Corona update: some of our next activities will be postponed, some to be confirmed, depending on the situation – see below.
Second Sundays #22 Sun 15 March – 17h (doors 16h30) – free entrance Beyt Al Tapes – postponed For its 22nd session, Second Sundays invites Beyt al Tapes (aka Niels Latomme) for a session soaked in new and vintage tapes, “traded stuff, old mixtapes, random sketches of my own music.” Hailing from Bxhells, Beyt al Tapes is a perfect example of the old latin saying ‘nomen est omen’: it’s the house of tapes, a partly imaginary, partly real space where the limitations of a certain medium might be a portal towards new ideas and forms. [more info]
concert Sun 22 March – 20h30 (doors 20h) – free entrance Frederik Croene & [removed] students – postponed Frederik Croene & Ghent Advanced Master Ensemble are performing a series of co-created soloworks for flute, voice, violin, laptop and electric guitar and two pieces for ensemble, digging into the creative soul of every single performer. [more info]
concert Tue 24 March – 20h – 8€ – concert at Les Ateliers Claus Limpe Fuchs & Pak Yan Lau – cancelled Limpe Fuchs is a sound artist and instrument builder whose performances develop from a real time engagement with the ecology of the space at hand, using wood and granite stone rows, ringing bronze within pendulum string instruments, alongside percussion, viola and voice. Pak Yan Lau works with prepared pianos, toypianos, electronics and objects. Her practice mainly focuses on acoustic, electro-acoustic and electronic music with improvisation and sound as the most important building stones. [more info]
workshop Wed 25 March – 17h to 20h – 15€ Limpe Fuchs workshop: percussion, self-built instruments & improvisation ( ! full/waiting list ! ) – to be confirmed A practical introduction to Limpe’s self-build instruments: the Metallophone which is made out of 40 metal tubes tuned to the Lucy-Harrison scale in 2 octaves, three pendulum string instruments, four tube drums, a soprano kettledrum, as well as other small percussion objects, through guided improvisation sessions. [more info]
workshop Sat+Sun 4/5 April The fish within – voice workshop with Johanna Peine (waiting list) How much of jellyfish, fish or amphibian is still present in the human body and voice? In this workshop we try to get to the bottom of this question by exploring the movements of early phylo – and ontogenesis in connection with the sound of our voice. [more info]
save the date: festival 30 April – 2 May Oscillation – Mayday Radio Marathon The second edition of the Oscillation festival will be held as a radio marathon of 48 hours. In the absence of project funding, this year’s edition will be a low-budget endeavour, which we take as a one-off opportunity to reflect on notions of value in regard to culture. Mayday will be an open laboratory for continuous broadcast; a reflection on communities of producers and listeners, on making do, doing-it-ourselves, doing-it-with-others, and using what is at hand. The festival will take place as an internet radio stream as well as a listening salon in the Q-O2 space hosting concerts, mixes, panel discussions, poetry and a record and independent publishing fare. If you would like to be involved with an existing radio-work or propose something for a live-transmission that reflects the festival’s commitment and the format of radio, please get in contact via: . [more info]
showcase Wed 20 May – 20h Showcase Emerging Sound: aRzu Saglam, Beyt Al Tapes, Dominique t’Jolle, Andrés Navarro Dominique ‘t Jolle – Behind the Tune Andrés Navarro García – For amplified metal plate and objects aRzu Saglam – Further 5th phase of de-knowing Beyt Al Tapes – Cycling for electronic raga In collaboration with STUK, Musica, C-Takt [more info]
publication Eliane Radigue – Intermediary Spaces / Espaces intermédiaires Éliane Radigue is considered one of the most innovative and influential contemporary composers, from her early electronic music through to her acoustic work of the last fifteen years. In the long interview that forms the body of this publication, Éliane Radigue talks about her work, her reflections and underlying research, as well as her historical context. Editor: Julia Eckhardt / French redaction: Benoit Deuxant, Jean-François Caro / English translation and redaction: Eleanor Ivory Weber / Design: Ines Cox [more info]
publication The Middle Matter: sound as interstice The Middle Matter is a reader which brings together thoughts on the nature of sound; its substance, specific qualities, and potential – with a specific curiosity to its propensity to occupy the spaces in-between, the instertitial gaps between different spaces, times, cultures, and world views, between the interior body and the exterior space. Contributions by Enrico Malatesta, Séverine Janssen, Tomoko Sauvage & Akio Suzuki, Lila Athanasiadou, Carolyn Chen, Justin Bennett, Brandon LaBelle, Anna Raimondo & Edyta Jarząb, Jennifer Walshe, Gary Schultz, Salomé Voegelin, Marc Matter, Franziska Windisch, David Toop, Pierre Berthet & Rie Nakajima, Mark Fell. Interviews with Jonathan Frigeri, ooooo, Paulo Dantas, Melissa E. Logan, Isabelle Stragliati, Alice Pamuk, Klaas Hübner, Wederik De Backer, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Lucie Vítková. Edited by Caroline Profanter, Henry Andersen & Julia Eckhardt. Design by Ward Heirwegh. [more info]
publications Studio_L28 & Grounds for Possible Music & Tales of Sonic Displacement & The Second Sound Still available! Studio_L28: Sonic Perspectives on Urbanism by Caroline Claus & Q-O2 hooks into the debate of sound and urban life. It experiments with tools and strategies of observation, mapping, and planning. Grounds for Possible Music uses the four core notions gender, voice, language, and identity. They serve as a set of lenses permitting different perspectives on one another in music. Tales of Sonic Displacement (free, but shipping costs are not included) presents different approaches of how a sound-based residency can be meaningful. The Second Sound is an imaginary conversation between musicians and sound artists on the role of gender and sex within their field and on their artistry. [more info]
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