Bikehimmel Amsterdam: Amsterdam is the capital of bikes! The Netherlands are a hudge bikestand. Or heaven?

biggest bike-stand I've senn in my life - Amsterdam next Centraal Station

Amsterdam: 6th of September 2007 between 8:50 and 9:20

Walking from my Hotel near Vondelpark to Mediamatic near Centraal Station.

This is part one, recorded with a Soundman OKm Mk. II. You can hear me saying where I am. Why did I make this recording? Its easy: Amsterdam is different, less cars, many, many bicycles, in the center just little noise, except they do construction work.

Enjoy Amsterdam!

Amsterdam: Walk from Vondelpark to Mediamatic

Amsterdam: 6th of September 2007 between 9:20 and 9:40

Walking from my Hotel near Vondelpark to Mediamatic near Centraal Station.

This is part two, recorded with a Soundman OKm Mk. II. You can hear me saying where I am. Why did I make this recording? Its easy: Amsterdam is different, less cars, many, many bicycles, in the center just little noise, except they do construction work. You can hear it at the beginning of this walk in Part II.

Enjoy Amsterdam!

"Closed enough" by Staalplaat Soundsystem

I went to Graz to do an interview with Justin Bennett and to see him perform with BMB con. as part of "Closed Enough" by Staalplaat Soundsystem at Steirischer Herbst 2007 / Musikprotokoll.

BMB con. delt with nature and human in their opening performance which stood opposite to the Staalplaat Soundsystem performance driven by machines from the tool shop expanded with a flying helicoper, car-hifi, race car, trains and truck. What shall I say: "Excellent lights, stunning sounds, a perfect floorplan and organic structure of the timeline: A hymn to a 100-year tradition of noise-making machines."

Staalplaat Soundsystem: "Closed Enough" at Steirischer Herbst 2007 Graz

This is the second recording from "Closed enoug" by Staalplaat Soundsystem.

You can get more information on the piece in the blog-entry before titled:Staalplaat Soundsystem: "Closed Enough" - rec.1

This sequence is taken from the middle of the performance facing to the final. What can you hear: race car & truck, then they opened the doors, outside guys with cars & hudge car-hifi moved round the List-Halle. I was not in a good position, so the cars are quite silent. Then the helicopter. Again tzoo slow, not that massive sound in the beginning, but tehn I had a nice fade out with the helicopter.

Graz: Bahnhofsplatz: In front of the railway-station and Hotel Ibis

4th of October 2007: Graz Bahnhofsplatz in front of Hotel Ibis.

Early in the morning on the way to the railwaystation I passed by the Hotel Ibis with a hudge glass outbuilding facing the Bahnhofsplatz.

When you pass by you hear interesting reflections from the glass front.

I came from the Bahnhofsstrasse - big road, heavy morning traffic - the left channel is directed to the Bahnhofsplatz (a place) and the right channel is directed to the glass front of the hotel.

After 1:20 I turned around and walked back to the Bahnhofsstrasse - so the channels are changed. The file is 2:20 long - Blogr does display the time wrong.

Hotel Maritim, Tenerife: 13th floor north view

Not my favorite hotel but in the 13th floor seaside you fall asleep with awesome soundscapes from the sea.
First you hear the sea from inside - night - then I open the door and move outside. Cut.

Recorded with DAT and Soundman OKM.
Recording done at Hotel Maritim, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, February 12th 2007

Austrian pavillion: Paiting by Herbert Brandl.

Wolfgang Dorninger in front of a painting of Herbert Brandl in the Austrian pavillion at La Biennale di Venezia 2007.

About the recording: waiting for a short local train, passes by quick, cars start their engines, all as usual. the silence before the opening of the gate was stunning. Done near Pordenone on autostrada SS13.

DAT and Soundman OKM

July 2007

1.1.2008: On the Grado beach

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND PEACE ON EARTH!

My wife and I like to stay in Grado, Italy to party New Year. We did this several time to celebrate the new year and to frighten away bad ghosts with heavy fireworks.

The fireworks had been recorded on the beach with DAT and Soundman OKM.

Enjoy 2008, stay tuned, healthy and take care.

Wolfgang aka BikeMike

Grado Fireworks: New Years Eve 2007

Funny, but New Years Eve 2007 the fireworks startet 5 minutes late. So the prople from Italy and guests from abroad like us tried to make the best out if it when the bell announced the New Year 2008.

When not expected the fireworks started.

Very subtile recording with a Soundman OKM and a DAT.

Sistiana, Italy: Winter on the beach.

The beach and harbor of Sistiana near Trieste is beautiful all over the year.

We had a sunny end of the year 2007 on the beach and in the harbor some people prepared their sailing boats to celebrate New Years Eve on the Golfo de Trieste.

Recorded with Soundman OKM and DAT.

Schaumrollen!: Where? At Urfahrmarkt, Linz.

The "Urfahrmarkt" is a hybrid of market, lunapark and october fest in Linz, Austria.
Twice a year in spring and autumn people enjoy delicous food like Schaumrollen (see the pic), beer in hudge glasses, Bratwürstel, etc. and enjoy their life.

Get an idea how the Urfahrmarkt sounds during the day when I passed by with my bike. The lunapark people boost their soundsystem to the limits to attract youngsters to do use their high tech funmachines.

Recorded with Soundman OKM (on the limit) and DAT.

London: Walking under River Thames

London, Greenwich - A footwalk under River Thames from 1902 or 1906.
It was Saturday, so many people walked from the nice Greenwich market to Canary Warf.
The tunnel is about 200 meters long and some meters under River Thames.

Recorded with my Panasonic NV-DS25 videocamera.

Ghosts: from the gone harbour near Tower Bridge London.

The old London harbour is gone. Some ships are still anchored next to new fancy houses where some years ago ships, cranes and warehouses dominated the scenery near to Tower Bridge.

It was late night when I did this recording. You can hear the mooring ropes and after a while a boat is gone towards inner city.

Recorded with my Panasonic NV-DS25 videocamera.

Leipzig: Nervous police-dogs after a soccer game!

Leipzig, Germany near railway-station - "real life .. an introduction"

A nice saturday evening at the Leipzig railway-station. I tried to buy some vittles in the shopping section of the railway-station on the lower floor. And then I heared some soccer-fans singing and provoking the police dogs. Don't ask me who played at this day.

It needed some time to get the recorder (iRiver T20) and the Soundman OKM out of the bag to record this surreal soundscapes within the large building of the railway-station.

Nice ride!: Local train to Budweis, Czech Republic

Local train to Budweis, Czech Republic

April 19th 2008 I had to go to an annual meeting in Dresden, Germany. I always take the train from Linz, Austria via Prag up north. But this year they changed some trains and so I had to change the train 3 times up north.

This recording was done in a very, very local train between Summerau (Austria) and Budweis (Czech). The train was quite old and slow (only one railway-track - we had to wait) but very charming.

The recording was done with an iRiver T20 and a Soundman Mk. II microphon.