When Jaap Blonk first saw the street sign “Fehrbelliner Straße”, he misread it as “Fehlberliner Straße”, and has never been able to read it in the right way again.
That is the origin of the title of his sound piece (something like “Mistaken Berlin Subway Tangle”), that he made for the audio gallery “ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen” in Berlin-Neukölln, where it could be listened to in October of 2016.
Blonk scrambled the station lists of the Berlin subway lines, U1 till U9, with a random process. This created in part pure sound poetry, performed here with a wide range of different vocal sounds.
For the accompaniments he chose a combination of instrumental sounds and other noises, often machine sounds. The compositions are built according to algorithms, based on mathematical number sequences.
For the announcements “U1” through “U9” a computer voice was used.
The pages “U1” through “U9” present the texts that can be heard on the CD.
Every text has the same number of characters as the respective subway line’s station names combined. Only in “U4” the text is repeated.
Every one of these pages is accompanied by an image that is composed of a map of the Berlin public transport net and photos of the respective line’s trains, stations or surroundings.
Sound samples:
soundcloud.com/jaap-blonk/u2-1
soundcloud.com/jaap-blonk/u4-1
soundcloud.com/jaap-blonk/u5-from-fehlberliner-u-wirr
Antonin Artaud (Artist Book + CD)
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Splinks –
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Jaap Blonk's Splinks
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Consensus –
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Hillside Talks –
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Udo Schindler & Jaap Blonk
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At the Hideout –
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Jeb Bishop, Jaap Blonk, Lou Mallozzi & Frank Rosaly
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Blonk, Mallozzi & Vandermark –
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Jaap Blonk, Lou Mallozzi & Ken Vandermark
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North of Blanco –
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Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith, Chris Cogburn & Jaap Blonk
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Off Shore –
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Jaap Blonk, Bart van der Putten and Paul Pallesen
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New Start –
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Jaap Blonk’s Retirement Overdue
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Deep Fried –
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Jaap Blonk & Machinefabriek
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Polyphtong –
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Jaap Blonk
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Songs of Little Sleep –
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Jaap Blonk
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Irrelevant Comments –
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Jaap Blonk
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Asemic Dialogues –
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Tomomi Adachi & Jaap Blonk
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Jaap Blonk / Kontrans Records Arnhem, Netherlands
