dec 31, 2016 ~ april 12, 2017.
"The light works, [...] the gravity works.
Everything else we have to take our chances with."
( * )
Six years on from the previous one we entered and are well on our way in 2017, a new prime year... Time went by like hurricanes and now rushes on like even faster things. I should double, triple, quadruple daily time that's given me, if only to keep up ...
Like, earlier this year it was ookoi's 1024's tenth birthday! To mark the occasion, FPCM created this quite wonderful piece, which earlier this year was on view as part of the the Salon 2016 exhibition at Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam ...
When this was made, we still counted
which is the number of different pairs of subsets in a set that has six elements: after having laid all of them one next to the other it takes one more step o-nly to
and the weekly (o)ok(o)i do(o)ki podcast, produced @stduio. Each of the 52 editions lasts 10 minutes and 24 seconds, which together eventually will add up to a 9 hour sound poem, keeping track of the oki doki podcats selves and the world around over the course of this year, in Dutch (and faster things).
All editions can be found on the ookoidooki podcaste page, and of course you can subscribe to the weekly ookoidooki podcast feed, to listen, to hear, or to both.
After the earlier one-hour mega-mix of the first twelve editions, here [added May 17th, 2017] is a one-hour random-mix of the first eightteen editions:
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 LⒶ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)
...
(1980) Signs and Symptoms
2M0M1X1VII7, sexy primes and 5 x 73 x 10 more seconds
And yes, yes, yes! 2017 is the next prime year, after the last one, which was 2011. And I am keeping the promise I made almost thirteen years ago, to keep a ten-seconds-a-day sonic diary for all the prime years following 2004.
Seventy Seconds was my sound diary for the prime year 2011, which is the small number in the 130th pair of sexy primes (2011, 2017). And this year's "2M0M1XVII" is a sound diary for the prime year 2017, which is the big number in the 130th pair of sexy primes. It will contain 10 seconds of sound for each day of the year, recorded at randomly differing hours, always there where I happen to be at that day on the given time. The sound segments of "2M0M1XVII" are recorded together with Yungwei Chen, whenever we are together. Some of the days that we are not, the day's segment consists in a mix of ten seconds recorded by me, wherever I am, and of ten seconds recorded by Yungwei in Taiwan.
"2M0M1XVII" will appear in five parts, each covering 73 consecutive days, on Soundcloud.
This is the first part:
[001 : 007] . Brussels - Taiwan (hi-speed train)/Vincennes - Paris - Vincennes - Vincennes - Paris - Kaohsiung/Vincennes
[008 : 014] . Kaohsiung/Vincennes - Paris - Paris - Paris - Vincennes - Paris - Vincennes
[015 : 021] . Vincennes - Paris/Vincennes - Paris - Paris - Vincennes - Paris - Kaohsiung
[022 : 028] . Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung - Taipei - Taipei
[029 : 035] . Taipei - Taipei - Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung
[036 : 042] . Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung - Tainan - Kaohsiung
[043 : 049] . Taipei - Dubai - Vincennes - Paris - Paris - Vincennes - Paris
[050 : 056] . Vincennes - Paris - Paris - Paris - Paris - Paris - Paris
[057 : 063] . Paris - Montreuil - Paris - Paris - Vincennes - Vincennes - Vincennes
[063 : 070] . Vincennes - Kaohsiung/Vincennes - Paris - Paris - Ivry s/ Seine - Montreuil - Vincennes
[071 : 073] . Vincennes - Kaohsiung/Vincennes - Paris
...
And always there's a next prime, of course ...
The next prime year is in a decade from here. It will be 2027, the small twin in the 62nd pair of twin primes, (2027, 2029). Would it not be magic, pure and simple, were it given to us to meet again, there and then?
...
Read about decasecond audiodiaries & projects on the SoundBlog:
(2018, may 26) - "Between now and then, nine years from here ..."
(2016, dec 31 ~ 2017, april 12) - 1024, 2016, 2M0M1X1VII7, 2027, 2029 ...
(2012, february 27) - ... and some (almost final) words
(2011, july 23) - Halfway
(2011, january 10) - Seventy Seconds ::
('promise/things/big diamond rings')
(2004, april 12) - more!!y2k: a final report
Download Har$'s decasecond prime year audiodiaries:
(2017) - 2M0M1XVII
(2011) - Seventy Seconds
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One more sounding thing to end 2017's first trimester's brief overview.
For some five years now I have been contributing quite extensive essays to the (best) Dutch-Flemish (independent) music, art and culture bi-monthly magazine Gonzo (circus). The most recent one (the 21st if I counted correctly), in Gonzo's 138th edition (january/february 2017), is called "Edelman, bedelman, dokter, pastoor". It is about and writes around loosing vision, getting blind. Therefore it comes with a sounding version (on Mixcloud), in which I read and play the full text of the essay.
The text was written when I was in Kaohsiung (Taiwain) earlier this year, and it is also there that I recorded the sonic version, assisted by Yungwei Chen. Apart from a couple of short electronic tunes, which are taken from my collection of Darwin tunes, all the accompanying sounds and music were recorded in the streets of Kaohsiung.
... “Stijve Ogentroost geeft je mooie, heldere en jonge ogen! Wallen en rode ogen verdwijnen als sneeuw voor de zon! Je lantaarntjes kunnen weer gaan schijnen!” ...
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(*) Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, which in French translation is named Un cheval dans la salle de bains.
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tags: ookoi, 1024, oki doki, sound diary, Seventy Seconds, sexy primes, twin primes, 2M0M1XVII, Kaohsiung, Gonzo, Ogentroost
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