Second Sundays #29 13 March – 17h (doors 16h30) – free Lieven Martens 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. Lieven Martens (Lieven Martens Moana, formerly Dolphins Into The Future) is a composer and observer. He makes a conceptual form of programme music that travels beyond the pure description. His works are like narrative stills; encounters with objects and thoughts. [more info]
concerts 17 + 18 March – 20h30 – 5€ Portaits de Pays — Stéphane Marin + Gaël Segalen + Eric La Casa + Els Viaene + Rodolphe Alexis Depicting places. This is a common practice in all art forms. What about the particular fortune of the country portrait genre in the field of sound art? How can composition, field recording, radiophony, and even cinematographic and poetic forms in their sound dimension trace the sensitive identity of a certain territory? 17 March: Stéphane Marin + Gaël Segalen 18 March: Rodolphe Alexis + Eric La Casa + Els Viaene Related event: conference at PointCulture
post-residency performance 24 March – 18h – free BMB con. & Laetitia Gendre During the residency, in which Laetitia Gendre & BMB con. (Justin Bennett and Roelf Toxopeus) have collaborated for the first time, they have explored different ways of working together combining layers of reality and media using techniques like live-drawing coupled to sound-making, drawn and projected scenography, field trips, paper as sound source, simultaneous translation into multiple languages, etc. etc. [more info]
act Support Ukraine Please suppprt the Ukrainian people and donate via theMIXof the collective ШЩЦ ([removed]) [more info]
platform 23 March – 14h – 18h Meta PAM
PAM (Platform for Audiovisual and Media Arts) has grown out of a diverse assembly of organizations and practitioners working with moving image, sound art, or media art. PAM invites anyone who works in media arts to meet, to discuss common issues and to share knowledge and tools about the development, production, distribution, presentation, and reflection of audiovisual and media arts. [more info]
call 13 March EPAS Applications are still open for admission for EPAS (European Postgraduate in Arts in Sound) sound studies program at KASK Ghent. [more info]
wanted rooms to rent We are looking for a room to rent for one of our interns between March 28th and May 1st. We are also looking for rooms for our festival artists between April 28th and May 2nd. Please get in contact via
save the date: festival 28 April – 1 May Oscillation ::: Public Address The fourth edition of Oscillation festival is dedicated to the question what it means to address a public, and how, by changing the site of a performance, the relationship between audience and performer shifts. [more info]
save the date: Showcase Emerging Sound 14 May – 20h (free upon reservation) Marija Rasa Kudabaité, Vica Pacheco, Léa Roger, Raphael Malfliet Every year STUK, Q-O2 and Musica present a sample of new sound art in Belgium. Although these artists are active in a variety of disciplines, this edition focuses primarily on electroacoustic live performances, in which composition and improvisation come [removed] Emerging Sound is a project of STUK – Huis voor Dans, Beeld & Geluid, Q-O2 Werkplaats, Musica, Impulscentrum voor Muziek & C-TAKT. [more info]