Herbie Sykes: Maglia Rosa

Just out: Herbie Sykes’ history of the Giro d’Italia, Maglia Rosa. I read his earlier book The Eagle of the Canavese, a biography of Balmamion, and was positively impressed. This one is published by the most ‘chique’ of all cycling publishers Rouleur: http://www.rouleur.cc/maglia-rosa. Should be very beautiful.

Image gallery at http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/photos/maglia-rosa-triumph-and-tragedy-at-the-giro-ditalia

(Photo: © Maglia Rosa – Triumph and Tragedy at the Giro d’Italia)

cycling,en,free publicity | March 10, 2011 | 16:45 | Comments Off on Herbie Sykes: Maglia Rosa |

Filtering Failure

Was net op de opening van Filtering Failure, bij Planet Art – voor mij om de hoek – tentoonstelling met glitch art, samengesteld door Rosa Menkman & Julian van Aalderen. Met werk van o.a. Benjamin Gaulon en Karl Klomp. Meer hier: http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/2011/02/filtering-failure-exhibition-catalogue.html en hier http://www.planetart.nl/now.htm

art,free publicity,nl,software | February 26, 2011 | 0:51 | Comments Off on Filtering Failure |

Benjamin Gaulon: RES

I met Benjamin Gaulon when he was a student at the MA Interactive Media & Environments in Groningen. I was teaching there. His graduation work was the RES, a multi-player musical instrument using the classic Nintendo controllers. It was a highlight of Sonic Acts XII in 2004, and we had much much fun playing it. He’s now based in Dublin and has almost finished a new version, using Arduino, and has released the source code, and will shortly also get the PD code up. So you could build it yourself…

Here’s more info:

http://www.recyclism.com/theresmini.php

And here’s his tumblr-blog: http://adw.tumblr.com/

art,en,free publicity,music,software | February 11, 2011 | 17:12 | Comments Off on Benjamin Gaulon: RES |

Musica Improvvisa

Het gebeurt niet vaak, bij de hoeveelheden gigabytes mp3s en flacs die binnenstromen in het ‘download’-mapje, en vervolgens één keer worden beluisterd (als ze al worden beluisterd), dat je aandacht vol gepakt wordt door wat je hoort. Veel luisterwerk is inderdaad ‘werk’, ‘afluisteren’, ‘uitchecken’, ‘leren kennen’.

De 10 CD box Musica Improvvisa, met recente geïmproviseerde muziek uit Italië, uitgegeven door het onvolprezen Die Schachtel, pakte me, en ik luister er nu herhaaldelijk naar. Slechts één naam kende ik (Domenico Sciajno – oké, en Gene Coleman en Hans Koch maar dat zijn geen Italianen). Het meeste valt binnen gekende kaders van de hedendaagse geïmproviseerde en elektro-akoestische muziek, instrument+laptop, vaak zacht, op textuur gespeeld, met veel reminiscenties aan AMM en Nuova Consonanza, maar het is allemaal zeer geconcentreerd en precies. AMP en Ligatura zijn voor mij de hoogtepunten.

Overigens kost de box slechts 50 euro, en is de oplage 500. Er zit ook nog een DVD bij. I feel tempted & obliged.

http://www.dieschachtel.com/editions/DSIMP1.html

free publicity,music,nl | January 30, 2011 | 15:48 | Comments Off on Musica Improvvisa |

15.000 / Ombromanie IFFR

Sinds de sluiting van PostCS oefent Oorbeek in de Muzyq – het nieuwe ‘muziekmakerscentrum’ in Amsterdam-Oost waarover het afgelopen jaar nogal wat te doen is geweest. Prachtige oefenruimtes en voor de meeste van ons een perfecte locatie. We komen er sinds nazomer 2009, nog voor de offciele opening.

Gisteren oefenden we van 9 – 12 ‘s avonds. Guess what. Wij hadden reservering numero 15.000 gemaakt, en we werden getrakteerd op bloemen, foto’s en 10x gratis oefenen.

Volgende week een optreden: Serge Onnen’s Ombromanie, vier uur lang op donderdag 3 februari tijdens het Filmfestival Rotterdam, van 20.00 – 0.00.

http://www.muzyq.nl

http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/nl/films/parental-guidance-serge-onnen-ombromanie/

http://www.oorbeek.net

free publicity,music,nl | January 27, 2011 | 16:12 | Comments Off on 15.000 / Ombromanie IFFR |

Oorbeek at the Soon Institute

A really late announcement, in two hours from now Oorbeek will do an acoustic concert to celebrate the release of the Ombromanie dvd & book, at the Soon Institute, Vijzelstraat 67, Amsterdam: http://www.thesooninstitute.com/tmc/. That is Wednesday December 15th, 18 – 20 hrs.

From the Facebookpage (I don’t do Facebook):

“Very limited edition book & dvd with 16mm, 8mm, video registrations of oorbeek shadow performances in Amsterdam and Berlin.

small party with accidental music, ignored drinks, projections”

en,free publicity,music | December 15, 2010 | 17:08 | Comments Off on Oorbeek at the Soon Institute |

Raise yr voice for culture / we get out of balance

“Nederland schreeuwt om cultuur”. Tomorrow, November 20th, people will come together in 65 Dutch cities and towns to raise their voice for arts and culture. The budget cuts proposed by government are vindictive, uncivilized and out of proportion.

We get out of balance.

You can join the protest online by inserting a line of code, provided by V2_, in your website: http://code.v2.nl/nederland/schreeuwt-om-cultuur.js

(Update 22/11: Originally the code provided a new background for a website and made the content appeared slanted).

en,free publicity,Uncategorized | November 19, 2010 | 15:06 | Comments Off on Raise yr voice for culture / we get out of balance |

Studio for rent / te huur

The former studio of Pips Lab at Marci Panis (the studio building where I live) is up for rent. If you’re an artist, theatre maker, choreographer, dancer (the space has a dance floor), designer – or group, and are interested: look here http://www.marcipanis.nl/..etc.

free publicity,nl | June 29, 2010 | 16:45 | Comments Off on Studio for rent / te huur |

Sonic Acts XIII The Poetics of Space

Thursday, that is tomorrow, the Sonic Acts Festival will kick off with a day long session at STEIM, and then really with the opening at NIMk, followed by performances in Paradiso, and then on Friday, the start of the conference.

There are still tickets for the evening programmes on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Only the conference and the Planetarium on Sunday are sold out. So, you can all still get out there and see & hear for instance Streifenjunko & Keith Rowe on Thursday, or Expanded Cinema on Friday (like Paul Sharits and Lis Rhodes and Bruce McClure), or Gilles Aubry, Eric La Casa, Hildegard Westerkamp, Jacob Kirkegaard and others on Saturday: http://www.sonicacts.com.

en,free publicity,music | February 24, 2010 | 17:30 | Comments Off on Sonic Acts XIII The Poetics of Space |

Sonic Acts @ NRC

For all of you in the Netherlands – today in the Cultureel Supplement, a long article on the coming Sonic Acts Festival: http://weblogs.nrc.nl/cultuurblog/2010/02/12/cs-sonic-acts-beeld-en-ruimte/.

en,free publicity,music,nl,reading matter | February 12, 2010 | 13:37 | Comments Off on Sonic Acts @ NRC |
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