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october 2006
STRIJP-S, EINDHOVEN

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book presentation



We presented the book at the most business-like location of the Design Week. As a young initiative without any aim for profit we wanted to negotiate the subject of visual literacy with professionals and a broad public. We sold books to housewives who became interested and met quite a lot of interesting people. Onomatopee made it's first real statement.

We held a special opening with sound. Since visuals were the medium and sensible matters should reign over literal and theoretic communication, we chose to read our introductive text to the public while our friend TOKTEK used the spoken introduction as audio input for digital manipulations: these manipulations were distributed over the fairground with a vibrant volume until the organisation told us to stop since the commercial parties couldn't sell anymore.

© Onomatopee 2008


Installation view


Toktek/Tom Verbruggen
Live sampling performance





Opening speech!