Cats of Japan

Live in Shin-Urayasu (Japan), October 13, 2005,
in front of Jesse Glass' (and of course his family's)
appartment.

1 minute 38 seconds (3.2 mb).
Kniettewies

A poem by Wiel Kusters from his book "Als kind

moest ik een walvis eten" (Amsterdam, Uitgeverij
Querido, 2002). Performed by Charles,
May 22, 2005, Café; Pelt Heerlen.

4 minutes 10 seconds (7.7 mb).
Umsonate

Café Pelt, Heerlen (NL).

March 20, 2005.
Lit.Pelt Match 1.

Ben van Melick and Hans op de Coul presenting.
This is a short piece of the Umsonate, a translation

into the sounds of the South-Limburgian dialect
chacha is making of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate.
This is the first time he did it live.
Camera: Ine Sijben.

11 minutes and 55 seconds (21.9 mb).
Ursonate (Kurt Schwitters)

Theater Kikker, Utrecht (NL), November 16, 2004.


With Alan Laurillard on his Korg 700 synthesizer.

Film recorded by the camera itself.

Running time of this video: 24 minutes 39 (45.3 mb).
Muttnik Salon, Utrecht (NL)

Oudegracht 185, Utrecht (NL).

November 26, 2004.
Anna Arov announcing.
This performance is completely accoustic, though
not
intended (an important cable was missing).

Camera: Leon.

17 minutes and 37 seconds (32.4 mb).
Video-CD
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Vibrerende Eardrops Performance

1. Intestine's Desires
2. Een Wildwaterstroom
3. Cries on Canvas
4. Gizzy
5. To the Sun
6. War on die Autobahn
7. She
8. Black World
9. Blitzkrieg

Theatre Lexor, Heerlen (NL), September 4, 2001.

Film recorded by Seddiq Mossadeq on
DV-Cam tape (that tape has been lost and unfortunately
only the part of this show that's on this CD, has been
saved).
Produced by charles.

Complete CD 33 minutes 24 seconds (76.6 mb).
Kurt Schwitters' "An Anna Blume" and
Jan Hanlo's "Oote oote boe"


Studentenservicecentrum, Maastricht.
"Het Parcours", September 10, 2006.

8 minutes 45 seconds (16.2 mb).
Poems for Els

1. SHE
2. Licht
3. Onze traan


This is a performance in Theater Kikker, Utrecht (NL) in a
programme called "Words Achoired" by Jan Schellink
and the very charming Anna Arov, who also is the
announcing lady.
Date was June 4, 2005.
All the poems charles recited were for his late girl-friend
Els. She died of cancer on April 16, 2005.
In 2006 these poems have been published in "51" (see

the sound page).

Camera: Dirk Blom.

7 minutes 14 seconds (13.3 mb).
Living room party performance

1. Wildwaterstroom
2. Black World
3. SHE
4. Blitzkrieg

Verschuurstraat 51, Heerlen (NL)
March 3, 2001.
Camera: Dirk Blom.
14 minutes and 4 seconds (25.9 mb).

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Chez Lulu, Liège (B)

1. Sensor / Cries on Canvas
2. Images of a fishglass fishbowl dentro
3. IF
4. Amplitude
5. Anonymous Tunnel
6. Black World
7. Mechanical Moon
8. Blitzkrieg


August 21, 1999.
48 minutes and 14 seconds (16.6 mb).
Only sound.
Hugo Ball's KARAWANE (1917)

Lit.Pelt. Café Pelt, Heerlen, June 23, 2007.

Text animations, video-effects and sound by chacha.
On saxophone: Tim Paters.

4 minutes15 (6.3 mb).
from Paul van Ostaijen's Bezette Stad (1921)

"Paul van Ostaijen in Berlijn: bankroet en ziek van de
zee", Schunck, Heerlen, December 11 and 12, 2009.

chacha recited "Bedreigde Stad" and "Rouwstad" from
"Bezette Stad" on December 11.

All sounds besides his own voice are pure coincidences.

There is a video recording of it, made by Femke Smeets
(from Schunck), but this is only the sound taken from that
video (192 kbs mp3):

1- Bedreigde Stad (13,5 mb)
2- Rouwstad (6,1 mb)