Right after a packed Semaine du Son we are here to serve sound enthusiasts again for the coming weeks: a quartet of new activities, below:
On Friday, it is already Loup Uberto’s residency presentation. He will perform some short pieces he worked on during his residency, featuring live performances with Soledad Zarka, Vin de Sprite (Antoine Loyer/Donatien Toma Ndani Djemelas), fellow resident Violeta López López and Anna & Guerrino Bellotto. On Sunday, for its 47th edition, Second Sundays hosts New York based composers and experimental vocalists Vito Ricci & Lise Vachon as part of their EU [removed];Violeta López López’ residency presentation follows: shes has been working on an artistic research on the possibilities of language beyond its established limits and its capacity to generate new perceptual [removed];A workshop completes the quartet: Christophe Albertijn will introduce you, in one day, into the art of audio mastering.
Loup Uberto plays some short pieces of what he has been working on during his residency, featuring live performances with: Soledad Zarka (dance performance for masks, gestures, feedbacks and Italian work songs), Vin de Sprite (Antoine Loyer: vocals, guitar / Donatien Toma Ndani Djemelas: vocals, organ) Violeta López López (duo for oboe and voice by Jean Guyot, Liège composer from the 16th century) and Anna & Guerrino Bellotto (collection of notes written in Piedicavallo, Italian Piedmont, from 1990 to 2002). And maybe: Piedmontese peasant songs for solo violin and voice, listening to sound pieces recorded during the residency, with Lise Barkas, Lukas de Clerck, Guillaume Maupin, Violeta López López and disc-jockeying and little party… who knows!
Second Sundays #47 14 January – 17h (doors 16h30) – @ Q-O2 – free Vito Ricci & Lise Vachon
For its 47th edition, Second Sundays hosts New York based composer Vito Ricci and experimental vocalist Lise Vachon, as part of their EU tour. 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.
To execute the word is an artistic research on the possibilities of language beyond its established limits and its capacity to generate new perceptual realities. To execute the word is to kill it, in the sense of detaching it from its conventional meaning, and at the same time, to put it into action, as happens with programming language. This performance is a talk (without talking) about the “physics of the mental”, an exploration of the inner reality of words when they refer only to themselves, to their physicality related to sound, movement and light. Language singing its own prosody, objects pronouncing their own definition, the written world leaving its whispering trace, the body of words being touched and played. A glimpse into the parallels between physics and language and the intertwined behaviour of particles and words. Language as score, instrument and performer at the same time.
Workshop 2 March – 11h-18h – €16/20 – @Q-O2 Audio Mastering with Christophe Albertijn
In this workshop, artist, musician, sound-wizard and initiator of the HUIS Label Christophe Albertijn, will introduce you into the art of mastering. In one day you will be guided through the general terminologies and history of mastering techniques. You will set up your own mastering session and work with a series of open-source plugins. The objective is to listen, evaluate and discuss different approaches. For this workshop you need prior basic knowledge with audio software and plugins. You will work with accessible open-source plugins and software. Register here.
Het BlokfluitAsiel is a collaboration between instrument builder Lukas De Clerck, composer Angélica Castelló and music teachers Katelijne Lanneau and Matthias Verniers. Their pupils (recorders from the music academy of Jette/Brussels and organists from the music academy of the DG, department St. Vith) performed the piece, invited to explore their own creative approaches to sound, improvisation, composition and [removed];The musical piece was composed collectively, based on a concept by Angélica Castelló, aiming to establish an intense connection between Lukas De Clerck’s piece/machine AirBag/14Holes, the organ and recorders.
This piece is accompanied by an electroacoustic piece by Angélica Castelló, drawing inspiration from the atmospheres cultivated during the work on Het BlokfluitAsiel. The young artists involved in this project often likened the immense sound they collectively generated to that of a gentle monster.
The CD was be released together with Meakusma on December 15, and is available via our umland website.
Listen 21 Tracks for the 21st Century: Marnie Slater
GLEAN and Q-O2 join forces with 21 Tracks for the 21st Century, a series of playlists in which we ask our guests: what music does this century need? 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 [removed];