hello DEAR Nippers,

I just returned from my performance at Isaac’s academie/residence in Stuttgart.
Had to perform on the yearly expo /summerfestival overthere.
It went realy great. nice audience and a Isaac ”’dancing”’. haha
I took some realy old German Turntable testing records from 70’s with me and sampled those live, I also used the ‘usual’ rest of my setup. went nice!!! And filmed!!
I notice more and more often how important my concentration and state of mind is for my performance.
That is kind of obvious but sometimes it is hard to find this concentration or for some reason the best spark isnt there. Although you do try to concentrate and spark.
This can make or break my performance everytime.
I know this is also a good conclusion because it indicates the liveness and fragility of my performance. Wich I like a lot. But it is not nice to present a less performance to the audience.
(If you kind of get what I mean!??!)haha
Luckily Stuttgart went great but that is no garantee that next time is good too.

Soo, I suggest NIP yoga lessons!!!!
I’ve got some nasty oldschool yoga Zen records. With free aerobic instructions.
We should get some NIP stretchy cat suites (with sensores!!??) and do a group performance!!
Who is in for it??!! (haha, sorry I let my fantasy go wild there for a moment) (would be cool though!!haha).
I made this performance once with other classmates some years ago.
We were al dressed up realy stretchy/nasty. I made an aerobic record skip this one groof.
Soo after you heard the intro and cosy adrenaline pumping speach of the presentor SALLY the record kept on repeating:”lift your left leg… lift your left leg… lift your left leg… lift your left leg… lift your left leg… lift your left leg… lift your left leg…”.
So thats what we did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GOOD!

I thought Andre G’s performance at Steim was also very Zen. Been thinking about it.
The contrast between the innocense of a balloon and hardware is very nice.
I am currious what would happen when you’d run that ballon through an Andre G Max patch.
sound and video. for an even greater contrast. Im sure you/Andre G thought about this already for a 1000 times yourself but I just have been thinking thinking about it.
But it’s also NICE the way it is now!! Dont get me wrong Andre!!haha
Nice piece.

Greetings,
Toktek Tom

Isaac, I read you use I-cube sensors. Are those I-cube sensors also solderable on a junxion/joystick board?
Im looking for a cheep, simple tilt sensor. There should be wireless joysticks with a tilt sensor build in but I cant find them.
Would it work when i solder a I-cube tilt sensor on a joystick print?

Does anyone else have an other sugestion for TILT-stuFF?

I want to make my painting tilt-able. Would be cool!!!!!!

Greetingzzz,
Toktek Tommmmm

Cool thing, Isaac managed to get me a gig on his artschool in Stuttgart.
On 6 and/or 7 Juli. (ROCK!!)
Thanks Isaac!!!!

Hello Nippers.
Tom V here.
First of all, Bristol was great!! I cant stop talking about it with my friends.
They are very curious about what they will see at Steim in Amsterdam.

Work!!
I managed to build an oscillatorrr from a chip!!!
The last day in Bristol I was at Tom Bugs place.
WAUW!!,,,,Solder, crackle, lofi heaven!
He showed me a new way to build an oscillator out of a surtain chip.
This way of building an osc is much more reliable and compact then my own way.
Thank you Tom!!!!!!(Bugs)

Last Wednesday I played at a ‘funded’ Jam in holland.
This kind of jam they put artisis together for an afternoon to practice.
In the evening you give a show together. Never works for me.(haha)
Anyway, There was this freaky Trombone player from England.
I told him I was in Bristol the weekend before the Jam.
He askt me if I knew Tom Bugs!!!!!haha. It’s a small world.
Hilary is his name. He once bought a modular beautycase from Tom.
He also knew the “”Alfonso”" and the Cube. He also ate at the vegie-restaurant
around the corner and near the Cube!!hahaah@%%$^#

Teresa, I saw you spelled TomTek instead of TokTek on the blog!!!haha
So my name is, Tom Verbong…Uhm…, Verbruggen.
And my artist name is TokTek.$@@%%%%@#

This week I’m really busy making a portfolio for the artschool in Stuttgart.
Isaac has a residence over there thought it would be cool if
I performed over there.
I have good documentation of my Crackle-paintings. But I dont have a good movie
of my joystick performance yet.
I’m curious about the Movie of the performance Andre and I did at the Adolfini.
Who filmed this performance so I can stalk him/her??!!!!haha

I reallyyyy feel like seeing you all in Amsterdam!
Greetings,
Tom V.

P.s. Please dont mind the spelling errors!!!haha