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Analog Ambitions

Why are we attracted to working with tape? What exactly is it that you hear when you listen to a tape composition? Working with tape is far from new. In fact, for a long time analog productions were the norm. So our box of tools is familiar to many, but has become entrenched in terms of sound, methodology and description. The words we use to describe this material can be quite restrictive and strip it of the freedom to pursue new avenues.

Het Concreet uses analog tape as an instrument - not just as a carrier. This forces us to find new words to express what we do and how we arrive at our music. We want to dislodge ingrained connotations so as to construct our own fully dedicated and completely updated set of tools.

In the coming years we will document our quest on this page in sound, image and word. We will talk to musicians, makers, philosophers and scientists about what we do, see and hear, thereby creating our own tape loop philosophy.

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Hearing the unheard

Miriam Rasch listened beyond the domain of ears

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Het ongehoorde horen

Miriam Rasch luisterde voorbij het domein van oren [DUTCH] 

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Essays around sound

The results of our first writing lab around sound - Klank&Komma [DUTCH]

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Kijken naar geluid

Renée van Marissing sat on the top stair step during our symposium on noise [DUTCH] 

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Paranoise [Marcel Cobussen]

"Noise takes place. It is not a noun, but a verb: to noise. Someone or something is noising."

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Over woorden, een melodie en losse stukjes tape

Anna van der Kruis took the spot of the fly on the wall during our symposium [DUTCH]

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Visual echoes

Push buttons, rotary knobs, sliders. Janine Hendriks echoed them in our visual identity.

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The studio as a compositional tool [Brian Eno]

“You can do things with tape, you can cut it, you can shift the order of things.”

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Currently reading

Work never stops when we leave the studio

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Baarmoeder en cocon

Arthur Kok sat down in a temple and entered the realm of forgetfulness [DUTCH]

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Guestbook

"One long, slow breath" — and other responses