Rinus plays more then one (mini-)cassette simultaneously, sometimes up to a number of eight. Recordings are played forwards, backwards or/and in a different pitch. In this mix of abstract and recognizable sounds, some of them are on the foreground, some of them behind a rumble and some of them might be spoken words in a strange or familiar language.Every now and then there are melodic sequences. Rinus a writer who uses his (environmental) recordings on tape to narrate a story. During the nineties he published two books (pseud. Philip Markus) in his native country. The first novel (De Weg naar Oude God) won the prestigious Geert Jan Lubberhuizen Prijs, a yearly award for the best first novel. An accidental encounter with electronic and avant garde music in the year 2000 at the Lem festival in Barcelona, and an introduction to the cassette culture gave way to his further artistic development. In the first decade of this century van Alebeek made a thorough research on how to make or manipulate recordings. Thanks to a great number of concerts, sometimes up to an average of ten in a month, he developed an approach of which people say it is ‘ between noise and pure poetry.’ “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.” Luis Costa, president of Binaural and Associação Cultural de Nodar
