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05th :: Kh Stockhausen (1928-2007) " ... and this here ... now this is very interesting ... have a look at page 14, please! ... this is where we flush the soprano down the toilet. This is completely new! I have never done this before. For the first time in the history of music, we flush a soprano down the toilet ... !"
04th :: I'm an island Bananas, a seagull, a funeral procession and a snow-white coffin, a golden sun rising, chasing sheep, standing with windmills and staring at windsocks ... ookoi were 'achterom' at Gallery Dit Eiland on the fine dutch isle of Ameland, where they reached upwards, upwards, always upwards, while being featured in the Archipel Medialab's 3rd Digital Suite ... "It is not easy to be an island. There is water all around you" ... [rpc39 |250]

26th :: All Hallows Trivia, 2. 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" ... [249]
08th :: All Hallows Trivia, 1. 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 ... [sbpc17 |248]

19th :: Diktat in Breda, 2. Diktat squatted an abandoned piece of public sound art on the corner of the Academiesingel and Willemstraat in Breda. They secretly performed ... [247]
14th :: Diktat in Breda, 1. About snackbars and post-trash, about doctor Bibber and princess Maxima; about dutch tolerance which at heart seems merely apparent acceptance of many_thing 'other' ... [246]

25th :: New York @ 9/11 There were not very many with me on the American Airlines 9/11 flight that took me from Paris to NY, 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 ... [245]
20th :: Diktat in Den Haag A retro-early-1980s Tic-Tac@King-Kong, interlude for 67 trucks & other assorted vehicles, a mysterious whitish powder and a secret performance on the beach ... [244]
04th :: "leve ookoi !", 3. Vicky's Tapemosphere and Vogelvlucht/Downunder, connecting Hollum, Maastricht and in Xiamen, China, Yariv Alter Fin who precisely three months later unexpectedly ended his life in Tel Aviv, Israel ... [243]

~~19th~~ 31st :: Hurts like a warehouse Three mobile field noise movies, here to mark five years of SoundBlog ... [242]
22th :: "leve ookoi !", 2. "OK. Let's Dance ...!" Dresscode Avatar ... Hefferman un-dressing ... And later that evening it rained cats and dogs ... [241]
12th :: "leve ookoi !", 1. During the weekend of 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 ... Certified Reconditioned ... [240]
01st :: Wash (Not Wash) Unlike Didier C., who on three consecutive evenings of collective cleansing at Montreuil's MACH'Inante transformed himself into a cloud, while driving along the french highway at 80 miles an hour and listening to Ornette Coleman playing, I suddenly - bljoeepppsch! - disappeared. [sbpc16 | 239]

01st :: Back to Berlin, 3_iii Sound, stories and Berlin sound scapes. Pour tes beaux yeux and Keeping up ... [238]

23rd :: The Ministry of Silly Crackles We pulled our crackle boxes and started our noisy business, right on the doorstep of the french ministry of culture, which thus for some thirty, forty minutes became the Ministry of Silly Crackles. [sbpc15 | 237]
16th :: Mo' Better Mo-Tapemosphere "Chase away all my fear ..." [236]

17th :: Zang-ussi Two performances, both including Mme. Z, Rinus van Alebeek and Madame P. ... [235]
16th :: Washing, dirtying, multiplexing "Aujourd'hui, il faut laver partout, par tous les moyens ; décortiquer, extraire, ex tracter du silence la souffrance..." [234]
06th :: Tin(g)tin(g) in Switzerland A curious little country - A curious Jura hotel - A curious mark3t in Bern - A curious concert in Lausanne - A not so curious scheme for EAI. [sbpc14 | 233]

28th :: With a Dorkbot here and a Dorkbot there ... On one sunday two dorkbots. First was the third parisian dorkbot. Second, the second SecondLife dorkbot, organised by Maximillian Nakamura, whom I also met in real life: at a performance of the Berlin Laptop Orchestra. [232]
25th :: Fluxissage A finissage in Friedrichshain ... with - maybe too? - many words on the sonanismo; long nights in Berlin, ever changing and dissolving as if in bergsonian flux; a Fifty-Fifty for fifty minutes of dictaphone field recording; and a look at Gunter Krueger's wonderful video film 'Magnetic {eye}': found tapes in Jerusalem, 2000. [231]
12th :: Back to Berlin, 3_ii On feelt reek or dinges, second part ... About sound pictures and sound writings ... Schaeffer, Curgenven, Weiser, Riek and Momus (click the picture to enlarge) ... Tobias: inCorrect! ... and rauschpartikel's fridge. [230]
08th :: Back to Berlin, 3_i On feelt reek or dinges, first part ... [229]

25th :: Gentlemen, soundart and miniskirts Tickets for Dolly Parton, and ookoi head-banging live with Meneer Jan on Radio Zwolle ... [rpc 34 | 228]
24th :: Vicky, Killers and Avatars Between then and when, between here and there, ookoi appeared in de Waag Society Lounge in Amsterdam, and entered SecondLife for a 13th Vikcy's Mosquitos performed by the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse ... [227]
23rd :: Not Diktat With Jean Bordé tumbling down a stone staircase near his house, it was not Diktat, but Eclipse @ La Comète 347, Paris ... [sbpc 13 | 226]
07th :: Back to Berlin, 2. 'The risk of some random sleazebag serendipitously profiting from found tapes on the side of the highway is extremely remote ...' (John Oltsik, senior analyst) [225]

27th :: Back to Berlin, 1. '!Do not open in broad light!', or 'bo tunty te... !', if one allows me to say so ... [224]
15th :: Every presentation is a premiere During an intimate gathering around the grand piano in art-society Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam, ookoi press_en_ted its 1024 DVD ... [rpc 33 | 223]
13th :: Pop Fictions by Dutch Masters Pulled from the depths of our archives, thanks to Mungbeing magazine ... [222]

25th :: 1024 Waarden, by ookoi Number hunt with ookoi across the internet ... [221]
25th :: Dorkbot, or People Doing Strange Things With Electricity Dorkbot's in town ! ... [220]
23rd :: 365 Days, or the Bless and Curse of Internet Radio Almost too often, too much ... [219]
19th :: sblog² {iii} ookoi's first second life :: the sound of snow and ice :: a larsen magnétique at the octopus festival :: more found tapes acquisitions ... [rpc 32 | 218]