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Tracklist

• CD 1: Sources Of Sleeplessness (I. Mein Leib Ist Mude + II. Venerandam)
• 1
  Geschuifel
  2:46
• 2
  Lenige spieren
  2:44
• 3
  Katachtig op hun gemak
  2:42
• 4
  Kronkelen de armen
  2:44
• 5
  Kruislings
  2:43
• 6
  Gerekt geding
  2:50
• 7
  Fore-Hatch
  3:51
• 8
  Feline-Leisure
  3:51
• 9
  Pad-Foot
  3:05
• 10
  Little Sinews
  3:04
• 11
  Twisted Arms
  3:04
• 12
  Cross-Hold
  3:51
• 13
  Seafoam
  3:47
• CD 2: Sources Of Sleeplessness (III. Sub Rosa + IV. Le Bref)
• 1
  So That:
  3:30
• 2
  Limes
  7:06
• 3
  The Ship
  6:05
• 4
  Tiresias
  3:12
• 5
  Verses
  7:42
• 6
  To Be Done
  10:37
• 7
  Later Life
  4:07
• 8
  Song and Story
  5:31
• CD 3: Vita Brevis I
• 1
  Part I
  14:15
• 2
  Part II
  9:43
• 3
  Part III
  3:55
• 4
  Part IV
  21:44
• 5
  Part V
  3:28
• CD 4: Vita Brevis II
• 1
  Part VI
  31:55
• 2
  Part VII
  25:14
• CD 5: Alle Dinghe I
• 1
  Zo
  11:26
• 2
  Of
  3:50
• 3
  Ook
  7:10
• 4
  Al
  3:52
• 5
  Et
  18:49
• CD 6: Alle Dinghe II
• 1
  Tot
  20:48
• 2
  En
  21:18
• 3
  Met
  13:32
• CD 7: Alle Dinghe III
• 1
  De
  30:25
• 2
  Te
  27:43
• CD 8: Gave Van Niets (You'll Never Be Me I)
• 1
  No-men
  27:24
• 2
  Wo-men
  21:07
• 3
  Chasms
  24:12
• CD 9: Gave Van Niets (You'll Never Be Me II)
• 1
  Leaps
  26:27
• 2
  Laidback
  27:21
• CD 10: Gave Van Niets (Divided Loyalties - Daily Duties)
• 1
  It Serves You Right
  5:07
• 2
  What's Mine Is Yours
  9:39
• 3
  Letter Of Intent
  13:24
• 4
  Quotable Lines
  3:43
• CD 11: Gave Van Niets (Divided Loyalties - A Battle Of Wits)
• 1
  How About It ?
  15:14
• 2
  How About What ?
  8:24
• 3
  Now You See, Now You Don't
  26:49
• CD 12: Gave Van Niets I
• 1
  De blik omhoog
  11:04
• 2
  Ofwel daar, ofwel hier
  10:40
• 3
  Van wie je alles verwacht
  10:30
• 4
  De komst van een ander
  18:10
• 5
  Buiten het oog
  6:53
• CD 13: Gave Van Niets II
• 1
  Zie niet
  14:00
• 2
  Hoor niet
  15:37
• 3
  Wees niet
  6:06
• 4
  Altijd haast
  21:03
• CD 14: Gave Van Niets III
• 1
  Waar ik heers
  8:42
• 2
  Schillen
  15:44
• 3
  Schorsen
  4:47
• 4
  Alles gisteren
  7:35
• 5
  Het lied
  12:24
• 6
  Retorica
  6:46
• CD 15: Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter I
• 1
  Plus grandes les part de mort
  25:31
• 2
  Plus grandes les part de vie
  20:56
• CD 16: Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter II + Les Saisons Qui Apportent Tout
• 1
  Trouver le repos
  23:08
• 2
  Ce qui arrive
  5:29
• 3
  Ce qui se produit
  7:09
• 4
  Ce qui a lieu
  12:02
• CD 17: Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter III (Le Souffle Du Destin)
• 1
  Le vrai
  11:26
• 2
  Le héros
  7:17
• 3
  Le cas
  11:04
• 4
  Le propos
  11:50
• 5
  La mesure
  18:59
• CD 18: Poèma I
• 1
  As A Rule
  13:50
• 2
  Blank Versus
  12:28
• 3
  Leap In the Dark
  10:56
• 4
  Relatively Spoken
  6:38
• 5
  In Line With
  6:32
• 6
  Desert Love
  8:05
• CD 19: Poèma II
• 1
  Under The Trees
  4:53
• 2
  In Terms Of
  3:38
• 3
  White Boats
  17:21
• 4
  To Stand For
  7:54
• 5
  No Darkness
  5:20
• 6
  Their Writings
  7:42
• 7
  As A Golden Eye
  7:04
• CD 20: Kere Weerom I
• 1
  't is tijd
  2:55
• 2
  O weerzien !
  5:09
• 3
  Van Hot naar Haar
  12:23
• 4
  Dat scheiden
  2:22
• 5
  Wederom verdwenen
  2:20
• 6
  Zij zingt en wenkt
  3:18
• 7
  Overal, altijd
  3:06
• 8
  Waar wij niet zijn
  6:05
• 9
  Een eigen dagindeling
  3:02
• 10
  Amper beschut
  1:44
• CD 21: Kere Weerom II
• 1
  Zoet licht
  5:09
• 2
  Wat zegt het ?
  2:37
• 3
  De enige troost
  2:20
• 4
  Elke belofte
  2:23
• 5
  De afmatting
  2:23
• 6
  Achter me niets
  2:23
• 7
  Wat ik doe
  2:23
• 8
  Het oude deuntje
  5:12
• 9
  De dwarreling
  6:07
• 10
  Onderlinge onmin
  6:07
• 11
  Tenslotte...
  7:05
• 12
  Wat ik zeg
  7:06
• 13
  Voor me niets
  3:08
• 14
  Waarheen ?
  3:07
• 15
  De krater
  7:04
• 16
  Nooit genoeg
  3:18
• 17
  In u
  3:11
• CD 22: Kere Weerom III
• 1
  Altijd Winnen
  2:42
• 2
  Dit zegt alles mij
  3:11
• 3
  Van eeeee
  3:07
• 4
  Olie op het vuur
  1:15
• 5
  Zo Was het
  3:11
• 6
  Een hoger doel
  5:11
• 7
  Tel je polsslagen !
  2:23
• 8
  Met natte schoenen
  3:18
• 9
  Men schommelt
  7:05
• 10
  Een stomme streek
  3:11
• 11
  Later het vervolg
  1:50
• 12
  Als muze
  1:50
• 13
  Gretig vuur
  1:50
• 14
  Nieuwe dwalingen
  1:48
• 15
  Zo gaat het voort
  1:50
• 16
  Het kortstondige
  1:51
• 17
  En aaaaa
  1:50
• 18
  Dronkemansliedjes
  1:50
• 19
  De wil van één
  1:50
• 20
  Weinig meeleven
  1:51
• 21
  Heimelijke bijeenkomsten
  1:51
• 22
  Maak dat de kat wijs
  1:50
• 23
  Egels
  1:51
• 24
  Een sierlijk zakdoekje
  1:51
• 25
  Een veilge plek
  1:51
• 26
  Je hebt van die uren !
  3:06
• CD 23: Decorum I
• 1
  Anéantir
  4:17
• 2
  Bienvenir
  6:35
• 3
  Cadastrer
  5:25
• 4
  Dépasser
  4:32
• 5
  Empêcher
  5:16
• 6
  Fatiguer
  5:27
• 7
  Galoper
  6:00
• 8
  Honorer
  5:09
• 9
  In situ
  4:50
• CD 24: Decorum II
• 1
  Jubiler
  6:35
• 2
  Kss ! Kss !
  5:24
• 3
  Laudes
  4:32
• 4
  Monter
  4:17
• 5
  Nier
  4:57
• 6
  Orémus
  6:00
• 7
  Posséder
  6:17
• 8
  Questionner
  5:26
• CD 25: If Five Is A Part Of Ten (If And Only If)
• 1
  If And Only If
  2:42
• 2
  Which Connects Them All
  2:42
• 3
  Smooth Manifolds
  2:42
• 4
  Twice Falsified
  1:56
• 5
  Possible Width
  2:42
• 6
  Benevolent Murmuring
  2:00
• 7
  Unlimited Returns
  1:33
• 8
  As Bait
  1:43
• 9
  Red Heat
  1:43
• 10
  Diagrammic Traits
  2:00
• 11
  Nous Sommes À Venir
  3:55
• 12
  Secret Of The Stammerer
  3:55
• 13
  Whimsical Curiosity
  3:55
• 14
  The One And The Many
  3:21
• 15
  Still Unbroken
  2:37
• CD 26: If Five Is A Part Of Ten (Carried By The Tide)
• 1
  Comme une sonde
  6:15
• 2
  Uneven Halfs
  6:14
• 3
  Answerless Riddles
  4:50
• 4
  Obedience Into Command
  6:14
• 5
  Urdoxa
  4:09
• 6
  The Throw of the Dice
  4:50
• 7
  Level of the Membrane
  5:48
• 8
  More Grandiose
  4:50
• 9
  One Before Two
  2:21
• 10
  Incompossible Worlds
  2:13
• 11
  The Breaking of the Shell
  2:01
• 12
  With Zones of Clarity
  2:23
• 13
  Series of Hungers
  2:20
• 14
  From the Whole to the Parts
  2:24
• CD 27: If Five Is A Part Of Ten (Possible Worlds)
• 1
  Two Before Three
  1:47
• 2
  With Sensibilia
  1:46
• 3
  From Within
  1:47
• 4
  Logical Shell
  1:46
• 5
  And Yet To Come
  1:47
• 6
  Een Verlegenheidsnaam
  1:27
• 7
  Âme - Chair
  2:27
• 8
  Against All Deaths
  2:27
• 9
  This Lustful Note
  2:27
• 10
  In Its Hardness
  1:59
• 11
  Subtle Schematism
  2:25
• 12
  Large Too Small
  3:35
• 13
  At Arm's Length
  3:35
• 14
  A World Of Born
  3:32
• 15
  SouFFrance
  7:45
• 16
  With All His Might
  7:44
• 17
  Through Self-Sameness
  7:44
• 18
  With Outstretched Wings
  0:56
• 19
  Hitherto
  0:38
• 20
  The Mildest Of All
  0:20
• 21
  With A Ploughshare
  1:43
• CD 28: If Five Is A Part Of Ten (Animal Magnetism)
• 1
  Trouvaille
  4:30
• 2
  Obsessional Paths
  4:30
• 3
  In the Meanderings
  3:36
• 4
  Pious Intentions
  4:30
• 5
  Four Before Five
  2:54
• 6
  Withdrawn Voices
  2:54
• 7
  Diumal Rêverie
  1:39
• 8
  Incerto Tempore
  2:54
• 9
  Just As the Swerve
  2:54
• 10
  Of Theft and Gift
  2:54
• 11
  Silent Imaginings
  2:57
• CD 29: Aren Lezen (Getrokken)
• 1
  Of Animal Habit
  6:09
• 2
  What It Can Grasp
  3:32
• 3
  Xerophyte
  4:05
• 4
  School of Thought
  4:15
• 5
  Perpetuum Quietum
  3:52
• 6
  And Holding a Sheaf
  8:44
• 7
  Weight of the Heights
  12:29
• 8
  Whole Bundles
  3:11
• 9
  Wandelende Pijnen
  5:08
• 10
  In the Swarm
  4:02
• 11
  Reaped in Silence
  4:20
• 12
  Great Health
  3:21
• 13
  Een last over de grond trekken
  3:21
• CD 30: Aren Lezen (Gestreken)
• 1
  As Expansive Fluidium
  5:55
• 2
  Taille de la vie
  3:23
• 3
  Seafaring
  4:03
• 4
  Interweaving
  4:03
• 5
  Angular Momentum
  3:34
• 6
  Happy Harvest
  8:36
• 7
  Useful to Us
  12:20
• 8
  The Goose for the Fox
  3:06
• 9
  Irrational Rhythms
  5:01
• 10
  At First Glance
  3:58
• 11
  As in Wooden Wedges
  4:16
• 12
  As in a Mould
  3:15
• 13
  Over het water glijden
  3:14
• CD 31: Aren Lezen (Geblazen)
• 1
  Water Into Vapor
  5:55
• 2
  Selective Pressure
  3:24
• 3
  Within a Larger Ring
  4:02
• 4
  Truth on Its Side
  4:04
• 5
  Artificial Instruments
  3:34
• 6
  Returned to Its Giver
  8:36
• 7
  Like Inner Commands
  12:18
• 8
  The Stag and the Wolf
  3:05
• 9
  Working Backwards
  5:00
• 10
  As Sole Begetter
  3:56
• 11
  This Undoing
  4:15
• 12
  In Packs
  3:16
• 13
  Absolute Heteron
  3:13
• CD 32: Aren Lezen (Geslagen)
• 1
  Primordial Fire
  6:00
• 2
  Called Caloric
  3:25
• 3
  As Place Holder
  4:02
• 4
  Phenomenae of Heat
  4:02
• 5
  Motor - Habits
  3:38
• 6
  Quite the Reverse
  8:38
• 7
  Rapid Impact
  12:10
• 8
  Quivering Timpani
  3:12
• 9
  In the Midst
  5:01
• 10
  Always Already
  3:59
• 11
  Ideals of Quietism
  4:21
• 12
  As a Lack
  3:17
• 13
  Gensters slaan
  3:20
• CD 33: Kaosmos (In The Making)
• 1
  As Inmixing
  6:07
• 2
  First Things
  3:32
• 3
  At All Costs
  4:09
• 4
  Monstrous Couplings
  4:16
• 5
  Chains of Phenomena
  3:57
• 6
  Ongoing, Within Us
  8:50
• 7
  Theory of Everything
  12:29
• 8
  But Must Be Made
  3:16
• 9
  The Grain of the Mebrane
  5:11
• 10
  Pure Whimsicality
  4:03
• 11
  Undulging Wheat
  4:20
• 12
  Canons of Taste and Habit
  3:24
• 13
  Its Media Infantilism
  3:24
• CD 34: Kaosmos (Le Grain De La Membrane De L'Organe De La Vox)
• 1
  Initial Enthusiasm
  4:36
• 2
  Nature as Music
  3:09
• 3
  Qualitas Occultas
  2:49
• 4
  Aether Proofs
  3:13
• 5
  By Penetrating It
  2:55
• 6
  Originarie Expansiva
  3:46
• 7
  Room For Faith
  3:39
• 8
  Per Spontaneitatem
  3:03
• 9
  Innocent Enough
  2:13
• CD 35: Kaosmos (Human Guesswork)
• 1
  Its Maschinewesen
  5:04
• 2
  Its Long Sought Principle
  6:01
• 3
  As Instrumentum
  2:53
• 4
  Cumbrous Notations
  3:17
• 5
  Random Groping
  4:13
• 6
  The Whole of the Past
  4:01
• 7
  Such a Transition
  3:39
• 8
  Par chance, sans effort
  8:17
• 9
  Apatride
  12:24
• 10
  This Necessary Willkür
  3:09
• 11
  Without Example
  5:00
• 12
  Unless the Hand Obeys
  3:59
• 13
  Stolen Legends
  4:57
• CD 36: aRe (Global Persons)
• 1
  Next Nearest
  1:40
• 2
  Various Alphabets
  1:37
• 3
  For the Ausführbarkeit
  1:34
• 4
  At Every Instant
  1:34
• 5
  Methode of Intuition
  1:35
• 6
  Sine Missione
  1:24
• 7
  Benen Bol
  1:41
• 8
  Alongside and Successively
  1:41
• 9
  Arranged, Simplified
  3:08
• 10
  You Northerners
  2:48
• 11
  Fewer Refrains
  1:36
• 12
  Most Untamed
  5:52
• 13
  In Fits and Starts
  4:48
• 14
  Luxta et post
  4:11
• 15
  As a Fabulated Giant
  4:11
• 16
  Bodies Into Planes
  3:43
• 17
  Periods of Tasting
  3:41
• 18
  Far Enough
  3:13
• 19
  Within a Wider Cartography
  1:45
• 20
  Most Secure Bastion
  1:26
• 21
  Into a Bundle
  1:36
• CD 37: aRe (Partial Objects)
• 1
  Eerste aanzet
  3:09
• 2
  Den enkelte
  0:50
• 3
  Four Northern Mists
  0:25
• 4
  All Desirability
  0:47
• 5
  In Fluvia
  0:34
• 6
  Begerige deel
  2:20
• 7
  In the Caesura
  1:26
• 8
  What You See Is What You Hear
  1:26
• 9
  Membrane States
  2:21
• 10
  Connections Of Possibility
  2:17
• 11
  Silent Echoes
  2:17
• 12
  Featherless Biped
  2:02
• 13
  The Gorged Tick
  3:11
• 14
  Of Hand and Fingers
  3:07
• 15
  Clinamen
  3:12
• 16
  In Close Embrace
  2:13
• 17
  Of niet
  2:13
• 18
  Third Kinds
  2:13
• 19
  Essence Of Modes
  3:09
• 20
  Then, and Only Then
  3:53

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Release credits

• Dirk Descheemaeker
  clarinet [10.1-4, 15.1-2], soprano saxophone [1-4]
• Eddy Verdonck
  bass trombone [11.1, 11.3, 16.1-4]
• Eric Mertens
  flute [16.1, 15.1-2], piccolo [2-4]
• Eric Robberecht
  violin [1-2]
• Etienne Siebens
  bass [2-4]
• Hugo Matthijssen
  tuba [1-4]
• Karla Van Loo
  alto saxophone [1]
• Lieven Vandewalle
  cello [2-4]
• Luc Verdonck
  bassoon [15.1-2, 16.2-4]
• Ward Hoornaert
  trumpet [1]
• Wim Mertens
  arranger [15.1-2, 16.1-4, 12.1-5, 11.1, 11.3, 13.1-4, 14.1-3, 14.5-6, 10.1-4], piano [14.1-3, 14.5-6, 12.1-5, 13.1-4], producer [11.1, 11.3, 14.1-3, 14.5-6, 12.1-5, 15.1-2, 10.1-4, 13.1-4, 16.1-4, 18.1-3, 18.5-6, 19.1-7]

Issues

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  37x CD
  June 2009