021 | #507]
Swiss choreographer Mansoureh Aalaii conceived and produced an outdoors dance piece, called (in German) "Die Stillgestandenen". The lighting and space design were done in close collaboration with her partner Onzgi. It was performed on the stairs of the Neumunsterkirche in Zurich (Switzerland). The music was that of one of our last year's cyber corona con-fine Discord unPublic sessions, #uP67

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d.ookoi writes b.ookoi (i)

Mon, 31 May 2021 12:54:06 +0100

[May 31, 2021 | #506]
This is the first in a serie of articles on the labyrinthian & encyclopaedic printed-on-paper book_work_2_b that the ookoi currently are composing, writing, editing, covering all of their acts, works and proceedings from the very early 1980's onwards, in 1024 numbered paragraphs distributed over 1024 pages divided into 4 volumes of 256 pages each_ To stay informed about the ookoi's b.ookoi's progress and receive information on related events and activities: follow Stduio on Bandcamp!

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Playing Apart Together: Chuncheon/Paris

Sun, 2 May 2021 23:32:17 +0100

[May 2, 2021 | #505]
Details, facts, fictions and rumours, surrounding the 73rd unPublic, with Ian-John Hutchinson, Youngran Jin, Jinmook Kim, Arnaud Lapret, Rebus and me grafting Chuncheon City onto Paris, Paris onto Chuncheon City... " ...unfamiliar Sounds, Paris origin, have now been broadcast (office speakers were used) and have entered the environment as mechanical pressure waves...which may still be active in Chuncheon City in proximity to vulnerable networks/population... "

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Ten years stuck on my iPad

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:12:37 +0100

[March 19, 2021 | #504]
My iPad is a model 2 that I got in 2011, so it is about to celebrate its tenth anniversary, which makes it sort of an antique. Here's some ranting, with an overview of the apps that these past 10 years I have been using, often without even thinking about them; twice.

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Lento (slowly)

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 19:18:23 +0100

[February 21, 2021 | #503]
Anais Gauthier's "Defaillance Systemique" (Systemic Failure) installation at La Generale Nord-Est, Paris XIV, was stage, context and an accompanying soundscape for the recording of "Lento (slowly)", our contribution to the Belgian Transcultures' series of 'No Lockdown Winter Sessions'.

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assemble/dissemble

Sat, 30 Jan 2021 19:18:23 +0100

[January 30, 2021 | #502]
'assemble/dissemble', permutations, combinations, ruby, Sonic Pi, placard, Hal McGee's great american audio-novel, borgesian libraries, Marcel Duchamp and the sending out of hundreds of little situationists on a mission, each one embarking on her own little derive... "I cook all that's random in my pot," thus spoke Zarathustra.

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24 Lullabies for a sick world

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:18:23 +0100

[October 29, 2020 | #500]
Principe d'Intersection ... Over the months August, September and October Anton Mobin and I realised a both parallel and joint recording project, the result of which was released, on the eve of France's second corona lockdown, as a digital album in Hal McGee's EC-Split series ... Our 'Intersection Principle' led us to compose and record '24 lullabies for a sick world', and we are mighty proud of them... "A classic!" ...

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Trio for 3 piled baby grand piano's

Sun, 18 Oct 2020 19:18:23 +0100

[October 1!, 2020 | #499]
Pile de piano's ... is a recent work, or, say, 'creation', for an art gallery: the three piled baby-grand piano's are played by three pianists seated on piano-stools that will be specially constructed, or adapted, to the necessary height.

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AC_unPublic

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:18:23 +0100

[September 14, 2020 | #498]
Capitalism, art, this summer's online artificial intelligence workshop, video art, coffee breaks, cogs in cogs in wheels in circles, templar gong rituals, unCoupled oscillators ... all come together on the Animal Crossing New Horizon unPublic island ... Dream Address: DA-1897-1446-0350 ... A long call to come flying over to virtually perform with us in the ACNH-uP mansion!

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GIALLO, by Etc

Sat, 8 Aug 2020 19:18:23 +0100

[August 8, 2020 | #497]
About a year ago ETC celebrated the arrival of its long awaited vinyl album "GIALLO, by Etc"... But also this carefully prepared GIALLO revolution was nipped in the bud by the on-raging corona pandemic. No concerts, no festivals, no world tours, no revolution? "Nothing here now but the recordings", cut 'n' carved in solid black vinyl... Learn all about endorsement, giallofication and more in the SoundBlog's "GIALLO, by Etc" lust-rum post...

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The Art of the K7 ~ Sudokaising [i]

Sat, 21 Mar 2020 15:27:33 +0100

[March 21, 2020 | #496]
First in a series of texts on the series of K7-sudoku plays that I have set myself as a task to produce this year in weekly editions, including thoughts on how it is they sound how they sound and reflections on the combinatorial and other properties of the sudoku and related number grids as (durational) scores for alternating cut-ups of the two time-directions of a recording kept on magnetic (K7)-tape.

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STDUIO Arti: The Last Weekend

Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:32:54 +0100

[January 25, 2020 | #494]
In the first month of the twenty-twenty year the ookoi introduced arti.nl/stduio, 10-26 January, in the Dutch artists' society Arti on the Ro(c)kin', Amsterdam ...
..." 15+ years of sounds and vision, a dense & hermetic oeuvre, bouncing off infinity " ...including STDUIO Arti's 24/7 refutrospective audio web art stream (powered by wiel's)...

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Foundtapers and Foundtaping in Porto

Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:06:16 +0100

[November 17, 2019 | #492]
Reporting --with a lot of pics-- on the couple of days that we spent last week, November 9-12, in Porto, Portugal. There we met with Pedro Augusto and Mariana Sardon, who are preparing a Porto foundtaping exhibition, accompanied by a limited edition analog (printed paper) book, opening and presented next spring. ... Here's like from within a mirrored time machine ....

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Freely improvised and non-academic electroacoustic music {as}[by] urban folk[s]

Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:16:31 +0100

[September 14, 2019 | #490]
This is an unfinished, growing-ever-larger paper, evolving from the presentation that Rebus and myself did as part of this summer's Re:Sound MAH (Media Art Histories) 2019 conference in Aalborg, Denmark, in which we trace TKOMTIUH ('the music that interests us here') back to the fictional live electronic music jams in the mid-1960's 'Scope' in LA, via the experimental musics of the 1970-1980's, onto its speculative settlement, from the early noughties onward, as URFOLK ('URban FOlk'). The paper includes, as a case-study, a first sketch of a comprehensive history of the seminal international headphone festival 'Le Placard'.

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The variegated insameness of lawless str(th)ings

Tue, 28 May 2019 00:06:44 +0100

[May 28, 2019 | #488]
The 52 tracks of 'ETUDE' investigate how a contemporary artificial hearer re-cognizes the (within a fixed format) basically lawless, micro-tonal and rhythmically free output of a tiny BASIC program that back in 1985 I wrote, 'poking' the Commodore 64's SID chip. Now available on Bandcamp. The download includes a 71 pages e-book with scores.

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ookoi 2.0: the remaking of a spect[r]al b[r]and

Sun, 03 Mar 2019 01:06:44 +0100

[March 03, 2019 | #487]
Pending future possibilities for early adaption of fully functional digital emulation, on October 14th 2018, in Paradiso, Amsterdam, the ookoi 2.0, physically re-made / re-modelled, made a fist, they stood on one leg, they jumped, they cried, they danced bizarre... "See you in history!" she said. It sounded like a future blast.

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CCNL :: Cassette Culture in Linz, Austria - 1. Oral History

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 13:06:44 +0100

[January 18, 2019 | #485]
Read, hear and see Wolfgang 'Fadi' Dorninger recounting his personal and very active involvement in the cassette culture and DIY network of the 1980's, in which he and his Die Ind label formed node Linz. First part of a report from the wonderful Cassette Culture exhibition this summer in Austria. "... the file has no future, because it has no history..."

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Lustrum non publicum - "Five years stuck on my eyes"

Fri, 2 Nov 2018 17:16:54 +0100

[November 2, 2018 | #484]
On Thursday October 18th FlexRex's Daicar brought us to Bures-sur-Yvette, a greenish Parisian suburb, just a little to the south of the capital. There we celebrated five years of unPublic with a 56th edition, featuring Paula Velez, FlexRex, Yoko Miura, Yungwei Chen, Rebus and me.

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T'obsolete or not t'obsolete ... [iv]

Sat, 1 Sep 2018 21:06:23 +0100

[September 1, 2018 | #483]
The fourth episode of "t'Obsolete or not t'Obsolete" looks back upon this summer's Vieux Media Fest at La Generale Nord-Est -where the 16th century theorbo played along 20th century Frippertronics: where a virtual anchor was thrown over from the Cassette Culture Node.Linz exhibition; where we read yellowed 80 year old headlines that - almost - could've been written today and where crashingly crazy things happened when Japanese DIY underground hero Yximalloo came flying over, straight in from Tokyo ...

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Rage, rafts and refugees

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 10:46:33 +0100

[August 13, 2018 | #481]
Michael Ghent's cardboard sculpture "Derive" consists in a faithful 3-dimensional rendition of the famous accusing and political "Raft of the Medusa", a monumental early 19th century painting by French Romantic star painter Theodore Gericault. This winter "Derive" was on view for eight days at the Parisian Generale Nord-Est. In this richly illustrated report, see and read all about it, and about the music and sounds that we unfolded around it... with ETC, with Diktat, in public, and unPublicly.

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T'obsolete or not t'obsolete ... [iii]

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:11:27 +0100

[August 10, 2018 | #480]
The SB-entries "T'obsolete or not t'obsolete" are sort of private RAM dumps concerning the yearly Vieux Media Fests and some related events at La Generale, Paris. The 3rd talks quite a bit about the 45th unPublic, which came to sort of being hijacked by the actors who - during the 2017 Vieux Media Fest days - were working on a 1929 theatre play by Paul Claudel, a 'love story dominated by the ideas of sin and redemption' that is only rarely staged, mainly because of its extreme length...

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T'obsolete or not t'obsolete ... [ii]

Sat, 21 Jul 2018 10:23:34 +0100

[July 21, 2018 | #479]
The SB-entries "T'obsolete or not t'obsolete" are sort of private RAM dumps concerning the yearly Vieux Media Fests and some related events at La Generale, Paris. The 2nd includes some 'French theory' that -interestingly- we might almost call... uP-ish.

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Between now and then, nine years from here ...

Sun, 27 May 2018 14:32:53 +0100

[May 26, 2018 | #478]
On the occasion of the wrapping-up of a second year summarised in a kaleidoscopic string of three hundred and sixty-five ten second sonic cuts of words spoken, snippets of music played or heard, and of all the other sounds and noises as they then resounded day in day out around me, each of the series now is available as a digital album that can be streamed and/or downloaded at Bandcamp 's: Seventy Seconds (2011) and 2M0MX1VII (2017).

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Nicolas Collins - 2 april 2016, La Generale, Paris

Thu, 4 Aug 2016 12:31:43 +0100

[August 4, 2016 | #469]
A pretty much complete transcription of the audio recording of (mainly) Emmanuel Rebus and (a little bit) myself interviewing American composer Nicolas Collins (a student of Alvin Lucier's, circuit bender, bricoleur, early adopter of personal computers in live performances, in the 1990's visiting artistic director of STEIM in Amsterdam, a DAAD composer in residence in Berlin, and currently editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, and a professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago), after lunch on Saturday April 2nd 2016, at La Generale Nord-Est in Paris, during the set-up for the Sonic Protest Festival.

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unPublic #18 - Daebu-do, 14 june 2015, by Ian-John Hutchinson

Tue, 14 Jun 2016 22:11:33 +0100

[June 14, 2016 | #g.002]
This SoundBlog guest contribution by Ian-John Hutchinson is an article written not long after the 18th unPublic, which - one year ago, on June 14th 2015 - had him perform on the beach of the South-Korean island of Daebu, together with Taewon Lee, Samir Abdelhamid and Emmanuel Rebus. Afterwards Ian-John interviewed all of that unPublic's participants, and wrote things down, thus providing some interesting insights into the processes and intentions at play during this episode, and the unPublic series in general.

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In Praise of Slowness

Sat, 7 May 2016 17:04:29 +0100

[May 7, 2016 | #467]
Second in a series of succinct reports on our last year's kreativen vikend, a sonic residency in the mountain village of Lazaropole (in the Republic of Macedonia), our passages through Skopje and a subsequent visit to Belgrad (Serbia).

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Statues, Lenin, Dogs and Ruins

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:14:36 +0100

[March 21, 2016 | #466]
First in a series of succinct reports on our last year's kreativen vikend, a sonic residency in the mountain village of Lazaropole (in the Republic of Macedonia), our passages through Skopje and a subsequent visit to Belgrad (Serbia).

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Trust Us

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:12:26 +0100

[January 25, 2016 | #465]
About Michael Ghent's powerful cardboard installation "Trust us", at Mains d'Oeuvres in Saint-Ouen: "... like black magic spells, cooked up to charm us into belief and conviction that all is solely meant and created for our good, and will hand us the one and only key to health, fortune and happiness. or to god. to all."

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Situasonnisme: the City Sonic Festival

Sun, 22 Nov 2015 19:12:26 +0100

[November 22, 2015 | #464]
On the 13th and other editions of the yearly recurring sound art - in a very large sense - festival, whose 'core p-art' took place in the second half of September in the Belgian city of Mons. But many also of our this year's summer activities were signed 'City Sonic' and Transcultures...

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SQWWO live in Brussels (Elastic Lecture Nr. 3)

Sun, 30 Aug 2015 10:31:36 +0100

[August 30, 2015 | #462]
The first full 24 hours live rendition of the 'String Quartet with windows, open' took place this summer in Brussels, in Recyclart's 'Vitrine 5', from 20h on Thursday July 9th, 2015, until 20h the next day, Friday July 10th, 2015, underneath the tracks of the Belgian railways leading to and fro the Chapel railway station.

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Bridges, troubles, water

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 17:41:16 +0100

[July 15, 2015 | #461]
We were lucky enough to hook up twice with Jodi Rose in Paris, where we celebrated indoors and outdoors for the sake and the love of bridges. Tasting champagne and more on the Pont Neuf, then constructing and playing an improvised bridge, during our 19th unPublic, on June 17th at La Generale, where Rebus, Jodi and I were joined by Kaspar Koenig.

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Elastic Lecture Nr. 2 (for Namhee)

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:42:16 +0100

[April 17, 2015 | #460]
Text and images from the lecture that I delivered as part of the 3rd and final session of Nadege Derderian's The image is an elastic object-project, on Easter Saturday in La Generale, Paris XI.

An image that is endlessly mapinaluble.
Agimes maybe lessendly manupilated.
Oh, how the boy bleeds!

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Mal-la--colise dans l'espace et dans le temps (L'i-m-a-g-e E-s-t U-n O-b-j-e-t E-l-a-s-t-i-q-u-e, pt. 1)

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:42:16 +0100

[April 14, 2015 | #459]
An evening at the Friches, Paris-Belleville, on mal-localisation in space-time, with Rebus and Namhee. A Toy-Orguanisation and a lot of aaaaaaaa's lead to a quite logical conclusion: 433Hz should be the new international standard for our concert pitch...

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The men once in green are now writing a book!

Sat, 07 Mar 2015 19:42:16 +0100

[March 07, 2015 | #457]

Oh yes, they are...!

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The eerie symmetry of a perfect ping

Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:42:16 +0100

[December 01, 2014 | #456]
To make sound 'the ugliest piece of music in the world', a couple of years ago Scott Rickard interpreted a length 88 exponential Welch-Costas sequence together with a Golomb ruler for its timeline as a piece of piano music in which no two directed pitch intervals between equidistant notes are the same. But how 'pattern free' and 'void of structure' is such a 'Perfect Ping' really? A long piece. About permutations, gracefulness, classiness, Mallalieu's all interval 12 tone row, cowbells dropping down the stairs and more... A deconstruction.

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String Quartet with windows, open

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 23:42:16 +0100

[September 11, 2014 | #455]
SQWWO is a string quartet that lasts 24 hours and is playing in my living room; with the windows wide open. It is an entanglement of random walks that layer two form-ally near to identical soundscapes (a city traffic sound scape and the violins), giving rise to a work without any apparent dramatic development, of an extreme long duration and cycling back upon itself (it, as a matter of fact, is a 24 hour loop). The string quartet evokes a virtually everlasting now: the eternal present, which is our future's past. The full 24 hour set of recordings is available as a high quality download at Bandcamp's.

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Appearance and reality

Sat, 02 Aug 2014 10:42:16 +0100

[August 02, 2014 | #454]
On the morning of Tuesday July 22nd 2014, a mix of predetermination and chance brought Laura Wetherington and myself together inside the American Library in Paris, where we performed un-publicly, quick 'n' rough 'n' dirty, and based - quite literally - on a 19th century metaphysical essay.

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Speculative Dancing (DIKTAT - americana / 2)

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:42:16 +0100

[july 01, 2014 | #453]
Some words and thoughts to accompany DIKTAT's amazing 5 track/40 minutes speculative Americana video album: "DIKTAT 4 US DANCES", now viewable on YouTube --- "... la lune disparaît et notre planète est enrichie de 5 satellites, en 1953 ..."

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Lecture de Cassette

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 06:42:16 +0100

[june 19, 2014 | #452]
I found a little yellow piece of paper on the pavement not far from where I live. Hand written, on its two sides, were detailed instructions - in French - on how to operate a cassette player. As this knowledge is likely to soon become forgotten knowledge, you may want to bookmark this page for future reference...

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You are NOT Hier!

Mon, 12 May 2014 06:52:16 +0100

[may 09, 2014 | #451]
HIER is a four track EP of localized Future Popp by the ookoi, released as a GPS empowered iPhone application, which limits playback of each of the tracks to a specific European city. The first track can only be heard in Amsterdam (nl), the second one only in Heerlen (nl), the third one only in Kortrijk (be) and the final one only in Paris (fr). A listener who wants to get to know all of HIER, will have to make a city tour. From hier to hier to hier to hier...

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La physicalite du son. Tome 1.

Tue, 08 Apr 2014 10:52:16 +0100

[april 08, 2014 | #450]
As part of the quite wonderful 10th edition of the Sonic Protest Festival, Emmanuel Rébus and myself entertained and educated the visitors of the festival's Let's Get Physical-part - à La Générale, Paris XI - with, on and about the phys-icality of sound. Emmanuel did part two, on Monday April 7th. I did part one on the day before that, Sunday April 6th. Here is the abstract...

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"12 - 11 - 9 - 10 - 3 - 6 - 7 - 1 - 2 - 8 - 4 - 5"

Sat, 08 Mar 2014 13:52:16 +0100

[march 08, 2014 | #449]
About how we hacked Stockhausen's 1957 paper on musical time (... wie die Zeit vergeht ...) into three time-pass-poems. It explains all the counting in the 5th unPublic session, which makes things - here and there - sort of sound like Karl-Philip Stockglass. (Curiously, the two major examples of 20th century composers that extensively use vocal number counting in their work, indeed are Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach - and Karlheinz Stockhausen: in Licht you will encounter number counting all over the place)...

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Cassettes, Candles and Champgane

Tue, 31 Dec 2013 23:52:16 +0100

[december 31, 2013 | #447]
This winter solstice (in the early evening of December 21st), four cassetteurs - Anton Mobin, Blenno Wurstbruecke, Rebus and myself - gathered on the desolate and cold second floor of an old industrial building on the East side of Paris, for a final and unpublic 2013 = C50 dictaphone ritual. With cassettes, with candles, and with champagne.

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De Val van Chroom / The Fall of Chrome

Sun, 29 Dec 2013 15:02:16 +0100

[december 29, 2013 | #446]
The Fall of Chrome is a booklet with a collection of images and texts about magnetic tape, edited by Claudio Rocchetti, when, after many years of experimenting with tapes, he started to feel lost; like he had exhausted the subject and all the ideas... "But does it really matter why we use certain tools?" Claudio asked himself. The Fall of Chrome is some sort of an answer. (Lou Ottens's invention turned magnetic tape, quite literally, into a case. And everything that is the case, eventually will fall...)

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unPublic 1,2 (sauf riverains)

Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:02:16 +0100

[november 23, 2013 | #445]
About tea, ceramics and the difference made by intention. About the idea of 'the concert', that to a large extent is based on a myth. An anachronism. a socio-musical convention that is being continued without questioning its (true) sense. Then introducing the first two editions of our new unPublic-series, each one an ephemeral laboratory, a vertex in space-time for musicians from wherever on the globe to meet in passing. "The difference with a concert is, that is not a concert..."

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The Art of the K7 (prelude)

Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:08:31 +0100

[october 25, 2013 | #444]
... - ... - About the some things that are certain - All the way to Neptune and back - Re/Vival - A justification for many, many, many thousands more words - The cassetteer and the DJ - A poor man's thang - Why to love retro-chic poppers and hipsters - Did I say there is no Hell? - Audio slates - Frank Zappa's '200 Motels' and a Christmas dinner at granny's - Not a one but a many - "Unto emptiness shalt thou return" ... - ...

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"At 19:07 the four helicopters flew over the Pont Neuf"

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 09:08:31 +0100

[october 12, 2013 | #443]
On Saturday October 5th, as part of the annual Nuit Blanche, the Elysian String Quartet performed the infamous Helicopter String Quartet in the skies over Paris. It was not the string players' fault that, as the evening progressed, it became more and more difficult to escape the impression that in this Parisian rendition, Karlheinz Stockhausen's music was merely a sideshow and that what really mattered was the staging of a spectacle to greater glory of the organizing and financing powers...

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Atomic Spies vs. Dancing Men

Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:48:31 +0100

[july 20, 2013 | #442]
In order to acquire a certain volume of a certain... material... a couple of weeks ago, I found myself in the back of a four-wheel drive, being bumped around a swampy forest in Burgundy, not far from where some 2000 years ago the Roman warlord Julius Ceasar won the Battle of Alesia...

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Break the ice. Play the ice. Melt the ice. (FdE #4 - 2/2)

Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:48:31 +0100

[july 12, 2013 | #441]
'hin, hin, hin, hin, his, ticque, torche, lorgne, brededin, brededac, frr, frrr, frrr, bou, bou, bou, bou, bou, bou, bou, bou, tracc, trac, trr, trr, trr, trrr, trrrrrr, on, on, on, on, on, ououououon...' E t c ... live at the 4th edition of the Festival des Ephemeres. éTcholalie... "Time past is not just reconstituted; it bursts out..."

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Fish learn from the water that we drown in (FdE #4 - 1/2)

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:58:31 +0100

[july 10, 2013 | #440]
Water! ... was the theme of the fourth edition of the Festival des Ephemeres, on June 29th and 30th in the Jardins d'Eole, in the 19th Parisian arrondissement. Two sunny afternoons filled with fringe art of a particularly fluid dynamics...

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Yiyi's Books

Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:38:53 +0100

[july 05, 2013 | #439]
In a Maastricht thrift store, Argentinian artist Yiyi de la Mota worked for two months on the making of a very pretty and very joyful image, wonderfully sculpted in books. She called it Hola. On the evening of the day that it was finally finished, a week before its presentation, Hola collapsed...

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How to keep devils away

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:58:23 +0100

[july 03, 2013 | #438]
The observation by a casual listener that the ookoi's 1024 seriously suffers from a lack of... violins, inspired a double random walk on a grid of 1024 violin sounds. We call it Kris Kras. But all of our friends call it Alaska. It is keeping the devils away.

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A Carcassonne Yodel in Blue [Kunsttour 2013]

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:58:23 +0100

[june 06, 2013 | #437]
It was not a joke. It was also not merely some random act. I could not have painted the Carcassonne table in some other color. Not that painting it in blue had some sort of a meaning. Though you of course are free to give it any f**king meaning you like, for me painting the table in blue meant 'painting the table in blue'...

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Y.Next_Numbr

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:58:23 +0100

[may 06, 2013 | #436]
The 2013 edition of Y, a yearly event carrying the name of the artist Yariv Alter Fin (1968-2007), focused on numbers, art, music & measure - with a series of morning lectures & presentations, and an instructive and entertaining workshop followed by a public presentation at the NASA, the New Art Space Amsterdam.

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"Ma premiere cassette etait vierge..."

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:58:23 +0100

[march 24, 2013 | #435]
2013 = C50! On Sunday March 17th, cassetteurs in New York and Paris celebrated 50 years of the compact audio cassette with a transatlantic event that began in Paris with a 4,5 hour live emission of web radio KKWNE, featuring Anton Mobin, Blenno & die Wurstbrücke and Har$. It then continued in the Silent Barn in Brooklyn, NY, with Aki Onda, G Lucas Crane aka onehorse, Emmanuel Rébus and Rinus van Alebeek ... "My first cassette was a virgin..."

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Higgs singlet decay particles pop into my universe at random times

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:58:23 +0100

[february 22, 2013 | #434]
Every now and then I set loose the sounds I find on there. But most of them we'll never hear. Suddenly, without warning, they pop into our universe at random times, like the decay particles of a Higgs singlet traveling in a fifth dimension.

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Culturomics, n-grams and sound artists

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:58:23 +0100

[february 14, 2013 | #433]
"Wollt ihr die totale Digitalisierung?" ... It was as of the end of World War II that our interest in Data started to get bigger than our interest in Gold... Data is the 21st century's gold, Babe, Babel, Car and Can - About the frequency of occurrences and the semantics of fuck, sound art and related terms in the 2012 Google Books Ngram Corpus...

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Grosse_Fuge.mp30000

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:18:23 +0100

[december 31, 2012 | #432]
Iterating mp3 encodings of a recording of Beethoven's opus 133 - up to 30.000 times! - Har$, on the verge of 2013, puts the 'experimental' back into 'experimental music' ... a viola line cut through her, like cheese-wire ... ... An essay in feedback.

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Curiosity, Cubes and Numbers

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:18:23 +0100

[december 09, 2012 | #431]
What's inside the Cube? A wacky sci-fi script - all about Peter Molyneux's Curiosity - a truly and unimaginably geeky part - includes an overview of all the fascinating Cube formulas that i am sure all of you have tried, but were unable, to derive... ;) ...

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Audio monitoring the Watergate Hotel (Diktat : americana / 1)

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:18:23 +0100

[october 20, 2012 | #430]
The first in a series of DIKTAT americana: how a small sticker in the lower left corner of one of the glass doors of the former lobby of the empty and desolate Watergate Hotel in Washington DC became the cherry on our US Dikta-cake.

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Diktat outside/inside the Manufactured Normalcy Field

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:18:23 +0100

[august 11, 2012 | #429]
Help the mighty DIKTAT cover the costs of their upcoming stay in America by buying a download of their thrilling new DIKTAT in Berlin digital album, and find out why this illustrious quartet is the happening future of rock 'n' roll, be it somewhat outside of our Manufactured Normalcy Field. 'If this were the 1960's, DIKTAT'd be the fucking Ronnettes...'

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72 Hours of Post-Nuclear Survival

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:18:23 +0100

[august 04, 2012 | #428]
July 27th-30th, the 15th grand (post-apocalyptic) Parisian Placard dropped its anchor at four fine counter cultural shelters in the French capital. I sailed along, with my own little post-experimental sub-placard, while Rebus' sound fooding provided both the alpha and the omega.

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UnOfficial Release

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:18:23 +0100

[july 26, 2012 | #427]
On Thomas Bey William Bailey's recent & courageous book about self-released and handmade audio/music (in post-industrial society): a dazzling, be it fragmentary, tour of the history and development of autonomous ('unofficial') music networks since the late 1970's, which played a pivotal role 'in the survival of radical sonic eclecticism into the 21st century'...

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The World As We Found It

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:18:23 +0100

[july 18, 2012 | #426]
In Sub071, arguably the world's smallest underground venue (in Leiden, the Netherlands), with the Haarlem 5 piece La Vie De Bohème I did a live pre-view of Het Moet Zo Zijn, a track to appear on the Dutch Smikkelbaard label as part of an upcoming 7" vinyl release...
'A record of utter wanton libidinousness'...

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The Sound Barrier

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:18:23 +0100

[july 10, 2012 | #425]
A NATIONAL, MONUMENTAL & EPHEMERAL PUBLIC URBAN SPACE ARTWORK BY GEERT-JAN HOBIJN, HAROLD SCHELLINX AND KEVIN SCHUIT, CONCEIVED FOR THE 55TH VENICE BIENNALE (JUNE-NOVEMBER 2013).
"Futures have to be thought before they can be built or sold..."

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A Forest Hanging from A Tree

Sat, 7 Jul 2012 10:22:23 +0100

[july 7, 2012 | #424]
With E t c ... we performed 3 x 2 x 30 minutes of dark, electric urban (un)nature scapes, at the intriguing (devious, unobtrusive and tentacular) three day Festival des Ephémères in the Jardins d'Eole, a public garden that borders on the dense pack of railway tracks that lead to and from the Parisian railway station Gare de l'Est.. eTcology is the title of the 5-track digital album that I edited from the recordings made on June 30th and July 1st. It is available as a high quality download on Bandcamp.

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CityNumberScapes

Sun, 1 Jul 2012 12:22:23 +0100

[july 1, 2012 | #423]
Citynumberscapes are field/quotidian recordings of urban space, peppered with recited numbers found within the landscape, done as 'artlessly' as possible: just press record, look, walk and speak... Read about the making by Louis Lamp and myself, of 3 one hour citynumberscapes for ResonanceFM's Clear Spot, in London, Amsterdam and Paris.

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A Night at the Museum (One big sweep, iv)

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:22:23 +0100

[june 24, 2012 | #422 - sbpc/049]
About an album's worth of juicy Ninja Fruits, Retromania, Big Data Crunchers' colonization of subcultures, the Future of Popp and the ookoi Plus Instruments writing plus-post-retro-ULTRA history, one April night at the Amsterdam STEIM.

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Y.3 = YltrA! (One big sweep, iii)

Sun, 06 May 2012 20:22:23 +0100

[may 06, 2012 | #421]
An extra-ordinary workshop and experience: 30 hours of sound and music making the ULTRA-way, with 13 students of the Rietveld Academy for fine arts and design, in Club Karlsson on the Amsterdam Keizersgracht. From scratch to concert in less than 2 days...

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One big sweep, from ULTRA-modern to post-experimental (ii)

Thu, 03 May 2012 22:22:23 +0100

[may 03, 2012 | #420]
My favorite swarm of houseflies by now also knowing how to u-l-t-r-a, lots of other ding-dong, a brandnew t-shirt, tasty cakes, high expectations, a great many Minny Pops, all sort of liquids and a canceled last New Moons performance... i carried all of it back home with me.

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One big sweep, from ULTRA-modern to post-experimental (i)

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:36:22 +0100

[april 02, 2012 | #419 - sbpc/048]
A (1st) ULTRA-craze wrap up, about the author of the ULTRA book becoming a Thai music playing, mice torturing deadhead, and in-cluding an ex-clusive, post-experimental, New Moons track: Back to Nature (based on Hanns Eisler's Rueckkehr zur Natur).

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Flies, not in the ointment...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:22:23 +0100

[february 27, 2012 | #418]
On how and why I recently became a dedicated follower of a swarm of tweeting houseflies ...

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Magnetic Remanence: Another Paris Tape Run

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:36:22 +0100

[february 19, 2012 | #417]
An exciting presentation at the Instants chavirés, richly topped with bourbon, beer & snacks, and a far, far more sober & austere Diktat performance at the wonderful-but-cold-in-wintertime La générale nord-est ...

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The small world daisychain mail tongue tape

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:22:23 +0100

[december 31, 2011 | #416]
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 ...

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Touching base

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:36:22 +0100

[december 24, 2011 | #415]
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 ...

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R.I.P.-1 The Francis Cook Landfill and other dumps

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:22:23 +0100

[august 20, 2011 | #414]
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...

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(I can't get no) Immediate Satisfaction - Diktat in Berlin [iii]

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:36:22 +0100

[august 05, 2011 | #413]
'... and the evening and the morning were the third day...' Diktat in Berlin. 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.

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'Komm raussi!' - Diktat in Berlin [ii]

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:22:23 +0100

[july 31, 2011 | #412]
'... 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.

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Seventy Seconds [ 30/52 ]

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:09:11 +0100

[july 31, 2011]

10-seconds-per-day sound diary for the prime year 2011 in weekly editions, every Sunday on the Dutch hard//hoofd web daily. Each edition comes with a short text taken from my personal diaries (in Dutch) and a picture made by photographer Pieter van Wynsberge at a corresponding hour on one of the seven days...

[ The full series of weekly sound files is available at soundcloud. ]

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'Where ist Ausland?' - Diktat in Berlin [i]

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:36:22 +0100

[july 29, 2011 | #411]
And the evening and the morning were the first day... Over the weekend of June 17-19, Diktat went to Berlin. This is the first in a fine summer series of lively and illustrated reports, including extracts from Diktat's Berlin performances.

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Discuts

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:22:23 +0100

[july 25, 2011 | #410]
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!

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Halfway

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:49:51 +0100

[july 23, 2011 | #409]
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

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Life is A Color Wire 3 (table version/KT2011)

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:11:32 +0100

[july 03, 2011 | #408]
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 see-hear installation out at the Bassin.

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End of an era

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:29:41 +0100

[june 28, 2011 | #407]
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.

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Listen! (Sound-Art-Music)

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:11:32 +0100

[june 25, 2011 | #406]
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.

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Hear It! (Sound-Art-Music)

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:29:41 +0100

[april 30, 2011 | #405]
The full and illustrated text, complete and unabridged, of my introductory talk at Hear It!, an extra-ordinary evening full of sound, art and 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.

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[Resonance] The Human Measure

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:19:07 +0100

[april 29, 2011]

I talked with Dutch sound artist 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 premiere next week at the Festival van Vlaanderen in Kortrijk, Belgium.

(Topographic [Table) Topographique]

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:11:32 +0100

[april 19, 2011 | #404]
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.

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SB Tweet Digest #12 (february 2011)

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:29:41 +0100

[march 14, 2011 | #403]
The ookoi's exploring of a Small World * All about Einstein's Errors * Why are Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony and Yes's Tales from Topographic Oceans so very similar? * Silence is a sound, stretched to last forever...

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Found Tapes Exibition: update

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:04:37 +0100

[february 11, 2011]

The Found Tapes Exhibition's latest acquisition, number 119, documents the (indeed, no more than) 6 trashed tapes that I picked up in the months july-december 2010. It brings the total number of documented finds to 706, the total duration of the found tapes audio collage stream to 13,5 hours. The new acquisition includes Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells (found near Hamburg in Germany), Sinita's crossing her broken heart (Amsterdam), The Beatles' Abbey Road (Amsterdam), de Mosselman (in Eindhoven, the Netherlands), the tapes from the telephone answering machine that Roy and Bianca threw away in Maastricht, and a recording of a French amateur rock band's rehearsal, picked up in Paris, France.

"Harold Schellinx' 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)"

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SB Tweet Digest #11 - jan 2011)

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:01:21 +0100

[february 10, 2011 | #402]
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

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Seventy Seconds ('promise/things/big diamond rings')

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:29:41 +0100

[january 10, 2011 | #401]
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.

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Happy New Prime Year! (SB Tweet Digest #10 - nov/dec 2010)

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:01:21 +0100

[january 01, 2011 | #400]
Hear Audio [ mp3 7.4MB ]

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!

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Obsolescence

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:29:41 +0100

[december 29, 2010 | #399] 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.

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Compositie met champignons (Composing with mushrooms)

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:01:21 +0100

[december 19, 2010 | #398 - sbpc/043]
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.

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STRP S K7 HISSSS

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:29:41 +0100

[december 03, 2010 | #397] Hear Audio [ mp3 7.7MB ]

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.

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Foundtaping, Maps and Shadows (@ Shift Basel, i)

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:01:31 +0100

[november 28, 2010 | #396] 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.

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SB Tweet Digest #9 (October 2010)

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:29:41 +0100

[november 19, 2010 | #395] 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.

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Noise and Capitalism

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:01:31 +0100

[november 04, 2010 | #394] 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.

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Introducing: Resonance - a European sound art network

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:59:41 +0100

[october 13, 2010 | #393] Resonance is a European sound art project and network that - for starters - will run until May 2012. I will be monitoring the project, a task which includes editing the Resonance blog ...

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Running Roaming Recorders (flying, bumping, hopping, hking)

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:01:31 +0100

[october 07, 2010 | #392 - sbpc/042] Hear Audio [ mp3 9.7MB ]

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?

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SB Tweet Digest #8 (september 2010)

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:59:41 +0100

[october 01, 2010 | #391] * 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.

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Bonjour Schiphorst! Farewell Blue Vase! (and then I joined the Avantgarde, iii)

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:01:11 +0100

[september 26, 2010 | #390 - sbpc/041] Hear Audio [ mp3 11MB ]

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.

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Life is a Color Wire 2

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:09:11 +0100

[september 20, 2010 | #389] 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).

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Life is a Color Wire [i]

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:07:21 +0100

[september 15, 2010 | #388] 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.

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The strange case of the quite honorable Justin Bieber's temporal stretching

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:09:11 +0100

[september 04, 2010 | #387] 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.

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Yi Sang in Seoul: Rebirth

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:01:11 +0100

[august 22, 2010 | #386] 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.

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'And what about Yi Sang?' (... a Paris, iv)

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:11:11 +0100

[august 14, 2010 | #385] 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.

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Shake your booty (on the workfloor) [and then I joined the Avantgarde (ii)]

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:01:11 +0100

[august 10, 2010 | #384] 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.

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SB Tweet Digest #6 (July 2010)

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:11:11 +0100

[august 02, 2010 | #383] * 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.

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And Then I Joined The Avantgarde (i)

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:01:11 +0100

[july 22, 2010 | #382] 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.

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'Die Sonne scheint mit Glitzerstrahl'

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:01:11 +0100

[july 19, 2010 | #381] 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!

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From (h)ear to avantgarde

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:01:11 +0100

[july 18, 2010 | #380] 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 ...

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The Final Soundtrack

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:01:11 +0100

[july 14, 2010 | #379 - sbpc/040] Hear Audio [ mp3 112MB ]

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.

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SB Tweet Digest #5 (June 2010)

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:01:11 +0100

[july 13, 2010 | #378]
* TINT Arts Lab online residencies, * Momus' Hypnoprism uTube album, * Vive la Vuvuzela!

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The Great Johnny Hallyday Meltdown

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:58:21 +0100

[july 06, 2010 | #377] 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.

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Ceremonies [Yi Sang in Paris, iii]

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:18:11 +0100

[june 29, 2010 | #376] 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.

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Read me a poem, Yi Sang! [Yi Sang in Paris, ii]

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:23:21 +0100

[june 25, 2010 | #375] 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.

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'Raise the trumpet, sound the drum'

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:18:11 +0100

[june 23, 2010 | #374] 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 ...

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Sunny soundy days [KT2010, iii]

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:13:11 +0100

[june 17, 2010 | #373 - sbpc/039] Hear Audio [ mp3 1.9MB ]

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.
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Yi Sang in Paris [i]

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:18:11 +0100

[june 13, 2010 | #372] "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 ?

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Jean Borde's Electric Dream

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:18:11 +0100

[june 12, 2010 | #371] 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.

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A kitchen table and a game of cards [KT2010, ii]

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:31:11 +0100

[june 10, 2010 | #370] (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.

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Kunstvlaai 2010 - some im/pressions

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:31:11 +0100

[june 09, 2010 | #369] 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.

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Table archaeology: unearthing the picture trap

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:31:11 +0100

[june 04, 2010 | #368] I had the good luck 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 ...

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SB Tweet Digest #4 (May 2010)

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:01:11 +0100

[june 02, 2010 | #366 - sbpc/038] Hear Audio [ mp3 1.5MB ]

How the Dutch Socialist Party managed to win 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.

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Autonoom en untitled [KT2010, i]

Sun, 30 May 2010 16:01:11 +0100

[may 30, 2010 | #365] 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.

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Instant coffee and (b)[re](a)d wine: the Spoerri re:table in Extrapool, Nijmegen

Tue, 18 May 2010 13:01:11 +0100

[may 18, 2010 | #364] Roy Santiago thoughtfully and deliberately messed up the re:Carcassonne table during its Dutch premiere at the Nijmegen Extrapool, on Friday May 14th 2010. In a grand final gesture, Eva van Deuren, his belgian complice, then covered it all up...

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Paris Visite

Sat, 15 May 2010 23:01:11 +0100

[may 15, 2010 | #363] 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 ...

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attention ! oeuvre d atable

Thu, 13 May 2010 08:21:31 +0100

[may 13, 2010 | #362] With A Table! we 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 took place on May 7th, during the Parcours d'Artistes Saint-Gilles, in Brussels.

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Tweet Digest #3 (april 2010) [2/2]

Tue, 04 May 2010 19:01:11 +0100

[may 04, 2010 | #361 - sbpc/037] Hear Audio [ mp3 2.9MB ]

... * Start Learning Squirrels To Read A Poem, with the online free-form scores of Jason Freeman's Piano Etudes ... ** Then find serendipity lurking in every corner of the Amsterdam Mediamatic Bank, during last week's 24 hour Music Hack Day ...

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Tweet Digest #3 (april 2010) . [1/2]

Sun, 02 May 2010 18:21:51 +0100

[may 02, 2010 | #360] ... * Diablito - the mechanical imp, or how to define a fieldrecorder ** a Digital Folklore Reader (review) *** "Drs. P is nog lang niet dood // hij was heel op dreef bij Radio Rood" **** Thirty (30) times Jandek

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'noem me black en decker, want ik ga je boren'

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:01:11 +0100

[april 22, 2010 | #359] I found 7 crumbled pages with Dutch raps on a corner of the Amsterdam 'jewel hood', the Diamantbuurt. Thrown away after a performance or rehearsal, I guess, by a bunch of young Dutch rappers. Some of it is obviously inspired by the late American rap megastar 2Pac, but not only the lyrics' language, also their content is nevertheless very *Dutch* ... or is it? Well, it is, and at the same time it is not. Which accounts for the fact that for weeks I kept carrying them around in my pockets. I read them over and over again, but many of the seemingly pretty local references remain utterly misty to me... What is meant by a 'carnaal' (or 'karnaal')? And is 'kelma' indeed the Moroccan word for 'word'? What are the 'tijden van Hayran'? And who is 'Justin Liehoedlake'? ...
Anyone out there with a rapping Amsterdam cousin?
Bring me that 'boy die blijft draaien, als een reuzenrat vanuit Amstel-fain' ...!

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Fecit Venetiis 1754 (Muzzix #10, Lille)

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:21:51 +0100

[april 18, 2010 | #358] We spent a great weekend of sonic demo(n)creation with both the Ana-R and A Table! at the 10th edition of 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 Rebus' Red Hatter: a solipsis's musician's wet dream ...

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Tweet Digest #2 (march 2010)

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:01:11 +0100

[april 02, 2010 | #357 - sbpc/036] Hear Audio [ mp3 2.6MB ]

The monthly SoundBlog Tweet Digest, though meant specifically for those going the Queen's way (that is: those that do not have time, energy or gusto to follow twitter.com/soundblog), will be of interest also if you soar along the Femke Halsema way: there's great pictures, deep thoughts, a couple of confessions and additional comments added to the best of SoundBlog's february 2010 "'Heard/Read/Seen" tweets. In this edition: * "In B-flat" , * RjD news, * AI and algorithmic composition, * The Arduino micro controller, * An analogue tape glove, * Second Life, and lots more ...

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on-g'luk = un-luck, that is: malheur, twice ...

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:01:11 +0100

[march 30, 2010 | #356] 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 euros)... 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 euros)... If someone wants to stop us that badly, we surely must be on to something BIG...

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Paris Tape Run (2009): tous les sens uniques

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:01:11 +0100

[march 20, 2010 | #355] 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?

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Le son de l'art a sa naissance (Art's Birthday 2010)

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:01:11 +0100

[march 18, 2010 | #354] 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...

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SB Tweet Digest #1 (february 2010)

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:01:11 +0100

[march 01, 2010 | #353] The monthly SoundBlog Tweet Digest, though meant specifically for those going the Queen's way (that is: those that do not have time, energy or gusto to follow twitter.com/soundblog), will be of interest also if you soar along the Femke Halsema way: there's great pictures, deep thoughts, a couple of confessions and additional comments added to the best of SoundBlog's february 2010 "'Heard/Read/Seen" tweets. In this edition: * Sun Ra's "Space is the Place" , * The High Ponytail, * why the Dutch composer Matthijs Vermeulen inspired DIKTAT, * Sound is Art, * Noise Control, and lots more more ...

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"Zonder Vreesch, want immer Dapper, gaan wij des Zondags naar den Kapper"

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:01:11 +0100

[february 24, 2010 | #352] 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.

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