OVERTOON NEWSLETTER – MARCH 2022

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FOCUS – Masterclass EJTECH

EJTECH are Budapest based duo Judit Eszter Kárpáti and Esteban de la Torre. They use soft interfaces and augmented textiles to explore sound, touch, space and light in performative installations, multichannel sonic sculptures and dynamic surfaces.
In collaboration with KASK School Of Arts departments EPAS and Mediakunst we present an EJTECH masterclass in KASK Cinema in Ghent with the support of our EU program Oscillations. The artists will talk about their work process and methods in interaction with sound and textiles. The two following days are reserved for a workshop with EJTECH for KASK students. The workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday is fully booked. The masterclass on Monday is free. Please send an email to Masterclass EJTECH on Monday 21 March 2022 at 20:00 – Cinema KASK – Godshuizenlaan 4, 9000 Ghent
On a sidenote, you can still apply for the first call for 2022-2023 postgraduate course in sound EPAS for a few days.

RESIDENCY

Currently in residency at Overtoon, French designer-artist-developer-composer, Thomas Barbé is an Esad Saint-Étienne graduate. His work, which questions sound and its sensory perception, is inscribed in the electro-acoustic and digital fields through installations and / or audio software. Through these works he invites the spectator to rediscover in situ listening experiences.
Thomas develops an electro-acoustic string instrument that can be kept in constant vibration with electronic bows.
An electronic bow has two electromagnets. The first captures the vibrations of the strings. The signal that is received is amplified by an electronic amplifier circuit and sent out again by the second electromagnet, which keeps the strings in vibration. His aim will be to develop a device for performances, and later, in a second phase, device will be part of an installation set-up. In this phase, the addition of servomotors and a microprocessor will make the instrument autonomous and the resulting arrangement generative.

EVENTS

Even more Oscillations when our resident artist Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle is invited for a residency at the bb15 gallery in Linz, Austria. She will build and present her new installation ce qu'il reste des échos with her ceramic sculptures showing different shapes and resonances and equipped with speakers to create a spatial sound environment in the exhibition space. The soundscape is created using sounds recorded in Linz such as voices, echoes, and various field recordings to evoke memories of places visited.

ce qu'il reste des échos by Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle at bb15
Exhibition Opening: 22 March 2022 at 19:00
Opening Hours: 23 – 30 March 2022, 15:00 – 18:00. Closed on Sundays.

CCHA dedicates a festival to the piano with dance performances, concerts, film screenings …and an installation by Floris Van Hoof, our coproduction of 2021. Antenna presents the upright body of a piano with its strings and mechanics exposed. Ever- present electromagnetic waves that fly through the air (imploding stars, far away lightning, planes, traffic, our phones etc) are picked up by the antenna and translated to small electromagnets that make strings of the piano sing.

Antenna by Floris Vanhoof
Piano Days at CCHA in Hasselt, Belgium
From 25 March 2022 to 29 March 2022

VOLTA is back once more! Yann Leguay presents the performance version of his OVERTOON production at the SONIC PROTEST Festival. In fact, the annual festival INTERFERENCE_S by Centre Wallonie Bruxelles in Paris teams up with SONIC PROTEST 2022 to host an evening of sound performances at their headquarters.

VOLTA by Yann Leguay
Centre Wallonie Bruxelles in Paris, France 46 rue Quincampoix
31 March 2022 at 19:30

ONGOING EVENTS

The VOID exhibition at Le Botanique presents a full-scale installation in the museum space that immerses the viewer in a parallel universe. The exhibition rooms become the production headquarters for SARA (Souvenir Archival Recording Apparatus), a fictitious company that collects and archives the verbal and memorial traces of mankind.

SARA ™
Le Botanique, rue Royale 236 Koningsstraat 1210, Brussels, Belgium
From 24 February 2022 to 17 April 2022