Second Sundays #35 20 November – 17h (doors 16h30) Futura Resistenza / Frederic Van de Velde For its 35th edition, Second Sundays invites Frederic Van De Velde of the Brussels/Rotterdam label Futura Resitenza. Join us in the listening room as we dive into the catalogue for full record side listenings from sound poetry and spoken word to abstract electronic and sound collage. There will also be limited copies of most of the titles in the catalogue for sale. [read more]
release Oscillation ::: Public Address Q-O2 / umland editions is pleased to present 3 split releases of live recordings from our festival Oscillation ::: Public Address that took place in April and May this year. The recordings captured six of the many beautiful performances that made up our first return to a live public festival after two years of radio only. Relive the moment or hear what you missed over at the umland bandcamp page. Issue 1: Enrico Malatesta & Attila Faravelli / Kate Carr Issue 2: Aymeric de Tapol / BMB con. Issue 3: Jasmine Guffond / Peter Kutin & Stan Maris [Bandcamp] [more info]
post-residency concert 26 November – 18h – free Aymeric de Tapol For his residency in Q-O2, Aymeric continued and took time to focus on his research on hypnotic polyrhythms on modular synthesizer, that he has been exploring for the last 3 years. When you are listening to something that seems the same thing during a really long period, many things happen to your spirit… Come along to hear a new version of this project, a work-in-progress presentation: a piece, in continuous transformation. [read more]
book launch 9 December – 19h30 – free Elena Biserna : Going Out – Walking, Listening, Soundmaking Going Out explores the relationship between walking, listening, and soundmaking in the arts – from the first soundwalks and itinerant performances in the 1960s to today’s manifold ambulatory projects. The book consists of an extensive essay by Elena Biserna followed by an anthology of historical and contemporary contributions in the form of documentation, essays, interviews, manifestos, scores, narratives and reflections. [read more]
Second Sundays #36 11 December – 16h (doors 15h30) Performensk In December, Second Sundays teams up with Performensk Festival and hosts the artist Nikolay Karabinovich and artist duo Aliens (Marika Krasina and Anton Kryvulia), for a double-listening session, showing a wide palette of musical influences presented by the artists. More infos about Performensk Festival => [removed] [read more]
listen QOOOOOOOOOO2 @ LYL Radio: Hildegard Westerkamp This episode focusses on German Canadian composer Hildegard Westerkamp, featuring a new piece: “The Soundscape Speaks – Soundwalking Revisited”, commissioned by BEAST FEaST 2021 and presented at Q-O2’s Festival Oscillation ::: Public Address, on 30th of April 2022, at Decoratelier in Brussels. [listen here]
listen 21 Tracks for the 21st Century: Tomas Cabado 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. [listen here]