Q-O2 news :: pipes, flutes, and bellows

Spring is here and Q-O2 will offer you two post-residency presentation using the appropriate instruments for the season: various sounds, types, forms, and lengths of pipe-likes and flutes. Both our current residents are experimenting with this type of instrumentarium. So be sure to come and listen to Sholto Dobie on the 26th of March, and Hannah Todt on the 2nd of April. Further news is the complete program of the Oscillation Festival (ticket-sale is open!), and the print of a second edition of umland’s publication  Éliane Radigue – Intermediary Spaces / Espaces intermédiaires, which is again available at our space and via Les Presses du Réel.

Sholto Dobie will present a short listening session of work-in-progress and a performance with self-constructed [removed];Sholto Dobie creates instruments with analogue technologies which draw on the functions and designs of folk and traditional wind instruments, such as bagpipes and organs. Their appearance several thousand years ago represent a technological shift in music, as humans extended the reach of their lungs, by creating bellows, bags and reservoirs that could sustain flutes and reeds more easily and for longer than human lungs. It is a drive that is echoed in more recent technological socio-musical shifts, such as electronic dance music. Dobie incorporates analogue electronics alongside handmade reed pipes, using basic prefabricated timer modules and industrial electric valves, to control air flow.
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I wonder why the flute has holes is an ongoing project that explores the materiality of steel tubes and their sonic qualities by reinterpreting them as a polyphonic flute that is to be played by several people. The relationship between form, function and efficiency as well as the creation of associations are central questions in this process. The post-residency presentation will introduce the work through audio samples and a short live performance.
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The 2024 festival Oscillation ::: Materia Forma is a reflection on form, format and performance. Six days of sound celebrations, featuring concerts, (in-situ) performances, talks, round table conversations, a walk, and a series of workshops, hosted by VK Vaartkapoen in Molenbeek, and complemented with outings to [removed] in Anderlecht and the Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Molenbeek church. The complete line-up and breakdown per day is now confirmed, and festival tickets are available here.

Featuring:
Ahnjili ZhuParris, Laura Mello, Michiko Ogawa & Lucy Railton, Evicshen, Bojana Cvejić, Gabriel Paiuk, Tim Ingold, Rim Irscheid, Leonie Persyn, Natasha Pirard, Lee Patterson & Pak Yan Lau, Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Nina Garcia/Mariachi, Liew Niyomkarn,, Enrico Malatesta, Margarida Garcia, Okkyung Lee, Jacqueline Nova, Ana María Romano G., Giulia Rae, Floris Vanhoof, Shamica Ruddock & Hannan Jones, Franziska Windisch, Valentina Vuksic, Ji Youn Kang, Sandar Tun Tun, Jana Rush, Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier, Nika Son, Tetsuya Umeda , Jonáš Gruska

Each year, STUK & Q-O2 present a showcase of new sound art in Belgium. Four promising sound artists were selected and put in the spotlights: Anouk Kellner, Pavel Tchikov, Lawrence McGuire & Kaat Vanhaverbeke. They get residency space, artistic feedback and present their work in a parcours during the Showcase Emerging Sound 2024. Register here for free.
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Éliane Radigue (born 1932 in Paris) 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, she unfolds an intensity which is at once subtle and monumental. Through her deep reflections on sound and listening, not only her music but also her working methods have come to shape a widely resonating set of new parameters for working with sound as musical [removed] second extended edition of the book on composer Éliane Radigue adds a new chapter to the otherwise unchanged conversations which made the body of the first edition, published in 2019. The book is available at the Q-O2 workspace and via Les Presses du Réel. More information on the umland website.
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