Q-O2 news :: Cure your winter blues with Q-O2’s agenda cues
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Cure your winter blues with Q-O2’s agenda cues A somewhat modest start to the year harbours the promise of a spectacular following: in less than one week we’re hosting no more than five events in twelve days in our microcosmos of sound. First up are the students of ENSAV La Cambre who present I’m so Borg, with works that were composed in the frame of the Sound Creation and Experimental Music course, in collaboration with Q-O2. Next up is the post-residency presentation by Jad Saliba with his research project on sonic resistance, Lām(ل). He is followed by a workshop circuit bending, which is part of our annual collaboration with La Semaine du Son (and unfortunately already sold out). Resident Claire Williams is next, sharing thoughts and sounds from an ongoing research on creating visible and non visible cobwebs that sense the electromagnetic activity of spaces. The Brussels-based collective Fenêtre Ovale is closing these 12 days, hosting the 57th Second Sundays listening session. A little later we’re teaming up with a grand publishing house in music: local favourite KRAAK is coming to our place, for concerts by Steenkiste & Bischoff and former resident Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, who recorded parts of her new album at our HQ with our dearest Ludo Engels, and who is also an Oscillation alumnus.
Concert 28 January – 18h – @Q-O2 – free I’m so Borg – Students of La Cambre Each year, Q-O2 welcomes students of ENSAV La Cambre for a Sound Creation and Experimental Music course. It offers a framework for listening, experimentation and reflection on sound-related issues, observed through the prism of body-machine relations. Taking as its starting point the ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ by Donna Haraway (1985), the course invites students to imagine a cyborgian language, to consider sound as a mutant language enabling communication between beings, bet they locusts, artificial intelligences, pigeons, humans, rocks. With works by Charlotte Barreyre, Sam Boisbineuf, Marilou Dard, Dima Emelianenko, Adèle Fisch, Marius Herbert, Raphaël Humbert-Martin, Justine Jossen, Seza Lebars, Coline Lebeau, Mopsa Marciano, Léo Marybrasse, Dan Meyer, Nathan Pierard, Joseph Vincent, Sebastian Voigt. [more info]
Post-residency presentation 30 January – 18h – @Q-O2 Jad Saliba Jad’s research project Lām(ل) focuses on aspects of sonic resistance, solidarity and sonic identity, drawing an ark from the Tarweeda, a sonic tool for coded communication between detainees and their families, cleverly disguised in the form of songs, via the use of the letter Lam as an early form of a “glitch”, to the use of modern drum machines as a primary medium to communicate with the concept of Tarweeda. He asks: What forms of collaborative sonic practices could emerge from this interplay? Ultimately, what can the Tarweeda teach us about the process of decolonizing sound? [more info]
Post-residency presentation 5 February – 18h – @Q-O2 Claire Williams Claire Williams will share thoughts and sounds from an ongoing research on creating visible and non visible cobwebs that sense the electromagnetic activity of spaces. Inspired by ghost hunting tactics, she has crafted dowsing apparatus to receive and amplify these discrete energies that are woven together to reveal electromagnetic auras of resurrected circuits. A live extract will be presented to plunge into the shadows of our para-communications and listen to the xenovoices that want to manifest. [more info]
Second Sundays #57 9 February – 17h (doors 16h30) – @Q-O2 – free Fenêtre Ovale Fenêtre Ovale is a Brussels based collective of musicians, sound artists, composers, performers and listeners. They organize events, concerts and workshops, festering collaborations and sharing networks, knowledge and recources among the members. Providing space for ‘atypical’ sound practice in different terrains, the collective aims to decomplex ideas around elitism, often associated with electroacoustic music. In the hybridization of aesthetics, Fenêtre Ovale focuses on inclusive and sensitive approach to music making and mediation, mixing sound phenomenon with politics, philosophy and science. 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]; [more info]
KRAAK + Q-O2 concert collab 21 February – 20h (doors 19h30) – @Q-O2 – €6/€8/€10 Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Steenkiste & Bischoff KRAAK and Q-O2 are stoked to host the release concert of Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh’s latest album Lux Gratis, out on CD February 18. Resulting from her 2024 residency in Q-O2, Lux Gratis takes Ailbhe down new roads of experimentation, integrating organs and electronics into her unrestrained sonic parlance. Flanked by the new-fangled duo of Steenkiste & Bischoff and their ringing drone magic, we’re all set to gather around for a night of auditory rapture alongside all ye eager-eared out there. [more info]