About

No:B.orderland is in the stage of conception.

Functioning: We are developing the archives No:B.orderland together and openly in a WIKI. The suggestions made in the WIKIs are transferred in regular intervals to HTML and provided with a comment function (in WIKI form). These comments, criticisms and suggestions are then integrated possibly again into the HTML site.

Preliminary conception

No:B.orderland is an archive, which is connected on the one hand with independently operating production units and on the other hand with different distribution forms. The function of seperating is the uncoupling of production and distribution. A goal of this uncoupling should be to prevent that production being orientated to successes of distribution and fuels the medial redundance machinery.

No:B.orderland will be used by the following projects: the soundart project In-KLO-sion/Exklusion, the radio project Hasenheide Talk, the video project Citypark Nightshot and the installation and net radio project The Absence of Image. Furthermore it is up to anyone to listen and download any material. We expressly encourage everyone to further use and processing of the material. Further projects can use the archives as well. All projects, which result from the archives, are affiliated with each other by respective references to the archives and by the common development of a method (and the methodology linked with this method).

No:B.orderland is on the one hand committed in programmatic manner to the aesthetics of archives (logic of input), on the other hand it receives its structure by its usage.
The formal bases of the input are: Logic of the material, actually happening communication, rules of the game of certain formats developed by us, and the (unavoidable) imagination of some or other distribution form (format).

The order results from the fact that certain production units are formed, which are so arranged, that they are usable for different distribution forms. Beyond that all distributed units are archived (installed loops, radio emissions etc.) and can be used for further projects and be developed further. In this way archives do not only form the production base of the individual projects, but the respective projects create structures, which are written back into archives by its usage.

No:B.orderland is open both on the input level and on the usage level. Programmatically formulated, the condition for thematically fitting, not project-centered entries is, that they deal with actual communication, a real process, that interesting thoughts on the themes are expressed and that the speech situation is brought up for discussion in an informative way.

For the centring of No:B.orderland both the topics and the methods and techniques are of great importance/central.

The material can be processed by the same person, who produced it. At the same time it is at other persons’ disposal. In this way the archives grow organically with the individual projects. Beyond that other projects in other media can be developed from the archives’ material.
No:B.orderland is a theme-focused production archive.

Themes

No border! – No border? / The everyday practice of exclusion / The EU’s and USA’s politics of borders / Providing access to culture, information and educational possibilities / Comparisons of how different countries practice inclusion and exclusion / Prison and deportation / Sound scapes outside of the EU-border

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Identity / self description/biography / self invention / social imagination / identity-designing elements: Family, „Nation“, Work, sex etc. / medial stereotyps / the difference between one’s own and the imaginated foreign view / linked to this: How does the recording equipment change the discussion?

No:B.orderland is to be realized from autumn 2005.
The conceptional advancement is to be found in our No:B-WIKI

The philosophy of the project is in expressed the contribution „Critique of a world Constitution“. The central question of collectivity is treated in the text „The NEW METHOD as collective technique“.

Textlinks

Critique of a World Constitution (blog)
The text was written for an article for the 5th International Conference of Chief Justices of the World on Article 51(c) of the Constitution (respective the this congress accompanying publication „Concepts in Law“ - Understanding the Past, Analysing the Present & Visualising the Future (Carmo D’Souza, Bardez, Goa, India 2004, p.117-124)), for which representatives from over 80 nations met (10.-12 December, Lucknow, India).
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Professor Dr. D’Souza from Panjim, Goa, who asked us for a contribution, works on a world constitution respective on the conditions for a world condition.

www.cmseducation.org/article51
www.goacom.com/community/ismilda/constitution.html

The NEW MEHODE as Collective Technique (blog)
How can techniques be developed, in which collectivity doesn’t lead to endless and fruitless discussions, political correctness and mediocrity? How is it possible to connect the radicalness of individual authorship with an open collectivity? How can openness of projects be translated into action without them fading away?
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For what Media Theory? (WIKI)
Is a discussion between Wolfgang Ernst, director of the seminar for media theory at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Till Nikolaus of Heiseler. The script is the first contribution for the publication of the same name, to which Matthias Lilienthal, Detlev Schneider, Wolfgang Hagen, Dirk Baecker, Pit Schultz and Florian Schneider also will contribute. It is possible to deposit texts and comments for the publication in the Wiki.
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What is a Medium?
www.neue-methode.de/was-ist-ein-medium/

Listening & Watching Examples

The Singer and the Didgeridoo
Player
Music in the Hasenheide
The session came about as follows: A percussionist and singer practiced on his drums with headphones and hardly audible. A Didgeridoo player took up the rhythm. An interplay developed over a distance of approx.. 20 meters. The Didgeridoo player approached the percussionist and singer, who then began to sing. A session developed, without one word having been spoken.
[Audiotrack, 2 MB] [Download ogg-player]

Five Loops
Loops repeat themselves endlessly. Material of these repetitions are fragments and wastes. The discourse moves as regards contents around the centers freedom of movement and freedom of communication, inferiority and self reflection.

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Links

wmg-seminar.de
http://www.reboot.fm/shared/community-
member?user_id=9860
http://theater.kein.org/blog/37
http://ova.zkm.de/
neue-methode.de

Listening examples

„What comes off here... “
In this audiotrack a young man, with whom we coincidentally came into conversation, tells us „what comes off in the Hasenheide“. The Hasenheide is an area with „ particularly high criminality appearance” and is declared special zone by the Berlin police headquarters, where the policemen are vested with several special rights. For example document of identification controls and body checks are possible here without suspicious fact. But how does it come to such „particularly high appearance“ of criminality? The Hasenheide has developed among other things to a whereabout of persons, who wait for the admission or the conclusion of their application for asylum. Music students, unemployed persons, immigrants, persons of different nationalities, sex, skin colour etc. meet here, in order to make music sessions together; therefore people, who are waiting for the conclusion of their asylum proceedings leave the homes situated mostly in Brandenburg and come to the Hasenheide. Since persons with final asylum proceeding are not allowed to leave the place of their internment, these persons are “illegal”, if they visit the Hasenheide. As this „ illegality“ occurs quite often, the Hasenheide is declared special zone, what gives policemen the possibility, to check EVERYONE, who is there, for valid papers, residence permit and to make a corresponding check on them.

Also selling and consumption of soft drugs may play a role in this case.

The spontaneous musical and communicative meetings in the Hasenheide have probably developed from drum sessions. Then violinists, flutists, guitarists, singers, saxophonists etc. joined. Persons, who often cannot talk to each other, because there is no language, which is familiar to both sides, make music together. The sounds and forms of most different cultural backgrounds mix in highly complex and contingent manners.
This form of music making is a communicative model, to which we want to refer in political and cultural ways.

[Audiotrack, 3 MB] [Download ogg-player]

All recordings can be used free of charge for non-commerical purposes. This also includes broadcasting in free radios. All involved persons permit the use by public broadcasting stations.

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