Out with the old and in with the new! Q-O2 is ready to accompany you through the upcoming gloomy, frosty-kissed days:

Opening the year is Loup Uberto, our current resident who is the guest for our Second Sundays #46. Following are two events in the framework of La Semaine Du Son: Jeroen Uyttendaele is hosting a workshop on DIY hydrophones, while later that week Attila Faravelli and Ryoko Akama explore the diverse facets of water through sound art with a presentation, demonstration and discussion. On January 30, students of La Cambre present SIBYLLINE PLAYLAND: works were composed in the framework of the Création Sonore et Musique Expérimentale course at the ENSAV La Cambre, in partnership with Q-O2. And lastly, Felisha Ledesma is hosting a workshop Introduction to Modular Synthesis (using Automatonism), be quick – places are very limited! A lot of these activities are happening within the context of tekhnē, our new European collaboration exploring the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art. To stay up to date about everything tekhnē-related, you can subscribe to the newsletter.

A short dive into some documentary experiences, field recordings carried out in Italy, France, Tunisia, Tchad, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Portugal, Cuba… for the past 4 or 5 years, extracts from a long-term archival work which will include a book, a background of digital and discographic recordings, a phenomenology of singing and the artisanal processing of a large series of silver photographs… The sound pieces will be broadcasted on a small acousmonium together with some small talk and a delicious Grappa cocktail!

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Discover the secrets of underwater sounds. Under the guidance of Jeroen Uyttendaele and with the right equipment, you will learn how to build your own hydrophone using a few objects from the house, garden or kitchen, and then go and capture unique sounds from rivers, canals and pools.

Info and registration: https://www.lasemaineduson.be/event/diy-hydrophones/

This multidisciplinary project aims to explore the different forms that water can take in its physical, symbolic and spiritual states, in a constant dialogue between the ancient and the contemporary, reinterpreting and promoting the rediscovery of water culture in different territories and traditions. In a presentation, demonstration and discussion with the audience, Ryoko Akama will talk about the ideas and methods she uses in her installations and performances, and how they have evolved and changed over the last decade. Attila Faravelli will present a selection of his Field Recording work as well as a session on the current state of his collaboration with Ryoko in the context of Aural Tools, a project that plays with a series of simple sound-producing objects.

Event of La Semaine du Son. More info here

We are cyborgs.
We invite you to our cyborg tale.
With sound, let’s invent a cyborgian language.

All works were composed in the frame of the Création Sonore et Musique Expérimentale course at the ENSAV La Cambre, in partnership with Q-O2 in Brussels. The module proposes a special frame for listening, experimenting and reflecting around sound art, through the topic of the machine in relation to the body. The starting point of the course is Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto.The professors are Myriam Pruvot, Caroline Profanter, Julia Eckhardt and Céline Gillain.

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Join us for an introduction to modular synthesis using Automatonism, a free, open source program that uses Pure Data. Felisha will guide you through the basics of the software and modular synth terminology as well as explain a few different modular patches. No experience required, this workshop is for complete beginners. You will leave this workshop with practical examples and our worksheet so you can continue exploring on your own!

Workshop in English, in collaboration with Schiev Festival (where Felisha also is playing a concert), and in the framework of tekhnē, supported by Creative Europe. Tickets via this link. 
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In the light of In The Field 2 CRiSAP calls for papers, workshops, performances, and fixed media works. This year, the international symposium In The Field from 2013 is revisited, an event that focused on contemporary practices and their historical precedents, how field recordings are distributed as well as how they are heard. Across a range of approaches and creative works, the symposium examined audible and inaudible soundscapes and mapped urban, rural and digital field.

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Het BlokfluitAsiel is a collaboration between instrument builder Lukas De Clerck, composer Angélica Castelló and music teachers Katelijne Lanneau and Matthias Verniers. Their pupils (recorders from the music academy of Jette/Brussels and organists from the music academy of the DG, department St. Vith) performed the piece, invited to explore their own creative approaches to sound, improvisation, composition and performance. The musical piece was composed collectively, based on a concept by Angélica Castelló, aiming to establish an intense connection between Lukas De Clerck’s piece/machine AirBag/14Holes, the organ and recorders.

This piece is accompanied by an electroacoustic piece by Angélica Castelló, drawing inspiration from the atmospheres cultivated during the work on Het BlokfluitAsiel. The young artists involved in this project often likened the immense sound they collectively generated to that of a gentle monster.

The CD will be released together with Meakusma on December 15, and will be available via our umland website.

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GLEAN 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. 

This edition’s artist: Marnie Slater.

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