FOCUS – Hear Here
The first edition of Hear Here takes you on a trip through sound art in Leuven. Fourteen resounding artworks are spread out across ten heritage locations. Every installation engages in an acoustic dialogue with the architecture and the surroundings. The solid brick walls of the KADOC chapel resonate differently from the Botanical Garden in full spring. This relation between sound, acoustics and perception is a key element in sound art. From buzzing bees to droning organ pipes, from the search for silence to noise disturbance in the North Sea: Hear Here is a surprising discovery route for all ages. Put on those walking boots and experience Leuven heritage sites with different ears and eyes.
Former, current and future Overtoon artists participating in the exhibition are Amber Meulenijzer, Christoph De Boeck, Floris Vanhoof, Liew Niyomkarn, Maika Garnica, Stijn Demeulenaere. The list of artists is further completed by Esther Venrooij, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, John Grzinich, Bouke Groen, Rie Nakajima, Phillip Sollmann & Konrad Sprenger, An Roovers, Félix Blume, and Nico Dockx.
RESIDENCY
The month of April is packed with residencies, we will be welcoming several artists researching different topics.
Kunrad's artistic practice seeks to enhance the value of the everyday. Every moment of the day Kunrad tries to be on, open to discovering new things: cycling on a newly paved coal road, a coffee cup falling down the stairs of a train station, a large truck driving over an arch bridge. He collects his finds, then a phase of experimentation begins. He attaches a chain of bricks to a motorcycle, withers towers of moving boxes with a water sprayer, smashes bricks against the floor using an upside-down massage chair.
Kunrad researches small brass tubes as sonorous material. He discovered that the tubes produce a complex sound in free fall. If you throw the tubes in the air, they collide and start a singing, buzzing sound. With a floor made of sand or soil, this sound is suddenly interrupted by a thud. From this vantage point, Kunrad will research and develop new work.
We welcome back Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle as a resident artist. She is working on an installation for La Pop in Paris. EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) led Clarice to focus her research on the relationship between sounds and memory and more specifically on traumatic memory and memories that disappear following shocks. For La Pop she builds waterlogged glass sculptures accompanied by spatialised audio composition. At Overtoon she will be working on the audio for the installation.
Wendy Van Wynsberghe works with textiles, electronics and audio and is a longtime member of Constant. She continues to work on her project The Ephemeral Choir Machine that presents interactive woven thread that enables textiles to became sampler interfaces.
EVENTS
Former Overtoon resident artist Stijn Wybouw presents his new installation KRAMP and the SHAKERS at Fred & Ferry.
His work often starts from very rudimentary sounds/instruments, such as home-made shakers, rattles, bells on chicken legs. These instruments serve as an important source of inspiration. Last summer he made rattling machines using handmade shakers and found objects.
KRAMP and the SHAKERS continues on this premise as it continues to trigger his inspiration and he wants to find ways to refine sonic aspects. An additional source of inspiration are field recordings of fiercely rustling cricket fields that he made a few years ago while travelling through Spain. An artificial machine-like drone sound in combination with the sound of the rattles could be a good complement to a translation of the ferocious cricket fields. An ongoing live performance will also be presented in the gallery space on the 6th of may, starting at 2pm.
KRAMP and the SHAKERS by Stijn Wybouw
Fred & Ferry, Leopoldplaats 12, Antwerpen, Belgium
From 28 April 2022 to 7 May 2022
Hours: Thu-Sat 13:00-18:00 & by appointment
Durational performance on 6 May, starts at 14h
In the frame of Oscillations, Exercises in Resilience our partner bb15 presents a sound performance by Budapest based duo EJTECH.
THIRDSPACE is a textile sound system exploring extended present via electromagnetic air sculptures. A spatial setup to invoke invisible geometries of emerging sonic constellations through multichannel compositions. A tool for weaving sound spaces into existence.
Textiles are self-signifying media that string macrocosm and microcosm together, the emerging pattern of senses woven into a cognitive fabric, the interlinkage of vertices and edges to create an immanent network, our second skin, and the next-generation interface for human-computer interaction. EJTECH investigates the interweaving of sound matter with spacetime through a multichannel textile sound system focused on corporal and expanded listening.
THIRDSPACE by EJTECH
bb15, Linz, Austria
22 April 2022
ONGOING EVENTS
SARA ™ by VOID
Le Botanique, rue Royale 236 Koningsstraat 1210, Brussels, Belgium
From 24 February 2022 to 17 April 2022
Seasonal Neighbours
with Seeding Noise by Ines Marita Schaerer in collaboration with Caroline Profanter
Z33, Hasselt
From 30 January 2022 to 17 April 2022