After the first and immediately unforgettable sleepover ever in Q-O2 last Saturday night, we decide to turn over once more, snooze again, and start our yearly Oscillation festivalfully rested, when it lands in Brussels in just under a month. In the meantime, we get up one more time to host sleepover instigator Nele Möller for a Second Sundays listening session upcoming Sunday, where – in line with the festival’s theme – we already reflect on field [removed];Already lined up after the festival are two workshopson technological crafting, led by Claire Williams and Maryia Kamarova.
Second Sundays #59 13 April – 17h – @Q-O2 – free Nele Möller A listening session into ‘the field’: our current resident Nele Möller will bring recordings from her own practice and that of others that raise the question: what actually is a field recording? 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. Each session is paired with a cocktail-of-the-month, as decided by the invited guest. Cocktail of the month: Field Tonic. [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 & Ernst Markus Stein, 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*******, GC De Maalbeek, Jean-Felix Hap Park and Marais [removed]; [more info]
Workshop 14 May – 9h30-13h – @VK – €10 – registration required Electro Textile with Claire Williams In the Textile Electro workshop, we deconstruct technology to better understand the systems around us and to reclaim electronics through textile and craft techniques. Embroidering speakers, making embroidery produce sound, crocheting resistors, or creating noise with knitting are just a few examples. We explore the boundaries and possibilities between art, craft, and technology. This project is part of a broader reflection on the reappropriation of technology, connecting textile practices with the DIY movement and Free [removed];This workshop is part of a series of workshops organised in the framework of tekhne, supported by the European Union, and in collaboration with VK/GC De Vaartkapoen. [more info]
Workshop 11 June – 9h30-13h – @VK – €10 – registration required Biographies d’objets with Maryia Kamarova By exploring our relationship to objects, surprising connections emerge. In this workshop, the artist Maryia Kamarova invites participants to engage with everyday objects through touch, movement, and sound recordings. Beginning with the things that surround us, we will “listen” to them by feeling their textures, and uncovering layers of their histories. We will experiment with different ways to share their stories in relation to our memories — using voice recordings and the playful language of performance. This workshop is an invitation to communicate beyond words, using objects as bridges between people and play as a form of a dialogue. Everyone is invited, no prior experience with performance or recording is needed. The workshop was developed in collaboration with PYL collective. This workshop is part of a series of workshops organised in the framework of tekhne, supported by the European Union, and in collaboration with VK/GC De Vaartkapoen. [more info]