Read more in the Sound Blog ...

ookoi's Soundtrack for Icarus is firmly rooted in our strong belief in 'jam karet': that time is elastic ...
This is reflected in the composition's global score, which, in fact, is a 'book organ' based on a track based on recordings made during the first Winterland sessions in our Amsterdam studio, december last year ... The title of the book is RaudiOGaGa, and you may watch us play it on the little Heesbeen, right in the midst of one of those typical Dutch landscapes somewhere between Amsterdam and Utrecht, in a jubilant salut to our roots and motherland.

As part of the RAUDIO directs ookoi@E@rport-event on saturday january 31st, we took the Heesbeen down with us into the Theaterzaal of the Amsterdam Conservatory, where we gathered with old and young artists from Amsterdam and elsewhere for a five hour long multimedia extravaganza that provided an 'underground' to Paul Oomen's post-fusion symphony playing overhead ... From time to time that saturday we turned the Theaterzaal into a little Winterland, most notably in the event's final hour, when with mezzo-soprano Cecile Zylberajch we performed the Winterland Aria, now available as Raudio's 41st podcast ...

Read more in the SoundBlog

For the making of '2525' fPcM and myself each randomly hit 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 50 = 1275 guitar chords, which makes for a total of 2 x 1275 = 2550 ...

That was a lot of hard work!

Fortunately we then could spend the rest of our residency - part of Archipel's Razende Bol project - the way popsters of our advanced middle age are supposed to: we hosted an evening-long retrospective of our own work on Archipel WebTV, and the remaining of our time on the island we were at the golf course ...



Read more in the SoundBlog ...

ookoi went to PICNIC, the annual Amsterdam new-media-mega fest, as embedded artists ... Ex-pressing our im-pressions of precisely how our future was created, we sat on a vibrating couch, were lifted sky-high by a pair of scissor lifts, met old friends, made new ones and were rewarded with free drinks. We discovered the latest in e-art and claimed our right to be slow by making a new number: 11:01.4 ...
About ambient computing, iPhones, RFID-tags, digital things, collaborative creativity, mechanical turks, the sheepmarket, and music as a metaphor for business ... "A la guerre, comme à la guerre ..."



Read more in the SoundBlog ...

Find out all about ookoi's 'doing nothing' at the 2008 Maastricht Kunsttour ... See us sit on Pierre Paulin design furniture in a freshly re-decorated _Timmerfabriek_. Watch us drag the Radio Raudio Mobile along the city's cobblestones, live on the web. Hear us hit a white Baby Grand in _Landbouwbelang_, *the* Euregional center for autonomous and anti-commercial artistic activity. Amaze at fPcM's cranking a street organ in the gigantic _Eiffel building_ hall. Come along with us to check out what it is that is going on in Kaspar Koenig's _ArtSpace Rondeel_, Maastricht's next b i g art-thing ... and listen to an eclectic stream of over seven and a half hours of Kunsttour sounds: from popular dutch to Sofia Gubaidulina, from street noise to backyard-rock, from beer to scotch, from sunshine to rain, from minutely composed to freely improvised, from circuit bent to organ ground ... This is Raudio Graffiti.
This is almost radio. This is almost live ...



Read more in the SoundBlog ...

See how they went ... In search of a music that does not make sound ...

Read about ookoi’s l’Ecoute, "Live Beyond the Paradiso", and the end of art ...



Read more in the SoundBlog ...

Bananas, a seagull, a funeral procession and a snow-white coffin, a golden sun rising, chasing sheep, standing with windmills and staring at windsocks ... Read all about ookoi's residency 'achterom' at Gallery Dit Eiland on the fine dutch isle of Ameland, where they reached upwards, upwards, always upwards, while being featured in the Archipel Medialab's 3rd Digital Suite ...

"It is not easy to be an island. There is water all around you."

There is a new 16 track ookoi ep, "Live Beyond the Paradiso", available between now and february 3rd, 2008, exclusively at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (Montevideo/Time Based Arts), Keizersgracht 264 in Amsterdam, during Video Vortex.2 ... The 16 tracks all were taken from recordings made during the Inside/Outside Paradiso placard, on july 31st 2005 in Amsterdam. They come together with graphics, a pdf version of the soundblog article, and the mobile movie that Martin Takken made of the event.

This release is part of PARK4DDD, which moreover contains HangJongere (a pocketmovie by HarS) and two ookoi PocketMovie clips: JAM KARET I and JAM KARET IV. Apart from getting them as part of the 'dump' at Montevideo's, the clips can also be downloaded from the park4dtv website ... For optimal viewing, use your PSP ... There is a (lo resolution) version of JAM KARET IV up at YouTube's ...



More in the SoundBlog ...

About Vicky's Tapemosphere at the Maastricht Kunsttour, and the Vogelvlucht / Downunder event of sunday may 27th, with contributions by Wiel's and students from the dutch Academy for Pop Culture (who were performing at the Archipel medialab in Hollum, on the isle of Ameland), by ookoi (in the Art Garage in Maastricht), and from Xiamen, China -- by Yariv Alter Fin, who last week unexpectedly and to great dismay of his many friends, students and colleagues, choose to end his life in Tel Aviv, the city where he was born almost forty years ago.

Read more in the SoundBlog ...