On friday march 13th of this year La Comète 347 in Paris became the arena for displaying a vision of Jean Bordé's, who invited Diktat, Nozal Cube and La Brocante Sonore - three different, but musically related, groups - to together realize a simultaneous EAI performance. What was intended as a Triple Entente became a wondrous audio kermis, in which - as a matter of fact - the audience were the big winner ...

This soundblog edition's podcast is a recording of Diktat's unplugged live performance in the monday-before-that-friday's edition of Radio AligreFM's Songs Of Praise. Here you find Diktat at its best: three dictaphonists weave a polyphonic texture out of deconstructed discourse, while the double bass acts as the spinal cord around wich the three voices (r)evolve ... Enjoy!



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DIKTAT performed but twice over the last seven months or so. Twice that was in Paris, and twice we met a swiss duo in concert. Late last autumn we played with BUG (Christian Bucher and Andreas Glauber) in La Comète (watch it on YouTube). And last month (hear a 20-minute extract in this entry's podcast) we met JEUDI (Benoît Moreau and John Menoud) in l'Ogresse, for the time of an intimate and concentrated two set performance. Then we mistook an egg box for a hat, and in the end went home with nothing but some change, and enough mongolian Tugrik to buy us a couple of pieces of candy ... [ read more __ / picture by Michael Ghent ]

Thanks to Diktat’s action in Breda (the Netherlands) on sunday sept. 30th, and
the ’noise’ we made, the city of Breda has assured Marinus Boezem that his
’Visual Sound Project’ will be restaured and that soon his voice will sound again
on the corner of the Academiesingel and the Willemstraat ...



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Early sunday morning, september 30th, for half an hour Diktat squatted an abandoned piece of public sound art, on the corner of the Academiesingel and Willemstraat in Breda (the Netherlands). We secretly performed, but many questions remained unanswered. How was this ’open air sound cube’ supposed to work? What sounds should one hear? Why is it no longer functioning? What is going to happen to this piece of ’art refuse’? Who is responsible? ... "A la recherche du Boezem perdu" ...




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The last weekend of september, Diktat performed at the BUTFF festival in Electron in Breda (the Netherlands). There's a whole lot more to read about this in 'De Afgrond', where Rinus van Alebeek reports in dutch (Peperkoek en Homolol), and in the 'SoundBlog', where HarS reports in english (Dutch Angle).

Also, here's Rébus' video report, with sound and vision ...