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harsh winter to intense summer Sitting now in a heat wave in Berlin and thinking back to the frozen winter – I realize that the last six months was so busy and productive that my reports on orogenetics have more or less slowed to a stop…. Restarting (slowly) I would like report a summary of [...]

I left Brussels to seek a visa in Berlin in March 2009. This proved to be quite a challenge for myself in many ways – but at the same time – many nice things when seen in retrospect… In April I successfully received my German Visa for my artistic work, much thanks to Barbara Massacci, [...]

The first weekend back in Brussels – I was happily invited by my friends from Berlin to participate a nice evening of performances at the bookshop/gallery QUARANTAINE… program reported this: Zombie pop, improvisation, radio, silence and haze… Vous voilà invités à un quadruple concert… C’est La Quarantaine (Ixelles) qui accueille ! You are invited to [...]

Yesterday (17.Sept 2008) we drove out to Boston to see Laura and Antti (lau nau) play. I have met them a few times in Finland and spent some time with them out where they live in the Southwest of Finland on the islands there. I haven’t seen them for more than three years. It was [...]

An old friend happens to live in Western Massachusetts and is quite involved with the rather amazing local sound exploration going on in those parts. So I took a greyhound to Northampton, Massachusetts on friday night and we met and proceeded to spend the evening hearing & meeting rather a surprising amount of fascinating people/improvisers/characters. [...]

From May to August I lived in Berlin. First out in deep Neu Koeln on Niemetzstrasse and later on Leuschnerdamm in Kreuzberg. During this time I had the chance to meet spend some time with a wide range of folks such as: Monica Glahn, Mike Hentz, Werner Durand, Rinus Van Alebeek, Jason Honea, Ben Owen, [...]