Another strange little video by Oorbeek: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=0AT1kBE1ePU

One of the reasons for not blogging too much is that I’ve been working on Sonic Acts XII The Cinematic Experience. The festival takes place from 21 – 24 February. Most of my time went into editing the book. Yesterday the book was delivered at the Sonic Acts office – I have not even seen it myself (will pick up a copy later today).

The book will be available during the festival, and can also already be ordered online at: http://www.sim-central.nl/detail.php?id=5757.

More info on the book and the festival at the Sonic Acts XII site: http://www.sonicacts.com/.

Video by Peter Cleutjens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe3C-B68aZ8, made in the basement of PostCS.

What? Ah, Oorbeek has performed Cardew. It’s on our first CD Etos. (No, no I’m not going to say that it is not true. After all, we (at least me) have been carrying sheets with Cardew compositions in our instrument cases…)

Here’s the proof: http://www.vergemusic.com/cardew.htm.

Wow, what company…

Gruppo Improvisazione Nuovo Consonanza, AMM, Musica Elettronica Viva, Earle Brown, Aphex Twin, John Cage (reading Finnegans Wake), Iancu Dumitrescu or Horatio Radulescu (or both?), COH, Eric Dolphy (Out to Lunch), Brian Ferneyhough, Charlie Parker (Parker’s Mood), Keith Rowe & John Tilbury, Clifford Brown (Delilah), field recordings from Uzbekistan from 1905, USA/USB, Carlo Gesualdo, Earth, Axel Dörner, Nass El Ghiwan, Sunn, Stockhausen (Kontakte), Kontakt der Jünglinge, Hanatarash (two pieces at random from Aids-a-delic), UFO or Die, Wiley Kat, Motorhead, Pierre Schaefer, Miles Davis (Get Up With It), The Ramones, Julius Hemphill (Hard Blues), King Tubby, and finally Julius Eastman.

This is what I remember I played, not necessarily in this order, as aa66 doing the music in the bar at last week’s DNK-concert.

A slideshow of the legendary Hanatarash-concert on 8 – 4 – 1985: http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~gin/rock/japan/hanatarasi/hanatarashi2/hanatarashi2.html. With Yamatsuka Eye (Boredoms, Naked City) on voice and, well, bulldozer. (Thanks Maarten for the link).

Btw: the bulldozer was stolen, the owner of the venue did not know about it, and the entrance of the venue was destroyed: the bulldozer crashed right through it.

Such a pleasure to come across a good homepage. Here’s Douglas Kahn’s: http://www.douglaskahn.com. He is of course, the author of Noise, Water, Meat, probably one of the best books on sound in the arts.

He’s also editor now of an academic magazine on Sensory Studies: The Senses and Society, behind the academic firewall, but the first issue is available for free: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/tsas/numberandsomesessioninfo.

Tonight we expect a packed OT301 (Overtoom 301, Amsterdam) for the DNK-concert of Ultralyd and KTL. Ultralyd is Anders Hana, Kjetil Moster, Kjetil Brandsdal and Morton Olsen. KTL is Stephen O’Malley (Khanate, Sun O))), Lotus Eaters) with Pita (Peter Rehberg). I’t going to be wonderful immersive and really loud drones/noise and exquisite electro-acoustic dark freerock. Or something like that.

Stephen O’Malley: http://www.ideologic.org

Ultralyd: http://www.n-collective.com/index.cgi?article=14&dept=groups & http://www.myspace.com/ultralydh.

DNK: http://www.dnk-amsterdam.com/

Monday 19th, 21.30h, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam. (I guess it’s 5 euro’s).

For all those who (like me) dwnldd all that terrific early Braxton-music from the now defunct Church#9: http://ifyouknowwhatimsaying.blogspot.com/. Close listening & comments, chronologically going through all the Braxton material.

If you’re in or nearby Groningen: there’s an Audio Office Audio Art Event running from the 9th till the 11th of november (at the Steenhouwerskade 9). Sound art, deejays, installations. With a.o. Steven Jouwersma, Jobbe Holtes, Sjanet Bijker and Pascal Petzinger. More info: http://www.audiooffice.nl/.