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December 9th, 2019 :: Tussen nooit en nergens, of: de vouw in de kaart van de Dodendraad :: In mijn tiende Hoofd Stuk ga ik terug naar de gapende leegte rond grenspaal 93, de spacey gietijzeren obelisk die de Nederlands-Vlaamse grens markeert aan het uiterst noordwestelijke puntje van Maastricht. Daar groeide ik op. En daar ook liep ooit de Dodendraad, op de grens van nooit en nergens.[ Gonzo #154, november/december 2019 __ ]
September 14th, 2019 :: Freely improvised and non-academic electroacoustic music {as}[by] urban folk[s] :: This is an unfinished, growing-ever-larger paper, evolving from the presentation that Rébus and myself did as part of this summer's Re:Sound MAH (Media Art Histories) 2019 conference in Aalborg, Denmark, in which we trace TKOMTIUH ('the music that interests us here') back to the fictional live electronic music jams in the mid-1960's 'Scope' in LA, via the experimental musics of the 1970-1980's, onto its speculative settlement, from the early noughties onward, as URFOLK ('URban FOlk'). The paper includes, as a case-study, a first sketch of a comprehensive history of the seminal international headphone festival Le Placard. [ read more __ ]
July 12th, 2019 :: Ik voel, ik voel wat jij niet voelt :: Muziek is geen taal, dus ook geen taal van emoties. Maar zij heeft onmiskenbaar veel met gevoel van doen. Hoe zit dat precies? Of ongeveer? Wie of wat kan muzikale emoties verklaren? Voor het achtste Hoofd Stuk keek ik naar de finale van het Eurovisie Songfestival en voelde hoe mijn tenen kromden.[ Gonzo #152, juli/augustus 2019 __ ]
May 7th, 2019 :: 'BEEP' zegt de muis... :: Steeds vaker wordt er weer muziek gemaakt met Game Boys, de SID chip en klassieke moduletrackers: het geluid van de homecomputer toen die nog een baby was is populairder dan ooit. De zoveelste retro-trend? Kenny B. McAlpine schreef een uitgebreide chiptunes geschiedenis. In het zevende Hoofd Stuk denk ik er het mijne van... het ongrijpbare lichte van 8-bit en lager. [ Gonzo #151, mei/juni 2019 __ ]
March 03th, 2019 :: ookoi 2.0: the remaking of a spect[r]al b[r]and :: Pending future possibilities for early adaption of fully functional digital emulation, in Paradiso, Amsterdam, the ookoi 2.0, physically re-made / re-modelled, made a fist, they stood on one leg, they jumped, they cried, they danced bizarre... "See you in history!" she said. [ read more __ ]
January 31st, 2019 :: Alle geesten zijn geluid :: Het vijfde Hoofd Stuk! In 'High Static, Dead Lines. Sonic Spectres And The Object Hereafter' waadt Kristen Gallerneaux door een zee van geesten en ouwe koeien, met in haar oren een tinnitus van Menière en de armen vol obsolete geluids- en media-apparatuur. Verhalen op het randje waar autobiografie, feit en fictie hand in hand door de molen gaan. [ Gonzo #149, januari/februari 2019 __ ]
November 5th, 2018 :: Het kwaad, dat kome :: Het vierde Hoofd Stuk. Eindelijk verscheen een volledige versie van 'The Revised Boy Scout Manual', William Burroughs' bijna vergeten handboek voor de jonge media-revolutionair! Harold Schellinx las het, zowel als remedie als gids op weg naar het Einde waar wij allemaal bij gebrek aan een toekomst Kwaad met Kwaad zullen moeten leren vergelden. [ Gonzo #148, november/december 2018 __ ]
September 1st, 2018 :: t'Obsolete or not t'Obsolete ... :: The fourth episode of "t'Obsolete or not t'Obsolete" looks back upon this summer's Vieux Media Fest at La Générale Nord-Est — where the 16th century theorbo played along 20th century frippertronics: where a virtual anchor was thrown over from the Cassette Culture Node.Linz exhibition; where we read yellowed 80 year old headlines that -almost- could've been written today and where crashingly crazy things happened when Japanese DIY underground hero Yximalloo came flying over, straight in from Tokyo. [ read more __ ]
July 23rd, 2018 :: Aan tijd geen gebrek :: Het tweede Hoofd Stuk zocht ik in Borges' bibliotheek van Babel, die niet zo lang geleden door Jonathan Basile online werd gezet. Ik las diens 'Tar For Mortar' ('... tichel was steen, lijm was hun leem' - zo ongeveer staat het in de bijbel) en tuurde eindeloos naar de Totale PowerPoint: het betekent allemaal niks en toch is het grote Kunst. Alleen het Totale Horen, dat ontbrak nog... [ "_Ieder Hoofd Stuk is een Headshot_" in: Gonzo #146, juli/augustus 2018 __ ]
August 10th, 2018 :: t'Obsolete or not t'Obsolete ... :: The third "T'obsolete or not t'obsolete" episode talks quite a bit about the 45th unPublic, which came to sort of being hijacked by the actors who - during the 2017 Vieux Media Fest days - were working on a 1929 theatre play by Paul Claudel, a 'love story dominated by the ideas of sin and redemption' that is only rarely staged, mainly due to its extreme length... [ read more __ ]
May 26th, 2018 :: "Between now and then, nine years from here ..." :: Wrapping-up a 2nd year summarised in a kaleidoscopic string of 365 ten second sonic cuts of words spoken, snippets of music played or heard, and of all the other sounds and noises as they then resounded day in day out around me, both series are now available as a digital album at Bandcamp 's: Seventy Seconds (2011) and 2M0MX1VII (2017). [ read more __ ]
January 12th, 2018 :: Met kop noch staart: muzhakdag! :: Als uit elke creatieve vorm van subversie trok de bovenwereld ook uit elke vorm van hacking [v an het oud-Engelse haccian en het Nederlandse hakken] de politieke angel. Reden om op de internationale conferentie Miusic and HAcking die er weer - een beetje - in te steken. [ in: Gonzo #143, januari/februari 2018 __ ]
July 9th, 2017 :: In de machine, de geest :: Hoe krijg je een geest in een machine? Niet door hem eindeloos bergen van data te laten schrokken. Een geest moet waaien, als een windbel. Laten we daarom klein beginnen en hem dan met veel zorg verder laten groeien... over artificiële intelligentie en muziek die zichzelf maakt. [ in: Gonzo #140, juli/augustus 2017 __ ]
April 25th, 2017 :: Moving out, of, on ... [i] :: A picture book that shows some of the packing and ongoing deconstruction prior to my moving this spring from the apartment in Vincennes where I lived for more than twenty years, to a new one in Montreuil, a little bit more to the north-east in the Parisian region... [ read more __ ]
March 11th, 2017 :: Edelman, bedelman, dokter, pastoor :: Onze zintuigen zijn de poorten naar alles wat er elders dan enkel in ons hoofd is. Of lijkt te zijn. Want je weet het natuurlijk maar nooit. Is er wel echt iets? Is er wel iets echt? Of zitten we hier alles steeds weer en enkel maar te ver-zinnen? ... Over blind zijn, blind worden, horen, zien & ogentroost. [ Hoor de tekst in de Ogentroost Podcast... Lees de tekst in Gonzo #138, maart/april 2017 __ ]
August 4th, 2016 :: Nicolas Collins - 2 April 2016, La Générale :: A pretty much complete transcription of the audio recording of (mainly) Emmanuel Rébus and (a little bit) myself interviewing American composer Nicolas Collins, after lunch on Saturday April 2nd 2016, at La Générale Nord-Est in Paris, during the set-up for the Sonic Protest Festival. [ read more __ ]
May 8th, 2016 :: Een tien voor toeval :: "Der Zufall kann die schönste Melodie finden." Zoals afgelopen zondag, toen we na het joggen rond het meertje van Saint-Mandé omlijst door veel vogeltjesgefluit schouder aan schouder in de zon richting huis liepen en Asukakila me diep in de ogen keek en daar heel ernstig bij zei dat je ondergoed en sokken nooit samen moet wassen. [ In: Gonzo #133, mei/juni 2016 __ ]
March 21st, 2016 :: Statues, Lenin, Dogs & Ruins :: First in a series of succinct reports on our last year's Kreativen Vikend, a sonic residency in the mountain village of Lazaropole (in the Republic of Macedonia), our passages through Skopje and a subsequent visit to Belgrad (Serbia). [ read more __ ]
January 7th, 2016 :: Altijd hetzelfde liedje :: John Seabrook onderzocht de verstrengelingen van macht, geld, talent, technologie en pop in het digitale tijdperk, waarin een groepje Scandinaviërs van middelbare leeftijd verantwoordelijk blijkt voor het leeuwendeel van alle megahits. 'The Hitmen are almost always right. Only sometimes they'll let art win...' [ In: Gonzo #131, jan/feb 2016 __ ]
November 22nd, 2015 :: Situasonnisme: the City Sonic Festival :: On the 13th and other editions of the yearly recurring sound art - in a very large sense - festival, whose 'core p-art' took place in the second half of September in the Belgian city of Mons. But many also of our this year's summer activities were signed 'City Sonic' and Transcultures... [ read more __ ]
August 30th, 2015 :: SQWWO Live in Brussels (Elastic Lecture Nr. 3) :: The first full 24 hours live rendition of the 'String Quartet with windows, open' took place this summer in Brussels, in Recyclart's 'Vitrine 5', from 20h on Thursday July 9th, 2015, until 20h the next day, Friday July 10th, 2015, underneath the tracks of the Belgian railways leading to & fro the Chapel railway station. [ read more __ || see more __ ]
September 1st, 2015 :: De (h)eerlijkheid van locativiteit :: "Hé," dacht ik, "klankstappers!" toen, niet zo heel lang geleden op een gewone doordeweekse zomerdag, ergens midden in de stad zomaar ineens over wel drie deuren verspreid een groep van tussen de vijftien en twintig personen achter in lijn twee van de Parijse metro binnenviel, niet met de gebruikelijke oordopjes in, maar allemaal met op het hoofd een kloeke en prijzige koptelefoon van een bekend merk dat ik niet zal noemen..." [ In: Gonzo #129, sept/okt 2015 __ ]
July 15th, 2015 :: Bridges, troubles, water :: We were lucky enough to hook up twice with Jodi Rose in Paris, where we celebrated indoors & outdoors for the sake and the love of bridges. Tasting champagne and more on the Pont Neuf, then constructing and playing an improvised bridge, during our 19th unPublic, on June 17th at La Générale, where Rébus, Jodi and I were joined by Kaspar König. [ read more __ ]
May 27th, 2015 :: Luister is Pracht, door Peter Mertens :: Op de tweede mei van dit jaar bezocht ookoi's fpcm het Online Radio Festival in 't Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam. Hij scoorde er een t-shirt. Want Luister is Pracht. [[For non-Dutch speakers: Listen is Splendor is the Google translation]] [ read more __ ]
April 17th, 2015 :: Elastic Lecture Nr. 2 (for Namhee) :: Text and images from the lecture that I delivered as part of the 3rd and final session of Nadège Derderian's The image is an elastic object-project, on Easter Saturday in La Générale, Paris. An image that is endlessly mapinaluble. Oh, how the boy bleeds! [ read more __ ]
March 7th, 2015 :: "Hallo, hallo, wie stinkt daar zo?" :: De Kracht en de Hoop van Vrije Radio: onbepaald geknetter hier en knarsend gekraak daar, tenoren uit Rome en violen uit Stuttgart, hot jazz uit Bremen - 'Achtung! Drei und Zwanzig!' - en rad sprekende stemmen uit Frankrijk tot aan vief gesis uit Engeland toe... De lucht is vrij & van ons allemaal! [ In: Gonzo #126, mrt/apr 2015 __ ]
December 1st, 2014 :: The eerie symmetry of a perfect ping :: To make sound 'the ugliest piece of music in the world', a couple of years ago Scott Rickard interpreted a length 88 exponential Welch-Costas sequence together with a Golomb ruler for its timeline as a piece of piano music in which no two directed pitch intervals between equidistant notes are the same. But how 'pattern free' and 'void of structure' is such a 'Perfect Ping' really? About permutations, gracefulness, classiness, Pohlman Mallalieu's all interval 12 tone row and cowbells dropping down the stairs... A de-construction... [ read more __ ]
August 2nd, 2014 :: Appearance and Reality :: On the morning of Tuesday July 22nd 2014, a mix of predetermination and chance brought Laura Wetherington and myself together inside the American Library in Paris, where we performed un-publicly, quick 'n' rough 'n' dirty, and based - quite literally - on a 19th century metaphysical essay. [ read more __ ]
August 1st, 2014 :: De Grote Vibrator :: Met A Magician's Companion op zak komt nu ook Harold Schellinx uit de kast. In de 122e editie - juli/augustus 2014 - van Gonzo (Circus). De wetenschap voorbij, de kosmos in. Je kunt daar moeilijk tegen zijn, want speculeren is het nieuwe experimenteren. [ Listen to the Speculative-mix on Mixcloud... Lees de tekst in Gonzo #122 __ ]
July 1st, 2014 :: Speculative Dancing :: Some words and thoughts to accompany DIKTAT's amazing 5 track/40 minutes speculative Americana video album: "DIKTAT 4 US DANCES", now viewable on YouTube --- "... la lune disparaît et notre planète est enrichie de 5 satellites, en 1953 ..." [ read more __ ]
June 19th, 2014 :: Lecture de Cassette :: I found a little yellow piece of paper on the pavement not far from where I live. Hand written, on its two sides, were detailed instructions - in French - on how to operate a cassette player. As this knowledge is likely to soon become forgotten knowledge, you may want to bookmark this page for future reference. [ read more __]
June 1st, 2014 :: Drei Ei is een Paasei :: Er is geen ontsnappen aan, aan de voortdurende herhaling van van alles en nog wat. De tijd en ons leven, het is één groot 'altijd weer opnieuw' doen. dat geldt dus ook voor muziek. In de 121e editie - mei/juni 2014 - van Gonzo (Circus) [ Gonzo __ ]
May 9th, 2014 :: You are NOT Hier! :: HIER is a four track EP of localized Future Popp by the ookoi, released as a GPS empowered iPhone application, which limits playback of each of the tracks to a specific European city. The first track can only be heard in Amsterdam (nl), the second one only in Heerlen (nl), the third one only in Kortrijk (be) and the final one only in Paris (fr). [ read more __]
march 21st, 2014 :: Komt mee naar buiten, allemaal! :: Een geluid komt nooit alleen, zegt de Amerikaanse muzikant, geluidskunstenaar en kunsttheoriticus Seth Kim-Cohen. Het is – of je dat nou wil of niet – vervlochten in een wirwar van verwijzingen. Naar toen, nu en dan. Goedschiks of kwaadschiks. In de 120e editie - maart/april 2014 - van Gonzo (Circus) [ Gonzo __ ]
March 13th, 2014 :: Stefan Roigk: 'Bursting Confidence' :: "Take a plastic plate, the sort of thing that you get when you're having a pick-nick. Take it, press it, tear it, deform it… and then put it in the papier-mâché. I used buckets filled with the papier-mâché. I would push in the forms of my trash, by hand. And then mold it..." [ ]
March 6th, 2014 :: De Historie Van Onze Hele Wereldcultuur In Ongeveer 222 Woorden :: (Medium) Zo gauw er een lied is, is er muziek. En als er muziek is, dan wil je steeds meer en steeds beter. Dan worden er plannen gesmeed. Dan wil je door. Dan wil je verder. [ read more __]
November 23rd, 2013 :: unPublic 1, 2 (sauf riverains) :: About T, C and the difference made by intention. About the idea of 'the concert' being based on a myth; an anachronism; a socio-musical convention that is being continued without questioning its (true) sense. And introducing the first two editions of unPublic, each one an ephemeral laboratory, a vertex in space-time for musicians from wherever on the globe to meet in passing. [ read more __]
October 12th, 2013 :: "At 19:07 the four helicopters flew over the Pont Neuf" :: On the occasion of the Nuit Blanche and fifty years of French-German friendship, on October 5th, 2013, Karlheinz Stockhausen's Helikopter-Streichquartett was performed by the Elysian String Quartet flying across Paris, over the Pont Neuf [ read it all _ an earlier version of this article can be found @Medium ]
September 9th, 2013 :: Exploring the almost-impossibilities between art and science. :: Aernoudt Jacobs's Photophon is based on the photoacoustic effect, discovered at the end of the 19th century by Alexander Graham Bell. It uses a laser source and a self-built photoacoustic cell to convert radiant energy into sound, that is being amplified by elegant and delicate handmade glass horns. [ ]
september 16th, 2013 :: De raket en de bandrecorder, of hoe je het beste een tafel kunt scheren :: "Terwijl onze transatlantische vrienden een atoombom bouwden, perfectioneerden onze oosterburen de raket en de bandrecorder." Over kunstmuziek in de 20e eeuw & Alvin Lucier's boek 'Music 109'. In de 117e editie - september/oktober 2013 - van Gonzo (Circus) [ Gonzo __ ]
August 12th, 2013 :: (Medium) The incommensurable magnitude of Wikipedia's recent changes :: One of the truly revolutionary contributions of the web's digital machinery to the arts is that it has made the infinite potentially accessible... On mashing the sonification of Wikipedia's editing and Andrew Liles's Incommensurable Magnitudes. [ read it all __ ]
July 20th, 2013 :: Atomic Spies vs. Dancing Men :: In order to acquire a certain volume of a certain... material... a couple of weeks ago, I found myself in the back of a four-wheel drive, being bumped around a swampy forest in Burgundy, not far from where some 2000 years ago the Roman warlord Julius Ceasar won the Battle of Alesia... [ read all about it __ ]
July 12th, 2013 :: Break the ice. Play the ice. Melt the ice. (FdE #4 - 2/2) :: hin, hin, hin, hin, his, ticque, torche, lorgne, brededin, brededac, frr, frrr, frrr, bou, bou, bou, bou, bou, bou, bou, bou, tracc, trac, trr, trr, trr, trrr, trrrrrr, on, on, on, on, on, ououououon... E t c ... live at the 4th edition of the Festival des Ephémères. Time past is not just reconstituted; it bursts out... [ read all about it __ ]
July 10th, 2013 :: Fish learn from the water that we drown in (FdE #4 - 1/2) :: Water! ... was the theme of the fourth edition of the Festival des Ephémerès, on June 29th and 30th in the Jardins d'Eole, in the 19th Parisian arrondissement. Two sunny afternoons filled with fringe art of a particularly fluid dynamics... [ read all about it __ ]
July 05th, 2013 :: Yiyi's Books :: In a Maastricht thrift store, Argentinian artist Yiyi de la Mota worked for two months on the making of a very pretty and very joyful image, wonderfully sculpted in books. She called it Hola. On the evening of the day that it was finally finished, a week before its presentation, Hola collapsed... [ read all about it __ ]
July 03th, 2013 :: How to keep devils away :: The observation by a casual listener that the ookoi's 1024 seriously suffers from a lack of... violins, inspired a double random walk on a grid of 1024 violin sounds. We call it Kris Kras. But all of our friends call it Alaska. It is keeping the devils away. [ read all about it __ ]
June 06th, 2013 :: A Carcassonne Yodel in Blue [Kunsttour 2013] :: It was not a joke. It was also not merely some random act. I could not have painted the Carcassonne table in some other color. Not that painting it in blue had some sort of a meaning. Though you of course are free to give it any f**king meaning you like, for me painting the table in blue meant 'painting the table in blue'... [ read all about it __ ]
May 06th, 2013 :: :: The 2013 edition of Y, a yearly event carrying the name of the artist Yariv Alter Fin (1968-2007), focused on numbers, art, music & measure - with a series of morning lectures & presentations, and an instructive and entertaining workshop followed by a public presentation at the NASA, the New Art Space Amsterdam. [ read more __ ]
May 1st, 2013 :: Holes, caves, archives and inscriptions :: "It is strange," Signe Lidén said, "I think it is the strangest piece I ever made..." Signe's installation 'Writings', commissioned by the Resonance network, which premiered as part of this years Flanders Festival's Sounding City, turned out an atmospheric and mysterious, but also quite hermetic work. [ ]
april 10th, 2013 :: Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling :: Muzikale verwarring in de Do-Re-Mix. In de honderd-en-veertiende editie - maart/april 2013 - van Gonzo (Circus) bespreek ik Eduardo Navas' boek over de theorie van de remix. Ik heb er geen al te hoge pet van op. "Een zouteloze academische oefening." Lees meer in de [ Gonzo __ ]
March 11th, 2013 :: The Beaters :: Is it a sculpture? Is it a dance? Is it a bug? Is it a composition? Is it a painting? Is it an instrument? ... It's "THE BEATERS", the follow-up to their public hubbub interventions, that Jitske Blom and Thomas Rutgers's made for the Resonance network. Read all about a wooden wall and 31 electric woodpeckers. [ ]
february 22nd, 2013 :: Higgs singlet decay particles pop into my universe at random times :: Every now and then I set loose the sounds I find on there. But most of them we'll never hear. Suddenly, without warning, they pop into our universe at random times, like the decay particles of a Higgs singlet traveling in a fifth dimension. [ read more __ ]
February 18th, 2012 :: Memory as a dorsal spine :: Pascal Broccolichi on the rhythm of gestures, rituals & memory's time-lapse. "How can I create accident, fracture, misunderstanding, confusion and paradox in the midst of it all? Something that departs from the evident that one tends to imagine?" " [ ]
february 14th, 2013 :: Culturomics, n-grams & sound artists :: "Wollt ihr die totale Digitalisierung?" ... Data is the 21st century's gold, Babe! - Babel, Car and Can - And lots about the frequency of occurrences and the semantics of fuck, sound art and related terms in the 2012 Google Books Ngram Corpus... [ read more __ ]
december 31st, 2012 :: Große_Fuge.mp30000 :: Iterating mp3 encodings of a recording of Beethoven's opus 133 - up to 30.000 times! - Har$, on the verge of 2013, puts the 'experimental' back into 'experimental music' ... a viola line cut through her, like cheese-wire ... ... An essay in feedback. [ Get the album, and read more __ ]
December 15th, 2012 :: Ephemeral Sustainability 1 - Sound Art :: Is a Beethoven symphony in a toilet the same as a Beethoven symphony in a concert hall? Sound wants to be free. Sound is a liberator. Sound needs sound to explain sound... All about the first day of the Ephemeral Sustainability conference, on November 1st 2012 in Bergen, Norway. [ ]
January 19th, 2013 :: Ephemeral Sustainability 2 - Curating, Presenting, Writing :: The second day at the Bergen Ephemeral Sustainability conference: on 'no-sound' sound art, an extract from Seth Cluett's video lecture, and a loud and clear message from two expat sound writers turning sound art 'punks', Daniela Cascella and Salomé Voegelin.[ ]
december 09th, 2012 :: Curiosity, Cubes & Numbers :: What's inside the Cube? A wacky sci-fi script - all about Peter Molyneux's Curiosity - a truly and unimaginably geeky part - includes an overview of all the fascinating Cube formulas that i am sure all of you have tried, but were unable, to derive... ;) ... [ read more __ ]
november 08th, 2012 :: Muziek voor Kattenkoppen :: In de honderd-en-twaalfde editie van Gonzo (Circus): mijn bespreking van en wat overdenkingen rond Jonathan Sterne's 'MP3, the Meaning of a format', een recent verschenen geleerde geschiedenis van de mp3. (Duke University Press, ISBN 978-0-8223-5287-7) [ teaser (in Dutch) ___ ]
september 14th, 2012 :: R.I.P. Yvonne Oerlemans (1945 - † 2012) :: "… dat jij een tumor spéélt, in muziek & geluid, hè? Want een tumor, dat is natuurlijk ook een vibratie, een resonantie." ... Na 'n rot, ongelijk en oneerlijk gevecht tegen haar kanker, overleed Yvonne Oerlemans op vrijdag 14 september in Amsterdam, de stad waar ze tientallen jaren woonde, werkte en kunst maakte. (Luister hier nog één keer naar Yvonne.)
august 11th, 2012 :: Diktat inside/outside the Manufactured Normalcy Field :: Help the mighty DIKTAT cover the costs of their upcoming stay in America by buying a download of their thrilling new DIKTAT in Berlin digital album, and find out why this illustrious quartet is the happening future of rock 'n' roll, be it somewhat outside of our manufactured normalcy field. 'If this were the 1960's, DIKTAT'd be the fucking Ronnettes'. [ read more __ ]
august 01st, 2012 :: In Eigen Beheer: Unofficial Release :: A (slighty revised and expanded) *Dutch* version of the SoundBlog entry on and around Unofficial Release, Thomas Bey William Bailey's book on cassette culture and audio networks... [ read more __ ]
july 26st, 2012 :: UnOfficial Release :: On Thomas Bey William Bailey's recent book about self-released & handmade audio: a dazzling, be it fragmentary, tour of the history and development of autonomous ('underground') music networks since the late 1970's, which played a pivotal role 'in the survival of radical sonic eclecticism into the 21st century'... [ read more __ ]
july 18th, 2012 :: The World As We Found It (Ludwig & Ludwig for Dummies :: In Sub071, arguably the world's smallest underground venue, with the Haarlem 5 piece La Vie De Bohème I did a live pre-view of Het Moet Zo Zijn, a track to appear on the Dutch Smikkelbaard label as part of an upcoming 7" vinyl release... 'A record of utter wanton libidinousness'... [ read more __ ]
july 10th, 2012 :: The Sound Barrier :: A NATIONAL, MONUMENTAL & EPHEMERAL PUBLIC URBAN SPACE ARTWORK BY GEERT-JAN HOBIJN, HAROLD SCHELLINX AND KEVIN SCHUIT, conceived FOR THE 55TH VENICE BIENNALE (JUNE-NOVEMBER 2013). "Futures have to be thought before they can be built or sold..." [ read more __ ]
july 1st, 2012 :: CityNumberScapes are field/quotidian recordings of urban space, peppered with recited numbers found within the landscape, done as 'artlessly' as possible: just press record, look, walk & speak... Read about the making by Louis Lamp and myself, of 3 one hour citynumberscapes for ResonanceFM's Clear Spot, in London, Amsterdam and Paris. [ read more __ ]
june 24th, 2012 :: A Night at the Museum (One big sweep, iv) :: About an album's worth of juicy Ninja Fruits, Retromania, Big Data Crunchers' colonization of subcultures, the Future of Popp & the ookoi Plus Instruments writing plus-post-retro-ULTRA history, one April night at the Amsterdam STEIM. [ read more __ ]
May 8th, 2011 :: Before, during and after the deluge: Sounding Kortrijk :: At Sounding City: Public Sound in Kortrijk, the 'rumble and roar' of eleven outdoor sound art installations competed with the contingent soundscape of the old Belgian town. The competition was ... stiff ... Chris Watson lost. American sound art pioneer Leif Brush was among my winners. [ ]
may 06th, 2012 :: Y.3 = YltrA! (One big sweep, iii) :: An extra-ordinary workshop and experience: 30 hours of sound & music making the ULTRA-way, with 13 students of the Rietveld Academy for Fine Arts and Design, in Club Karlsson on the Amsterdam Keizersgracht. From scratch to concert in less than 2 days... [ read more __ ]
december 24th, 2011 :: Touching base :: Hi there! Season's greetings! After near to four months of writing, in Dutch, 'Ultra. Opkomst en ondergang van de ultramodernen (1978-1983)', published by Lebowski Publishers, and available as of March 1st, 2012, the SoundBlog is back ... [ read more __ ]
february 27th, 2012 :: Flies, not in the ointment... :: On how and why I recently became a dedicated follower of a swarm of tweeting houseflies ... [ read more __ ]
February 26th, 2012 :: 'But what about the children?' :: Maia Urstad's & Paul Devens' Resonance installations, showcased at the Lydgalleriet in Bergen, Norway, had a fine & festive opening, where there was only one thing missing: "This is the music of the future. It dearly needs our childrens' ears..." [ ]
february 19th, 2012 :: Magnetic Remanence: Another Paris Tape Run :: An exciting presentation at the Instants Chavirés, richly topped with bourbon, beer & snacks, and a far, far more sober & austere Diktat performance at the wonderful-but-cold-in-wintertime La Générale Nord-Est ... [ read more __ ]
january 01st, 2012 :: Seventy Seconds [ 52/52 ] :: Mission completed: the 52nd & final edition of my 10-secs-per-day sound diary for the prime year 2011, which appeared every Sunday on the Dutch hard//hoofd web daily, with a short text and a picture by photographer Pieter van Wynsberge... [ Find the full series on soundcloud ]
december 31st, 2011 :: The small world daisychain mail tongue tape :: A fine analogue art tale, that brings several of this past year's SoundBlog threads together, pulls us over into 2012, as always quoting a wise man: you ain't seen nothing yet ... [ read more __ ]
august 20th, 2011 :: R.I.P.-1: The Francis Cook Landfill and other dumps :: We started our R.I.P. summit and workshop at the Banff Centre on July 9th with a field trip that took us to the Francis Cook Landfill and Banff's Recycling Depot. A Rocky Mountains junk hunt, and lots, lots of great garbage pics ... [ read more __ ]
july 03th, 2011 :: Life is A Color Wire 3 (table version/KT2011) :: A short tour of this year's Kunsttour in Maastricht, for which, in the Hoofdwacht on the Vrijthof, I set up a table version, a miniature, of my last year's Life is A Color Wire installation. Also: a procession, Stichting Intro's Klankpaal and Stefan Rummel's Articulated Chambers, a 24/7 installation out at the Bassin. [ read more __ ]
june 25th, 2011 :: Listen! (Sound-Art-Music) :: During the closing day of last month's Listen symposium, David Toop tried to not give a lecture. He reminded me of how many, many years ago I discovered William Faulkner's fabulous writing because of Ian Curtis's t-shirt... About a ghost travelling a half mile ahead of its own shape, lousy music, great art and the nightly tasting of Belgium beer in the private back room of De Dingen. [ read more __ ]
april 30th, 2011 :: Hear It! (Sound-Art-Music) :: The full and illustrated text, complete & unabridged, of my introductory talk at Hear It!, an extra-ordinary evening full of sound, art & music, that - if only for some hours - turned the, usually so solemn & silent, Stedelijk Museum for modern and contemporary art in Amsterdam into a 'happily noisely' one. [ read more __ ]
january 10th, 2011 :: Seventy Seconds :: Almost seven years ago, in the conclusion of my SB review of the My2k project, I promised that for each of the remaining prime years of my life, I would keep a 10-seconds-per-day sound diary. 2011 is a prime year. I am keeping my promise... [ read more __ ]
january 01st, 2011 :: Happy New Prime Year! (SB Tweet Digest #10 - nov/dec 2010) :: We break the ice with a deviciously poppy happy happy track, all and only for your new prime year's pleasure, meanwhile debunking the Google Translate beatbox... Then read on to find how I managed to beat Marcel Duchamp at his own game. There ain't no escaping it: 2011's gonna be magic! [ read more __ ]
december 19th, 2010 :: Composing with mushrooms :: All about my Mushroom Music, which was given a premiere of Portsmouthian beauty and charm at Schunck's Restaurant 5.0 on November 28th, as part of the grand final of the John Cage 'Anarchy of Silence' exhibition, by 5 brave musician's from village community bands from the south of the Netherlands. [ read more __ ]
december 02nd, 2010 :: STRP S K7 HISSSS :: In the former heart of Philips Electronics Inc., we met up with veterans from the Dutch DIY cassette scene of the 1980s, marveled at the wondrous tape sounds of Prezlav, Tapetronic, Wouter van Veldhoven en Aki Onda and almost shook hands with Ir. Lou Ottens, inventor of both the compact cassette and the compact disc. [ read more __ ]
september 20th, 2010 :: Life is a Color Wire 2 (Heat Leuven is en Esker Dread) :: How with the help of Stichting Intro's technical staff I became a telecom provider: we gave Minckeleers and 't Mooswief a 90 meters long tin can telephone connection, stretching all the way across the town hall from one side to the other of the Markt in Maastricht (the Netherlands). [ read more __ ]
April 2nd, 2020 :: De wereld als kunst, klucht, kommer en kwel :: Is alles, alles, alles wat je tegenkomt kunst? Is kunst politiek? Is politiek kunst en alle kunst propaganda? Voor het twaalfde Hoofd Stuk las ik het boek dat de Nederlandse kunstenaar Jonas Staal scheef over propagandakunst in de 21e eeuw. Prop-art, zeg maar. Ik hak de knoop door.[ Gonzo #156, maart/april 2020 __ ]
March 21st, 2020 :: The Art of the K7 ~ Sudokaising [i] :: The first in a series of texts on the series of K7-sudoku plays that I have set myself as a task to produce this year in weekly editions, including thoughts on how it is they sound how they sound and reflections on the combinatorial and other properties of the sudoku and related number grids as (durational) scores for alternating cut-ups of the two time-directions of a recording kept on magnetic (K7)-tape.[ read more __ ]
February 28th, 2020 :: Muziek, man & Mondrian :: Het elfde Hoofd Stuk luidt de twintiger jaren in. Worden die weer zo creatief en inspirerend als een eeuw geleden? Harold Schellinx zet er in ieder geval vast de schrikkel in, met nieuwe niet-kunst Kunst, die er al is maar die er ook nog komen gaat. Een kunst zonder ego en zonder publiek. Een Naamloos Manifest voor het komende twennium! [ Gonzo #155, januari/februari 2020 __ ]
January 26th, 2020 :: STDUIO Arti: aLife @Hal_fIve :: More on arti.nl/stduio, the ookoi's refutrospective pre-viewable this January in the Dutch artists' society Arti on the Ro(c)kin', Amsterdam ... up↓starts, clones, signs, symptoms, a catalogue and au-tour. More yet to come!
January 25th, 2020 :: STDUIO Arti: The LⒶst Weekend :: In the first month of the twenty-twenty year the ookoi introduced arti.nl/stduio, 10-26 January, in the Dutch artists' society Arti on the Ro(c)kin', Amsterdam ... ...including STDUIO Arti's 24/7 refutrospective audio web art stream (powered by wiel's)...
November 17th, 2019 :: Foundtapers & Foundtaping in Porto :: Reporting --with a lot of pics-- on the couple of days that we spent last week, November 9-12, in Porto, Portugal. There we met with Pedro Augusto and Mariana Sardon, who are preparing a Porto foundtaping exhibition, accompanied by a limited edition analog (printed paper) book, opening and presented next spring. ... Here's like from within a mirrored time machine .... [ read more __ ]
September 19th, 2019 :: Weke tuigen en natte netten :: Om te achterhalen hoe we in de geest van Floris Vanhoofs 'Vloeibare Computer' onze rekentuigen zouden kunnen laten zwieren, vulde ik mijn negende Hoofd Stuk met het nieuwe, rare rekenen. De Turingmachine voorbij, rondtollend in zwarte gaten, met kwantumverstrengeling en kwantumbits, maar vooral met veelkoppige slijmzwammen. Er zit overal muziek in![ Gonzo #153, september/oktober 2019 __ ]
May 28th, 2019 :: The variegated insameness of lawless strthings :: The 52 tracks of 'ETUDE' investigate how a contemporary artificial hearer re-cognizes the (within a fixed format) basically lawless, micro-tonal and rhythmically free output of a tiny BASIC program that back in 1985 I wrote, 'poking' the Commodore 64's SID chip. Now available on Bandcamp. The download includes a 71 pages e-book with scores. [ read more __ ]
March 21st, 2019 :: "Hoedje van, hoedje" :: In de 150ste editie van Gonzo (Circus) bespiegelt het zesde Hoofd Stuk de politiek van de massadigitalisering, de gebakken lucht van informatie, de klank van scanners en die van oudpapier. Data is digitaal, informatie is analoog. Het is het niks, ergens tussen de nul en de één. [ Gonzo #150, maart/april 2019 __ ]
February 08th, 2019 :: CCNL :: Cassette Culture in Linz, Austria [ii] The aesthetics of erasure :: Second part of our report from the wonderful Cassette Culture Node.Linz exhibition this summer in Austria ... Found tapes and 'The aesthetics of erasure' ... Kunst met Tapes machen! ... « le son de l'arts sa naissance, état-il le même que le son de l'art aujourd'hui ? » [ read more __ ]
January 18th, 2019 :: CCNL :: Cassette Culture in Linz, Austria [i] Oral history :: Read, hear and see Wolfgang 'Fadi' Dorninger recounting his personal and very active involvement in the cassette culture and DIY network of the 1980's, in which he and his Die Ind label formed Node Linz. First part of a report from the wonderful Cassette Culture exhibition this summer in Austria. [ read more __ ]
November 2nd, 2018 :: "Five years stuck on my eyes" ... Lustrum non Publicum :: On Thursday October 18th FlexRex's Daicar brought us to Bures-sur-Yvette, just a little to the south of Paris, where we celebrated five years of unPublic with a 56th edition, featuring Paula V, FlexRex, Yoko Miura, Yungwei, Rébus and me. [ read more __ ]
September 4th, 2018 :: De elementen van Maarten Ploeg :: Dit najaar verschijnt 'Ploeg + Werk', een ruim vijfhonderd pagina's tellend, door Willem Henri Lucas samengesteld en vormgegeven boek rondom het leven en werk van Maarten Ploeg, de veelzijdige interdisciplinaire kunstenaar, popmuzikant en televisiemaker die veertien jaar geleden, in 2004, het leven liet. Het is de rijkgeïllustreerde catalogus. Nu nog het museum. [ Gonzo #147, september/oktober 2018 __ ]
August 13th, 2018 :: Rage, rafts & refugees :: Michael Ghent's cardboard sculpture "Dérive" consists in a faithful 3D rendition of the famous accusing & political "Raft of the Medusa", a monumental early 19th century painting by Théodore Géricault. This winter "Dérive" was on view for eight days at the Parisian Générale. In this entry, read all about it, and about the music and sounds that we unfolded around it, with ETC, with Diktat, in public, and unPublicly. [ read more __ ]
July 21st, 2018 :: t'Obsolete or not t'Obsolete ... :: The series of SoundBlog-entries "T'obsolete or not t'obsolete" is sort of a private RAM dump concerning the yearly Vieux Media Fests and some related events at La Générale, Paris. This second episode includes some 'French theory' that -interestingly- we might almost call... unPublic-ish . [ read more __ ]
May 15th, 2018 :: De smaak van urine :: Met in Parijs van de straten geraapte kartonnen verpakkingen bouwde de Nieuw-Zeelandse kunstenaar Michael Ghent in drie dimensies de allegorie na die schilder Théodore Géricault twee eeuwen eerder ontleende aan het navrante relaas van het Medusa-vlot. Volg de hekgolf van een schip der staten dat op ramkoers ligt. Actueler dan ooit! [ "_Ieder Hoofd Stuk is een Headshot_" in: Gonzo #145, mei/juni 2018 __ ]
September 11th, 2017 :: De man die de muziek wou verwoesten :: ... om aan een nieuwe muziek te denken ... Op 5 juli 2017 overleed op 89-jarige leeftijd de Franse componist Pierre Henry. Gevierd en verguisd bleef deze onbetwiste elektronica- en avant-garde pionier zijn lange leven lang een vat vol tegenstrijdigheden. En was hij misschien ook te Frans voor deze wereld? [ in: Gonzo #141, september/oktober 2017 __ ]
May 11th, 2017 :: De waan, de wil, de weg :: In de inhoudelijk zo rijke en overwegend door 'sharing' gedreven onderwereld van vrije, speculatieve muzieken zijn publieke concerten een mythe, een sociaal-muzikale conventie die in deze digitale tijden haar zin grotendeels heeft verloren. Daarom ging ik met magister Rébus voor eeuwig op tour, zonder publiek. [ Beluister de Waan, de Wil, de Weg Podcast... Lees de tekst in Gonzo #139, mei/juni 2017 __ ]
April 12th, 2017 :: 1024, 2016, 2M0M1X1VII7, 2027, 2029 ... :: Celebrating ookoi's 1024's 10th birthday, this year's weekly oki doki 10 minutes and 24 seconds podcast and 2M0M1X1VII7 and the new prime year's 10-seconds-a-day audio diary, a follow-up to 2011's 'Seventy Seconds'... [ read more __ ]
January 7th, 2017 :: Het kaf en het koren :: Als je de cassettes die de afgelopen vijftig jaar werden geproduceerd allemaal aan elkaar zou plakken, wordt dat een loop van hier tot aan Neptunus. Ik heb er heel wat stukjes en beetjes van in zijn kelder opgeslagen. Verward, verweerd, vergooid en vergeten. Alle geluid van de wereld. [ In: Gonzo #137, januari/februari 2017 __ ]
June 14th, 2016 :: unPublic #18 - 대부도 (Daebu-Do), 14 June 2015, by Ian-John Hutchinson :: Article written not long after the 18th unPublic, which - one year ago, on June 14th 2015 - took place on the beach of the South-Korean island of Daebu. Ian-John interviewed all of that unPublic's participants, and wrote things down, providing interesting insights into the processes and intentions at play, also of the unPublic series in general. [ read more __ ]
May 7th, 2016 :: In Praise of Slowness :: Second in a series of succinct reports on our last year's Kreativen Vikend, a sonic residency in the mountain village of Lazaropole (in the Republic of Macedonia), including the 21st unPublic, our passages through Skopje and a subsequent visit to Belgrad (Serbia). [ read more __ ]
March 8th, 2016 :: "STILTE!" :: Stilte is niet wit. Ook is stilte nog geen zuchtje wind. Stilte is geen ruisje, het is geen voetstap op een pad vol grind. Is stilte dan soms sterreloos? Bijbelzwart misschien? Neen, stilte is on-kenbaar, a fortiori on-her-kenbaar dus. Daarom dat zo velen er naar blijven zoeken. [ In: Gonzo #132, mrt/apr 2016 __ ]
January 25th, 2016 :: Trust Us :: About Michael Ghent's powerful cardboard installation "Trust Us", at Mains d'Oeuvres in Saint-Ouen: "... like black magic spells, cooked up to charm us into belief and conviction that all is solely meant and created for our good, and will hand us the one and only key to health, fortune and happiness. Or to god. To all." [ read more __ ]
September 8th, 2015 :: "De Muzak is dood! Lang leve de muzak!" :: Wie weet nog wie Paul McCartney een muzakant noemde? En wat was dat ook alweer? "Gelukkig maar dat ik tegenwoordig als bijna-ouwe man aan vrijwel alle muziek een godsgruwelijke hekel heb. Behalve, natuurlijk, als ik 'm zelf maak..." [ In: Gonzo #129, sept/okt 2015 __ ]
July 7th, 2015 :: "Makkers, staakt uw wild geraas!" - Voor en tegen tinnitus :: Oorsuizen is van alle tijden. Vaak klinkt het als de branding. Soms is het alsof er dag en nacht een Japanse noise artiest in je hoofd zit. Dat is geen pretje! Je kan er daarom maar beter muziek van maken... [ Listen to the Against tinnitus-mix on Mixloud... Lees de tekst in Gonzo #128, juli/aug 2015 __ ]
April 14th, 2015 :: Mal-là--colisé dans l'espace et dans le temps (L'i-m-a-g-e E-s-t U-n O-b-j-e-t E-l-a-s-t-i-q-u-e, pt. 1) :: An evening at the Friches on mal-localisation in space-time, with Rébus and Namhee. A Toy-Orguanisation and a lot of aaaaaaaa's lead to a quite logical conclusion: 433Hz should be the new international standard for our concert pitch. [ read more __ ]
March 13th, 2015 :: René Gude (1957-2015)
March 7th, 2015 :: The men once in green are now writing a book!
November 7th, 2014 :: Mooie Liedjes Duren het Langst :: "Morton Feldman bijvoorbeeld, die in urenlange stukken eindeloos op zoek is naar een punt om de tijd te stoppen, zonder daar ooit aan te komen. Dat komt door de traagheid. Want met de tijd neem je zo gauw nog geen loopje niet..." [ Gonzo __ ]
September 11th, 2014 :: String Quartet with windows, open :: is a string quartet that lasts 24 hours and is playing in my living room; with the windows wide open. Being the entanglement of random walks that layer two form-ally near to identical soundscapes (a city traffic sound scape and the violins), the work, without any apparent dramatic development, of an extreme long duration and cycling back upon itself, is a virtually everlasting now, the eternal present, which is our future's past. The full 24 hour set is available as a high quality download at Bandcamp's. [ read more __ ]
April 8th, 2014 :: La physicalité du son. Tome 1 :: As part of the quite wonderful 10th edition of the Sonic Protest Festival, Rébus and myself entertained and educated the visitors of the festival's Let's Get Physical-part - à La Générale, Paris XI - with, on and about the phys-icality of sound. I did the first part, on Sunday April 6th. Here is the abstract. [ read more __]
March 8th, 2014 :: "12 - 11 - 9 - 10 - 3 - 6 - 7 - 1 - 2 - 8 - 4 - 5" :: About hacking Karlheinz Stockhausen's 1957 paper on a new morphology of musical time (... wie die Zeit vergeht ...) into three time-pass-poems. It explains all the counting in the 5th unPublic session, which made things - here and there - sort of sound like Karl-Philip Stockglass. [ read more __]
December 31st, 2013 :: Cassettes, Candles & Champagne :: This winter solstice (in the early evening of December 21st), four cassetteurs gathered on the desolate and cold second floor of an old industrial building on the East side of Paris, for a final & unpublic 2013 = C50 cassette ritual... [ read more __]
February 26th, 2014 :: Scheef ! :: (Medium) Al sinds een jaar of vijftien kom ik af en toe bij Aleth, op het Franse platteland, zo'n tweehonderd kilometer onder Parijs. Ik logeer er dan in een ouwe communale bakkerij. Aan de muren van die ouwe bakruimte hangen al die jaren al dezelfde vijf prentjes... [ read more __]
December 29th, 2013 :: De Val van Chroom / The Fall of Chrome :: The Fall of Chrome is a booklet with a collection of images and texts about magnetic tape, edited by Claudio Rocchetti, when, after many years of experimenting with tapes, he started to feel lost; like he had exhausted the subject and all the ideas... "But does it really matter why we use certain tools?" Claudio asked himself... [ read more __]
november 16th, 2013 :: Kraak de Media! :: "Caleb Kelly schreef een informatief boek over het oneigenlijk gebruik van geluidsdragers en het muziek maken met storing. Maar hij vergat de cassette. En hij vergat de castraat." In de 118e editie - oktober/november 2013 - van Gonzo (Circus) [ Gonzo __ ]
October 25th, 2013 :: The Art of the K7 (prelude) :: About the some things that are certain - All the way to Neptune and back - Re/Vival - The cassetteer and the DJ - A poor man's thang - Did I say there is no Hell? - Audio slates - Frank Zappa's '200 Motels' and a Christmas dinner at granny's - Not a one but a many - "Unto emptiness shalt thou return" [ read it all _ there's an outtake @medium ]
july 16th, 2013 :: Brul, Gil, Juich, Jool, Joel, Jodel, 't is een Wonder! :: In de 116e editie - juli/augustus 2013 - van Gonzo (Circus) lees je, in mijn verslag van Bart Plantenga's Yodel in Hi-Fi, ook de hele Geschiedenis van onze Wereldmuziek en -cultuur in ongeveer 210 Nederlandse Woorden. Dan is acht euro voor zijn magazijn toch echt geen geld. Zeg nou zelf... [ Gonzo __ ]
may 21st, 2013 :: Pure Dingen van Puur Geluid :: Bij gelegenheid van de onlangs verschenen Engelse vertaling van zijn dagboeken uit 1949-1951, overweeg ik, in de 115e editie - mei/juni 2013 - van Gonzo (Circus), Pierre Schaeffers spagaat, op zoek naar een concrete muziek in de tijd dat muziek 'muziek' werd. "Mooi en soms ook hilarisch." Lees het zelf in de [ Gonzo __ ]
May 11th, 2013 :: Playing with your ears :: A conversation with David Helbich, on his performative soundwalk for the city of Kortrijk (be). "When people are walking around wearing headphones and holding a booklet, the world for them has become a theater. But it is also a stage. And they are the actors." [ ]
march 23rd, 2013 :: "Ma première cassette était vierge..." :: Mourning & celebrating 50 years of the compact cassette: 2013 = C50. The first - and probably not the last - of this year's celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the compact cassette, was transatlantic: Paris - New York. Proud to be a cassetteur! [ read more __ ]
january 11th, 2013 :: Muziek is groot, en ik ben klein :: Een sympathieke & integere muzikant, die dagelijks degelijk aan veel degelijks werkt. Lees in de honderd-en-dertiende editie van Gonzo (Circus) wat ik over wat David Byrne over muziek schrijft schreef. (How Music Works, Canongate, ISBN 9 780857 862532) [ teaser (in Dutch) ___ ]
october 20th, 2012 :: Audio Monitoring the Watergate Hotel :: The first in a series of DIKTAT americana: how a small sticker in the lower left corner of one of the glass doors of the former lobby of the empty and desolate Watergate Hotel in Washington DC became the cherry on our US Dikta-cake [ read more __ ]
august 04th, 2012 :: 72 Hours of Post-Nuclear Survival :: July 27th-30th. The 15th grand & post-apocalyptic Parisian Placard dropped its anchor at four fine counter cultural shelters in the French capital. With my own little post-experimental sub-Placard, I sailed along, while Rébus' sound fooding provided both the alpha and the omega... [ read more __ ]
july 7th, 2012 :: A Forest Hanging from A Tree :: With E t c ... we performed 3 x 2 x 30 minutes of dark, electric urban (un)nature scapes, at the intriguing (devious, unobtrusive and tentacular) three day Festival des Ephémères in the Parisian Jardins d'Eole. I edited a 5-track digital album from the recordings made on June 30th and July 1st. [ read more __ ]
may 03rd, 2012 :: One big sweep, from ULTRA-modern to post-experimental (ii) :: My favorite swarm of houseflies by now also knowing how to U-L-T-R-A, lots of other ding-dong, a brandnew T-shirt, tasty cakes, high expectations, a great many Minny Pops, all sort of liquids and a canceled last New Moons performance... I carried all of it back home with me. [ read more __ ]
april 02nd, 2012 :: One big sweep, from ULTRA-modern to post-experimental (i) :: A (1st) ULTRA-craze wrap up, about the author of the ULTRA book becoming a Thai music playing, mice torturing Deadhead, and in-cluding an ex-clusive, post-experimental, New Moons track: Back to Nature (based on Hanns Eisler's Rückkehr zur Natur). [ read more __ ]
February 4th, 2011 :: "Is it Music? Is it Art?" :: Resonance & sound art at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, the Netherlands, during the last three weeks of December 2011.[ ]
January 22nd, 2011 :: Sound Forest & Unsound: Resonance in Riga & Krakow :: A lavishly illustrated report of the presentations of the Resonance sound art installations last fall, at the Sound Forest Festival in Riga, Latvia and the Audio Art Festival in Krakow, Poland...[ ]
December 7th, 2011 :: Resonance in Maastricht - 2nd edition :: December 2011 showcase of Resonance sound art works at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (the Netherlands): Evelina Deicmane, Paul Devens ans Maia Urstad [ ]
August 11th, 2011 :: "There's these noises in my head, they just do not let me in peace" :: In Berlin I talked to Latvian artist Evelina Deicmane in her studio at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien. About a flying lake, emotional machines and waking up in Berlin, with a drilling... Evelina's Resonance installation The Long Day can be seen/heard at Kunsthaus Meinblau, until September 11th. [ ]
august 05th, 2011 :: (I can't get no) Immediate Satisfaction - Diktat in Berlin [iii] :: '... and the evening and the morning were the third day...' On Sunday June 19th, Diktat Sucked Orange... Third in a series of fine illustrated & sounding underground fringe reports: Out on the Tempelhof, and living rooms as a natural habitat. [ read more __ ]
july 31st, 2011 :: 'Komm raussi!' - Diktat in Berlin [ii] :: '... and the evening and the morning were the second day...' Diktat in Berlin. Second in a sunny series of fine illustrated & sounding underground fringe reports. On the IN-side, and on the OUT-side. Deep thoughts. [ read more __ ]
july 29th, 2011 :: 'Where ist Ausland?' - Diktat in Berlin [i] :: And the evening and the morning were the first day... Over the weekend of June 17-19, Diktat went to Berlin. First in a fine summer series of lively and illustrated reports, including extracts from Diktat's Berlin performances. [ read more __ ]
july 23rd, 2011 :: Halfway :: Some reflections on a first half year of Seventy Seconds, my 10-seconds-per-day audio diary for the year 2011, which you can listen to - full & unabrigded - as the 10th episode of Chicago based experimental radio broadcast Radius. [ read more __ ]
june 28th, 2011 :: the end of an arm, the end of an era :: A couple of pictures from Jorge Macchi's Music Stands Still, now showing at the S.M.A.K. in Ghent. From there with Paul Devens I drove on to Maastricht, just in time to one more time see Vasiliki Tsagari dance her heart out, at the Last but Least Party, that was bidding farewell to the Art Space Rondeel in Maastricht. [ read more __ ]
april 19th, 2011 :: (Topographic [Table) Topographique] :: A pittoresque report of A Table!'s eventful recording sessions in the Pianofabriek in Brussels, laying down the sound material for the A Topographic Table album. Two weeks full of musical ambition and sonic extravagance. [ read more __ ]
march 10th, 2011 :: Alle utopieën zijn van gisteren :: Short story (in Dutch) dedicated to Jean Bordé, 'contrebassiste militant de l'improvisation libre' (Jazz Magazine): the Jimi Hendrix of the double bass... With a rare & previously unreleased DIKTAT track, recorded live at Le CLeUB in Paris, on november 15th, 2008... [ read more__ ]
feburary 10th, 2011 :: SB Tweet Digest #11 :: Esther et Pierre * Did Captain Beefheart sell Filter Queens? * Why the Bells in Maastricht did not ring this winter * Esther will sell me anything I want * A QR Code * The Unbearable Fleeting of Time * The Best Things in Life are Utterly Useless [ read more __ ]
january 11th, 2011 :: Caught in the flux of history :: Belgian musician and sound artist Pierre Berthet talks with Har$ on hitting things, Filter Queens, drops on tin cans and extending deliberately broken speakers. His installation Extended Drops is currently showing in Intro In Situ's workspace in Maastricht (nl). [ ]
november 28th, 2010 :: Foundtaping, Maps & Shadows (@ Shift Basel, i) :: I lost my soles in Basel. But also premiered the brand new Found Tapes Map interface and presented an overview of my 8 full years of foundtaping brought together in the Found Tapes Exhibition, that dazzling "siren song of decaying media", at the 2010 Shift Electronic Arts Festival. [ read more __ ]
november 04th, 2010 :: Noise and Capitalism :: I read 'Noise & Capitalism', a bundle of essays published about a year ago by the audiolab division of Arteleku. I also listened to the 26 minutes piece that noish~ made from the sound he obtained by reading the book.pdf as an audio file... [ read more __ ]
september 26th, 2010 :: Bonjour Schiphorst! Farewell Blue Vase! [ and then i joined the avantgarde (iii) ] :: A colorful and re:sounding description of A Table's sunday morning performance at this summer's Schiphorst Avantgarde Festival, and how, by throwing in a tenner taken from their hard-earned fee, the illustrious duo together with Jean-Hervé Péron and his family became the proud co-owners of a freshly sprayed Danner. [ read more __ ]
september 15th, 2010 :: Life is a Color Wire [i] (Het Leven is een Gekleurde Draad) :: We get to know Minckeleers and 't Mooswief, two statues on the marketplace in Maastricht (the Netherlands). The one is situated to the north of the old town hall, the other to its south. One holds an eternal burning flame, the other spits water into a pentagonal basin through five metal fish-heads. [ read more __ ]
august 22th, 2010 :: Yi Sang in Seoul: Rebirth :: A distant view on the second part of the Yi Sang project, in the Space Hamilton in Seoul (South Korea): bicycle rides, Read me a Poem, and a streaming pulp performance with a pale red-haired woman, bathing, a strong taste for chocolate hard as stone and a gramophone for a suitcase... [ read more __ ]
august 14th, 2010 :: 'And what about Yi Sang?' (... à Paris, iv) :: At the soirée littéraire in La Générale, Paris XI, I introduced three fine ladies who honored the elusive Korean poet. One wore a white mask. They made him blush and sometimes chuckle. A strange/ideal symmetrical translation, a Lego architect, Yi Sang in the box, and the unbearable reversal of time... [ read more __ ]
august 02nd, 2010 :: SB Tweet Digest #6 :: * A German Twietenstelle, * Rietveld graduation show pics, * Chinoiseries d'été, AND * six (6) classic SB-related albums now available as high quality digital downloads @Bandcamp, including the first ever official digital re-issue of two very rare and highly collectible early 1980 releases by the legendary Young Lions. [ read more __ ]
july 14th, 2010 :: The Final Soundtrack :: The SoundBlog proudly presents _Finale_: the full soundtrack of the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup final between the Netherlands and Spain, slightly (but ever so subtly) edited [re-composed], for an optimal listening experience. [ read more __ ]
june 17th, 2010 :: Sunny soundy days [KT2010, iii] :: In Maastricht, along with a tree, I dreamt of Uirapuru, I strummed an electric egg cutter guitar, watched lava dance and then solemnly reflected upon the sense of it all in a room set up to that very purpose by Bonne Knibbe. Afterwards, we had a beer. [ read more __ ]
june 10th, 2010 :: A kitchen table and a game of cards [KT2010, ii] :: (Spoerri, Filliou, Coca Cola) - About three 'empty rooms' that were on show at three different locations of this year's euregonial, untitled, Kunsttour in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and how all three of them were connected... [ read more __ ]
june 03rd, 2010 :: Classified
may 30th, 2010 :: Autonoom en untitled :: The 11th Maastricht Kunsttour opened on May 22nd with a sunny breakfast discussion on art, autonomy and cultural politics in the Timmerfabriek's backyard. Read about Karl Marx's sister Sophie and how I and myself (geen woorden, maar daden!) became future tenants of 1 square meters of Maastricht's most exciting Artspace... [ read more __ ]
may 13th, 2010 :: attention ! oeuvre d atable :: A Table! re-made Daniel Spoerri's kitchen table, the way it was on October 17th, 1961, at precisely 15h47, in his Parisian hotel room. It is our principal instrument in an upcoming series of A Spoerri Table! events. The premiere was on May 7th, during the Parcours d'Artistes Saint-Gilles, in Brussels. [ read more __ ]
april 18th, 2010 :: Fecit Venetiis 1754 (Muzzix #10, Lille) :: With both the Ana-R and A Table! we recently spent a great weekend of sonic demo(n)creation at the Muzzix festival in Lille (France). Read, see and hear in this colorful report all about new blood, the fine but long forgotten art of Stradivarius bashing, and Rébus' Red Hatter: a solipsist-musician's wet dream ... [ read more __ ]
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march 30th, 2010 :: ong'luk = un-luck, that is: malheur, twice... :: Late february Diktat did a very fine performance at La Machinante. But when we packed our gear, JB found the neck of his 150 year old double bass had been broken (repair: 5000 €)... Even more memorable and unique was our rendering of Stockhausen's Right Durations, some weeks later at the Eglise Saint-Merry. But the morning after we found some rascal stole the wheels of JJ's car (repair: 700 €)... If someone wants to stop us that badly, it surely means we're on to something BIG... [ read more __ ]
march 20th, 2010 :: Paris Tape Run (2009): tous les sens uniques :: Also pop hop pretty girls are onomato-peeing "Pfffjizzzz, schroenkkk, zschroenkkkk !" these days. And Staaltape's release party for the 2009 Parisian Tape Run (a relay recording compilation cassette in '70/80's mail art style) was a big hit. Another collectors' slum? Or cassette culture's second coming? [ read more __ ]
march 18th, 2010 :: Le son de l'art à sa naissance (Art's Birthday 2010) :: Commissioned by the Swiss RSR Espace 2, my present to art on the occasion of its this year's birthday became an elaborate audio-bio-faction and a sonico-musical reflection on the concept of being born. Its key-ingredient is a recording made one summer night in 2003, when I found myself tumbling into a hole in the floor of a dark garage somewhere in Paris, with my dictaphone on and recording... [ read more __ ]
february 13th, 2010 :: If only the goal of our journey were nearer, we all would be jolly long less :: Twelve particularly fine minutes of music, brough to you in a podcast recorded live during last month's edition of the Rhinoceros' laboratory, on sunday january 24th at Les Combustibles in Paris, France. Hear my Korg MS20, listen to my dictaphone, feel how they are hitting the Yamaha... Feat. Anthony Carcone (_*****_), on guitar & electrix. [ read more __ ]
february 05th, 2010 :: syntax, semantics and landscape with trains (Audiotoop [ii]) :: About Alessandro Bosetti's The Pool and the Soup, a fine guided spoken improvisation (as performed october last year at Extrapool in Nijmegen), which actually reminded me of Diktat. That same day at Extrapool there were Jason Zeh and Ben Gwilliam, the view of whose BromBron table suddenly reminded me of a small room in the flat of friends of my parents, in the very early 1960s. [ read more __ ]
february 04th, 2010 :: Médium Hang Esztétika :: The first part of the ongoing study on EAI as a metalanguage, that, together with Rébus, I embarked upon a couple of years ago, just recently was published as part of an Hungarian book called Médium Hang Esztétika - Zeneiség a mediális technológiák korában. (That Google-translates: "Medium Sound Aesthetics - Performance in the medial age of technology".) [ read more __ ]
february 01st, 2010 :: 18 x 100 Sec. Sound <.best_before.> Letters :: "Yesterday's a work in progress" ... Wrapping up the 2009 Best Before Sound Art Tour with a fine free CD for your download-ing pleasure, and the evocation of ghosts and voices from within the electromagnetic field on a path, rough 'n' lonely, towards an art built from sole fact and nil fiction... [ read more __ ]
january 05th, 2010 :: ookoi: onderood :: You dug it while it was happening, live on twitter. Now read the full report on the ookoi's blitz-appearing in the Rotterdam Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, as opening act for last sunday's live broadcast of Moritz Ebinger's Radio Red, hitting the pitch and setting the tone for pop and social media, new and old, in the early tens. [ read more __ ]
december 12th, 2009 :: years will have to run out sometime (Audiotoop [i]) :: About the weekend that the good people from the Nijmegen Extrapool descended upon the Amsterdam Occii. About guitars, drums 'n' tape; and about the audiotoop that I performed there: why did that particular piece become the way it was? In the mindbogglingly deep faraway end of it none of this would have ever been, were it not for the right honourable, for the baroness Thatcher. [ read more __ ]
november 08th, 2009 :: A found tapes meta-map :: More dates with Penelope Audela, and a first mention of the writing of "Alle Geluid Van De Wereld", my dutch/english monograph on the noble art of foundtaping (to appear early 2010 at the very latest). Acoustic fingerprinting is the method that underlies commercial audio search applications like Shazam and Midomi. We spent a little time with both of them. [ read more __ ]
january 13th, 2010 :: Art fleas :: Pushing last Christmas we set up a table at the Générale's Puces de l'Art. Even though we failed to sharpen my toppling cassettes world record, we still were the tropical spice in the Art fleas' ice, and joined forces with Blenno and the Wurst-Brücke for a memorable rendering of the Dutch national anthem. Our Wilhelmus Van Nassouwe is the edition's podcast. [ read more __ ]
february 17th, 2010 :: public places, hidden islands :: Every once in a while I have this sudden urge to hear Beethoven symphonies all day long. Why?I went through this, ad nauseam, with my analyst. She thinks I keep the reason stowed away on a little ile, that I've been hiding ever since my early youth. Bref. I guess she's right. But once more I gave in to the urge... and found Ludwig Van leading me to the perfect scene for a Diktat... [ read more __ ]
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The Warriors defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 84-72 Tuesday in the NBA summer league in Las Vegas, improving to 3-0 entering tournament play.
Lance Goulbourne led the Warriors with 13 points and added nine rebounds. Cameron Jones, Goulbourne's teammate with the D-League Santa Cruz Warriors, scored 11 points, as did Kent Bazemore and Ian Clark.
Draymond Green had seven points, seven rebounds and four steals but shot 2 for 12 from the floor.
Cal's Michael Kim advanced to match play at the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship after shooting a 2-under 68 at the 7,022-yard Laurel Hill Golf Club in Lorton, Va.
Kim completed two days of stroke play tied for fifth with five other players at 3-under 137. He finished five shots behind stroke-play medalist Garrett Rank of Canada. Rank shot a 67.
Kim will face Brandon Hortt in the first round of match play Wednesday, as the low 64 scores from the 156 golfers in the field advanced past stroke play.
"I'm just glad I made it to match play," Kim said. "I'm looking forward to playing Brandon, who I grew up playing against in the San Diego area."
The field will be reduced to eight after Thursday, with the quarterfinals and semifinals Friday and the 36-hole final Saturday.
San Jose State senior Noel Grigsby and Cal sophomore Chris Harper were among 75 players named to the 2013 Biletnikoff Award preseason watch list.
The selections were announced by the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation Inc.
The honor annually recognizes the outstanding receiver in college football and is named for Fred Biletnikoff, a member of the pro and college football halls of fame who was an All-Pro receiver with the Raiders after an All-America collegiate career at Florida State.
The team also announced that defensive lineman Luis Vasquez was activated from inactive reserve, wide receiver Jamarko Simmons was placed on injured reserve and wide receiver Fred Williams and defensive lineman Terrance Carter were placed on inactive reserve.
Ogbu, 26, is a rookie in the Arena Football League. Last season, he played for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.
Cal's Cindy Tran helped Team USA to a bronze medal in the 400-meter medley relay during the final day of the swimming competition at the 2013 World University Games in Kazan, Russia.
Tran, who will be a senior this fall, swam the leadoff backstroke leg in a time of 1:02.07.
She teamed with Laura Sogar (breaststroke), Kelsey Floyd (butterfly) and Megan Romano (freestyle) for a time of 4:02.71, trailing Russia (3:58.04, University Games record) and Italy (4:02.61).
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Happy Fourth of July to everyone! While we are all enjoying family, friends, cookouts, fireworks, and perhaps having fun with cars; keep in your minds and hearts the men and women of the armed forces who have helped preserve our country's freedom for more than 240 years.
The Sports Car Club of America® certainly appreciates their service, which is why the SCCA®, through a grant from the SCCA Foundation, works with VETMotorsports to help reduce the suicide rate among injured veterans by engaging them in transformative motorsports experiences. As part of the program, post-9/11 veterans with service-connected injuries are placed inside the ropes and behind the wheel at select SCCA events, and mentored by SCCA members and staff. Check out the video below to see exactly how much fun VETMotorsports participants had at a recent SCCA ProSolo® event.
"Across our rich 75-year history, this Club has been very fortunate to have many veteran enthusiasts among our ranks, and we have them in every SCCA community across the country," said Mike Cobb, SCCA's President & CEO. "The opportunity for the SCCA to give something back to the men and women who have given so much to preserve our independence as a country is both humbling and an honor."
VETMotorsports is an award-winning, non-profit, non-clinical outreach program that honors and empowers injured post-9/11 service members by embedding them with professional racing teams and putting them behind the wheel to race in amateur events. By placing veterans in hands-on, high-stress, team environments that mimic active duty, the organization gives them direction, empowerment and challenges that help them focus on ability and moving forward rather than disability and the past. Since its founding in 2012, VETMotorsports has helped more than 190 veterans with service connected injuries and caregivers participate in more than 75 motorcycle and auto racing events across the United States. More information about the organization is available at www.VETMotorsports.org.
Founded in 1944, the Sports Car Club of America®, Inc. is a 67,500-member motorsports organization that incorporates all facets of autocross, rally and road racing at both club and professional levels. With headquarters in Topeka, Kansas, the SCCA annually sanctions over 2,000 events through its 116 Regions and subsidiary divisions. Much of the SCCA's activities are made possible with support from the following Official Partners: Chevrolet, the Official Truck of the SCCA; Hawk Performance, the Official Brake Products of SCCA; Mobil 1, the Official Oil of SCCA; Sunoco, the Official Fuel of SCCA; and Tire Rack, the Official Tire Retailer of SCCA. To learn more, please visit www.scca.com.
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KHAN YOUNIS REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Palestinians have a new voice: a 23-year-old wedding singer from a Gaza refugee camp touted as a rare symbol of national unity after he won the Arab world's top TV contest.
But Mohammed Assaf's homecoming Tuesday highlighted the harsh reality of political divisions between the Islamic militants who rule Gaza and the Palestinian president in the West Bank.
Even as thousands thronged the streets in a frenzied welcome for the newly crowned winner of "Arab Idol," Hamas supporters stayed away, unable to reconcile the young crooner's triumph in the world of glitzy entertainment with their religious beliefs.
In contrast, Hamas' main rival, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, portrayed the singer's victory as an achievement for all Palestinians, apparently hoping Assaf's popularity would rub off on him.
The singer with the silky voice and warm smile had put Palestinian pride center stage throughout the competition, bringing many in the audience to their feet when he struck up his signature anthem to Palestinian nationalism, "Raise the Kaffiyeh."
Street celebrations and fireworks erupted across the West Bank and Gaza after he was named the winner Saturday at a TV studio in Beirut.
On Tuesday, Assaf revisited the theme of unity.
"My message is national unity and ending the split," he told a news conference at the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza. "We are one people, and we want our freedom."
Still, the thousands of fans waiting for him in scorching heat waved Palestinian flags and the yellow banners of Abbas' Fatah movement, not the green flags of Hamas.
Assaf, who grew up in Gaza's Khan Younis refugee camp, almost didn't get to compete. He had to plead with Hamas to let him leave Gaza, he said, then bribe Egyptian border guards to let him enter the country en route to Lebanon. A fellow Palestinian gave up his slot during the audition phase because he believed Assaf had a better chance at winning.
As Assaf advanced in the competition, excitement and national pride built in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the territories where the Palestinians hope to one day establish a state. Rooting for the talented performer allowed Palestinians to feel as one people, forgetting at least for a while their political and geographic split.
Hamas seized Gaza from Abbas in 2007, leaving him with only the West Bank, where he heads a self-rule government in part of the territory. Since then, both sides have tightened their hold on their respective areas, on opposite sides of Israel, and reconciliation seems more distant than ever.
Assaf's victory had put the Islamic militants in a bind. Devout Muslims who support Hamas' fundamentalist brand of Islam oppose shows like "Arab Idol" as forbidden by their religion. And since seizing control of Gaza, Hamas has imposed stricter religious rules, including greater gender separation in public, on the already conservative territory.
However, Hamas is sensitive to public opinion and usually relents when it encounters widespread resistance. Earlier this year, for example, Hamas police shaved the heads of young men who sported gel-styled spiky hairstyles considered contrary to rules of modesty, but halted the campaign after an outcry.
In the case of Assaf, Hamas didn't want to be seen as going against the prevailing mood, but also did not want to endorse a frivolous form of entertainment, analysts said.
"Hamas knows there is huge energy behind (Assaf), and it will lose the street if it stands against him," said Mhaimar Abu Sada, a Gaza analyst.
In a compromise, the Hamas government dispatched a senior official in its Culture Ministry to be among those receiving the singer at the border crossing.
Assaf "proved that the Palestinian people are distinguished in all areas, despite the (Israeli) occupation and despite the aggression against Palestine," said the official, Fikri Judah.
However, Assaf will not perform in Gaza, instead traveling to the West Bank for a concert in Ramallah, the seat of Abbas' government, on July 4. He will also visit Dubai. He received a one-year contract from Platinum Records, the Dubai-based label owned by MBC, which broadcast the Arab Idol competition.
Abbas repeatedly injected himself into the "Arab Idol" craze since last month, when it became apparent Assaf had a shot at winning. He urged Palestinians to vote for the singer, praised him after his victory and named him an honorary ambassador.
On Tuesday, the pro-Abbas Palestine TV network broadcast the singer's chaotic homecoming live. When his black Mercedes pulled into Gaza, the crowd converged on the car, with enthusiastic fans climbing on top of it before being pulled back by Palestinian police.
"I love them, but things were not organized," Assaf said of his fans, speaking to Palestine TV. "There was a danger to my life."
Assaf said he could not go home because of the huge crowd in the Khan Younis refugee camp, where fans set up huge loudspeakers and young men danced to Assaf's music in the street.
Inside their home, Assaf's family tried to stay clear of politics. "We are not a political family," said his sister, Nisreen, 30. "We are middle of the road. We are against extremes."
In the camp, Assaf's poster was hanging near those of gunmen killed in battles with Israel - the traditional role models.
Now there's another path to glory, said Mohammed Nael, a friend of Assaf. "All the kids in the camp have become fans of music and dance," he said. "All the gifted singers ... are now looking for a similar chance."


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Weird question, I know, but it's one you now have an answer for regardless, as 3D artist Mariah Combs has used 3D Max to render a bunch of characters and weapons from Valve's Team Fortress 2 as though they were...exquisite pieces of glasswork.
Like I said, weird, but hey, it's late, let's just roll with it and enjoy the awesome art. Oh, and the bonus Half-Life Striders.
You can see way more examples, including sniper rifles and Portal robots, at Mariah's site.


text: As most of the past 6 years of my life have been spent in the studio shooting product of many sorts, i have always been intrigued and in great awe of those car photographers. Seriously, i thought a helmet was tough! Short of assisting a car photographer it is tough to decipher what is done on set and what is done in post. These behind the scenes shots of cars in studio on core77, shed a wee bit of light on the great mystery of car photography.


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Keiran Lee is about to get married to a woman he barely knows, and he's starting to get cold feet. That's when busty MILF Farrah Dahl senses an opportunity and makes her move. She walks into his room to let him know how little pussy he'll be getting once he's married, and then slips out of her tight dress to show off her tight booty and big tits. One look at those big MILF tits of hers gets him rock hard, so she starts sucking on his fat cock with wild abandon. Maybe after he's gone balls deep in some sweet MILF pussy he'll feel a little better about marriage! Collapse
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Policy for Industrial Development
Duration: Varied from several days to several months
Duty Station: Home-based, and/or at UNIDO Headquarters and/or in the field around the world
Organizational Context: UNIDO is mandated, amongst a variety of other functions, to provide strategic policy advice aimed at accelerating industrial development and competitiveness of developing countries. UNIDO also supports developing countries in the design and implementation of policies that aim at expanding and diversifying their productive capacity, and advocates for sustainable industrialization strategies at the global and regional level.
Tasks: Under the direct supervision of the respective UNIDO Project Managers at HQ and/or in UNIDO Regional/Field Office, the Consultant will perform one or several of the following tasks:
1. Perform analytical, diagnostic and assessment activities for the purpose of project identification, implementation or evaluation, as the case might be
2. Deliver advisory, consulting, methodological, capacity building, evaluation and/or other specific professional services pertaining to the accomplishment of the project's outputs as per the respective specific Terms of reference
3. Prepare, design, hold and/or oversee workshops, briefing and debriefing sessions, field visits, trainings and other project events
4. Facilitate project advocacy including but not limited to liaison with project's government counterparts, partner UN agencies and other project stakeholders to ensure smooth project identification, implementation or evaluation
5. Monitor overall project progress, fine-tune project strategy, activities or operation, as well as perform overall project supervision and administration over financial and manpower resources
6. Develop clear and concise inception, periodic, final, strategy, assessment, identification, planning, mission, training or ad hoc reporting frameworks and/or specific reports in relation to project activities, and maintain accurate project documentation.
Against this background, UNIDO is soliciting applications from highly qualified national and international individuals, in order to expand its Roster of consultants and enhance its capacity to respond quickly to demand for specific technical assistance.
Qualification requirements:
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b.) Experience: Relevant progressive practical experience at professional level acquired through work in a respective industry, central or local government, academia, non-governmental or professional services sector. Proven experience in one or more of the following areas: industrial policy; industrial development; industrial productivity; benchmarking and analysis of industrial performance and capabilities; strategies and policies for industrial growth and development; innovation; science & technology applied to industrial development; industrial knowledge; economic and policy assessment at manufacturing and industry level and project scale-up / multiplication, or an associated field. Prior experience in technical cooperation / technical assistance in developing countries is a distinct advantage
c.) Language skills: Fluency in English, working knowledge of the other UN official languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and/or Spanish) is an asset.
Further details on the duration, duty station, organizational context and qualification requirements may and will be provided to one or more preselected consultants for a specific assignment at the discretion of UNIDO responsible staff.
Registration into the Roster does not constitute in any form a commitment on the part of UNIDO for taking a particular application into consideration in the recruitment process for a specific vacancy.
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Jeff Thompson has been hired as area director by Young Life Hilton Head/Bluffton. Thompson will be working with teenagers in Hilton Head Island as well as in Bluffton, along with his team of volunteer leaders at each high school, Bluffton High School, Hilton Head High School, and Hilton Head Christian Academy.
Thompson is a longtime Young Lifer with years of experience of being a leader at a high school in Fairfield, Ohio, outside of Cincinnati.
Before joining Young Life, Thompson worked in the Management Training program at a food brokerage firm affiliated with The Kroger Co. Thompson can be reached at email@example.com or at 843-304-4525.
Mobile Tax Service, LLC is a new tax preparation and audit service company owned by Teresa Ferro and Linda Healy.
Ferro is retired from the United States Air Force. She has been a volunteer tax counselor through IRS programs for about 30 years. Several of those years has also been as a paid preparer. Ferro is an enrolled agent, having successfully passed comprehsive tests.
Healey is an enrolled agent and has 30 years of audit experience with the Internal Revenue Service as both a tax Auditor and revenue agent.
The IRS requires continual educational credits in order to maintain the enrolled agent status. This ensures the tax preparer is current on income tax issues, along with ethics training. Teresa and Linda get their training in a variety of ways including on site three day tax forums, on line seminars and the like.
The company's website is www.mobiletaxservicesc.com and the phone number is 415-1686.
Maureen Wood has joined Hilton Head Hospital Breast Cancer Center. Wood is a board certified adult nurse practitioner and advanced oncology clinical nurse specialist who completed her doctorate of nursing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2009. Her dissertation research was in exercise motivation for breast cancer risk reduction.
She has taught as assistant professor at Maryville University and Goldfarb Barnes-Jewish School of Nursing, and is a member of the Oncology Nursing Society and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She has more than 30 years experience in oncology, and for the past 10 years has been caring for patients with breast disease.
SFFC Rod Oates of the Bluffton Township Fire District recently completed National Registry EMT Paramedic training. The training consisted of 1,012 hours of class room time, 120 hours ambulance time, and 200 hours of hospital time and countless hours of studying.
Becoming a National Registry Paramedic is a big accomplishment. Oates is currently stationed at Station 31 in Pritchardville.
The Barkin Basement is holding a grand opening on at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at its new Hardeeville location.
The store carries books, arts, furniture, jewelry, linens and more. It is located at 10876-B Jacob Smart Boulevard in Ridgeland (across from Piggly Wiggly — beside Pizza Hut).
The Barkin Basement is open from 10 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. For weekly specials and events, visit the Jasper Animal Rescue Mission website at www.jarmission.org. Call 717-2088 to schedule a pick up.


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Cabarrus County deputies say 50-year-old Anthony Hardy killed himself after hiding in his home for several hours after the shooting Friday afternoon.
Investigators say Hardy fired on 64-year old Gary Stocks and 42-year old Daniel Kirchner in Kirchner's backyard. The two victims lived on each side of Hardy's house on a cul-de-sac. The subdivision of dozens of homes is about a mile from Interstate 485 in Harrisburg.
Deputies negotiated with Hardy for hours before he killed himself.
Investigators say it appeared Hardy had some kind of dispute with his neighbors, and they are still trying to determine why he was angry.


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The Metaketa III: Natural Resource Governance round has awarded six grants to innovative experimental research projects that seek to assess the role of community monitoring of natural resources, specifically forests and water. All of the projects use common informational interventions focused on scrutinizing local resource management authorities and providing information to administrators and users in order to curb the overuse of the forest or water common pool resource. In addition, each project will involve at least one complementary intervention.
The awards, provided by funding from the UK's Department for International Development, range from $150,000 to $250,000. All projects will collaborate closely, in conjunction with the EGAP Metaketa III: Natural Resource Governance steering committee, with the goal of maximizing the consistency of designs, interventions, and outcome measurement across studies.
Congratulations to the Metaketa III: Natural Resource Governance award recipients!
The Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) network is soliciting proposals for field experiments that seek to assess the roles of information to governments and/or community monitoring of resources on the governance of forests and/or freshwater. This Metaketa round is funded by the UK's Department for International Development and invites studies that address the central questions using two or more experimental treatment conditions—a common arm (or arms), to be implemented in a consistent manner by all supported projects, should seek to assess the effects of information provided to governments and/or monitoring by communities on the governance of common-pool forests and/or freshwater; and a second or third arm to be selected by individual research teams to be studied alongside the common treatment(s).
Awards will range from $150,000 to $250,000. Please see the link to the full request for proposals along with links to the submission form and budget template below.
Please submit all materials in a PDF format to firstname.lastname@example.com. The deadline for submission is November 15, 2016, 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time.
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Contact Jaclyn Leaver (EGAP Director of Research) at firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions.
This call for expressions of interest is now closed. Thanks to all who applied. As mentioned below, this call sought to identify clusters of research projects with comparable interventions and outcome measures that would form the basis of the main Natural Resource Governance Metaketa request for proposals. Please see below for a summary of the EOIs we received and stay tuned for the full request for proposals that will be launched in the next few weeks!
Metaketa III: Natural Resource Governance Summary of EOIs
The Evidence in Governance and Politics network (EGAP) is requesting expressions of interest (EOIs) for leading edge experimental research projects on the effective governance of common-pool resources in developing countries. This grant round is specifically designed to foster knowledge accumulation across studies and is supported by funding from the UK Department for International Development. Successful applicants will engage in closely related projects and adhere to a common set of research standards. For this round, EGAP will support 5-7 research projects that address a common theme. This request for short EOIs seeks to identify clusters of research projects with comparable interventions and outcome measures, which will form the basis of the main call.
Please submit your EOI in a PDF format to firstname.lastname@example.com. The deadline for submission is October 6, 2016, 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time.
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Though an admirer of Louis le Brocquy's paintings, I had never before come across the artist's print-work. Throughout his life, le Brocquy collaborated with a number of Irish writers, including his friends Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. After happening upon one of the artist's most notable collaborations, le Brocquy's lithographic brush drawings for Thomas Kinsella's The Táin of 1969, I was immediately taken with the beautifully simplistic and calligraphic forms. The Táin includes one hundred and thirty-three black and white drawings detailing Ireland's proto-historic past, printed on Swiftbrook Paper Mills, Co., reproduced by line block, printed by Dolmen Press, Dublin, limited edition of 1,750 copies.
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The legion of "Twilight" fans are getting quite the jolt to see that "The Eclipse" is actually opening in theaters today. How did that happen so fast? Actually, it's a bit of movie-scheduling confusion.
"The Eclipse" is an award-winning drama starring Aidan Quinn and Ciaran Hinds, while "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" is opening on June 25.
"The confusion is unfortunate, but what are you going to do," Quinn tells Popcornbiz. "We were first!"
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There is a clear upside for the less-publicized but excellent "The Eclipse." People looking for news on Robert Pattinson are coming across the movie by nearly the same name. Quinn hopes they follow through and see his movie.
"I daresay, this movie will turn out to be the better film," Quinn promises. "Hopefully it will generate more interest and more young folks will give the movie a chance."
"The Eclipse" does feature a love triangle with two guys fighting for a beautiful girl. But the just released film has a slightly more mature -- though every bit as sexy -- cast.
When Quinn was told that Twilighters would expect a little shirtless action, he volunteered his co-star.
"I'll leave that up to Ciaran."


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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Insurance Company Follies
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18 comments:
- Tracy said...
Woowww...I'm guessing she changed offices? Or her offices at different locations are listed with the insurance company differently?
- March 10, 2011 at 7:51 AM
These are the same geniuses who will leave you with no health insurance if you accidentally underpay your premium by one penny. Didn't happen to me, thank Gawd, but I've read about it happening.
- March 10, 2011 at 8:18 AM
- OMDG said...
- March 10, 2011 at 8:30 AM
- Horace S. Patoot said...
Some people will do anything just to have things their way.
- March 10, 2011 at 9:03 AM
maybe there are 2 dr grace khouri's?
- March 10, 2011 at 9:07 AM
- Julie said...
This is going to get messy ...
- March 10, 2011 at 9:16 AM
- The Good Cook said...
I so hate health insurance companies. and yes, I do mean HATE.
- March 10, 2011 at 10:17 AM
- Kat's Kats said...
::head:laptop:: I have had this happen so many times!
Insurance Peon - "We don't have Provider X on our list."
Me - "Really? That's odd because when I called to ask whom I should see for Problem Y the Insurance Peon I spoke to told me to see Provider X."
Insurance Peon - "Well, it's possible they're no longer one of our providers."
Me - "That's odd, considering I only called yesterday and that their office stated they were one of your providers. Would you mind looking up Type of Provider by my zip code?"
Insurance Peon - ::sigh:: "Okay." ::pause:: "You should have seen Provider X."
Me - "That's who I saw."
Insurance Peon - "You did? That's not who you said you saw."
Me - ::muttering:: "Must not kill Insurance Peon. Must not kill Insurance Peon. Must not kill Insurance Peon."
- March 10, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Oh, no not that Dr. Grace Khouri, I think we were engaged once.
- March 10, 2011 at 10:27 AM
anon: My employer "forgot" to pay my medical premiums for 3 months.... and I was still covered! of course, I live in B.C Canada....and are more forgiving...
- March 10, 2011 at 10:39 AM
It's like when someone tells you to do something that you were going to do anyway, so then you have to show that you're in control by not doing it, but then you go ahead and do it because you were going to do it anyway.
- March 10, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Bertha said...
For this we're paying them more money than our monthly mortgage.
- March 10, 2011 at 11:00 AM
- terri c said...
I doubt the reason makes any sense at all--it's a bit of computerese--so what is true at the very least is that no human, not even a poorly-skilled one, looked at this letter. Probably an untested change was recently made to the insurance company's computer programs. I used to test software for a living and I see this crap all the time in medical software. And no one cares.
- March 10, 2011 at 12:37 PM
It probably cost the insurance company $100 to research, generate, and send that letter. Weren't computer data bases supposed to make our lives easier and
more efficient?
- March 10, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- Kat's Kats said...
Now that I can answer. My ex used to work for Envoy (which became something else I can't remember) which managed billing for medical/insurance. According to him the computers, programs etcetera used in the insurance business are... not cutting edge. They're not still using punch cards and I don't think they're using reel to reel... oh wait, they might still be doing that. IOW their systems are at least a decade behind everyone, their mother & their mother's duck. The thing is, it would actually be more cost effective if they'd upgrade their hardware. ::rolls eyes:: I am so not getting into off site data storage in regards to disaster recovery.
- March 10, 2011 at 1:00 PM
oh rats... thats my company
- March 10, 2011 at 6:08 PM
- The Mother said...
Compromise is so important in interpersonal relationships.
- March 10, 2011 at 10:16 PM
Yes, a penny can make a difference. I was sent to collections for ONE PENNY by BIG TRAUMA HOSPITAL in my state. I taped a penny to the letter and wrote a short note about the stupidity and expensive move this was. I sent it return receipt and addressed it PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL to the CEO of the HOSPITAL in hopes the he opened it. He called me personally when he received it to discuss it and explain why it happened (it was some stupid computer glitch and it happened to about 1000 people) it didn't make me feel any better as I told him because it was on my credit report. It cost me about $5but in the end I felt vindicated and he felt stupid.
- March 11, 2011 at 7:34 AM


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Members of the National Latina Business Women Association, Los Angeles Chapter (NLBWA-LA) came together Thursday June 28, 2013 at The Leonard H. Goldenson Theater to honor its 10th year anniversary with the NLBWA-LA Latinas in Business Awards.
Sid Garcia, The Master of Ceremonies of ABC7, kicked off the empowering night by introducing the NLBWA - Los Angeles Chapter President, Veronica Corona. Corona was thrilled to celebrate her fellow Latina professionals accomplishments within the Latino communities in Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
Mariam Lopez was the first winner of the evening taking home the $2,500 2013 Business Management Academy Grant. The grant allows Lopez to take part in the NLBWA-LA's signature six week program to advance her business.
The night's inspirational Latina Business Women's Awards honored: Entreprenuer of the Year - Maria Contreras-Sweet, Founder/Executive Chairwoman ProAmerica Bank; Corporate Leader of the Year - Lupita Sanchez-Cornejo, Office of External Affairs, AT&T; Inspirational Leader of the Year - Lizette Salas, Professional Golfer, LPGA; and Man of the Year - Ken Ashford, Business Outreach Program, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
Deserving Latinas were also awarded as "The Women of Excellence" in categories including law, health & beauty, media, public relations and professional services. The winners included: Irene Carranza, Irene Carranza Arts; Bellaa Castillo, MBA, CCP, CBP, PHR, Kedren Mental Health Hospital; Rosario Mario, Compendium Strategies; Alma McMaster, Southern California Edison; Anita Ortega, Los Angeles Police Department; Connie Perez, Brown Armstrong Accountancy Corporation; Patricia Perez, VPE Public Relations; Dr. Betty Uribe, California Bank & Trust; Fanny Veliz, Criolla Films; Amada Zamudio, White Memorial Medical Center.
The 2013 NLBWA-LA Latinas in Business Awards was sponsored by: Southern California Edison; Bank of America/Merrill Lynch; Ford; A Sempra Energy; Northwestern Mutual; State Farm; Union Bank; Popular Community Bank; Wells Fargo; Comerica Bank; Bank Of The West; New York Life; and Southern California Gas Company, among others.
For more information or to become a member of the NLBWA - LA Chapter, please visit http://www.nlbwa-la.org/.
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Published on Jul 01, 2013


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