Q-O2 news :: The Return

Admittedly – countless complaint e-mails notwithstanding – last month saw the absence of our Second Sundays series for the first time in a long time, and we felt incomplete. Therefore: herewith the return of our beloved series, featuring filmmaker, actor, cinema programmer, audio enthusiast, and one of our hometown heroes: Christophe Piette, who will play a selection of 78 RPM shellac records.
This newsletter also highlights the return to our neighbours of iMAL, featuring an artist talk and listening session by Darsha Hewitt, which will take place partly at our place, and partly at theirs.
A third return is the one of Ben Bertrand, who will complete the second part of his residency and host a listening session at our place, accompanied by insights into his composing process.

For this listening session, Ben Bertrand will present a recording of his new piece for ensemble and electronics. Furthermore, he will explain the composition process of this work.
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HIFI to LOFI Continuum: Media Archeology and the ‘Political Ecology’ of Music is an artist talk, conversation and listening session that takes a (metaphorical) dive into an old dumpster to uncover the material politic of Music (and sound) and its predominant role within throw-away culture. The event traces out aspects of music’s material entanglements with humans and ecology by exploring the artist’s archive of experimental ‘how-to’ videos and her media archeological takes on the technology she finds in the garbage.
While eating popcorn and testing out a demo or two we will look into the artistic research findings of High Fidelity Wasteland, the artist’s sound centric trilogy that experiments with the material waste left over from generations of decomposing sound reproduction [removed];HIFI to LOFI Continuum culminates in a field trip to the iMAL exhibition The End and the Beginning for a listening session within High Fidelity Wasteland II: Protoplastic Groove — is an immersive sound installation consisting of a modified 1950s era record player that devolves the audible timescale of music from the past.
Limited to 20 participants; first comes first served, English spoken, in collaboration with iMAL
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Filmmaker, actor, cinema programmer, audio enthusiast, and one of our hometown heroes: Christophe Piette will play a selection of 78 RPM shellac records.
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. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a social setting as a space for discussion. Each session is paired with a cocktail-of-the-month, as decided by the invited guest. Cocktail of the month: Hugo
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Francesca Hawker and Margherita Brillada have each created a new soundwalk for the area surrounding our HQ. Their walks can be experienced through the new soundwalking app Tracks.
Duck Duck Eel by Francesca Hawker is an audio jaunt along the Brussels Canal, blending eel-related biographies, eel conservation efforts, and underwater canal recordings, in a mix of walking and biking segments.
Whispers of the Unheard by Margherita Brillada leads you through Molenbeek’s community via field recordings, testimonies and voices, offering a layered perspective on its past and present.
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