concert 10 December – 20h (doors 19h30) – 6€ Sébastien Roux with Deborah Walker, Yannick Guédon and Cyprien Bussolini + Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta This is a Covid Safe Ticket Event, so please bring proof that you are vaccinated, recovered or tested, and be in time. Capacity is limited. No reservation necessary. Les Disparitions How does a sound disappear? Does it give way to silence? What does it replace? When we become aware of its disappearance, how long has it already disappeared? Is it a sound illusion: perhaps the sound never existed?
Melismas II
This piece is related to a series of sound walks and artist residencies to experience how the sound of the Azan – the Muslim call to prayer – is intensely affected by the rural landscape of Demre (Turkey). For this live session, Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta will play different raw field recordings of this acoustic phenomenon made before dawn. [more info]
lab session 11 December – 14h-18h Free Improv Lab with Farida Amadou – full 3rd session of the cycle of Free Improv labs with Farida Amadou: playing what you feel in the moment, feeling the energy of other players and of the space and always being aware of what is happening around and inside your own personal circle. Choose to be silent, choose to challenge others, challenge yourself. Free Improv Lab is a series of guided collective free improvisations, exploring the vocabularies that each performer brings with them. [more info]
Second Sundays #26 12 December – 17h (doors 16h30) – free Floris Vanhoof This is a Covid Safe Ticket Event, so please bring proof that you are vaccinated, recovered or tested, and be in time. Capacity is limited. Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a social setting as a space for discussion. The series takes place on the second Sunday of every month. Each session is paired with a cocktail-of-the-month, as decided by the invited guest. For its twenty-sixth edition, Second Sundays invites Antwerp multimedia artist Floris Vanhoof. [more info]
installation 7 December – 9 January Farida Amadou In the framework of Europalia, Farida Amadou presents an audiovisual installation in two parts. A first space, littered with objects from the railway universe, is mixed with amplified piano chords, allowing the public to create a sound improvisation. A second space combines moving images of trains in Belgium. They merge to create a compilation of contemporary perspectives. She integrates sounds that she has captured during recent collaborations with musicians from all walks of life, recorded during 2020. [more info]
podcast Amber Meulenijzer Listen to our new podcast, in which sound artist Amber Meulenijzer presents and speaks about a selection of pieces, projects, and artists that inspire her, and about her latest project, Saab Sculptures/Paesaggimmaginati. Q-O2 podcast channel
Oscillation ::: Tuned Circuits – releases In case you have missed parts of the festival Oscillation ::: Tuned Circuits last April/May, here is your second chance:
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