da-Y #3 - Crew cut
may 26, 2005.
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Upon arrival on the island, on monday morning, I wanted to get my hair cut. So straight from the boat we drove to Nes, the island's 'capital'. Unfortunately, the one hairdresser's (the kapsalon) in the village turned out to be closed on mondays ...
So, I asked Martin to cut my hair on the beach ... ("Coupe Beaufort")
No, one should not be afeard ... of the
sound of the wind blowing on beaches, the many birds and sheep, the sea
and church bells ringing ... The bells of the church just opposite the galery
hardly stopped this wednesday ... When Peter finally went out to record
them - for that might the one way to make them stop :-) - he ended up in
the middle of a funeral.
A big funeral.
"Wat een grote begrafenis, hè?", a man whispered in our mike. "Het
is de wijkverpleegster, hier van het dorp ... Ze is oud geworden ... éénentachtig
..."
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da-Y #2 - "The truth is out here"
may 25, 2005.
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Wouldn't one believe in miracles? On the isle of Ameland again, at the same time and at that very same spot in Hollum - so remote, yet so surrounded - ... for the third year in succession ...
Yeah!
I decided to believe in miracles this week!
So did the other members of Park's Sand-Y team ... so did Martin Takken. Though somehow he felt that 'just believing is not enough'. Whence, during the first two days of the project, he took Park's HD camera out of our studio in galery Dit Eiland ... and set out to linger, by day and by night, on beaches, in fields and on dune tops. To register solid proof. That the truth indeed is out here ...
Well ... of course it is! It doesn't take much ... (The images to the left are three stills, from Martin's "Waargenomen 2005-05-23 17:32", and from "Onweer". They are part of the online selection of Park4DTV's 'Zandoog' work.)
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Meanwhile the Raudio team, in its guise as 0 ok, 0:1, yesterday evening met up with vocal ensemble Vocalis, who were rehearsing in the church of Hollum's Nederlandse Hervormde Gemeente, just opposite galery Dit Eiland on the Burenlaan ...
My idea was to ask the ensemble to improvise using a text consisting basically in the band's name ("zero okay, zero:one") and its motto ("alles is goed, meer is beter"):
"nul .... oo! ... kéee ... komma ... nul ... dubbele punt ... één
0 ok, 0:1
0 ok, 0:1
...
...
Alles is goed
alles
a-ah-ah-àààh- alles
alles
is goednul .... oo! ... kéee ... komma ... nul ... dubbele punt ... één
beter
is
meera-ah-ah-àààh- alles
alles
is
goed"
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We crossed the road in heavy wind and rainfall, crossed the church's cemetery, carrying the choir-sized line-by-line text score meticulously prepared by Peter...
Eventually, we used but the score's first line. But who cares? For wasn't it a miracle at any count? ...
Under the direction of Gijsbert de Jong, Vocalis did a marvelous job.
It's all in today's - Raudio's second - Sand-Y podcast...
Oh yes! We do believe in miracles ...
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Sand-Y da-Y #1
may 24, 2005.
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Yesterday early morning we sailed the Dutch wadden waves, crossing over on the 'Oerd' to the Isle of Ameland, for the third year in succession ... Once again this is a 'weak of the see', and Park4DTV is contributing to the 'ZandOog' ('Sand-Eye') project, which is part of archipel.nu, initiated by galery 'Dit Eiland' in Hollum.
On the boat we were met by a crew of the Frysian television, who are doing a short reportage on the project. Reason enough to improvise a short 'unplugged' session, on cracklebox, voices, and recorder, on the boat's deck. Much to the excitement of a class of Dutch kids on a school trip, who were crossing over with us. Well, obviously it was more the sight of cameras - and the idea of 'fame' :) they represent - which excited them. When asked what they thought we were doing, they replied that surely this must be "something for the sea gulls" ... have a look now at Martin Takken's short video report on this event ...
Park4DTV is testing and working with the new high definition, 16:9, video format. Meanwhile, Raudio this week will be editing a series of short Podcasts, to report on our daily sonic adventures. We will (hopefully) again work with musicians from the village fanfare, the 'Hollumer Gromkes', and - a premiere for this year - record with one of the island's choirs: Vocalis. On sunday we will host, just like last year, an 8 hour placard (from 16h00 until midnight local time). This will be one of the last 'prologues' to this year's 'international headphone festival', which officially will kick off on june 1st, in Montréal, at Mutek's ...
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Read about the ookoi elsewhere:
ANNUAL, 1, december 2023 (Korm Plastics) - Green-tainted hyperbole, quailish quirks and summer-flies. The inscrutable genius of the ookoi.
eContact! 21.2, july 2023 - Towards an Unhearable Music. Conceptualism in the ookoi's art.
Gonzo #88, september/october 2008 - Zelfcomponerende Klankstukken
Read about the ookoi and Raudio and Stduio on the SoundBlog:
(2024, september 10) - Home is my Rome (Awesome Foursomes (xix, xxi) - No. 506, 507)
(2024, june 17) - Long live ookoi! (Leve ookoi!): a b.ookoipera / een tehoorspel
(2024, march 04+) - The « ot-o ki do ki » (Awesome Foursomes (xviii) - No. 624)
(2023, december 31) - d.ookoi writes b.ookoi (ii) - A Year in the Rear (2023)
(2023, december 16+) - Awesome Foursomes (xi) - No. 178
(2023, december 16+) - Awesome Foursomes (x) - No. 789
(2023, december 16+) - Awesome Foursomes (ix) - No. 329
(2023, august 20) - Three days of residency at Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels
(2022, april 25) - Awesome Foursomes (viii) - No. 664
(2022, march 31) - Awesome Foursomes (vii) - No. 138
(2022, february 20) - Awesome Foursomes (vi) - No. 419
(2021, november 01) - Awesome Foursomes (v) - No. 954
(2021, august 20) - Awesome Foursomes (iv) - No. 793
(2021, july 18) - Awesome Foursomes (iii) - No. 562
(2021, july 09) - Awesome Foursomes (ii)- No. 284
(2021, june 21) - Awesome Foursomes (i) - No. 019
(2021, may 31) - d.ookoi writes b.ookoi (i)
(2020, january 26) - STDUIO Arti: aLife @Hal-fIve
(2020, january 25) - STDUIO Arti: The Lâ’¶st Weekend
(2019, march 03) - ookoi 2.0: the remake of a spect[r]al b[r]and
(2017, april 12) - 1024
(2015, march 07) - The men once in green are now writing a book!
(2014, may 09) - You are NOT Hier!
(2013, july 03) - How to keep devils away
(2013, may 06) - Next Numbr!
(2012, june 24) - Ninja Fruit Plus Instruments
(2012, may 06) - Y.3 = Yltra !
(2012, may 06) - Our final gig / Ons laatste optreden
(2010, may 23) - 'Raise the trumpet, sound the drum'
(2010, april 02) - [Second Life and WudyWudy]
(2010, january 05) - ookoi: onderood
(2009, november 17) - Soli Deo Gloria !
(2009, october 10) - Project Icarus OST
(2009, august 24) - ookoi ShakeNRoll
(2009, july 18) - Pure . Reactive . Music . Hack Day
(2009, april 07) - "Blood and Bottom" (Raudi0GaGa)
(2009, february 21) - Insular arithmetic (ookoi toont)
(2009, january 31) - A glimpse of Heesbeen
(2009, january 15) - Rien à voir
(2008, october 02) - The right to be slow
(2008, june 06) - Raudio Graffiti: almost live !
(2008, february 24) - The Great Washing
(2007, december 04) - I'm an island
(2007, november 20) - Live Beyond the Paradiso, Amsterdam
(2007, september 04) - leve ookoi! (3)
(2007, august 22) - leve ookoi! (2)
(2007, august 12) - leve ookoi! (1)
(2007, april 12) - Back to Berlin [Raudio 11/15]
(2007, march 24) - Vicky, Killers and Avatars
(2007, february 15) - Every presentation is a premiere
(2007, january 25) - 1024 Waarden, by ookoi
(2007, january 19) - Preparations for a Second Life
(2006, november 05) - Cellarlar Heroes
(2006, october 20) - Funky shit
(2006, august 14) - placard : la générale
(2006, july 07) - de-'tails of lite house keeping'
(2006, may 06) - jam karet?
(2006, april 04) - 100+ new (r)audio philes ... [3] [Raudio 07]
(2006, march 20) - raudio @cosman's
(2006, march 12) - 100+ new (r)audio philes ... [2] [Raudio 07]
(2006, march 03) - 100+ new (r)audio philes ... [1] [Raudio 07]
(2005, october 12) - Raudio #06 [Raudio 06]
(2005, september 25) - 0 OK, 0:1, life on ze road
(2005, july 31) - Outside - Inside Paradiso
(2005, june 18) - Sand-Y da-Y #5-7 [Raudio 05]
(2005, june 05) - Sand-Y :: da-Y #04 - da birds
(2005, may 26-24) - Sand-Y :: da-Y #03, #02, #01 - Crew cut ; "The truth is out here" ; ::
(2005, may 14) - 9 Beet Stretch [Raudio Special]
(2005, march 31) - Raudio #04 :: "GespRek 1982-2005" [Raudio 04]
(2005, february 10) - raudio #3 (drie/three) [Raudio 03]
(2004, december 08) - pure sound [Raudio 02]
(2004, november 24) - other, and good news! [Raudio 01]
(2004, october 10) - raudio launched
(2004, september 24) - made in ameland
(2004, june 09) - boyzz buzz # listen!global corpus
(2004, may 20-31) - >∞-îl_o_tré
Read some of the ookoi's papers in pdf:
(2014) - Localized Sounds, Sounding Locations.
Presented at the International Symposium "Locative Media and Sound Art", Kortrijk (be)
(2007) - ookoi - Uptime Publishing Demonstration. (With Jay Needham.)
ookoi - The works:
(2015—now) :: writing b.ookoi: pick a number!
(2017) Weekly, 10'24" :: ookoi dooki podcast
(2014) HIER - iPhone app, 4 track album of localized Future Popp
(2013) Y ¬ Y.1024 (HTML5 web app)
(2013) Wandelzand - iPhone app, soundwalk for the Dutch isle of Ameland
(2012) Palm Top Theatre V2
(2010) WudyWudy, machina movie, filmed in Second Life by Evo Szuyuan (trailer)
(2009) ookoi_@_E@rport, Amsterdam - channel 19 of the RAUDIO IIIII streaming audio art iThing app
(2009) ShakeNRoll, Project Icarus OST - scenes for the RJDJ reactive music iPhone platform
(2009) iRingg®, iPhone ringtones
(2009) 2525 (video)
(2008) L'Ecoute - public space screen video
(2008) Jam Karet I & Jam Karet IV - pocket movies
(2007) Live beyond the Paradiso (USB-stick data-dump)
(2007) Leve ookoi! - channel 16 of the RAUDIO IIIII streaming audio art iThing app
(2007) 1024 (DVD)
(2007) 1024 Waarden - flash animation
(2006) "Roam Stroam" - channel 12 of the RAUDIO IIIII streaming audio art iThing app
(2006) Tijdrekken - flash animation
(2005) Sand-Y (Zandoog) - channel 7 of the RAUDIO IIIII streaming audio art iThing app
(2004) Muziektafel-Tafelmuziek (CD)
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(1980) Signs and Symptoms
