CD with booklet printed on black-and-white illustrated sheets with text printed on translucent sheets. 

A personal history inscribed in a technical history. As Whitehead describes it, The strange and inescapable desire to electrocute myself, under the delusion that I will then somehow be able to fly. Brainwaves and radiowaves: magnetic dreams. BUT: the con/current fear of the CRASH, "ending up in a burn unit. Radio as a sensual seduction and political provocation. Radio as a theater of ideas.

The CD contains 30 tracks, transcribed in the booklet. Based on two radio play, one of which the 1993 radio play manifesto, commissioned by the New American Radio: http://www.ubu.com/sound/whitehead.html

The illustrations of the booklet are based on the artwork by Patrice Caire, C.A.I.R.E. '93.

Shake, Rattle, Roll won the 1993 Prix Futura Berlin.

Directed by, voice, narrator: Gregory Whitehead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Whitehead

Design: Joke Brouwer; Produced for V2.

© 1995 V2_Archief

Two formats, CD and LP come together in this work by Roel Meelkop. The ten CD tracks and the 8 LP tracks are not repeated. Edition in gatefold cover.

All tracks 1999-2001 by Roel Meelkop.

© 2002 V2 Archief

This CD documents several manifestations held by V2-Organisation in 1989 and 1992. In September '89, V2-Organisation organized for the second time its Manifestation For the Unstable Media, subtitled (Tele)Communication in Art. That year the manifestation was dealing with the use of telecommunication systems in art. All kind of devices were explored such as television, radio, facsimile, satellite and telephone. The two pieces taken from the first evening of that event, an installation by Pedro Bericat and a radioplay by The Haters, have both been recorded live and will contain some occasional, unintended, 'nice noises'. More sounds from that and other evenings may be found of the CD For The Unstable Media*, released by V2-Archive in 1992.

On March 14, 1992, V2-Organisation organised a festival to present the Book and CD 'For The Unstable Media. Sounds from two interactive installations of that evening can be found here, one by Ron Kuivila and one by Alex Adriaansens/Joke Brouwer. Again, both have been recorded with a microphone.

Het San Francisco Festival in May '92 included performances, installations and media-art from San Francisco. The sound part of Barney Haynes' interactive installation was recorded directly from his videodisc.

The fourth edition of the Manifestation For the Unstable Media was held in September/October '92. Through exhibitions, concerts, a symposium and a live-broadcast, V2 explored the meaning of architecture under the influence of new media. Radioplays from the live-radio broadcast on the opening-evening as well as an excerpt from the Steina Vasulka and Michael Saup are included in this selection.

Tracklist:

[from the CD booklet]

*The referred CD For The Unstable Media is V112 - and not longer available.

© V2 Archief 1993

Somehow it seems that Japan keeps sending the most radical music to the world. Luckily the world likes that, seeing all these Japanese artists on labels everywhere. Here is a CD with two of Japans younger generation of music makers. I saw Kozo Inada a couple of times playing live concert (err that is, from his laptop) and everytime I was amazed by it. He takes a relative simple course, a strict linear event, which is taken to it's extreme and then cut abruptly. His releases so far (mainly on Staalplaat, Selektion and Digital Narcis) show however a more complex picture. Inada's sound is minimal when it comes to sound input, but maximum when it comes to content. The opening piece here, b[0], is a 25 minute mind blowing high end piece, which evolves slowly. Pure sine waves that move (even if you don't move your heard), and sound directly inspired by Alvin Lucier. The abruptcy of his live pieces is absent here. The second piece is shorter, and reflects more his live set. Going from static high end stuff slowly to a more mid range field which grows and grows in intensity, until it cuts out. Play loud here is well recommended. The other featured artist here is *0, who has some self-released CD releases in minimalist, transparant covers. He has one piece, of just under 18 minutes. *0 also deals with high pitched frequencies, but his piece seems to me a bit less adventurous then Kozo Inada's work in this field. It rather stays at a static side of things, without moving around. Only towards the end the piece seems to open up and more happens. This CD comes in a very nice green soft plastic case that I have never seen before. A remarkable product. (Frans de Waard)

source: http://www.kozoinada.com/release.html

CD by the Japanese artists Kozo Inada and *0, packed in a green rubber cover, 2001. Two tracks are by Inada b[0] and b[1], the third one by *0 - 2.7K.

Both minimal artists use the microwave sound spectrum on this CD; both apply scientific concepts: Inada from the subconscious, *0 (aka Nosei Sakata) bases his piece on Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, which cooled down to 2.7 kelvins as the Universe expanded.

© 2002 V2 Archief

Based on the exhibition just about now at TENT Rotterdam, 2000, this CD serves as its catalog. The exhibition was organized by audio.nl and curated by Shinichi Yanai and Roel Meelkop.

The CD includes a booklet with an introduction by Brandon Labelle Sounding Out: Reverberations Across Space, and with contributions in by all the artists.

This is the second CD with the same title, the first one being V227 from 1998.

Tracklist:

1 (m/s)*, observation of thermal states through wave phenomena based on a specific boundary condition
2 BMB.con, musical box
3 Peter Duimelinks, tre cavalli neri
4 Frans de Waard, hoorbaar
5 Edwin Van Der Heide, impuls #5
6 Jio Shimizu, direction, distance and periodicity
7 Masahiro Miwa, 18sai-no-shi
8 Roel Meelkop & Reinier Schimmel, in (t)here
9 Toshiya Tsunoda, limiting sound signals by setting up a gate
10 Justin Bennett, site (tanger)

*(m/s) is Minoru Sato

© V2_Archief 2000

CD with booklet, which contains schematics detailing the recording process of the different audio track, an essay by m/s, explaining the works and the ideas of WrK concerning sound as a physical vibration and audio signal transmission system of this and an essay by Achim Wollscheid titled The Beautiful and the Specific.

Tracklist:

1 Toshiya Tsunoda Untitled, 13:20
2 Toshiya Tsunoda Untitled, 13:42
3 Hiroyuki Iida Untitled, 10:20
4 Jio Shimizu Untitled, 15:50
5 m/s Untitled, 14:11

WrK are Toshiya Tsunoda, Hiroyuki Iida, Jio Shimizu and m/s.

General concept, essay and audio piece by m/s (aka Minoru Sato).

© V2 Archief 1999

La Selva is an immersion into the sound environments of a tropical rain forest in the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica. An astonishing natural sonic web created by a multitude of sounds from rain, waterfalls, insects, frogs, birds, mammals and even plants, through a day cycle during the rainy season. A powerful, acousmatic broad-band sound environment of thrilling complexity. And above all, a tour de force of profound listening.

[from the CD booklet]

This CD by Francisco López provides in an extensive booklet further information on the project in several texts and images. It also indicates the sound producing animal species that appear in the recordings/CD, eg. at 21'17'' we can hear Cacinus uropygialis (Cacique Lomiescarlata / Scarlet-rumped Cacique).

© 1998 V2_Archief

The first edition of just about now (the second is V230 from 2000) contains tracks from the sound exhibition, organised by Roel Meelkoop in 'Villa Alckmaer' in Rotterdam, April/May 1998.

Tracklist:

1. Frans de Waard Meterkast          
2. Carsten Nicolai POL .Motor        
3. Carsten Nicolai .Test        
4. Carsten Nicolai .Versuch        
5. Carsten Nicolai .Anordnung        
6. Carsten Nicolai .Variation        
7. Carsten Nicolai .Modell        
8. Ryoji Ikeda [0(zero)degrees] installation        
9. Peter Duimelinks [m³]        
10. Francisco López Untitled #78        
11. Roel Meelkop 1(HOME HERE)

This CD was made possible with the financial support of the Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam.

© V2_Archief 1998