Oscillation ::: from the Mothership [removed] – [removed], new online journal, Whitney Johnson on canonization and the female pioneers of electronic music
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10 days
10 days is about all we have left this year to fulfil some overly ambitious unfulfilled resolutions before we embark on another journey around the [removed];If your resolutions were to read and listen more about all things sound, this newsletter might help, with a new online journal from our European project tekhnē, this time assembled by our partner [removed], and a recording of a post-residency talk by Whitney [removed];10 days is also the length of our upcoming festival Oscillation ::: from the Mothership, the first details of which can be found below.
Festival 24 April – 3 May Oscillation ::: from the Mothership Save the date! Oscillation ::: from the Mothership will extend over ten days in the spring of 2026, with concerts, workshops, installations, and a discourse program. The festival will explore the relation between technology and diversity, and how this relation can be redefined by diverting tools from their original purpose. While understanding and unboxing technologies can instigate autonomous usership, the advent of new technological cultures has also sparked the imagining of other futurist worlds. Hacking and extending tools and instruments can open fields of possibilities, changing not only what music sounds like, but who it is produced by. The figure of the mothership, a vessel capable of carrying other vehicles and releasing them out into the world, will take artists and audiences through this festival. More info coming soon.
Talk Whitney Johnson – Canonization and the Female Pioneers of Electronic Music You can now watch the recording of Whitney Johnson’s post-residency presentation talk at Q-O2 last [removed];A talk about “female pioneers” of electronic music and canonization. Using the biographies of Pauline Oliveros and Suzanne Ciani as examples, Whitney examines the respective feminist aesthetics of these artists, asking how their explicit statements about gender can help us interpret their works in sound, if at all. [Watch here]
tekhnē online journal These Abilities – compiled by [removed] The fourth issue of the tekhnē online journal emerges from the Technology, Music and Ableism strand of the project, led by [removed] Each of the contributions gathered here approaches the meeting of music and disability from different angles: collective improvisation, personal narrative, instrument design, listening practices, and advocacy for embodied differences as a lived and self-determined experience and identity. What runs through these texts is not a single stance on disability, but an insistence that – as music is a space where cultural norms can be challenged, reconfigured, and reimagined – it can be recognized as a site of knowledge, artistry, and form. With articles by Bá Alvares, Alan Courtis, Molly Joyce, Matt Robidoux, and Alison O’Daniel. [Read here]
Second Sundays #66 11 January – 17h (doors 16h30) – @Q-O2 – free Poxcat Poxcat is a self-funded collective based in Brussels, founded in 2017 to support and spotlight womx DJs and producers. Through parties, radio shows, and podcasts, we create platforms for underrepresented voices in electronic music. With a DIY spirit, we embrace both the political and the personal—letting narrative, experimentation, and a sense of openness shape our sets and events. For Second Sundays, they will focus on the theme of the collective dimension. 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. [More info]
Podcast Archive update 2 Second Sundays episodes (by Jef Lambrechts & Catherine Plenevaux) are up for listening on our [removed];They could very well turn out to be your ideal companions for these long winter evenings. [More info]