post-residency performance 22 September – 18h Tomàs Cabado Tomas will perform a solo set for acoustic guitar and processed archival and field recordings. The material derives from various practices, including short pieces for solo guitar, realizations of text scores in public and domestic contexts, and archival materials. [read more]
concert 14 October – 20h30 (doors 20h) – 8/6€ Anne Gillis & XT [Seymour Wright & Paul Abbott] The three interdisciplinary artists operate at the boundaries of sound-making/music, plastic arts, performance and learning. They explore the limits and relationships between body, object, prosthesis—and memory, patterns and the material world. [read more]
call 15 October Showcase Emerging Sound 2023 STUK, Q-O2, Musica & C-TAKT present an annual showcase of emerging sound artists in Belgium. The showcase shines a light on the diversity of the Belgian sound art landscape, and gives a boost to an upcoming generation of makers. We are looking for recent, existing work in which sound plays a central role, in conventional or more innovative formats. The selected works will be presented in May 2023, deadline for application is October 15th 2022. [more info and registration]
room to rent 1 January From January 1st on, we are renting a room in our apartment in the Ieperlaan/Bd. d’Ypres, 1000 Bxl, to a permanent tenant. The room has 30m2, the rent is 375€ plus 75€ forfait for all costs (in light of the unsecure energy prizes). The tenant would have a small responsibility as host for our artists in residency, with whom they’d also share kitchen and bathroom. For more information and pictures, please contact us at
listen QOOOOOOOOOO2 @ LYL Radio: Mark Vernon Mark Vernon speaks about and plays fragments about his project ‘Magneto Mori: Bruxelles / Brussels’ which he has realised in residency at Q-O2. The project gathers people’s earliest or most vivid memories direct to tape. These are then buried in the ground and finally 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 [removed]; [listen here]
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]