One moon to Oscillation ::: o tempo … and other april tidings
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One moon to Oscillation ::: o tempo …and other april tidings
Our yearly sonic festivities are only one month away, so it’s high time to start looking forward to what’s happening in our favourite weekend of spring. To do so, we filled april with a Second Sundays special, radio shows, a 21 Tracks for the 21st Century special with Oscillation artist Maria Komarova, … Please also note that the workshop program is now complete: a reading group, DJ workshop, polyrhythms, alternative scores, … Be sure to register in time, since places are limited. Other festival tickets (day tickets and festival passes) are also still available.
… and besides all this Oscillation excitement, this is happening too: a concert at festival host MILL by Re-Ghoster (Jérôme Noetinger, Nicolas Field, Thomas Florin, Fritz Welch & Nate Wooley), a post-residency presentation by Yenting Hsu, and the launch of a new podcast by modular synth luminary Aymeric de Tapol.
Concert 8 April – 21h – 10€ / free for -18 – Jérôme Noetinger, Nicolas Field, Thomas Florin, Fritz Welch & Nate Wooley – Re-Ghoster Re-Ghoster grew out of a chance encounter between Anglo-Swiss percussionist Nicolas Field, Italian tape & electronics wizard Valerio Tricoli and Swiss pianist Thomas Florin in Geneva in 2018. They quickly discovered a like-minded longing to experiment and distort sound textures in new ways, to explore compositional concepts by using improvisation and the impulse of the moment. They decided to let their strong personalities clash. Re-Ghoster was born and as a trio, they released a first album – ‘Or Not All’ – in 2019.
Second Sundays #39 16 April – 17h (doors 16h30) – free Festival special For the 39th edition of Second Sundays, the Q-O2 team present their traditional, annual Festival Special; a chance to dive deeper into the lineup of this years Oscillation ::: o tempo. The Festival Special is a taster plate. The Festival Special is a road map. Hear tracks from the festival’s artists spatialised live in Q-O2 while drinking the traditional, annual cocktail.
Post-residency presentation 20 April – 18h-19h – free Yenting Hsu Using sound as primary creation medium, Yenting Hsu investigates the cultural context and texture of sounds. Her works often reflect the relationship between sounds, environment, individual and/or collective memories and emotions. Interweaving field recordings with electronic sounds and objects, Hsu keeps exploring and experimenting documentary and fiction / narrative and imaginary elements of recorded sounds. Mixing with other art mediums and artistic disciplines, Hsu creates installations, performances, audio documentaries, electroacoustic music, and more. She also collaborates with dance theaters and films as a sound designer/composer.
Festival 27 April – 30 April Oscillation ::: o tempo
The four days of Oscillation 2023 will propose different settings to explore considerations about time. Day by day, we will zoom in on aspects such as displacement in time by memory or anticipation; time-structuring instruments like rhythm, gesture, pulse, repetition or silence; durational simultaneity in which the audience can navigate autonomously; and the subjective temporal experience of improvisation which strongly draws on relationality.
Listen 21 Tracks for the 21st Century: Maria Komarova HART magazine and Q-O2 join forces with 21 Tracks for the 21st Century, a series of playlists in which we ask our guests: what music does this century need? 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. Playing at Oscillation ::: o tempo, and working on the borders of performing arts, scenography, sound and installation art, Maria Komarova realized this month’s playlist.
Podcast Aymeric de Tapol A podcast rendering of Second Sundays #37, when we invited Brussels based Aymeric de Tapol, our favourite modular synth luminary. A listening session is preceded by an interview, where Aymeric speaks about polyrythms, a fundamental source of inspiration in his work.
Event 17 May – 18h-22h – free upon reservation – @STUK – Studio Manhattan Showcase Emerging Sound 2023 — Diana Duta, Stijn Wybouw, Tom Malmendier & Emilie Skrijelj, Florence Cats Each year, STUK, Q-O2, Musica & C-TAKT present a sample of new sound art in Belgium. Four promising sound artists were selected and put in the spotlights: Diana Duta, Stijn Wybouw, Florence Cats and Tom Malmendier & Emilie Skrijelj. The Showcase will take place on Wednesday 17 May 2023 at the iconic Manhattan nightclub and television studio on the canal in Leuven. [More info]
New book Elena Biserna: Going Out – Walking, Listening, Soundmaking Going Out explores the relationship between walking, listening, and soundmaking in the arts – from the first soundwalks and itinerant performances in the 1960s to today’s manifold ambulatory projects. The book consists of an extensive essay by Elena Biserna followed by an anthology of 51 historical and contemporary contributions in the form of documentation, essays, interviews, manifestos, scores, narratives and reflections.
Going Out is going on tour! Be sure not to miss Elena when you are around:
March 31 – Marseille: Sonic Protest ailleurs @ Ateliers Jeanne Barret, April 3 – Amsterdam: Talk/walk @ WARP-Walking as Research Practice, University of Amsterdam April 4 – The Haghe: Talk @ The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) May 11 – Berlin: Book Launch @ Errant Sound May 13 – Berlin: workshop Walking from Scores