Rinus van Alebeek and Michał Libera set out for a dozen of excursions into Calabrian towns armed with Italo Calvino’s ‘Invisible Cities’ as a guide book, to recite, talk, read, listen, drink coffee, perform, play, record, play back… or: blow, bow, rub, explode, scrape, walk, ignore, talk, dance, whistle, which are all suggestions of Alvin Lucier to make large and small resonant environments sound. The material recorded during these attempts to make invisible cities of Calabria sound was then composed by Rinus van Alebeek to form a road-audio-book.
Thirty minutes mix/collage/scape of recordings I made and cassettes I found during a residency on a ranch in California.
Self Release, mainly as a postal item.
The piece takes thirty minutes with six titles to define the seperate episodes. I kept the mistakes. I treated or mistreated my several walkmans to get the hickuping, stuttering sequences so typical for the medium. You get hiss, that changes into wind, changes into the rolling sea.
And that’s not all. There are true pop songs on it. Unexpectedly so, but it is the way I liked to cut and loop some of the tapes (Mantovani, Bollywood). Once it is finished, you get it out and play the other side.
The other side is different.
Audio Diary of Diktat’s visit to the US. Conversations, extracts from in and outdoor performances, encounters, coffee and beer. Diktat are Harold Schellinx, Emmanuel Rébus, Rinus van Alebeek on various dictaphones and Jean Bordé on double bass.
Two audio tales recorded directly on mini-cassette on various locations in Berlin.
Last year Diktat performed inside and outside in Berlin.