paris tape run 2

The Paris Tape Run 2 is available as from today.

Read the full description on its own page.

The cassette will be presented in Paris.

Just follow the instructions.

SOON! —– PARIS TAPE RUN 2 _—–

Authentic rip-off by Rinus van Alebeek

The cassette release Authentic rip-off is an authentic rip-off. What you see is what you get. A commercial cassette in its plastic wrapper is used to produce this release. The title is written on the front, so that everyone knows what to expect. To make things even more clear the following text is written on the sides: origina – l don’t listen – throw – away cassette.
On the back side the advice is given to ” pay 1 euro.” The release will cost more: 2,49 € at least.

However, Authentic rip-off is a must-have for every art student, art historian, art critic and everyone else who likes to built breath taking thought structures.

In Authentic rip-off you see the medium ( the music cassette) and message ( authentic rip-off) clearly divided. The unity is preserved as long as the seal ( read the wrapper) remains intact. Already on this level one can experience the direct connection to laws, religious consonants or Schrödinger’s cat.

Marshall Mcluhan would have been driven mad by the constant shift of meanings between the medium and the message.

But if you include history in the observation then one will see that just as the drawings of animals changed the caves of Lascaux, the pyramid of Cheops changed a geometrical unit and the Mona Lisa changed the smile, Authentic rip-off changes the concept of every product late capitalist society has on offer.

Scholars can encounter extreme adventurous reasoning if they just let go. What did scripture do to the clay tablet, and Jesus to the cross, Einstein to space and Edison to the human voice? Go think about it. But be sure to buy Authentic rip-off first. It is your portal to insights you have never dreamed of.

available at staalplaat store and at Rinus van Alebeek concerts.

Out Now: Berlin Tape Run 2

The complete track list and additional information plus pictures of this cassette and the run by ten Berlin based artists is to be found on this page.

 

Berlin Tape Run 2 costs 4 euro here, and 5 euro in the staalplaat shop in Berlin (prices ex-shipping)

Out now: Tales for Tapes #7

Tales for Tapes #7 is released on seven cassettes. Each of them holds a different cut up live recording of the six concerts presented at the Tales for Tapes evening in Brussels earlier this year. To fill the empty space on every cassette a unique re-mix of the six other recordings has been added.

Find the complete information + description + pictures this page

Out now: You can kill a Pig in July

‘You can kill a Pig in July’ is an interview with Luis Costa, president of the Portugese binauralmedia organisation. The original interview took place in and around the Costa mansion in Nodar on an evening and afternoon in July 2010.

You can kill a Pig in July appears on a C60 chrome cassette in a limited edition of 7

More info ( track list, review, pictures ) on this page

Work on Release in Progress: Four Corners of the Night

During the shortest night  of the year 2011 on the northern hemisphere, five persons went out to record some sounds.

Christoph Limbach took his bicycle, put on his binaurals and went out.

Anton Mobin went for a walk around the area of Belville in Paris.

He came home with recordings but also a nice report.

I (Rinus van Alebeek) took my bike and cycled to the Museuminsel.I sat in front of where once was Palast der Republik, and listened for twenty minutes to the city rumbles, maybe even recorded the ghost of the former DDR-building.

Pierce Warnecke found himself in Montagny les Lanches, France. The family barn was full of objects. Pierce went in, the lights down and recorded.

Konrad Korabiewski was in Seydisfjördur, East Iceland where the night refuses to retreat into darkness. Everyone wonders what happened.

The next step is that four tracks of ten minutes each will be made out of all these recordings. Which means that everyone (Pierce and Christoph working as a duo) will use all the recorded sounds as source material.

The result will be released on a C40 tape.

STAALTAPEFEST

Staaltapefest offers to Berliners and visitors to Berlin alike a good possibility to encounter some of the hidden jewels but also some of the established creators in the Berlin scene.

Preslav Literary School’s presence develops like a drone that slowly fills the hearts and souls of a growing number of devoted listeners. While at the other end of the scale and the programme, Joke Lanz, already has won wide spread recognition and admiration thanks to a long sounding career.

Those two renommated artists are the alpha and omega of four Saturdays in August during which you can encounter the polyphonic architecture of short and other sound waves by Erik Levander, the highly versatile Anton Mobin and Coco‘s intriguing use of dictaphone and voice.

Long time associates like Seiji Morimoto and Kakawaka join up in a unique collaborative moment, especially developed for the occasion.

Man Karton with his Auerbacher pastorale will combine elements of radio play and absurdist theatre. Ute Waldhausen is another performer who rarely can be seen on Berlin stages, expect plunderphonics and a parrot’s head.

All concerts are in the basement of Staalplaat Store

at Flughafenstrasse 38

U8 Boddinstrasse – U7 Rathaus Neukölln

starts at 21.12 approx.

Extra information for first time visitors and foreign guests.

For your aftershow pleasures, the bars on the Weserstrasse, our friends from O Tannenbaum on Sonnenallee as well as the more obscure typical Berliner Bars are all on walking distance from the venue. ( 7-10 minutes more or less)

The U and S-Bahn run all night through.

Berlin Tape Run 2, Report

1.

With the handing over of the cassette to Midori Hirano at Rosenthaler Platz in Mitte last Wednesday, the Berlin Tape Run 2 has started.

picture by midori hirano

2.

On the 7th of May, on Weinmeisterstrasse in Mitte, Midori gave the tape to Erik Levander

picture by erik levander

3.

On the 11th of May, Erik Levander went to visit Kreuzberg and Neukölln. In the late afternoon, on Donaustrasse, he gave the tape to Angie Nina Yeowell.

picture by marc mccoin

4.

In the early afternoon of the 17th of May, at the Staalplaat store in Flughafenstrasse 38, Neukölln, Angie handed over the tape to Seiji Morimoto.

picture by seiji morimoto

5.

On the 24th of May, at noon, Ernst Markus Stein came to the Dieffenbachstrasse in Kreuzberg to get the tape from Seiji.

picture by ernst markus stein

6.

On the 7th of June, after a short break to celebrate the completion of side A, Markus travelled north to the Malplaquetstrasse in Wedding where, in the early evening, he delivered the tape to Helge Neidhardt aka Der Tapeman.

7.

On the 18th of June Helge Neidhardt (aka Der Tapeman) handed over the tape to Joke Lanz. This happened in the Staalplaat store on the Flughafenstrasse between nine and ten o’clock in the evening.

picture by harold schellinx

picture by joke lanz

8. Bandrekorder ’59 wishes to remain incognito.

 

9. Between one run and another I (Rinus van Alebeek) was the postman. I got the tape on 30. June around 19.30  and managed to deliver it to Coco on 2. June shortly after 19.00. She took the tape in front of her house on Hermannstrasse, while protecting both of us from the rain with her umbrella.

picture by coco iris t.

10.

On Saturday 9th of July, just before leaving town Coco gave the tape to Ruben Patino. This happened on Hermannstrasse, close to U-Bahnhof Boddinstrasse.

11.

On the night of Monday 11th of July, Ruben gave the tape to me at Limbus Europae at the Kienitzerstrasse in Neukölln. The run had come to an end!

Ready to Start: Paris Tape Run Volume Two

These days guest curators Julie Rousse and Anton Mobin will take care of the second volume of the Paris Tape Run.  A C-40 cassette divided in a rive gauche and a rive droite side will travel from hand to hand, from home to home; at each stop 4 minutes will be added.

picture by anton mobin