august 23rd, 2008 :: Trashing,
un(un(un(educated :: 
Noise ... sometimes it is white, sometimes it is pink; it may be brown,
speckled, crackled or thermal ... even chaos is noise! Or should that
be the other way round? ... Some lines on Portable Noise Kremator's
Uneducated Trashing, a very limited edition 8-track CDr, produced
by the author of the Noiseblog, with the help of a cracklebox
that he just bought and a couple of effects ... [ read
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august 20th, 2008 :: Quirass
Moet Je Horen :: 
Four years ago I
wrote extensively about 'Quirass', the ... whatchamacallit?
...'teen-avantrock-band' me and a couple of friends did when we were
at highschool in Maastricht (the Netherlands) in the early 1970s. That
write-up was part of Splogman's '52 Weeks Project'. It came with a CD-length
selection of the original live-and-other recordings, that survived the
tear and wear of decades. The 14 tracks now have been re-published by
'Maastricht Moet Je Horen', a website that reports on all aspects of
'life in the town of Maastricht', through sound: interviews, lectures,
audio reports, music, etc ... Now including a downloable
CD cover ... !
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june 18th, 2008 :: "Sing
laping, sing !" (foundtaping in brussels_i) :: 
Somewhat over a year ago, during my 'foundtaping event' at Recyclart in
Brussels, Belgium, I stood on the Place du Jeu de Balle and watched a man
pick up a cardboard box. The box was among the rubbish left behind there
at the end of the daily flea market. When the man turned the box upside
down, out there came tumbling a lot of 16 cassette tapes.
He took the box. I picked up the tapes.
I found that once the tapes belonged to Willy's husband.
Willy and her hubby liked singmusic. And they liked birds. Hubby used the
cassettes to record Willy's gramophone records. To do so, he put the microphone
of his cassettetape machine next to the gramophone player's speaker. Which was
not far from the birdcage. Inside of that cage there was a shrieking singbird...
Whence, 16 full cassette tapes long, we hear Willy and her hubby's domestic
bird squeaking along to the music ...
Now listen to all of it together in "Sing laping, sing!", which is this entry's podcast ... ... [ read
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june 09th, 2008 :: d_Revolution
#2 :: 
"Mechanical machines are bodies," dutch writer Dirk van Weelden
states in a recent blogpost. "They share with us, humans, the tragic aspects
of being a body." Dirk is, specifically, referring to typewriters ...
For even though he keeps a blog, at heart Dirk is very much an analog writer.
It is therefore that I rejoiced when discovering that recently he began
to typecast his weblog ... "Fold 'm and fly 'm!" ... Or how to get
trans-digital ... [ read
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may 11th, 2008 :: a
new kind of water :: 
there's a giant blue Boeing tjif tjaf flying overhead, the silent un-sound
of water and a police car rushing backwards along a forest path in 'Air, Earth,
Water, Fire', six-and-a-half minutes of uTube with sounds and visions from
our soundwalk in the Amsterdam Forest ... In Seconds all falls into place,
in one more pretty uTube signed by Rebus: 'The Music Box' ...it is about vibrations,
which is the stuff that sounds are made of, and how with Jodi Rose we made
a brand new passerelle across the Seine sing, on a funny sunny friday afternoon
in april ... 'See me, feel me, touch me, steel me' ... [ read
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april 22nd, 2008 :: Saskatoon:
à demain (tot morgen !) :: 
'Tot Morgen' is part of Simulcast 1.0b: Saskatoon. It's a sound piece for
seven consecutive nights in Saskatoon, Canada. It plays from sunset to sunrise, 'until, again the roar of dawn.'
It was made from one single chord, and a whole lot of flies ... Maybe you should drink.
Maybe you shouldn't. But if you do, then take care to stick to whiskey or vodka or beer. 'Tot morgen (à demain)' is
no wine-piece ... [ read
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april 14th, 2008 :: Dung, dung, dung, beetle, bone, bone, dung, dung :: In the Louvre's 39 galleries dedicated to paintings from the northern schools, the flemish artist Jan Fabre traced a meandering monodic path marked by many large but often transient and fragile looking objects built from thousands of iridescent dung beetle elytra, slices of bone and angel hair. A flamboyant, repetitive and obsessive mix of body fluids, angels, warriors and carnivorous insects, that is cartoonish, jubilant ... and profoundly optimistic ... [ read more __ ]
march 16th, 2008 :: "I did not need that string anyway ..." :: Reverberations Paris-New York : everybody having an awful lot of art/rock/FUN with Rhys Chatman's Guitar Trio at Studio Campus in Paris, and - not lightly to forget - David Watson's bagpipes ... [ read more __ ]
march 30th, 2008 :: Au clair de la lune :: "... if the air we breathe is the never-failing historian of the sentiments we have uttered, earth, air, and ocean, are the eternal witnesses of the acts we have done," Charles Babbage wrote, in 1837 in his 'Ninth Bridgewater Treatise' ... So listen to the sound that was inscribed on a phonautogram made in France, in april 1860, and recently dug up from a parisian archive. Then read about ancient pottery recordings, and sound inscribed in paint stroked along an artist's canvas ... [ read more __ ]
february 24th, 2008 :: The Great Washing :: In search of a music that does not make sound ... about ookoi's l'Ecoute, 'Live Beyond the Paradiso' and the end of art ... about Olivier Vadrot's 'kiosque electronique' (a mobile placard), and the Brocante Sonore and Har$ performing chez Fukiko, a japanese hairdresser in Vincennes, France ...
february 08th, 2008 :: Dead composers and a hairdresser (japanese) :: About an upcoming performance with the brocante sonore at a japanese salon de coiffure in the heart of Vincennes, about Avraamov's 'Symphony of Sirens' and how I found a trace of the mysterious long lost pre-futurist 'Symphonie des Forces Mecaniques', written by the french composer Carol-Berard in 1908 (or was it 1910 ?) ...
december 04th, 2007 :: I'm an island :: "It's not easy to be an island. There's water all around you"... Read all about ookoi's residency at the Archipel Medialab on the dutch isle of Ameland, november 13-20, 2007 ...
november 08th, 2007 :: All Hallow's Trivia (i) :: About free improvisation and the art of wearing ties, Brooklyn, celebrating Wiel's birthday in Montevideo, a video impression of the Brocante Sonore from Brussels, and playing live sudoku's at the Agence XP placard in Paris XIV ...
october 19th, 2007 :: Diktat in Breda - 2. boezem :: Diktat squatted an abandoned piece of public sound art, on the corner of the Academiesingel and WIllemstraat in Breda. We secretly performed, but many questions remained unanswered. How was this 'open air sound cube' supposed to work? What sounds should one hear? Why is it no longer functioning? What is going to happen to this piece of 'art refuse'? Who is responsible? ... "A la recherche du Boezem perdu" ...
september 20th, 2007 :: Diktat in Den Haag :: Diktat went to The Hague in the Netherlands, to perform at a Tic-Tac feast in King-Kong. All part of the Ground 2 festival. With retro-early-1980s feelings, an interlude for 67 trucks and other assorted vehicles, a mysterious whitish powder, and a secret performance on the Scheveningen beach ...
september 04th, 2007 :: "leve ookoi !", 3. About Vicky's Tapemosphere at the Maastricht Kunsttour, and the Vogelvlucht/Downunder event of sunday may 27th, with contributions by Wiel's and students from the dutch Academy for Pop Culture (who were in Hollum, on the isle of Ameland), by ookoi (in the Art Garage in Maastricht), and from Xiamen, China by Yariv Alter Fin, who las week unexpectedly and to great dismay of his many friends, students and colleagues, choose to end his life.
august 19th 31st, 2007 ::
hurts like a warehouse ... Celebrating five years of soundblog ...
Watch me sing and dance among, with and inside
degraded german bunkers on the isle of Rhe ...
august 12th, 2007 :: Certified Reconditioned At this year's Kunsttour in Maastricht, the Netherlands the ookoi were the invité d'honneur of the Urban Myths New Media project ... Now that's B I G ... ! Including dreams of Mick Jagger, a wooden cabin in the midst of Sologne woods, blackberries, fox pee and mushrooms ...
august 22th, 2007 :: Let's Dance ... ! all about avatars ... and das kleine in Second Life ... about Hefferman dancing ... Dresscode Avatar ... Transponderfish's Transversalia & SL-art in general, loving one's virtual double, and how even ookoi went all SL-psychedecybercosmic at the opening of the Maastricht Kunsttour ... "Then later that evening it rained cats and dogs..."
august 27th, 2008 :: Spiegeltje,
spiegeltje :: 
The star of the evening, on thursday july 17th, 2008 at the parisian
La Miroiterie was a mysterious black box, called RT.220 ME. Jean-Philippe,
aka Hawaiian Spasms, had found it in a dustbin on the parking-lot of
a shopping mall in Marne-la-Vallee. It lay there, crying out to him
like an abandoned child. Listen to this entry's podcast, and hear RT
chit-chatting along with the lot of us in the Miroiterie's yard ...
Then read about the Stig Noise Sound System (from Liverpool, UK) : "...
some bands start to play, but Stig Noise exploded ..." Together with
Rinus van Alebeek we were the final act on that memorable evening. "Large
parts felt like a freeze within the sound of a huge mirror at the precise
moment of its 'smashing' ..."
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july 28th, 2008 :: Michel
Waisvisz' Song of Praise :: 
On the evening of this year's Bastille Day, in the small basement studio of
the parisian Radio AligreFM, a ten (wo)men strong 'Cracklebox Orchestra' gathered
to perform a Kraakdoos Sinfonietta: a tribute to Michel Waisvisz,
the inventor of the cracklebox (and much more besides), who recently
passed away. Listen to our Sinfonietta in this entry's podcast
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july 23rd, 2008 :: Mind:
the gap (Hommage à Nam Jun Paik) :: 
Musicians from the impromptu Ana-R chamber orchestra, in divers combinations, performed over the course of two separate evenings in june six times a parisian Sound CityScape, signed by the Korean artist Daily ... We used a flute, a toy piano, a Casio keyboard, an acoustic guitar and an ukulele on sunday june 15th at La Veilleuse; at the franco-korean Espace Han-Seine, on friday june 22nd, there were a double bass, a piano, and - again - Rebus's toy piano. I think I never ever before heard nor played anything as ephemeral.
" "... As ephemeral as the nightly view of a city from within an airplane flying overhead.
As ephemeral as the view of Paris from within a car that is speeding along its ring way ..."
Such was Daily's 'Hommage to Nam Jun Paik' ... [ read
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june 29th, 2008 :: Diktat
went double Swiss :: 
DIKTAT performed but twice over the last seven months or so. Twice that was
in Paris, and twice we met a Swiss duo in concert. Late last autumn we played
with BUG (Christian Bucher and Andreas Glauber) in La Comete (watch it on
YouTube). And last month (hear a 20-minute extract in this entry's podcast)
we met JEUDI (Benoit Moreau and John Menoud) in l'Ogresse, for the time of
an intimate and concentrated two set performance. Then we mistook an egg box
for a hat, and in the end went home with nothing but some change, and enough
Mongolian Tugrik to buy us a couple of pieces of candy ... [ read
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june 06th, 2008 :: raudio
graffiti : almost live ! :: 
Read all about ookoi's 'doing nothing' at the 2008 Maastricht Kunsttour ...
See 'm sit on Pierre Paulin design furniture, in a freshly re-decorated
_Timmerfabriek_. Watch 'm drag the Radio Raudio Mobile along the
city's cobblestones, live on the web. Hear 'm hit a white Baby Grand in _Landbouwbelang_,
*the* Euregional center for autonomous and anti-commercial artistic activity.
Amaze at fPcM's cranking a street organ in the gigantic _Eiffel building_
hall. Come along with 'm to check out what it is that is going on in Kaspar
Koenig's _ArtSpace Rondeel_, Maastricht's next b i g art-thing
... and listen to an eclectic stream of over seven and a half hours of Kunsttour
sounds: from popular dutch to Sofia Gubaidulina, from street noise to backyard-rock,
from beer to scotch, from sunshine to rain, from minutely composed to freely
improvised, from circuit bent to organ ground ... This is Raudio Graffiti.
This is almost radio. This is almost live ... [ read
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may 14th, 2008 :: free
lodgings, free food :: 
In Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's From here to ear some thirty small, but loud and boisterous, sing birds are
kept in a wide and light room of a parisian gallery, thus turned aviary. Flitting around and perching on
a number of horizontally supported electric guitars, each connected, via a 'big muff' distortion unit, to
a stage amplifier, the guitar-birds make 'sweet, sweet music'. They get their free lodgings, drink and
food in return. It's the way of the world. Elegant and simple ...
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may O4th, 2008 :: i-tag-u
| u-tag-me :: 
a portrait of the author as a musical tagcloud, derived from the traces kept
by LastFM of his listening habits ... Alfa jazz, beta pop, experimental, the
vitamin b12, field recording, avantgarde, ultra, krautrock, faction ... just
to name a few, all were grabbed and put together by a little online script
written and made available by Anthony Liekens ... [ read
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april 18th, 2008 :: Mythical beasts, corsets and kites :: As a sonic environment for Yvonne Oerlemans' Mythical Beasts installation (to be visited still, daily until the end of the first week of may, in the Visitor's Center of the Amsterdamse Bos), I composed an hour-long soundtrack, that is endlessly repeating. It is called: Where are you, Wolf? ... On the occasion of the show's opening, on sunday march 2nd, we went for a walk to discover and record the sounds of this 'Amsterdam Forest': an isle of artificial green, cut in the middle by a busy highway like a pie by a chainsaw, enveloped in the continuous distant low-ish drone of the busy life in the dutch capital, and whipped by the roar of airliners soaring onto the adjacent Schiphol airport every other minute or so ... [ read more __ ]
march 30th, 2008 :: Boezem (suite) :: Thanks to Diktat's secret action in Breda on sunday september 30th, 2007 (that is, today precisely half a year ago), and the 'noise' we made, the city of Breda has assured Marinus Boezem that his 'Visual Sound Project' will be restaured and that soon his voice will sound again on the corner of the Academiesingel and the Willemstraat ... [ read more __ ]
march 15th, 2008 :: 
:: For Décibels, a saturday evening
program of the french national radio France Culture, Anthony Carcone
made a reportage about and around the Found
Tapes Exhibition ... Now
listen to this ...
february 12th, 2008 :: Karlheinz' Song of Praise :: For a special tribute edition of Aligre FM's "Songs of Praise" I dug up the original audio cassette recording of our 1982 interview with Karlheinz Stockhausen; on the process of composing the thirteenth piano piece (Lucifer's Dream), on the nature of time, on pop music, on what's wrong with collage, and on the 'terrible decadence' of western culture, and western music in particular ...
january 06th, 2008 :: Restmuell :: Tapes found on a german Restmuell bin and elsewhere in Cologne, about a pretty poetic sort of inversion, a crown of thorns, a hanging cassette cemetery, fast-forward-ing your granny, and restauring found cassettes while zipping champagne at december's Dorkbot ...
december 05th, 2007 :: Kh Stockhausen (1928-2007)
november 26th, 2007 :: All Hallow's Trivia (ii) :: About a phonecall from Rob Scholte and 39 dutch names for marbles. How I became a member of the Andy Warhol Club, sneak pictured "Other Voices, Other Rooms" at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and way too much watched and listened to the Velvet Underground's "Symphony in Sound" from 1966. I then went to see Lou Reed's rather nondescript New York photographs in Rob Malasch's "Serieuze Zaken" gallery, only to buy a black bag with a yellow drawing of a cassette tape entitled "Music to Fuck and Fly" in the store next door. I took that bag to go shopping at Mediamatic's "El Hema" ...
october 14th, 2007 :: Diktat in Breda - 1. dutch angle :: about snackbars and post-trash, about doctor Bibber and princess Maxima ... about how dutch tolerance at heart is merely *apparent* acceptance of many_thing 'other', and covers up a deep-rooted xenophobia ...
september 25th, 2007 :: New York @ 9/11 :: Two weeks ago I took an early plane from Paris to New York. It may have been mere coincidence, but there were not very many with me on this particular 9/11 flight, apart from a large group of orthodox american jews that, as so many Jack-in-the-boxes, all the way kept on jumping up from their seats to lay tefillin ...
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