Q-O2 news :: High summer

Ah, high summer has arrived in our beloved [removed];Leisure life has slowed to a near standstill, with only the Foire du Midi rescuing us from dull [removed];We must admit that the level of activity at Q-O2 is somewhat lower than in other seasons; still, a post-residency presentation by Laura Zapata & María Castro is happening next week, the Second Sundays #50 recording with Franziska Windisch & Paul Gründorfer and our latest episode on Radio Lyl are available on our soundcloud, and we are already announcing our next Second Sundays with MONTAGE in september. We’d also like to remind you again of our yearly call for residencies.

In this post-residency presentation, reflections will be shared on what it has meant to work closely with sensors that translate gestures into sounds and, perhaps bidirectionally and unexpectedly, sounds into gestures. What sounds correspond to which gestures? What mapping strategies are most useful for certain movements? What sounds invite conscious, active, and profound listening to the body? Is expanded listening also a bidirectional conversation with the body and sound?

In a small open demonstration, the possibilities of this system are presented and ways of entering into dialogue with people on two opposing and yet complementary gestural levels in relation to sound and kinetics are shown: with micro and macro gestures.
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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 [removed];Each session is paired with a cocktail-of-the-month, as decided by the invited guest.

MONTAGE is a Brussels based collective and label focusing on experimental electronic music. MONTAGE derives its name from a love for what they call edited music: music that manages to surpass genre-boundaries for narrative structure and [removed];Cocktail of the month: Blackberry Purple Haze.
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The call for residencies in 2025 at the Q-O2 workspace is now open. Next year, we offer two types of residencies for artists, researchers, art educators and cultural workers working in and with sound:
=> 7 thematic residencies of 6 weeks in the framework of the European collaboration tekhnē
=> 10 open research residencies of 4 weeks for artists working with sound in any field.
Deadline for application is September 15th. Please find all info on our website.
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For our 50th iteration of Second Sundays, we invited our two artists in residency in may 2024: Paul Gründorfer and Franziska Windisch, whose path crossed already in different places. Their selection follows the idea of music pieces as acquaintances, short or long term, found through chance encounters, travel or in the every day. Live Recorded @ Q-O2 on 19/5/24.
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As part of Q-O2’s bimonthly radio session on Radio Lyl, Ire, Ian Nolan, Chloë Janssens, Amy Pickles and Sil Borremans tried to create a script for a radio play, “Waiting Rooms for Doom,” where they would work with Brussels Congress train station as a place on pause, a zone to feel through the already present but hard-to-comprehend doom. They wanted to imagine doom as an echo of actual violence outside their own room full of muzak. They thought about forces that push towards “waiting” as a way of spending time. In the play, doom enters their site across different characters who are placed hierarchically within a capitalist society. These characters are tied to a corporation in one way or another and relate to that bondage in a variety of ways. Doom was present as a potency. [full text on website, live broadcast from Brasserie Atlas on 26/6/24] 
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