Ruben Nachtergaele – Page 5 – "sound has taught me to be like the wave.. accommodate to all things" (Gordon Hempton)

foghorn continuum

Ruben · June 28, 2010January 29, 2013

making noise for Yannick Francks ‘Foghorns Continuum’ project within Timelab’s summercamp electrified on June 26 in Ghent. material: several horns & a vacuum cleaner

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be me friend

Ruben · May 6, 2010March 20, 2018

For Tom Van Der Borght’s fashion design collection ‘be me friend’, I made this track. The structure is a downwards curve. The first part is very energetic, a bit strange & nasty, yet playfull. In the second part of the show, the characters are a bit ‘lost in a forest’, playing with an imaginary friend. …

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Venice field recording

Ruben · September 10, 2009December 17, 2012

various recordings made while visiting the Viena bienalle 2009

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boomfanfare

Ruben · December 22, 2008December 22, 2012

I joined ‘de boomfanfare’: a band playing in a three. Originaly playing folk & balkan music, we transformed into playing adventurous music with jazz, folk, rock and contemporary classical influences. During summer we tour mainly in Belgium, France and the Netherlands. band members are: Pol Mareen: saxofoon, Pieter Nevejans: tuba, Lander Gyselinck: drums, Pedro Guridi: klarinet, Matthias ‘Tjassen’ Debusschere: contrabas, Joris …

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K.I.S.R.T.S.

Ruben · October 10, 2008June 6, 2013

Kapotski launched K.I.S.R.T.S. 2008, a.k.a. the Kapotski International Shopdrop Record Tracking System, at ‘the game is up’ festival at the Vooruit. It sounds like a bit of a mouthful, but it’s a simple and fun concept. #. Download zip licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Kapotski distributed 500 vinyl records in music …

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hotdogski – recensie

Ruben · June 8, 2008December 8, 2016

Carmen Van Puyenbroeck schreef op Gent Blogt: “De mannen van Kapotski heb ik al meermaals bezig gezien, ze brachten goeie ambiance vrijdag op Iron Muide en zondag met Hotdogski. Dat is een winnend project van Kunst in de Buurt, waar Gentblogt al eerder verslag van maakte. Hotdogski richt zich op de Bernadette-wijk, een eerder geïsoleeerde sociale tuinwijk op …

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hotdogski

Ruben · May 25, 2008December 8, 2016

installatie/performance-reeks in de publieke ruimte: een hallucinante integratie van buurtbewoners, meubelontwerp, youtube en hotdogs. We realiseerden dit VJ-project als laureaat van de ‘kunst in de buurt ‘ wedstrijd van Stad Gent. Het doel was sociale cohesie te bewerkstelligen door mensen samen te brengen rond een hotdog kraam en te confonteren met beelden van zichzelf …

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trixiesong

Ruben · May 8, 2008June 7, 2013

08 may 2008: a third birth-day release for sweet little Trixie, on 300 mini CD’s. Wonderfull label-drawings by Ceren Oykut.

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Kapotski Optical Sound Generator

Ruben · February 26, 2008March 16, 2015

Kapotski participated at “The Game Is Up” festival at the Vooruit in Ghent and presented a limited serie of DIY optical tone generator kits. You can call it an installation, a realease, an instrument, a multiple. I designed & printed a simple electronic circuit based upon this scheme: Inside a plastic sphere, we provided the circuit …

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ctrl_alt_del radio broadcast

Ruben · January 30, 2008March 20, 2018

my contribution to a radio broadcast sound-art-compilation initiated by the ctrl_alt_del festival, on a wide range of international radio stations. With contributions by Random inc, Johanna Billing, Thomas Burkhalter, Samon Takahashi, Visa Kuoppala, Sophea Lerner, James Andean, Eva Durall, Frontierlab (Montreal) + Ethedrone Muzak (Austin), Charbel Haber, Matjaz Mancek / CrossRadio team, Tobias c. van Veen, Tobias …

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Ctrl-alt-del soundart festival

Ruben · December 10, 2007May 30, 2013

audiovisual performance in collaboration with Ceren Oykut (live drawing) in babylon club, istanbul, (Tr). I was invited to play at the ctrl_alt_del soundart festival by Başak Senova, a curator whom I met doing the exhibition design of ‘rejection episodes’. I went for a minimal approach with a contact mike, a DD3-pedal and some live synthesis/loops on my laptop. ctrl_alt_del …

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Ding

Ruben · August 16, 2007March 20, 2018

The show starts with the construction of the ‘Thing’, with several men in grey coats deciphering complicated plans, measuring the space and marking out the lines. In this way, at the tempo of the average council worker, the ‘Thing’ gradually takes shape. The musicians arrive and set up their instruments, the technical staff take their …

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Singel Singel by kapotski & othin spake

Ruben · April 26, 2007June 7, 2013

Kapotski + othin spake played a concert together at Dedonderdagen. A split 7″ de ‘Single Single’ which featured live excerpts of this gig was released on 26th April 2007 and distributed for free in an installation @ deSingel. performance: Ruben Nachtergaele, Jonas Nachtergaele, Kurt Stockman, Teun Verbruggen, Mauro Pavlowski, Jozef Dumoulin mixed & mastered by Ruben Nachtergaele

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laundrygarden

Ruben · April 5, 2007March 20, 2018

A beatifull day in our garden. Being a part-time houseman at that time I was hanging up the laundry in my garden. I had a camera from a friend on a tripod standing in the kitchen. So I started filming in between the hanging. And then, suddenly, my daughter Ayco started dancing quite extraordinary. The soundtrack …

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the end

Ruben · December 19, 2006March 20, 2018

for Gregg Smiths video installation work ‘the End’, I did the ADR and re-recording mix, during a residency in the FLACC workspace in Genk (B) “The closure of the mines in the Flemish town of Genk in the east of Belgium in the 1980’s and 90’s remains an emotional subject for many the town’s …

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plastic leni

Ruben · June 13, 2006June 13, 2013

for the friends of bal des boiteux, I made this remix of “I’d like to take the plastic flower from your hair”. Video by Robert Roger. Dancer Lazara Rosell Albear. It has been used as video installtion work on tour with BdB.

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famous for 15 MB

Ruben · March 18, 2006December 18, 2012

kapotski webrelease on famousfor15mb.com

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keys / ontroerend goed

Ruben · January 7, 2006March 20, 2018

with kapotski, we developed an organic ever-changing soundtrack for ‘keys’, a play by ontroerend goed. ” Keys is de vrijblijvende gevangenis van Ontroerend Goed. Een individueel performanceparcours met weinig speelruimte. Het is er donker. Het lijkt er leeg. Er is geen podium, enkel gangen en plekken. En performers, gebonden aan hun afspraak… met u. In …

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happy new ears

Ruben · September 24, 2005August 10, 2013

kapotski formed a ‘BigBand BigBandski’ with JMX, Iep Fourier and Tomas de Smet, Leen Roels and Barbara Van Hoestenberghe. All together, we played an impro set at the happy new ears festival. This is the festival sampler CD with track 5, ‘kapstoki’ by kapotski

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interview in gonzo circus magazine

Ruben · June 9, 2005

Ruben Nachtergaele draait rond in ovalen cirkels. Het is één vloeiende beweging waarin vaste elementen steeds opnieuw opduiken: de terugkerende samenwerking met zijn broer Jonas, het ontbreken van chronologie en de drang om het podium op te zoeken. Soms zet hij twee stappen naar links, evolutie, om dan opnieuw in ovalen cirkels rond te draaien. …

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kabuski

Ruben · May 28, 2005October 31, 2013

Voor het Yo opera festival in Utrecht (NL), ontwikkelde kapotski ‘kabuski’. We bouwden een reguliere rijdende stadsbus van de GVU om tot instrument/geluidsomgeving. Ons doel was de openbare ruimte te transformeren tot een speelse omgeving en onverwachte sociale interactie te stimuleren. ” De bus is omgebouwd tot een rijdende muziekinstallatie, een Kabuski dus. In Kabuski mag en kan wat anders niet kan en mag: spelen en al …

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smillasong

Ruben · March 3, 2005June 7, 2013

03 march 2005: another birth-day release on 300 mini CD’s.. This time for our second beautiful baby-doughter Smilla. Made entirely in the hospital on my laptop. The track contains Smilla screaming in the background; the voice of Ayco, her older sister; my own vocals (lalalala) and a sample of Gerard Joling.

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article on the JCCC in Nuuk

Ruben · November 29, 2004

an article on the JCCC installation in katuaq art centre, Nuuk, greenland.

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JCCC / etoiles polaires / Nuuk

Ruben · November 11, 2004

The next step for me & my toy army. The Jesus Creation Control Centre invades Nuuk, Greenland. Again not much of a resistance here. Temperature dough was not so ideal; but we survived. Maybe thanks to the portion of whale blubber we consumed. The installation was shown at the katuaq art centre. Again, the tracks I …

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JCCC @ Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

Ruben · October 4, 2004June 7, 2013

The Jesus Creation Control Center / Reycjavik installation is being shown in the museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle (B) in combination with an installation by Erki Devries, from 24/07/2004 untill19/09/2004. Simultanioiusly, there is the “ijs” exhibition with Ásmunder Ásmundson, Steingrimur Eyfjord, Gabriella Fridriksdottir, Icelandic Love Corporation, Gudný Rósa Ingimarsóttir, Harldur Jónsson, Libia Pérez de Siles de Castro & …