The Dutch sound artist Rinus Van Alebeek accompanied by the young Czech vocal performer Gabriela Vaskova were invited by Binaural / Nodar to give a concert at Estúdio Performas in Aveiro on last June 24, 2010. Here are some photos from the concert: and the full audio:

Rinus Van Alebeek @ Aveiro Play Now

Concert within the cycle: “Binaural: The Archaic Sound” Estúdio Performas , Aveiro (PT) Rinus van Alebeek (NL) (tape real time mixing) Date: Thu, 24 June 2010, 10.00 p.m. Entrance: 2.5 Euro (Performas associates), 5 Euro (general audiences) Workshop “Analog Flows: Listening to an other Era, Working with Magnetic Tape” Estúdio Performas , Aveiro (PT) Dates: [...]

Human Field Recordings
A performance by Manuela Barile
Das Kleine Field Recordings Festival, Berlin
November, 12th 2008

“Some people go out with very expensive equipment… and they sit for hours to record… and they put it on another equipment… and then it goes into the computer… and then it goes on a CD… and then it goes into a sound system. But we also use our ears to listen… and if you are gifted with the voice, you use the voice to reproduce those things that you hear…”

Rinus Van Alebeek

Manuela Barile @ DKFRF, Berlin Play Now

Photos by Kurt Korthals

The 3rd edition of the Das Kleine Field Recordings Festival that takes place in Berlin between 1 and 29 August, 2007 presented a special radio day at august 10, 2007. This day consisted of several parts, one taking place exclusively at radioINCORRECT.org. Several artists presented prerecorded works, among those special performances for this event. Some of the performances were presented at Staalplaat’s store in Berlin.

Rinus Van Alebeek, the organizer of the festival, invited Binaural to be part of this radio day, and we gladly prepared a mix of recordings, old and new, from the village of Nodar (old tape recordings, audio from old video footage and new stuff recorded in DAT). All in all, these are recordings from a period between 1987 and 2007, that is 20 years. We concentrated on the voices of local people, creating an evocative social soundscape through the mixing of voices of past and present people, giving a sense of continuity between generations.

Many thanks to Rinus Van Alebeek for this opportunity and to Tobias Luther from radioINCORRECT.org for the technical assistance.

Here is the podcast of our audio mix in Das Kleine Field Recordings Festival:

Nodar Sounds @ Das Kleine Festival Play Now

Despite the fact that Rinus Van Alebeek’s concert at Music Box Lisbon was (audience speaking) a flop, we had the pleasure to wander around in Lisbon with him, capturing and sharing sounds, sights and reflections.

Rinus Van Alebeek is a peculiar observer of reality and an artist who instinctively transforms lo-fi tape recordings into evocative sound poems, being able to create a “détachement” towards the used media, which is a characteristic of the most original artists. He transforms a specific technology (the magnetic tape and the recording device) into a “poiesis”, a transcendence that goes beyond the immediate limits of matter, whereas the majority of artists can only deal with a “praxis”.

In the very same place (Texas Bar, now Music Box Lisbon) where Wim Wenders shot a scene of his “The State of Things” movie (with Samuel Fuller), here are the sounds of Rinus’ great concert in Music Box, Lisbon (June, 13th 2007):

Rinus Van Alebeek Live @ Music Box Play Now

Binaural presents:

Rinus Van Alebeek (Netherlands)
Wed, June 13th – 10.45 p.m.
Music Box Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal

Tickets on sale at the venue and through Ticketline.

Rinus Van Alebeek is an electronic musician and performer born in Holland in 1956. He arrived to music relatively late, after publishing two books in his native country under the pseudonym Philip Markus, the first of which, released in 1991, received the prize for the best first novel.

His approach to musical improvisation is seen as a radical one. Very frequently he uses as a source for his work the sounds recorded in his many trips to the USA, Europe and North African countries. Rinus Van Alebeek utilizes simple sound capturing resources as microphones connected to old walkmans and mixes and processes them using a mixer and an effects pedal, creating powerful lo-fi sound collages somewhere between noise and pure poetry.

http://www.zeromoon.com/rinus/

Concert’s press release (open or download):