damn!

Sorry people! It's been too long since I posted anything. I have been recording in South Morocco for 10 days. Flew away right after my lecture of the 10th of April. The lecture was okay. I forgot time, as usual. But the audience was patient and (I think) interested in hearing about my music. I told them about my drives for composing and about the way I compose my works. Showed them the tools that I used and led them through the process.

Morocco was much better than I had expected. I have recorded 4 gigabyte of 24bit stereo files. Still have to sort them. One recording I listened back was the one that I made in the Sahara desert. It is absolute silent!! Very strange!! I have recorded 'silence' in several places, but here it was total. I guess that's because of the total absence of reflection (no trees, no walls, nothing). I don't know when the recordings will start perspiring in my works. I guess that will take another year or so. I'm determined to finish my poetry project first.

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Image from the past

I found this image at Roel Meelkop's site. It was taken at the time when we did a quadrophonic installation for the EARational festival. Left is me, Roel in the orange blouse, then Jac (dj dmdn) at the top right and Peter Duimelinks below.

THU20 only very very rarely operates as a collective these days. We have done a performance last October (2007) and are in the process of editing the recordings into something that is suitable for home listening.
Next to that we will be part of the series of cd's that GX Juppiter Larsen (the infamous Hater) is releasing at the moment. Each of us has his own job, plus their own musical adventures, so getting together is always troublesome.

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