Second Sundays #27 9 January – 17h (doors 16h30) – free Myriam Van Imschoot Second Sundays is a monthly series. 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-seventh edition, Second Sundays invites Myriam Van Imschoot. [more info] This is a Covid Safe Ticket Event
workshop 22 January – 14h-18h Songing With Our Ancestors – Voice Workshop with Johanna Peine and TOI How much of jellyfish, fish or amphibian is still present in the human body and voice? In this workshop we try to get to the bottom of this question by exploring the movements of early phylo- and ontogenesis in connection with the sound of our voice. In a journey through the evolution of the voice, we will encounter these phenomena and questions in a practical way and at the same time unfold the potential of the voice. Organised by VUB Crosstalks and Kaaitheater. Registration mandatory. [more info]
lecture-performance and live radio transmission 22 January – 20h Songing With Our Ancestors – Live Radio Session with Peggy Pierrot From Drexciya and other Detroit techno bands, to historians and science fiction writers, to Solomon Rivers, author of speculative and literary fiction such as The Deep, the Atlantic Ocean – known here as the Black Atlantic – has been the crucible for stories of loss and flight, abduction and rebirth. This radio program invites us to dive into this black ocean in search of these sounds and stories. [more info] This is a Covid Safe Ticket Event
post-residency performance 27 January – 18h Geraldine Vanspauwen & Maan Methven Under the name of Zemlya, Geraldine Vanspauwen and Maan Methven work together with sound as a profound source from which the musical and the visual world can be interwoven, layered landscapes and new compositional techniques discovered, as a source able to cross between the physical and the non-physical world, to connect clarity and distortion, intimacy and feedback or noise. [more info]
installation 7 December – 9 January Farida Amadou Last days! 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: