Post-residency presentation 28 February – 18h-19h – free Rupert Enticknap Rupert Enticknap presents a research project which uses musical melody as a lens to investigate the intersections of class, race, identity politics and the embodiment of histories present in ‘accent’ of spoken language. It will explore these issues in a postcolonial framework working with audio cassettes of interviews with his maternal grandmother who was born and raised in Colonial British India. [read more]
Workshop 5 March – 14h-18h – 4€ Farida Amadou Are you a musician with a connection to Molenbeek who is curious about improvisation? Are you interested in playing music together with others and would you like to get to know other musicians from the neighborhood in the context of a Molenbeek-based music festival? This workshop implies a concert on March 12 at Huis van Culturen Molenbeek, and is organised by Klarafestival and Bozar. [more information and registration]
Post-residency presentation 11 March – 18h-19h – free Victor Guaita Igual & Lukas De Clerck & Suzan Peeters & Andrés Navarro García The group presents an un-scored collaborative composition, keeping an spontaneous dynamic while still developing ideas. There is a certain fragility about working in a quartet. Already the timbers of the instruments: viola, accordion, percussion, organ/aulos/pipes; are constantly on and off balance, at times merging together in tones and overtones, other times being distinctively four independent voices. And also the fact of composing collaboratively, blurring the roles of composer/interpreter into the collective. [read more]
Concert 12 March – 15h – 19h Farida Amadou and workshop participants @ Huis van de Culturen / La Maison des Cultures – more info soon. [read more]
Second Sundays #38 12 March – 17h (doors 16h30) – free Chris Evans 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. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a social setting as a space for discussion. The series takes place on the second Sunday of every month,. Each session is paired with a cocktail-of-the-month, as decided by the invited guest.
In March, it will be the turn of Chris Evans, an artist, musician and editor based in Brussels. His work often evolves through conversation with people from diverse walks of life, selected in relation to their public life or symbolic role. Sculptures, letters, drawings, film scripts and unwieldy social situations created as a result of this, are indexes of a larger structure through which Evans deliberately confuses the roles of artist and patron, author and muse. [read more]
Post-residency listening session 22 March – 18h – 19h – free Diana Duta Diana Duta is a visual and sound artist based in Brussels since 2016. She runs the recording studio Jambes, which functions as a platform for artists, writers or musicians who are interested in experimenting with sound and voice. What comes out of this collaboration – a new piece, a way of working, an improv session – is then uploaded onto an online archive. [more info]
Festival 27 April – 30 April – tickets on sale soon Oscillation ::: o tempo After online and nomadic editions, our annual festival takes on a mainly sedentary form: this year’s edition is hosted by Needcompany and HISK in Molenbeek. We’ll reflect on the notion of time – time fascinates because of its pervasiveness: there is no way to think around it. As with anything so ubiquitous, an assumption of time as natural and non-negotiable is quickly made, but concepts of time are constructions, and those constructions depend strongly on social and technological realities. Sound and music offer a space where aspects of this otherwise elusive matter can be made tangible, where we can experiment with its many facets and possible approaches.
The four days of Oscillation 2023 will propose different settings to explore these considerations. Day by day will zoom in on aspects such as displacement in time by memory or anticipation; time-structuring instruments like rhythm, gesture, pulse, repetition or silence; durational simultaneity in which the audience can navigate; and the subjective temporal experience of improvisation which strongly draws on relationality.
Featuring: Younes Zarhoni, Limpe Fuchs & Valérie Vivancos, Jung An Tagen, Éliane Radigue’s Sigma, Katharina Ernst, Rebecca Lane & Clara de Asís, Mark Vernon, Charlemagne Palestine, Clara Lévy, Asuna, Marija Rasa, Juliet Fraser performs Morton Feldman, Jessica Ekomane, Ameel Brecht, Maia Urstad, John McCowen, Maria Komarova, Farida Amadou, Felix Kubin, Hans-Christian Dany, and more. [Festival website]
New book 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 51 historical and contemporary contributions in the form of documentation, essays, interviews, manifestos, scores, narratives and reflections. [read more / order]