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lecture-performance as live radio transmission – unfortunately the live event has been cancelled, but you can attend it online via radio p-node 22 January – 20h Songing With Our Ancestors – lecture-performance by 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. Event as radio transmission only via ∏-node. [more info]
post-residency performance with live radio transmission 27 January – 18h (doors 17h30 – start of event 18h sharp because of radio transmission) Paula Montecinos Oliva + Geraldine Vanspauwen & Maan Methven 18h – Paula Montecinos Oliva: (Un)bound wor(l)ds How can poetics become a dance? How can a word become a sound? When we connect every word with its own music, what intermediate spaces emerge? Through a remote collaborative research with performer and poet Johan Mijail (DR) the human voice as a transductive device will be explored, collective claims and poetics of diaspora and migration will be converted into a performative sonic experience. 18h45 – Zemlya (Geraldine Vanspauwen and 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] This is a Covid Safe Ticket Event
Second Sundays #28 13 February – 17h (doors 16h30) – free Céline Gillain 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-eighth edition, Second Sundays invites Céline Gillain. [more info] This is a Covid Safe Ticket Event
workshop 19 February – 14h-18h The IKO audio speaker – workshop with Jürgen De Blonde IKO is an audio speaker that is able to project Higher Order Ambisonics in a unique way, namely, from a central point outwards instead of the usual way, via an array or surround speaker arrangement towards the centre. [more info and registration]
save the date: concert 19 February – 19h New audio works for the IKO speaker Experience the IKO audio speaker through a couple of new compositions. [more info]
workshop (full) 22 January – 14h-18h Songing With Our Ancestors – Voice Workshop with Johanna Peine and TOI (full) 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]
installation 7 December – 13 February Farida Amadou Extended! 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]
save the date: Showcase Emerging Sound 14 May – 20h (free upon reservation) Marija Rasa Kudabaité, Vica Pacheco, Léa Roger, Raphael Malfliet Every year STUK, Q-O2 and Musica present a sample of new sound art in Belgium. Although these artists are active in a variety of disciplines, this edition focuses primarily on electroacoustic live performances, in which composition and improvisation come [removed] Emerging Sound is a project of STUK – Huis voor Dans, Beeld & Geluid, Q-O2 Werkplaats, Musica, Impulscentrum voor Muziek & C-TAKT. [more info]
podcast Sébastien Roux & Ensemble Thymes Listen to our newest podcast, in which you hear Sébastien Roux and Ensemble Thymes play and present “Les Disparitions”. 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: