post-residency performance 31 August – 18h Mark Vernon – Magneto Mori: Bruxelles / Brussels Magneto Mori: Bruxelles / Brussels gathers people’s earliest or most vivid memories. Mark recorded these recollections direct to tape which was then buried in the ground for 2-weeks (along with magnets that partially erased the recordings) before being excavated and used as the basis for a new de-composition. The process is an analogy for the frailty of human memory and our ability to recall the past. – Come along to hear Mark discuss the process and listen to a work in progress version. [read more]
concert 7 September – 20h30 sharp (doors 20h) – 5€ Circular Music by Jürg Frey, performed by Stan Maris, Florence Cats, Clara Lévy, Victor Guaita, Yannick Guédon, D’incise Circular Music and Extended Circular Music are series of pieces with open instrumentation where the musical material becomes a space framing silence, rather than a timeline. The open score gives room for the performers to take both collective and individual decisions while the listeners are invited to wander with their ears through Frey’s ephemeral sound edifices. [read more]
Second Sundays #33 18 September – 17h (doors 16h30) – free Liew Niyomkarn 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. [read more]
call 15 September Call for residencies at Q-O2 Q-O2 will host 20 residencies in 2023 of which 10 for international and 10 for local artists working with, on or around sound. We are open for artists, art workers and theorists who wish to work on a research-oriented project (please mind that we do not organise residencies directed at production).
We offer a work studio and material, a creative and communicative environment, and the possibility to present your work to a public. For international residents we provide accommodation in a shared apartment and a contribution to travel expenses of max 150€. A small subsistence budget will be reserved for all artists who do not come with other funding. Residencies should be between four and six weeks long.
To apply, please send a concise project proposal of not more than one page and a link to your website or other secondary information by September 15th to [more info]
listen 21 Tracks for the 21st Century: Lawrence HART magazine and Q-O2 join forces with 21 Tracks for the 21st Century, a series of playlists to gear ourselves for our present century. We ask our guests: what music does this century need? As tonic, as engine-fuel, as rhythm, as common ground, as ballast? Each time, we invite one artist, thinker or musician to prepare a playlist of those sounds, songs and pieces of music that will best arm their listeners with the tools to approach what is left of this young century. This month’s playlist is curated by Lawrence, the project of Berlin-based producer, DJ and label-organiser Peter Kerstin. [listen here]