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FOCUS RESIDENCY At Overtoon, we'll be waving goodbye to yet another virus-ridden year in the presence of artist in residence Stijn Wybouw. Stijn Wybouw's work often starts from very rudimentary sounds/instruments, such as home-made shakers, rattles, bells on chicken legs. These instruments serve as an important source of inspiration. Over the course of summer, Stijn put together rattling machines from handmade shakers and found objects. This installation was combined with works from other artists into the total installation / group exhibition High-Voltage. His research at Overtoon continues on this premise as he's looking into ways to refine sonic aspects. An additional source of inspiration are field recordings of fiercely rustling cricket fields that he made a few years ago while travelling through Spain. An artificial machine-like drone sound in combination with the sound of the rattles could be a good complement to a translation of the ferocious cricket fields. EVENTS What is sound? What is this phenomenon we canât usually see or touch, and how can we get closer to it? As part of her ongoing research and now soon to be exhibited at Lydgalleriet, Norway, sound artist Els Viaeneâs research investigates sound at its source; the moment it is shaped. In Ways of seeing sound, she approaches sound as a physical phenomenon and its various visual manifestations, so that it brings her to other worlds and times. This exhibition for Lydgalleriet is a performance and installation where science, sound and sculpture meet, blurring the notions of seeing and hearing, the perception of what we see and hear and how one interferes with the other. Els Viaene’s presence at Lydgalleriet is part of Oscillations: Exercises in resilience, an international exchange program exploring the tension between acoustic and visual art forms from a makers perspective. The program aims to facilitate the circulation of artists working with sound across national and disciplinary boundaries as well as to foster knowledge exchange between artist-run spaces. Ways of seeing sound With the group show The sea in sound and image, Concertgebouw Brugge illustrates its ambition to further develop their position as a beacon for sound art. Combining three renowned sound artists, the institution presents three installations that - each in their way - reflect on the sea and its poetry. Erik Nerinckx captures the immense, turbulent natural force of the sea in an all-encompassing recording made at the coast. Sixteen speakers replay its murmur, rustle and roar as a massive wall of sound. Sound artist Stijn Demeulenaere goes out to sea and brings us a poetic exploration that voices the unseen, polluted and disrupted (sound) landscape beneath the waves. Artist duo VOID visualise the sounds of the sea. With SARA â inspired by a 19th century technique that recorded sound as visual squiggles â they make its water visible. The sea in sound and image ONGOING EVENTS Fonotopias, Ex Teresa in Mexico City, Mexico Le Voile Du Palais, Le Bon Accueil, Rennes, France Trains and Tracks – Europalia, Royal Museum Of Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium |
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