Amidst the whirlwind of the Oscillation promotion, one might be tempted to think that the usual work at our HQ has paused—nothing could be further from the truth! In the coming weeks, we’ll present post-residency presentations by Soumaya Phéline and Pedro Oliveira, host a workshop by Darsha Hewitt with and at VK Vaartkapoen, and stage a sleepover listening event organised by Nele Möller—featuring performances, talks and contributions by Lia Mazzari, Roxane Metayer, Adia Vanheerentals and Jacob Dwyer who will engage with a live forest audio stream. A vibrant amalgam, and a fine reminder that, in truth, there really are no rules.
Post-residency presentation 18 March – 18h – @Q-O2 – free Soumaya Phéline During her residency, Soumaya Phéline has been exploring CDJism/turntablism with a focus on DJing’s performative aspect, redefining CDJs, turntables, and mixers as creative instruments. Her cinematic approach transforms tracks into narrative tools, crafting immersive sonic storytelling. In this presentation she will share her findings with a brief jam to test them on the public, and give some context about her praxis and strategies. [more info]
Post-residency presentation 25 March – 18h – @Q-O2 – free Pedro Oliveira
During his residency, Pedro Oliveira has been exploring the seeds of what he calls “dubwise machine listening,” a methodological and gestural approach to thinking about computational systems and their uses in border and migration control technologies. His approach juxtaposes dub (as a material and compositional approach) and data (that which accumulates over time within a system) as a way to de-route machine listening aimed at classification and analysis, shifting it toward an emergent poetics. For this presentation, he would like to share his process and initial iterations of these ideas by performing with text, analog synthesis, and some effects as a way to test them out with an audience. [more info]
Workshop 2 April – 9h30-13h – @VK – €10 – registration required The Électro-Bricolage Ensemble – Darsha Hewitt The Électro-Bricolage Ensemble is a workshop in which we will build electronic music instruments ourselves. It is for people who are curious about how things work and like to build things with their hands. The artist Darsha Hewitt invites participants to discover the basics of electronics and learn how to read a simple electronic circuit, identify electronic components and build sound generators (so-called oscillators). The group will build an instrument for extraction of the most unexpected rhythmic patterns which can be played with(in) the collective. Everyone is welcome! Being part of the Ensemble does not require prior experience with electronics. [more info]
Listening event 5 April – 18h – @Q-O2 – free Nele Möller – Phonic Somnia w/ Adia Vanheerentals, Lia Mazzari, Jacob Dwyer, Roxane Metayer Phonic Somnia is a long durational listening event initiated by Nele Möller that takes place over the night of April 5, starting at 18h and ending at 12h on the morning of April 6. We will gather to listen and think with a live audio stream from a bark beetle-infested site in the Thuringian Forest in Germany. The forest stream was installed in the summer of 2023 to transmit the changing acoustic environment of the forest, which is slowly disappearing as a result of the beetle infestation. We will start to listen with the sunset and end after the dawn chorus the next day–the two moments when the forest soundscape is the most active. Together, we will explore what it means to listen collectively, remotely, consciously and subconsciously through different modalities of sound and time. The forest stream will run throughout the whole duration of the event, while different performances and talks will interact with the live acoustics of the forest. You are welcome to join us for the entire event or parts of it. Please register if you want to participate in the sleeping part of the night (from 01h00 until the morning). We only have a limited number of sleeping places. [more info]
Festival 1 – 4 May Oscillation ::: The Weather Featuring: Áine O’Dwyer, Amber Meulenijzer, Andreas Trobollowitsch & Elvin Brandhi, Catherine Lamb & Rebecca Lane & Bryan Eubanks (Sacred Realism), Claire Williams, d’incise, David Toop, Gabi Schaffner, Jana Winderen, Jonathan Frigeri, Justin Bennett, Lee Patterson, Lieven Martens & Simon Van Honacker, Marja Ahti, Marta Zapparoli, meLê yamomo, Nele Möller, Nonlocal Research, Pat Thomas, Rory Salter, Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker, Soumaya Phéline, Stoffel Debuysere, Tzu Ni, Ute Wasserman, Vanessa Rossetto, Winne Clement, Yara Mekawei. Ticket sales are open . The 2025 festival Oscillation ::: The Weather departs from practices around field recording – listening to one’s environment through microphones, memory, or language. The festival will link field recording to the weather as phenomenon, as metaphor, and as concept, able to cause poetic and beautiful effects but also to manifest radically destructive [removed];4 days (1-4 May) of concerts, (in-situ) performances, a conference, round table conversations, walks, a series of workshops, a field trip and an uninterrupted radio stream. All of this is hosted by Le Brass, BiS (Bodies in Space), atelier 210, La C******* and more places to be [removed]; [more info]