This 50 second piece for flute and strings encodes the GPS-coordinates (latitude and longitude, in degrees/minutes/seconds) of a place in the region of Burgundy, France. Read more in 'Atomic Spies vs. Dancing Men'.  http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00800.php

Chris Don Lexhall - 'Find Your Way North, Find Your Way East' (orch)

The 44th Sudoku is a sudoko play in Sonic Pi of a Zoom recording I made on December 30th 2017, during the modest, small and intimate gathering in a small chapel in a suburb in Maastricht that preceded the cremation of my mother's body, who suddenly & peacefully passed away, just after Xmas, on December 27th of that year.

Sudoku 202044

"9-11 was an inside job" ... [ http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00620.php ]

Sudoku 202051

Commercial for the unPublic series, made by Oliver Fenghali for Radio Yerma, part of the Amsterdam presentations of Gersande Schellinx' immersive theatre play 'Yerma. A Table Portrait', June 2015

unPublic, Yerma radio commercial

uP 15 is part of the fourth edition of "unPublic", a series of 'unpublic' sessions in Paris and elsewhere, the documentary recordings of which are available as free hi-quality downloads at http://unpublic.bandcamp.com

This particular track features dictaphone playing by Anton Mobin, Blenno und die Wurstbrücke, E_Rébus and Har$. More info forthcoming.

uP 15 - Anton Mobin, Blenno und die Wurstbrücke, E_Rébus, Har$

"There's sound(s) as soon and only if matter moves..."
Read more: http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00808.php

Gaz Liquid Solid

A sample of the audio/musical material that will be used for the finished ‘Tu mens! / You lie’ piece. ATTENTION! This is but a sketchy sample and NOT a part of the final piece!!

"Tu Mens / You Lie!" Barrow Calling: Application Teaser Sample

This is a five minutes excerpt from my "String Quartet with windows, open", a 'string quartet' (more accurately: a violin quartet) that lasts 24 hours and is playing in my living room, with all of the windows wide open. I recorded a first version of the work between December 2013 and July 2014, in 72 parts. Each of the parts lasts 20 minutes. The above fragment is taken from the 6th part, recorded between 10:40 and 11:00 am. Together the 72 parts complete one full 24 hour cycle, that starts and ends at 9:00 am, where it then eventually may begin all over again. The recording can, as a matter of fact, be played as a seamless 24 hour loop, interweaving the quietly rolling waves of violin sounds (always different, but in a way also always the same) that are played back by two instances of an earlier work ('Kris Kras', see http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00796.php), with the waves of traffic that - between two sets of traffic lights - are rolling up and down the road running along my house; always different, and always the same. Moreover and importantly, the character and intensity of the waves of traffic sounds slowly evolve and change along with the passing of a 24 hour day, with the seasons and the changes in the weather. It is thus that besides being a sonic picture of my 'hood', SQWWO, literally and essentially, is about - and is - the passing of time. As the entanglement of random walks that layer two «form-ally» near to identical soundscapes (the city traffic sound scape and the violins) the work (remaining without any apparent dramatic development, of an extreme long duration and cycling back upon itself) is a virtually everlasting *now*, an eternal present, which is our future's past. 

The full 24 hours of recording are available as a high quality digital download at Bandcamp, where you also may stream the full set of recordings: https://soundblog.bandcamp.com/album/string-quartet-with-windows-open 

There is more info at http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00813.php

[ The playback of the parts is intended to be gapless, however, which is not possible when streaming at Bandcamp. Gapless playback can only be achieved by downloading the parts and playing them back in a single playlist in, e.g., iTunes. ] 

More on this 143rd Disquiet Junto project — “Play a live duet with the world outside your window″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/09/25/disquiet0143-tuningthehood/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Photo associated with this project by Takashi M and used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/fgQjCP

String Quartet with windows, open - fragment (disquiet0143-tuningthehood)

Sudoku solution Toy Piano Quartet. For Yoko Miura. See http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00901.php

For Yoko Miura, part 1 (Soduko Solutions for four Toy Piano's & Electronics)

Sudoku solution Toy Piano Quartet. For Yoko Miura. (2024)

For Yoko Miura [part 5] (Soduko Solutions for four Toy Piano's & Electronics)

Short sample extract of possible sounding moments of the "624" installation. Note that the playback will need to take place at "whisper level" (low !)

624_extract_sample

"This field recording was made near to where I live with a ZOOM HD2 handheld digital recorder over the one minute past midnight 00:00 - 00:01 on Monday January 26th, 2015, Paris time, in front of the Hyper Cacher on the corner of the périphérique at the Porte de Vincennes where a little over two weeks earlier, on Friday January 9th, a heavily armed young French citizen took the lives of four of his fellow citizens for ideological reasons. As a consequence, a few hours later that same Friday on that same corner that same young man was eradicated, smashed and wiped away like a fly - 'comme une mouche' - by an army-like French police force, for ideological reasons. Nobody won. We all lost. And will continue to do so."

More on this 160th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a one-minute field recording starting right at midnight (wherever you are)” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/01/22/disquiet0160-oneminutepastmidnight/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Photo associated with this project adapted from one by Manuel Delgado Tenorio and used via Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/heAk6W

Hyper Casher Porte de Vincennes Paris (disquiet0160-oneminutepastmidnight)

First version of Sudoku 3 for double bass and four channel electronics. Shih-wen Lee plays the double bass, which was recorded with the indispensable help of Gérard Daval at Haekem Théatre in Brussels, on December 15th 2024. (Cover pic by Shih-wen Lee) Read more : http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00907.php

“Let me show you exactly what you are” (Sudoku 3 for double bass)

One of the 49 variations, all derived from a single sudoku solution, played by an old, broken piano, like a phantom, a ghost awakened, singing to you from a far and unreachable world. Details on precisely how the variations arise from different 'readings' of the sudoku solution, can be found on the soundblog : http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00901.php 

space of outside that all time is at once (variation_colt[5])

Sudoku triangle ritual, for Philippe Franck (1963-2025)

Petit Rite pour Philippe (4 triangles, tuned gongs, & an old standing clock's chime)

The time ticker is the mechanical alarm clock that was part of our reconstructed Carcassone table, recorded at the Brussels Pianofabriek in 2010, the ECG beeps in Tijd Stuk 1 follow the distances between entrypoints as given by sudoku solution 202007. accentuated by the squeaks of the cemetery gate in a small French mountain village and me on the bicyle in Amsterdam, some time in 2005, part of the lofi-field recordings that were also used  for my 'Zuivere Slaolie' album (2006: https://soundblog.bandcamp.com/album/zuivere-slaolie)

Tijd Stuk 1 (Sudoku 7)

Recorded live at the 54th OMFI ('One Moment Free Improvisation') event, at the Grand Hospice in Brussels, on Wednesday March 26th 2025.
Huijun Yi : guzheng, voice
Shih-wen Lee : double bass
Harold Schellinx : dictaphones, Casio VL-tone, triangle, vintage iPad
Read: http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00912.php

(The cover pic is a still from a video clip shot by Jean-Philippe Burg)

Doux Massacres (live at the Grand Hospice, Brussels)

During our visit to Macedonia and Serbia in October 2015, in the context of Jovan Lambeski's Креативен викенд (Kreativen Vikend) project, we had the immense pleasure to be the guests of Тома Димовски's Kanal 103 Ексспериментална Музнка show, on Monday October 26th, transmitting live from the wonderfully vintage studios of the MPT - Македонска радио телевизија (Macedonian Radio Television), the public broadcastiing organization of the Republic of Macedonia - in Skopje.

During the show (between 10 pm and midnight), we did two short interviews with Тома and two - acoustic - live sessions, without headphones, and only a vague idea what the microphone would hear. 
This is our contribution to that day's Тома Димовски show on Kanal 103, complete and unabridged.

With Bojan Zungulov - drums, Emmanuel Rébus - dictaphones, electronics & Harold Schellinx - dictaphones, percussion things, iPad apps.

Many thanks to Jovan Lambeski, and to Тома Димовски for being by far the best radio host that we ever met.

Read more: http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00824.php#radio

Skopje Kanal 103 - Bojan Zungulov, Emmanuel Rébus, Harold Schellinx

Recording made in the vicinity of Lazaropole, a mountain village in the Republic of Macedonia, during our stay there as guests of Jovan Lambeski's Kreativen Vikend project, on Sunday October 25th 2015, following up on Emmanuel Rébus's dream & vision, to have Bojan 'drum up' against the mountain...

Bojan Zungulov plays the snare drum. The drumming and the mountain's answers were recorded from inside a big hole in the ground (which probably also accounts for the loud stridulations of the local insects), at a distance of several meters from the spot where Bojan was playing. Emmanuel made video recordings and took some wonderful pictures.

Read & see more: http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00824.php#btm

Beating the Mountain - Bojan Zungulov, Emmanuel Rébus, Harold Schellinx, Jovan Lambeski

Sound example for 'Große_Fuge.mp30000', see: http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00790.php

Große_Fuge.mp30000

'Es Muß Sein' - 11 powers of mp3

'Chroniqure Sonore' K7 recorded some time around 2005, travelling, between Paris and Amsterdam.  [c-sc 111]

Sudoku 202003

The 22nd Sudoku uses a K7 recorded early 2001. On one side, I am at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, the morning of February 8th, attending the cremation of Iannis Xenakis. The other side was recorded on the afternoon of the day before, February 7th, in a metro station, probably that of Châtelet-Les Halles. [sudoku drift: 21, stretch: 41] [c-sc 49]

Sudoku 202022

The 35th Sudoku was done in Sonic Pi, using a recording of a MacOS voice Aurélie reading 'The Formula of Whatever-World' (De Formule van het Wereldtoeval), see e.g. unpublic.bandcamp.com/track/up-366-wede  [sudoku drift: -15, stretch: 50]

Sudoku 202035

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