Dear post-Oscillation ::: Materia Forma molecules,
 
Ah, the notorious post-Oscillation blues bliss, the final phase of the wild transformation we went through last week. It hangs gently veiled over the Q-O2 office, all the improv brilliance, noise ingeniousness, heartbreaks, sour footwork legs, cathartic sundown arpeggios and warm-hearted patio hangouts still fresh in mind after the festival’s culmination on Sunday in the precious B********** A***S. For those who missed parts of our festivities, by tradition, some recordings will go online soon.

It seems the appropriate time to do a big round of thank-yous: to our dearest interns (Emilia, Maria, Leo and Z <3333), the VK team, Amber and Lukas of B********** A***S, père Etienne, Underbelly bookshop, and, all of you who joined us in this celebration. It is the biotope of us altogether that makes this festival the blissful shape it is.
 
No miscellaneous, puzzle or lifestyle section in this last bulletin, but a final image to take away from this edition: a Q-O2 team member convincingly announcing this festival edition the best edition ever during Sunday’s sunset. Was it partly the influence of exhaustion and the first mild sunburn of the season? Probably. But who are we to contradict him?
 
See you in one orbit around the sun,

The Oscillation Team

Dear endurance listeners,

The Oscillation diehards are feeling it this morning, five days is a lot of festival. Jana Rush’s footwork acrobatism, Valentina Vuksic’s stress procedure glitches, Sandar Tun Tun’s proper misuse of cdj’s, Ji Youn Kang’s cross-wired xylophone noise outbursts and Franziska Windisch’s fascinating formal insights got us perplexed once again. 

To keep the fire burning right to the end, we asked four Oscillation veterans to give us their tips , the results of which you can read below, as well as the announcement of the winner of the first Oscillation ‘works on paper’ competition. But, there is of course only one true way to cure the upcoming post-Oscillation blues: come to the beautiful B********** A***S (every performance is taking place in a different space), where there’s food (moussaka and petit sandwiches for €7 – bring cash!), an incredible patio, and our program starting at 15:00 :::

Today’s timetable:

15:00: Conversation #3 w/ Liew Niyomkarn, Jonáš Gruska, Pak Yan Lau. Moderated by Natasha Pirard: 
16:00: Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier: The duo presents Presque île, a small autonomous shape that casts a unique, sensitive and poetic artistic look on a territory. Snare drum, objects, small accordions and mouth organ mingle with a near and far natural soundscape.
17:00: Nika Son: Scatter is a multi-channel sound performance with video, objects, and light. In her work, Nika Son observes the realms of sleeplessness (insomnia), flickering between fatigue, restlessness and yearning.
18:30: Tetsuya Umeda: For Oscillation, Umeda will make a cylindrical sound sculpture from ordinary objects like tins, nets, stove, and rice. The sculpture’s unexpected sounds and simple processes are influenced by the idea of “Narikama”, an ancient Japanese ritual performed for 500 years.
19:30: Jonáš Gruska: A performance exploring generative, algorithmic, or chaotic patterns, speaker choreography, psychoacoustic effects and ultrasonic parametric speakers via a custom built sound reproducing tower. A world premiere, with an instrument constructed specifically for this occasion.

•´¯`•» Festival tips from Oscillation veterans «•´¯`•

Tip 1: Each night when you get home from Oscillation, seperate two eggs, cure them in a bath of soy sauce and mirin and eat them uncooked next with a bowl of short grain rice. (Note from the editor: Yuck!)

Tip 2: Pace your hangouts. Spend no more than 2 jetons between concerts and focus on only one conversation. Misantropy is the father of stamina.

Tip 3: Sleep? Keep it to a minimum. Early night? No, stay for the footwork moves. Afternoon nap? Never – be on time for the conversations.  A body fed with content will never tire.

Tip 4: Pack your sunglasses. You’ll look ‘cool’, and you unlock the option of having clandestine naps during sets.

𝐎𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ‘𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫’ 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

Thanks for all the submissions for our inaugural ‘works on paper’ showcase. There were many amazing submissions, but there can only be one winner: Vanessa de Michelis’s rendering of Bojana Cvejić Listening, transindividually talk. Our esteemed jury has this to say about her work:

“With its elegant line drawing, reminiscent of Jean Cocteau or early Warhol, this drawing perfectly captures the approachable but impassioned topic of Bojana’s talk, envisioning the universal in the mundane. The inclusion of the collage element of the conference ticket boldly ruptures the pictorial space with an infusing of the real. The drawing poses the provocation that the negative space of the image might be a space of political potential.”

Dear dwellers of the netherworld,

Saturated? Of course we aren’t. Day 5 of the festival is kicking of at VK Vaartkapoen in a couple of hours, fulling us already with a premature sense of melancholy for the patio hangouts soon to end. As for tomorrow’s grandiose finale, we’re at B********** A***S. For those needing some cosmic guidance in these last 2 days of the festival, our in-house astrology department has compiled this helpful horoscope at the bottom of this bulletin.

Today’s timetable:

18:30 Conversation #2: Floris Vanhoof, Ji Youn Kang, Nika Son. Moderated by Natasha Pirard.
20:00 Franziska Windisch: The complex relationship between score and event lies at the core of this lecture performance, which examines the theoretical concept of “Open Form”, formulated by Polish architect, artist, and lecturer Oskar Hansen (1922–2005).
20:45 Valentina Vuksic: Improvisation with/in the electromagnetics of computers ° e-smog disco ° running stress procedures for system health check inside of linux shell.
22:00 Ji Youn Kang: In Cross-wired Xylophone, Ji Youn Kang explores minimal digital components commonly used in analogue circuits, such as logic gates and shift registers, seeking unconventional combinations that extend their original characteristics by intentionally introducing “errors”.
22:30 Sandar Tun Tun: EDITS is a sensual dive steeped in melancholy and raw intensity. Sparked by gestures at once improvised and orchestrated, a score emerges through the performative misuse of digital turntables. The accompanying light performance is provided by Lui L’Abatte.
23:30 Jana Rush: Chicago born and raised, Jana Rush started Djing at the tender age of ten. Her MPC 7635 EP, released on Objects Ltd., received attention for her mind-bending drum acrobatics. Her 2017 debut album Pariah was lauded as one of the best albums of the year by Resident Advisor, The Wire, and Crack Magazine.

Providing your ears tonight with a fine cuisine soundtrack during hangouts: Q-O2’s hyperregulars Michele Giovanni and Kim Laugs.
 

Airies (March 21 – April 19)
If Anna Maria’s set last night has taught us anything, it’s that change can be unexpecred and rapid. Lay the ground to ensure that you’re always in the sweet spot to gather life’s riches.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20)
Some call it stubbornness, others perserverence. Channel your inner Floris Van Hoof and don’t get distracted by the projections of others.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20)
Your festival experience is about keeping things in balance. Like the sun and the moon, like Shamica Ruddock and Hannan Jones, like day and night, what’s brought into the space with equilibrium, will last the test of time.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22)
Cancer is the caretaker, it reminds you to pay attention to work that happens behind the scenes. What would this festival be without the calm hands of Ludo Engels riding the faders without haste or impulsion?

Leo (July 23 – August 22)
Cosmic passion and steadfast loyalty, with a jovial grace. This festival’s interns—Maria, Emilia, Z and Leo—form a constellation by which even the most fatigued of sailors might find their way home.

Virgo (August 23 -September 22)
Logical, practical, systematic? Not us, but thankfully Q-O2’s administrative steward Christel Simons — presiding gracefully over the ticket desk — is there beside us to keep the chaos at bay.

Libra (September 23 – October 22)
Harmony and balance are not only the tools to take with you into a 13 channel sound set up. Like Giulia Rae forever reminds us, they are ways of living too. Don’t rush, take time, and things will unfold with a depth of colour you never dreamed of.

Scorpio (October 23 – November 21)
Scorpio reminds us to be uncompromising and precise. Like Valentina Vuksic showed us in her workshop yesterday, pushing your cosmic hardware through its spiritual stress test can lead to unpredictable and beautiful horizons… if you keep the focus to listen and respond.

Sagittarius (November 22 – December 21)
The quest for knoweldge underpins your movement through this year’s festival — don’t waste your time at the bar or with the smokers, it is at the Underbelly book table that you will find what your searching mind desires.

Capricorn (December 22 – January 19)
A 6 day festival asks perserverence from its listeners, but also from its venue. That we have a roof under which to listen, that we have a drink in our hands as we converse, that we have a couscous in our bellies to stade us through the journey, all this is thanks to the tenacity of the team at VK.

Aquarius (Janaury 20 – February 18)
The truly independent and humantiarian voices never leave us. If we ask them back they will be there for us, and we for them. As we take our first steps into each new evening, we take them to the rhythm of Jacqueline Nova’s still vibrant Creación de la tierra (1972) echoing behind us and through us.

Pisces (February 19 – March 20)
Your friends know you as empathetic, pleasure-seeking and romantic. No doubt you felt cosmically aligned with last nights playlist by our spritual guardian Frederic Van De Velde, which exhibited all these qualities in spades.
 

Honored embodied souls,

We’re still descending from some strange heaven we landed in yesterday after this otherworldly brutalist high mass across from our HQ. Tonight, the sonic celebrations continue again in VK Vaartkapoen. Aaaand – we are delighted to announce the first Oscillation ‘works on paper’ contest (see below)!

Today’s timetable:

18:30 Conversation #1: w/ Shamica Ruddock & Hannan Jones, Valentina Vuksic, Okkyung Lee. Moderated by Natasha Pirard.
20:00 Jacqueline Nova: From heaven, to earth: “Creación de la Tierra was created in 1972 out of vocal material from creation chants of the U’wa ethnic group in Boyacá, Columbia. (…) These indigenous voices are continually transformed, at times past the point of recognisability. With this work, Nova claims the right to coexist as peers and the need to exist without exclusion.” – Ana Maria Romano G.
20:30 Ana María Romano G.: This concert is a ritual that takes the body through intense and fluctuating sonic universes. Each of its presentations offers an opportunity to include new materials, devices, … which emerge between fixed media and improvised treatments.
21:15 Giulia Rae: In an ever-forming and dissolving digital ecosystem, the sound makes the space and the space vibrates. Through multichannel diffusion, the interaction between sound and the architectural space is explored, breaking down the performativity of player and listener.
22:30 Floris Vanhoof: A laser shines through soap bubbles and two diodes listen to the lightwaves that are bend through the ever changing surfaces. Bursting bubbles make dynamic pops and photons diffracted through microscopic movements of liquid soap make glissandi. And, a miniature sitcom to be shown as 16mm film, or as longer expanded cinema performance with modified 16mm projector and live sound.
23:15 Hannan Jones & Shamica Ruddock: Hannan Jones & Shamica Ruddock: Re-Imagining In-Conversation is a research-based sonic venture encompassing speculation, jazz poetics, improvisation and dreaming. The performative exploration of the in-conversation format extends a myriad of identified shared and diverging research interests.

Tonight’s provider of the foyer soundtrack is Q-O2’s favourite uncle Frédéric Van de Velde.
 

𝓕𝓸𝓻𝓰𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓶𝓮 𝓕𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻, 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓭

Seven deadly confessions overheard between last night’s sets:

Envy: Watching Liew Niyomkarn perform I unfollowed her on Instagram, so beset was I with envy of her slide guitar skills
Gluttony: With no beers at the counter I gluttoneously indulged in seven appleschorles
Wrath: I’m still furious that I stepped out before Okkyung Lee’s encore and missed the whole thing
Greed: Even after ten layers of subtle overtones in Margarida Garcia’s set, my appetites were not sacieted and I still longed for more
Sloth: The heated floor of the church was so comfortable that I could scarcely raise my body back up after the final show
Lust: I must confess, I hovered around the Underbelly book table during every interval and left my date alone to pack up the chairs after the concert
Pride: My pride was such that I couldn’t admit (even to myself) that I was the one who kicked an empty bottle during Enrico Malatesta’s set

Now say 50 ‘Hail Mary’s’ and see you at tonight’s concerts,

Père Oscillation

www.oscillation-festival.be

!! 𝙾𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 ‘𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚙𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚛’ 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗: 𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝙾𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚜, 𝚊𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚓𝚞𝚛𝚢, 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛’𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚋𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚗, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝟹 𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚝𝚜! 𝚂𝚞𝚋𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚋𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚘@𝚚-𝚘𝟸.𝚋𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚂𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝟾 𝚙𝚖.

OV37
 “Disorder, Transmission, Love in Silence”
Goro Kakei >< Carole Vanderlinden

All exhibition views and details are now online HERE.

Please take note that:
from Thursday May 9th to Saturday May 11th (included)
OV Project will only be open by appointment.
Text + 32 484 966 647 or +32 486 434 344 to schedule.

Dear reading entity,

It’s time for our first outing: after two grandiose nights at VK we’re moving two blocks away tonight, to the exceptional Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Molenbeek church.

Today’s timetable:
 

20:00 Liew Niyomkarn: Through various tunings and the creation of resonances, Niyomkarm explores harmonics and tones using zither, building tension and repeat tones that weave into one another to create a new way of listening.
20:45 Enrico Malatesta: ‘Deriva di un Sonno Incert’o combines Malatesta’s personal research on percussion instruments with the dense and complex topic of the role of time/duration in performance practice, sound production and modes of listening. This new series of performances are inspired by the use and re-discovery of an ancient device for indicating the passage of time: the candle-clock.
22:15 Margarida Garcia: ‘Four Negatives’ is a piece created by weaving different lines of repetitions into each other, adding one line after another. Each musical phrase, around 6 minutes long, is played back unaffected, joining the existing lines.
22:45 Okkyung Lee: Cellist, composer, and improviser who moves freely between artistic disciplines and contingencies. Since 2000 she has worked in disparate contexts as a solo artist and collaborator with creators in a wide range of disciplines. A native of South Korea, Lee has taken a broad array of inspirations—including noise, improvisation, jazz, western classical, and the traditional and popular music of her homeland—and used them to forge a highly distinctive approach.
 

𝓠𝓾𝓲𝔃: 𝓦𝓱𝓲𝓬𝓱 𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓲𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝔂𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓭𝓪𝔂’𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓮-𝓾𝓹 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾?

You’ve seen all the performances. You’ve listened to all the records. And now you’re probably wondering which artist from yesterday’s Oscillation line-up you’re most like. Luckily, you can find out in 4 easy questions!

1. How do your friends describe your clothing style?

a) Clashing colours and bold textures
b) Deep colours, a mix of natural and unnatural dyes
c) All black, ready for anything

2. What would you be most likely to order in a bar?

a) Something in an ornate glass
b) Something very layered, with a complex flavour
c) Something you’ve never tried before

3. What is the first thing you do when you arrive in a new city while travelling?

a) Unpack your bags
b) Learn about local customs
c) Get to the highest point in the city

4. What is your favourite first date activity?

a) A complex discussion about what you have in common and where you diverge
b) Order 5 ‘surprise’ shots
c) All night walking together through the empty streets

Find out below the photos which artist you’re most like!

Take us to church,

The Oscillation Quiz Division

www.oscillation-festival.be

Dear reading entity,

It’s time for our first outing: after two grandiose nights at VK we’re moving two blocks away tonight, to the exceptional Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Molenbeek church.

Today’s timetable:
 

20:00 Liew Niyomkarn: Through various tunings and the creation of resonances, Niyomkarm explores harmonics and tones using zither, building tension and repeat tones that weave into one another to create a new way of listening.
20:45 Enrico Malatesta: ‘Deriva di un Sonno Incert’o combines Malatesta’s personal research on percussion instruments with the dense and complex topic of the role of time/duration in performance practice, sound production and modes of listening. This new series of performances are inspired by the use and re-discovery of an ancient device for indicating the passage of time: the candle-clock.
22:15 Margarida Garcia: ‘Four Negatives’ is a piece created by weaving different lines of repetitions into each other, adding one line after another. Each musical phrase, around 6 minutes long, is played back unaffected, joining the existing lines.
22:45 Okkyung Lee: Cellist, composer, and improviser who moves freely between artistic disciplines and contingencies. Since 2000 she has worked in disparate contexts as a solo artist and collaborator with creators in a wide range of disciplines. A native of South Korea, Lee has taken a broad array of inspirations—including noise, improvisation, jazz, western classical, and the traditional and popular music of her homeland—and used them to forge a highly distinctive approach.
 

𝓠𝓾𝓲𝔃: 𝓦𝓱𝓲𝓬𝓱 𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓲𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝔂𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓭𝓪𝔂’𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓮-𝓾𝓹 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾?

You’ve seen all the performances. You’ve listened to all the records. And now you’re probably wondering which artist from yesterday’s Oscillation line-up you’re most like. Luckily, you can find out in 4 easy questions!

1. How do your friends describe your clothing style?

a) Clashing colours and bold textures
b) Deep colours, a mix of natural and unnatural dyes
c) All black, ready for anything

2. What would you be most likely to order in a bar?

a) Something in an ornate glass
b) Something very layered, with a complex flavour
c) Something you’ve never tried before

3. What is the first thing you do when you arrive in a new city while travelling?

a) Unpack your bags
b) Learn about local customs
c) Get to the highest point in the city

4. What is your favourite first date activity?

a) A complex discussion about what you have in common and where you diverge
b) Order 5 ‘surprise’ shots
c) All night walking together through the empty streets

Find out below the photos which artist you’re most like!

Take us to church,

The Oscillation Quiz Division

www.oscillation-festival.be

Beloved material vessels,

Aaaand so that’s what it felt like, right? The excitement of an opening night: neatly timed schedules that became obsolete faster than wanted, devising clever systems to give people wristbands, the warmest hangouts with our beloved Oscillation crowd between and after performances, … Addictive it was, and still is.

All these feelings, accompanied by Laura Mello’s whimsical media mingling of sound poetry and synth pulses, Michiko Ogawa & Lucy Railton’s hypnotic circular timbre explorations, and Evicshen’s spectacular DIY noise shenanigans. We felt immersed right away.

Esteemed corporeal forms,

Our sonic feast will be opened tonight at VK Vaartkapoen in Molenbeek. Ok, it is the sixth edition of the festival, but its number is apparently not inversely proportional to the amount of excitement we feel at its onset. Unlike last year, day tickets will still be available at the doors (except for the discourse program, which is sold out), as well as dinner, which will be provided by VK the days we’re at their place. And as for the pre-, inter-, and post-performance hangouts that Oscillation fans have come to love, this year they’ll be sound-tracked by some of Q-O2’s extended family: starting tomorrow with the Brussels-based artist Soumaya Phéline (Club Détour / Psst Mlle).

Tonight’s timetable:

20:00 – Laura Mello – Composing For Many Media Including Me: Composing For Many Media Including Me is a self-referential performance series composed through the media of sound, video, experimental electronics and the performer herself. In each new performance, composition is approached via the tension between the fixed and the improvisational. The culturally-determined power relations in the construction of the performer’s body, as well as the potential and limits of the technical media used, are performatively questioned in interaction with each other.

21:00 – Michiko Ogawa & Lucy Railton – Fragments of Reincarnation: Fragments of Reincarnation began as a timbral exploration of the combined tuning systems of our instruments: the shō (Pythagorean tuning with a frequency of A=440 Hz fundamental, including fluctuation with inhalation and exhalation), cello (flexible, of course) and Hammond organ (equal temperament, broken). The structure of the piece is loosely based on the round shape of the shō and the 11 gagaku chords of ‘aitake’, moving through progressions that overlap and smudge, unfold in variations and demolish in cycles. The title Fragments of Reincarnation draws from these thoughts and how each voice emerges and disappears in the shimmer of the dusty old hammond organ.

22:15 – Evicshen: Evicshen is the nom de guerre of sound artist, experimental music performer, and inventor, Victoria Shen. Shen’s sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analogue modular synthesisers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. Shen’s music eschews conventions of harmony and rhythm in favour of extreme textures and gestural tones.

Forever’s gonna start tonight,

The Oscillation Department

Dear fans and non-fans of the Oscillation bulletin,

This is a bulletin dedicated to the dilution of our high mass density list of artists’ names with which we have been inundating you since early February. To reduce the concentration a bit, we therefore list below some of the in-house favourites and acts we think make this edition extra special. Tickets are still available for all days!

30/04: Victoria Shen aka Evicshen is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and inventor. Evicshen’s sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Previously seen in her performances: nails that serve as pickup needles, a sonic hair comb, and crowdsurfing with a complete gear table.

1/05: In the afternoon of May 1st, we host a discourse program in our very own HQ. Excitement is already growing for the talks, not least that of famed anthropologist Tim Ingold whose 2015 classic ‘The Life of Lines’ has set many an aspiring sound artist on adventurous new paths. 

2/05: On Thursday, we’re heading to the Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Molenbeek church, a location still underrated for concerts in our opinion. There awaits a well-balanced program, featuring all-time Q-O2 favourites such as Liew Niyomkarn, Enrico Malatesta, Margarida Garcia, and Okkyung Lee.

3/05: A rare chance to hear the work of Jacqueline Nova (1935–1975), performed by Ana María Romano G. Nova is a pioneering figure of electroacoustic music in Colombia, and one of Latin America’s most important avant-garde and experimental musicians of the 20th century. Coming of age in a repressive era in Colombia, Nova, the first woman to graduate in music composition from the Colombian National Conservatory, had a multifaceted career as composer, director, radio host, and cultural organizer.

4/05: One of our favourite – unfairly underrepresented in Brussels – genres’ most exciting acts closes the VK on Saturday: Chicago born and raised footwork artist Jana Rush. Be prepated for an intense emotional rollercoaster of disfigured samples, quivering electronics and vagrant percussion.

5/05: As if the stunning venue that B********** A***S is is not enough, we have the honour of welcoming Tetsuya Umeda there. For Oscillation, Umeda will make a cylindrical sound sculpture from ordinary objects like tins, nets, stove, and rice. The sculpture’s unexpected sounds and simple processes are influenced by the idea of “Narikama”, an ancient Japanese ritual performed for 500 years.

On form and in shape,

The Oscillation Büro