...the waxing and waning phenomenon of consecrated medicines and therapeutic movements...

dedicated to the Goddess NTONTO

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While they both lived in Belgium, Tineke and Duncan worked together on installations, audio walks and hybrid print/digital projects together. After Duncan returned to Bristol in 2018 their collaboration was maintained through shared files and fragments of ideas sent remotely. Inspiration flowed in both directions, found sounds and improvised music sketches inspiring a story, or an idea in a text suggesting a sonic approach.

During this current period when ‘remotely’ seems the only way to work, they selected, reworked and compiled these pieces from their exchanges.

Across five poetic collages Tineke’s texts conjure a world of images, from emotional weather to horses frozen in lakes, her voice captured on handheld recorders and borrowed microphones. While these soft spoken words offer evocations and questions, Duncan’s sound twists and turns through granular fragments, haunting tones on the edge of perception and pulsing bursts of resonant noise. Acoustic instruments are folded back in on themselves using pulsar synthesis while field recordings are processed until they become almost memories of imagined landscapes. 

Thematically, all the pieces come from thinking about a world in trouble, its climate and the loneliness of the people in it, wondering how to move through it. From different motivations, over different grounds, through divided and changing landscapes.

‘Being Hungry’ was written at the beginning of spring as some of us entered lockdown. Inspired by the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach, it imagines a small group of people that decided to devote themselves to the practice of just walking, a passion for moving around without a distinctive aim. ‘Old Refrain’ and ‘No Cold Can Hold’ were both commissioned by the artist Aidan Moesby and created in response to his project about climate change and mental health ‘I was naked smelling of rain’. In ‘Old Refrain’, Tineke explored the inability to ‘talk about the weather’ as a common trait of anxiety. For her “the piece is about the difficulty of (emotional) communication, about desiring connection through daily dialogue while at the same time resisting it”. ‘No Cold Can Hold’ zooms in on a moment of frost (both literally and metaphorically), and the ambivalent powers it contains. 

The cumulative experience of these five pieces is somewhere between a late night phone call and a dark afternoon spent in a movie theatre without a screen. Listening to sound and thought meeting up on different grounds, where things are unsettled and sources are blurred in a continuous dialogue. 
credits
released May 1, 2020

Words: Tineke De Meyer
Sound: Duncan Speakman

Recorded in Bristol and Ghent
Mixed and mastered at home

The House Was Alright

Old Refrain (from the album: The house was alright)

Pre-coffee to after-coffee mix. Opening for the last Otark Breakfast club at Het Bos.

Otark Breakfast Club w/ Raak Me Aan at De Bosbar | 11-12-22

Mix I made (◡‿◡✿)

Thanks to the artists who shared their amazing tracks with me!!

Tracklist:

Hovsep - Wake Up Neo… Romanticism
Fauness - White River (Remix Redux)
Møntana Rugga Mackavelli - Døley
Estle - Who let the hog out
Dustmyte - Square One
Anima - Home
Exmantera - Elive
Tzusing - 1976 (Tera Octe remix)
97paul - Shawty
Emily glass - Beneath The Snow (Glow’s Theme)
Leeky G Bando - Honor
Kalli - Furlofunk
Butschi - Cloud FM
Domiducati - Du Coeur
Caprithy - Possibly Undefined
funfriend - What could itmean
Kittenbear - 0ne l1ttl3 m0m3nt
Daniboi - 117
Iceboypierre - One in the chamber
DJ Bingo - Can’t see a damn thing

ACCIDENTAL DREAMS MIX

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com


M I M I @ Kiosk Radio 24.01.2023

Raak Me Aan brings a passionate mix to promote the second edition of Gekko. A celebration of southern fiero and equatorial club culture. On the 3rd of june he invites Neo Perreo ambassador Clara!

Gekko Radio with Raak Me Aan at We Are Various | 28-04-23

Live each Saturday from Andy Roasters coffee bar in Antwerp

Andy's Morning Show w/ Raak Me Aan at Andy Roasters for WAV | 07-10-23

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”.
More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

traverse w/ Lolo Batten @ Kiosk Radio 14.10.2023

A special mixtape courtesy of Listen To This!:
http://www.listentothis.info

Tracklisting / Liner Notes:
http://www.self-titledmag.com/2015/10/09/listen-to-this-present-omg-japan-a-mixtape-of-experimental-japanese-music/

OMG JAPAN: Rare & Experimental Japanese Pop (1980 - 1989)

made possible with and thanks to cassettes, voice recorders, 4-track recorder, cassette decks, protools, ableton, kaosspad, our chickens, piano sustain cut-ups, guitar loops, cold Baltic sea, tape loops of sampled toys, speed and pitch, failed recordings, Christophe Claeys in high speed (what is he doing in there?), beats (thanks to Hilke Ros & Sebastiaan Van den Branden), Costume (Balthazar), AMV, Kessel(-station),...

SIDE A (improvisations & experiments with cassettes and several recorders)

NACHTSCHADE MIXTAPE 130224


RECONSTRUCTION (opening scene)
director: Christoffer Boe, writers: Christoffer Boe, Mogens Rukov, 
actors: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Maria Bonnevie, music: Thomas Knak)
2003

1 OP 10 (soundtrack, één, adirector)
Amatorski
2012-13

1 OP 10 (soundtrack, één, adirector)
Amatorski
2012-13

PER SON ALARM (AUDIO) TWEETS II
Person
2013

WHERE ARE YOU?
Person
2013

CASSETTE (WILD COMBINATION)
Arthur Russell
1970

1 OP 10 (soundtrack, één, adirector)
Amatorski
2012-13

JON BRION SHOW 
Elliott Smith, Jon Brion
2000

HUNDELIV (+ extra Bernese youtube puppies)
Grandma lo-fi / Sigridur Nielsdottir

IMPATIENCE (live @ AB)
Amatorski
2011-12

UNFINISHED KARAOKE SONG
Person
2009

INTERVIEW WITH A CAT
Marcel Broodthaers
1970

1 OP 10 (soundtrack, één, adirector)
Amatorski
2012-13

Old Refrain (from the album: The house was alright)

Tineke

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