concert 14 October – 20h30 (doors 20h) – 8/6€ Anne Gillis & XT [Seymour Wright & Paul Abbott] Anne Gillis and XT [Seymour Wright and Paul Abbott] will present three new site-specific works. The three artists operate at the boundaries of sound-making/music, plastic arts, performance and learning. They explore the limits and relationships between body, object, prosthesis—and memory, patterns and the material world. [read more]
Second Sundays #34 16 October – 17h (doors 16h30) Julia Dyck 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. [read more]
call 15 October Showcase Emerging Sound 2023 STUK, Q-O2, Musica & C-TAKT present an annual showcase of emerging sound artists in Belgium. The showcase shines a light on the diversity of the Belgian sound art landscape, and gives a boost to an upcoming generation of makers. We are looking for recent, existing work in which sound plays a central role, in conventional or more innovative formats. The selected works will be presented in May 2023, deadline for application is October 15th 2022. [more info and registration]
listen QOOOOOOOOOO2 @ LYL Radio: Mark Vernon Mark Vernon speaks about and plays fragments about his project ‘Magneto Mori: Bruxelles / Brussels’ which he has realised in residency at Q-O2. The project gathers people’s earliest or most vivid memories direct to tape. These are then buried in the ground and finally used as the basis for a new de-composition. The process is an analogy for the frailty of human memory and our ability to recall the [removed]; [listen here]
listen 21 Tracks for the 21st Century: Tomas Cabado HART magazine and Q-O2 join forces with 21 Tracks for the 21st Century, a series of playlists to gear ourselves for our present century. We ask our guests: what music does this century need? As tonic, as engine-fuel, as rhythm, as common ground, as ballast? Each time, we invite one artist, thinker or musician to prepare a playlist of those sounds, songs and pieces of music that will best arm their listeners with the tools to approach what is left of this young century. This month’s playlist is curated by Lawrence, the project of Berlin-based producer, DJ and label-organiser Peter Kerstin. [listen here]