Let me tell you one more story before I pass over into a next year, a tale that links to several of this past year's SoundBlog threads.

For one: the title, of a modest and simple mail sound art project by Beau bruit (Etienne Noiseau), includes Small World. This, as some of you will know, is also the title of The...

'... now learn to read time backward ...'

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Slowly surfacing again, after some four months of writing, in Dutch, my very personal account of the rise and fall of Ultra, the Dutch brand of experimental post-punk pop that swept Holland in the very early 1980s,...

No-luggage is my preferred état de voyage. I detest having to drag bags and suitcases along. Worse of all, of course, is the checking in and retrieval at airports. It is why I do my utmost to limit (as much as possible, and then a little bit more) the number of things that I carry along with me. Especially on...

No-luggage is my preferred état de voyage. I detest having to drag bags and suitcases along. Worse of all, of course, is the checking in and retrieval at airports. It is why I do my utmost to limit (as much as possible, and then a little bit more) the number of things that I carry along with me. Especially on...

On Sunday, June 19th - a gray and rainy day - Diktat checked out Berlin's former City Airport - Tempelhof, thus called because in the middle ages the site was Knights Templar land - for a fourth OUT-side. The airport halls of Tempelhof, built in the 1930's, were part of Albert Speer's plan for the reconstruction of...

The heart of Diktat's sound material consists in a collection of dictaphone and other lofi cassette recordings that are being played back & manipulated by Rébus, Rinus and myself. Rébus has a number of tapes that are reserved for Diktat. Over these five Diktat-years little by little he has been...

10-seconds-per-day sound diary for the prime year 2011 in weekly editions, every Sunday on the Dutch hard//hoofd web daily. Each edition comes with a short text taken from my personal diaries (in Dutch) and a picture made by photographer Pieter van Wynsberge at a corresponding hour on one of the seven days...

[ The full series of...

After another two days, mid June, of intense editing work with Sam in his studio in Ghent, we managed to almost get all the material for the second of four 10 minute (Topographic [Table) Topographique) pieces lined up on disk for mix-down, actually using near to 100 Pro Tools tracks. Two more pieces to go before...

Jotting down this short note on Tapetronic's Discuts Magazine reminded me of our last year's Estafette Rue Cassette. On the 20th of June, 2010, we did a sort of live Tape Run (an estafette is a relay race) all along the Rue Cassette, in Paris' 6th arrondissement. I still owe you (but most of all, I guess,...

10-seconds-per-day sound diary for the prime year 2011 in weekly editions, every Sunday on the Dutch hard//hoofd web daily. Each edition comes with a short text taken from my personal diaries (in Dutch) and a picture made by photographer Pieter van Wynsberge at a corresponding hour on one of the seven days...

[ The full series of...