Despite the fact that Rinus Van Alebeek’s concert at Music Box Lisbon was (audience speaking) a flop, we had the pleasure to wander around in Lisbon with him, capturing and sharing sounds, sights and reflections.
Rinus Van Alebeek is a peculiar observer of reality and an artist who instinctively transforms lo-fi tape recordings into evocative sound poems, being able to create a “détachement” towards the used media, which is a characteristic of the most original artists. He transforms a specific technology (the magnetic tape and the recording device) into a “poiesis”, a transcendence that goes beyond the immediate limits of matter, whereas the majority of artists can only deal with a “praxis”.
In the very same place (Texas Bar, now Music Box Lisbon) where Wim Wenders shot a scene of his “The State of Things” movie (with Samuel Fuller), here are the sounds of Rinus’ great concert in Music Box, Lisbon (June, 13th 2007):
