Sleeps Ik nodigde een aantal vrienden uit om een tien minuten durende audio-opname te maken van een dichtbij slapend persoon. In de montage heb ik de opnames over elkaar gelegd als lagen in één gecombineerd bestand, een document van collectieve intimiteit. Stereo digitaal audio bestand. Best te beluisteren op een […]
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Sleeps I invited some friends to make a ten minute long audio recording of someone close sleeping. In editing I superimposed the recordings as layers into one combined file, a document of collective intimacy. Stereo digital audio file. Best listened to on headphones. Sleeps was created in collaboration with: Sarah Boulton, […]
Read MoreBlend Hautefort, France Saturday, July 20, 2019 14:00 – 17:30, I called you. We did not speak. Our telephones were connected for 60 seconds, the loudspeakers on full volume. The sounds of our surroundings blended together, somewhere between us. Witold Van Ratingen, Tuulikki Raatikainen, Antoinette Reuten, Trudy Kunkeler, Almudena Millán, Greig Burgoyne, Han […]
Read More3 Nocturnal walks Three recordings of public silent walks: On July 22, 2020, from 4:30 till 5:30 AM, I made a silent walk in the city of Dordrecht. I named the audio recording after Adri, with whom I made my very first silent night walk 50 years ago. The audio […]
Read MoreMerging spaces in collaboration with Elia Torrecilla Two simultaneous improvised sound walks in the streets of Valencia (Spain) and Badefols d’Ans (France). Sounds were created through the improvised use of everything we encountered while walking. The continuous exchange of the live sounds over the phone allowed for immediate feedback and […]
Read MoreSunday Crossfaded stereo sound recording of the first 15 minutes from sunrise at 8:20 AM (left channel) and the last 15 minutes to sunset at 5:57 PM (right channel). Best listened to on headphones. Please use a natural level of volume. Maumont, January 30, 2022
Read MoreSilences I invited twenty artists to make a ten minutes long audio recording of Silence. Each one of them decided where, how and in what conditions they wanted to do this. I superimposed all submitted recordings as layers into one combined file. Recordings by: Annie Abrahams, Montpellier, France Adolfo Bimer, Santiago, […]
Read MoreLevel Two 30 minute digital audio recordings of the North Sea, made simultaneously (16:00 UTC, 23.04.2020) on the East coast of Scotland, (56° N.); and on the West coast of the Netherlands (52° N.). Synchronised and mixed together into one stereo file. 30’, stereo digital audio, 2020 Level is a […]
Read MoreTo Hiroomi June 12, 2022 Click to enlarge As a friendly gesture to Hiroomi Horiuchi, I walked and recorded the first hour of the route from my home in Maumont, Hautefort, France to his home in Kichijōji, Musashino, Tokyo, Japan.
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The project Nachtgeluid (Night Sound) originated from the first lockdown of the Covid pandemic. Several times I made night walks through the completely silent inner city of Dordrecht, sometimes alone and sometimes together with others. During these walks I recorded sound. 3 Nocturnal Walks In my search for the most […]
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