Now again, it has been special, the 13th or 14th installment of Kristiansand’s outstanding Punkt Festival, who wants to count? The live-remixes did often live up to, and extended the original performances. There are some stories to tell (and I will), but this blog doesn’t need quick shots, it’s always the gap, the in-between, the unspeakable that matters first. In the end it all comes to story-telling, gotcha!? After her duo with David Toop, and the mind-blowing „live remix“, Sidsel Endresen was standing outside, her eyes met my eyes, and instantly we embraced one another, and I heard her whispering two words into my ears: „my sweetheart“. Well, we never had an affair going on, so what was that? It simply was a purely improvised moment, with the much-quoted beating heart. David Toop has written a book about the history of free improvisation, and this way to communicate has never just been an attitude of music at the margins, it has always been, in many aspects & not so mysterious ways, a model for breaking patterns in the everyday life.