As ‘Sounds of Europe’ is officially ending in April, we invite you to a closing field recording event with installations by Dawn Scarfe (UK), a performance by JD Zazie (IT) and a Brussels book launch of the Sounds of Europe publication ‘In the Field’ by Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle (CRiSAP). ‘In the Field’ is [...]

crys cole is a Canadian sound artist working in performance and installation. Active listening is the fundamental core of her practice. During her residency, cole will inhabit Q-O2 as a laboratory to explore techniques and approaches in interpreting the aural landscape of a space through site-specific actions and sound installation. This process relates directly to [...]

Andrea Neumann (Inside piano) and Sabine Ercklentz (trumpet and electronics) have been working for quite some while as a duo and share a common interest in sound research, composition, acoustic and electro-acoustic improvisation. With others, including Antonia Baehr, they have intensively explored the boundaries of working with scores and performativity. Both musicians unravel the relationship [...]

Julie Rousse is a sound artist, improviser performer and electroacoustic composer. During her residency at Q-O2, she worked on her next sound installation called ‘The House of Dreams’. This project stretches out the long term research she has pursued during the past years on these topics called by this title. In Freud’s interpretation of the [...]

Felicity Ford (UK) & Valeria Merlini (IT): ‘Listening to Brussels from within and without’ Felicity Ford and Valeria Merlini will work with you to explore the sonorities of the city. Together we will create a radio show to give listeners who do not know the city some sense of its aural character. These workshops will [...]

Felicity Ford (UK) & Valeria Merlini (IT): ‘Listening to Brussels from within and without’ 25 – 28 March 2013, Kaaistudios Felicity Ford and Valeria Merlini will work with you to explore the sonorities of the city. Together we will create a radio show to give listeners who do not know the city some sense of [...]

Lecture-event #2 will introduce the work of 8 artists dealing with sound, public space, architecture and the city. Space and its sound can be considered an artistic subject or field of operation in both a physical sense as well as in terms of symbolic and metaphorical associations. Artist presentations will open these various layers of [...]

Julie Rousse is a sound artist, improviser performer and electroacoustic composer. During her residency at Q-O2, she will work on her next sound installation called ‘The House of Dreams’. This project stretches out the long term research she has pursued during the past years on these topics called by this title. In Freud’s interpretation of [...]

Marinos Koutsomichalis willl exhibit his new site-dependent installation piece for generative sound and light projection that he developed during his residency in Q-O2.  Abstract audio and visual stimuli enact an uncanny audiovisual architecture that challenges the visitor to engage with his or her own intrinsic subliminal responses. 

Marinos Koutsomichalis (Athens, 1981) is an artist working primarily with sound and occasionally with other media such as visual projections, objects or light.  His projects are mostly about interrogating the very specifics within which they occur, in terms of material, space/time, technology and consciousness.  During his residency in Q-O2 Marinos Koutsomichalis will work on a [...]

Via di San Teodoro 8 (2010) David Ryan’s film, Via di San Teodoro 8, explores Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi’s (1905-1988) house in the heart of Rome. It investigates different aspects of this house: its spaces, sounds and vistas, and its unique ambience opposite the ancient Roman Forum. It lies somewhere between experimental documentary and the [...]

White box? Black cube? Take your seat in an exhibition, walk round a stage show. The starting point and core of the new edition of Performatik, the Brussels performance art biennale, are encounters between artists from the performing arts and the visual arts, taking the time to explore each other’s worlds and arrive at something [...]

Soundlab4, curated by Alessandra Coppola for a.pass, aims to be an experimental journey exploring different paths across the soundscapes of Brussels, coupled for this occasion to Tuned City Brussels (see below for full schedule). The laboratory will work on two main axes: gardening (sound) and atmospheres. We take our inspiration from Gilles Clément’s work on [...]

Inspired by the notions of indirect listening and blind field recording, during the last few years Pablo Sanz has been focusing on the use of unconventional listening technologies to explore a variety of natural and built environments. Sound transmitted through non-air mediums and hidden acoustic spaces have become an essential aspect in his creative practice. [...]

Tuned City is a research platform from Berlin that creates a dialogue between the worlds of architecture, city planning and sound art, trying to use the possibilities of the spatial and communicative properties of sound as an instrument in artistic and urban practices. Q-O2 invites Tuned City to Brussels in 2013. The aim is studying [...]

A two day symposium to open up and explore the practice, art and craft of field recording through a series of panel presentations, listenings and screenings. Starting from the early days of field recording the symposium aims to relate the multitude of contemporary field recording practices to their historical precedents and investigate issues in contemporary [...]

Tuned City is a research platform from Berlin that creates a dialogue between the worlds of architecture, city planning and sound art, trying to use the possibilities of the spatial and communicative properties of sound as an instrument in artistic and urban practices. Q-O2 invites Tuned City to Brussels in 2013. The aim is studying [...]

Inspired by the notions of indirect listening and blind field recording, during the last few years Pablo Sanz has been focusing on the use of unconventional listening technologies to explore a variety of natural and built environments. Sound transmitted through non-air mediums and hidden acoustic spaces have become an essential aspect in his creative practice. [...]

STUK focuses on unexpected sounds and intense listening again during the thirteenth edition of Displaced Sounds in collaboration with Q-O2 and KRAAK.The evening will comprise of two very special and intriguing works for piano. Composer, performer and visual artist Charlemagne Palestine (US) is a unique and extravagant voice in the music landscape. Born in New [...]

“My residency at Q-O2 is an opportunity to deepen my research on listening modes and intervention strategies in public space. Rather than focussing on a single specific project I come equipped for this residency with a set of possibilities that I will rearrange on site in relation to the potentials of the places that I [...]

Between 21 and 27 January, the Week of Sound places sound under the spotlight, homing in on creation, distribution, the environment and health. The Week of Sound is more than a festival. It is a socially relevant event that sparks questions, surprise, resistance, hope and expectations in terms of sound. The project was launched by [...]

In 2010 David Helbich wrote scores for pieces, that could be performed right at the sport, in whatever context, as long as one could freely use both hands and had two functioning ears. The pieces would offer notated situations of organized listening and simple ear manipulations. The reader as the performer as the listener. During [...]

Sylvain Chauveau and Charlotte Hubert designed the “Concert Kits” as a musical performance with a very simple principle: putting up short concerts in a camping tent for one spectator at a time. This performance was then played in various places (in the open air, in festivals, art galleries…) and various countries (France, Japan, Holland…) The [...]

Katerina Undo is developing light sensitive miniature robots, the ‘Creatures’ that live autonomously, getting energy from solar cells and generating a large variety of sounds depending on the amount of light that touches their solar surfaces. The Creatures are built with two electronic analogue circuits, the ‘suneater’ and the ‘solar sound module’. It is impossible [...]

Katerina Undo is developing light sensitive miniature robots, the ‘Creatures’ that live autonomously, getting energy from solar cells and generating a large variety of sounds depending on the amount of light that touches their solar surfaces. The Creatures are built with two electronic analogue circuits, the ‘suneater’ and the ‘solar sound module’. It is impossible [...]

Chrs Galarreta creates sound from tones and silence. For this he uses unusual electronic devices, self-made instruments, controlled software errors and non-auditory tones. He processes all of this into audiovisual installations and performances. Seiji Morimoto creates sound performances, installations and videos. In 2003 Morimoto moved to Berlin and has meanwhile performed and exhibited at numerous [...]

The Creatures orchestra for amplified Human hearing Katerina Undo is developing light sensitive miniature robots, the ‘Creatures’ that live autonomously, getting energy from solar cells and generating a large variety of sounds depending on the amount of light that touches their solar surfaces. The Creatures are built with two electronic analogue circuits, the ‘suneater’ and [...]

The Void Belonging to Created Things During her time at Q-O2 Sarah Hughes has used the six books of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) as a ground for her interest in composition, series and extrapolation. Hughes’ longstanding engagement with the poem takes the form of installation, composition, text and collage, each [...]

The Void Belonging to Created Things During her time at Q-O2 Sarah Hughes is using the six books of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) as a ground for her interest in composition, series and extrapolation. Hughes’ longstanding engagement with the poem takes the form of installation, composition, text and collage, each [...]

MOMENTUM – Platform for Performance Art is a biennial international festival focusing on visual art performance. It is a place where public, artists and curators can meet and exchange ideas. MOMENTUM offers a platform for internationally renowned artists and young upcoming artists who consider Performance Art as their primary medium. Throughout the festival the audience [...]

Plateau: For amplified objects. The tabletop can be considered as a kind of miniature terrain, a plateau. Placed on top are objects devised to produce sound in simple ways. Spending time at Q-O2 developing his work with these amplified objects, devices and processes, Lee Patterson will explore the sonic potential of his unique instrumentation. From effervescent [...]

Field recording workshops by Els Viaene (Belgium) and Udo Noll (Germany), in the framework of the project Sounds of Europe, in collaboration with Školská 28 and Asociace MLOK Workshop by Els Viaene: Sound as Space How can an undefined space be transformed through the use of an aural landscape (the sounds surrounding us in all [...]

Plateau: For amplified objects. The tabletop can be considered as a kind of miniature terrain, a plateau. Placed on top are objects devised to produce sound in simple ways. Spending time at Q-O2 developing his work with these amplified objects, devices and processes, Lee Patterson will explore the sonic potential of his unique instrumentation. From effervescent [...]

Performance Space #1/Rue Darimon (working title) is the first attempt at constructing an audio-visual installation combining interior and exterior locations within a third hybrid space. The use of live sound and images in conjunction with predetermined structures provides the basis for a mediated version of reality that hovers on the border between composition and non-composition.

Performance Space #1/Rue Darimon (working title) is the first attempt at constructing an audio-visual installation combining interior and exterior locations within a third hybrid space. The use of live sound and images in conjunction with predetermined structures provides the basis for a mediated version of reality that hovers on the border between composition and non-composition.

OHHO ||| Wen Chin Fu OHHO is an instrument exploring physical movement and searching for an intimate contact with sound. The human body is used an integral part of a string instrument, replacing the body of the instrument with the body of the performer. Strings are strung onto the player so that the amount of [...]

A Variation of Sets [you may expect droning pieces, pulsing instrumental overtones, calming noise, live video mixing and field recordings] Part 1: Katherine Liberovskaya, live video and Al Margolis (If, Bwana), music (prerecorded and live sounds) Part 2: Al Margolis (If, Bwana), music (prerecorded and live sounds) in collaboration with Guy De Bièvre (guitar) Part [...]

Franziska Windisch will be working at the interface between sound performance and installation. Revolving around the material coal, she explores energetic processes and the relation between decomposition, sound and movement. A series of setups that deploy transformative operations will be developed and carried out, flowing into a collection of traces.

During his residency Nicolás Carrasco Díaz plans on working in some scores ―writing versions of them, finishing current ideas, preparing or rehearsing possible realizations― focusing on an ongoing piece/score for in situ recordings, past recordings of previous realizations of the same score, additional field recordings, ad libitum instrumental parts and portable (sound) materials: sine tones, [...]

Stephen Cornford & Ben Gwilliam’s collaborative practice involves sound making, improvisation and composition. To date they have worked with audio tape and its associated technology, looking at how sound is broken down and defined by its recording and playback. This residency leads on from Recorded (on) Delivery, a recent installation at Modern Art Oxford in [...]

In January 2012 Stephen Cornford and Ben Gwilliam each began to take apart a tape recorder down to its individual components, cataloguing them and sending them in the post to one another. Each part received is then used to perform a single sound-producing action, momentarily re-animating fragments of dead and dismantled media. During their residency [...]

C.fieldechoes is C.’s project centered on fieldrecordings and on the study and implementation of the “transiental soundscapes” concept. A concept conceived by C. that took form during his independent study of sound and abstract music composition: there are certain and essential manifests at the frontier of form and function of sound. C.fieldechoes studies the sound [...]

For the first time in Brussels 24 artistic laboratories and alternative management offices have joined together to show their practices and research in an Open House event dedicated to both public and professionals. Focusing rather on artistic research processes than on final products, these structures provide national and international artists with time, space and tools [...]

C.fieldechoes is C.’s project centered on fieldrecordings and on the study and implementation of the “transiental soundscapes” concept. A concept conceived by C. that took form during his independent study of sound and abstract music composition: there are certain and essential manifests at the frontier of form and function of sound. C.fieldechoes studies the sound [...]

OKNO is very happy to invite you to the end of their 2-year long artistic program Time Inventors’ Kabinet. TIK is an international project in which 4 main organizations, many small ones and more than 40 media artists worked together around time and ecology. The festival brings a collection of works and ideas that have [...]

Margarida Garcia and Ruth Barberan have been collaborating as a duo since 2002. At the time, both were living in Barcelona they played Gracia Territori Sonor, Musica Libre in madrid, ZDB in Lisbon, Czech Rpublic – Opava, Prague… They are both a half of the group Octante together with Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Ferran Fages. [...]

Margarida Garcia and Ruth Barberan have been collaborating as a duo since 2002. At the time, both were living in Barcelona they played Gracia Territori Sonor, Musica Libre in madrid, ZDB in Lisbon, Czech Rpublic – Opava, Prague… They are both a half of the group Octante together with Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Ferran Fages. [...]

Yann Gourdon only contemplates sounds in relation to an environment – a landscape or a structure. His pieces have a lasting quality and take on a life of their own in that they dispense with the need for an interpreter. The process engaged reveals latent acoustic phenomena induced by the distinctive physical features of the [...]

Yann Gourdon only contemplates sounds in relation to an environment – a landscape or a structure. His pieces have a lasting quality and take on a life of their own in that they dispense with the need for an interpreter. The process engaged reveals latent acoustic phenomena induced by the distinctive physical features of the [...]

Andrea Parkins (electric accordion, objects, electronics) performs Faulty (broken acts),  a live re-imagining of her immersive site-based work, Faulty (broken orbit). An exploration of mic’ed surfaces and amplified quotidian objects (collected, invented, imagined or implied), activated into movement and then layered against a shifting, slowly settling field of electronic feedback and live-processed instruments, Faulty (broken [...]

Aernoudt Jacobs will be working mainly on the project ‘String Theories’. The project revolves around the concept of sound induction into strings and early visualisation techniques from the 19th century. He will be investigating the project as an installation and/or a performance instrument. The concept of the instrument has already been developed. During the residency [...]

An acoustic and minimalist workshop in the architecture with Sylvain Chauveau.  

“We would like to take the chance to explore together different aspects of the collaborative process that happens while working as a group on a piece of music, taking advantage of the diversity of our respective approaches and looking forward to observe the internal feedback loops that will gradually affect the way we engage with [...]

“We would like to take the chance to explore together different aspects of the collaborative process that happens while working as a group on a piece of music, taking advantage of the diversity of our respective approaches and looking forward to observe the internal feedback loops that will gradually affect the way we engage with [...]

martiensgohome plays DoUndo / recycling G DoUndo/recycling G is a project initiated by Julia Eckhardt (viola) and Ludo Engels (recording). They have been collecting exclusively long viola sounds, rich in overtones and partly distorted. This ‘collection’ of sounds was presented to other (sound)artists for further processing. Themartiensgohome collective will take advantage of their current line-up: [...]

Eliane Radigue: Occam I for harp, played by Rhodri Davies John Butcher: The Geometry of Sentiment John Butcher & Rhodri Davies Occam I, for harp, played by Rhodri Davies, is the first piece of a new series of acoustic compositions by Eliane Radigue, a French composer who is creating electro-acoustic music since the 1950s. John [...]

martiensgohome plays DoUndo / recycling G DoUndo/recycling G is a project initiated by Julia Eckhardt (viola) and Ludo Engels (recording). They have been collecting exclusively long viola sounds, rich in overtones and partly distorted. This ‘collection’ of sounds was presented to other (sound)artists for further processing. Themartiensgohome collective will take advantage of their current line-up: [...]

‘La Semaine du Son’ [Week of Sound] was in 2004 an initiative by Christian Hugonnet that took place in Paris. Since 2011, there have been similar events in some fifty other French cities and beyond, including Montreal, Mexico, Geneva and Brussels. The second Brussels edition of the ‘Semaine du Son/Week van de Klank’ will take [...]

Plus Minus and Tape That will be taking the first steps towards the realization of a joint project entitled Tape to Real. Our research will centre around the idea of making a performance which is essence a realtime cover version of a carefully selected recording. Using a multi-track recorder, microphones, objects and instruments, we will [...]

The Tiptoe Company started up as an “ensemble of ‘delicate’ instruments” and is coached by the Ictus and Spectra Ensemble in the framework of the “Post Master in contemporary music” taught at the Ghent Conservatory. Currently, the guitar, recorder, harp and double bass have the main roles and recent creations are combined with repertoire that [...]

Sorry, this entry is only available in Nederlands.

A post-residency presentation of Patrick Farmer, Dominic Lash and Helena Gough, a three that has been two yet not three: three coalesce multiple variants of addition subtraction separate, time realised permutation, three writing, (thus) one (thus) two. traced to remotest point a prerequisite of composition found adorned unadorned of weight. a single work simultaneously two [...]

a three that has been two yet not three. three coalesce multiple variants of addition subtraction separate, time realised permutation, three writing, (thus) one (thus) two. traced to remotest point a prerequisite of composition found adorned unadorned of weight. a single work simultaneously two and three a combination of artistic practice, seemingly disparate, seemingly indistinguishable. [...]

The ‘BXL-NYC Spatialized’ Expo is an exchange between Brussels and New York, in which six audio artists (Mieke Lambrigts, Stefaan Quix, Ludo Engels, Barry Weisblat, Marina Rosenfeld and Michael Schumacher) show their work on sound spatialization in both cities. The Brussels’ leg of the exhibition will be hosted at Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, in the Q-O2, okno [...]

The project //2009// was carried out at Q-02 throughout the year 2009; it involved ten sound artists who created a 7-minute piece in response to a composition by an unknown precursor. They were given no secondary information in the process, since the intent was to explore how exactly we perceive sound information when taken fully [...]

FIELD FEST presents an up-to-date sampling of the artistic use of field recording: discovering the hidden sounds of Brussels through the ear of the artist, for once enjoying the noise of garbage trucks, joining an artist in the morning to go hunting sounds, immersing in fresh soundcollages in the evening,…     Twenty artists, both new [...]

During his residency Stefan Piat will work on an installation project on a window bank. Using an audio-capture live broadcast, it will be possible to hear the sounds of the scenery of the outside in the space from which the scenery is watched.        

  Every musician or music lover is all to familiar with that feeling: a secret fondness for a certain song you have been dying to play for as long as you can remember but somehow never got around to… Electric guitar quartet Zwerm and experimental duo (violin/electric guitar) Mr. Probe have joined forces to change [...]

Every musician or music lover is all to familiar with that feeling: a secret fondness for a certain song you have been dying to play for as long as you can remember but somehow never got around to… Electric guitar quartet Zwerm and experimental duo (violin/electric guitar) Mr. Probe have joined forces to change all [...]

Discover a limitless source of new sonic ideas by listening to and responding to real world sounds, both recorded and in the immediate environment. Using sounds from cities, streets, fields, markets, and the workshop site itself, the day course introduces alternate ways to incorporate everyday sonic landscapes into your own performance and compositional practices.   [...]

Sorry, this entry is only available in Nederlands.

The Q-O2 residency features within the framework of the pathway lump sum I received from the Flemish Community Commission and consists of two parts. On the one hand, it will involve developing and possibly recording one or several graphic scores by Jez Riley French, whom I met through Q-O2 about two years ago and, on [...]

RadioShellac is about to broadcast a radio programme which would have enchanted wireless listeners in 1927 or 1933. The programme will be picked up locally on Q-O2 on 18 June next. Its retransmission, 78 years after it first hit the air waves, will undergo spatio-temporal perturbations so as to bring the sound aspects up to [...]

RadioShellac is about to broadcast a radio programme which would have enchanted wireless listeners in 1927 or 1933. The programme will be picked up locally on Q-O2 on 18 June next. Its retransmission, 78 years after it first hit the air waves, will undergo spatio-temporal perturbations so as to bring the sound aspects up to [...]

Sportswear Revenge is an electro-acoustic project in which are involved three young italian musicians came from the experimental/underground & academic music scene in Italy. Enrico Malatesta, Riccardo Baruzzi and Lorenzo Senni presented their personal projects around Europe and since 2008 they also did two europeans tours as Sportswear Revenge. Sportswear Revenge implements a wide palette [...]

Sportswear Revenge is an electro-acoustic project in which are involved three young italian musicians came from the experimental/underground & academic music scene in Italy. Enrico Malatesta, Riccardo Baruzzi and Lorenzo Senni presented their personal projects around Europe and since 2008 they also did two europeans tours as Sportswear Revenge. Sportswear Revenge implements a wide palette [...]

Martin Taxt – tubaTetuzi Akiyama – guitarEivind Lønning – trumpetEspen Reinertsen – saxophoneToshimaru Nakamura – no input mixingboardKoboku Senju, meaning something like «Selection of Dead Trees», is a continuation of the music developed on the album with the same name, Varianter av døde trær, released on SOFA in 2008. Since then, the ensemble has performed [...]

Andrea Belfi: drums, percussion electronicsAttila Faravelli: self-made acousmonium, computerBelfi and Faravelli create their own sound world throught instantcomposition/improvisation. The results of their compositional process is a chaotic as well as rational music where rhythms created by drums and electroacoustic devices melts together with magmatic movement of sounds diffused by broken and modified speakers. Organic sound [...]

Andrea Belfi: drums, percussion electronicsAttila Faravelli: self-made acousmonium, computerBelfi and Faravelli create their own sound world throught instantcomposition/improvisation. The results of their compositional process is a chaotic as well as rational music where rhythms created by drums and electroacoustic devices melts together with magmatic movement of sounds diffused by broken and modified speakers. Organic sound [...]

concept & composition: Joris Blanckaert http://www.muzi-a-zeny.be/

concept & composition: Joris Blanckaert http://www.muzi-a-zeny.be/

Image, sound, movement, (musical)score are topics which Hallveig Agustsdottir will be exploring during her residency. Based on the visual aspect of Kandinsky’s compositional theory explained in Point and Line to Plane, she intend to extend the image to audio in the live performances. “[T]he element of time in the point is almost completely eliminated which, [...]

Aymeric de Tapol is an experimental and electro-acoustic composer, who works for contemporary dance pieces, radiophonic experimentation and as a freelance sound engineer for cinema and documentary film. Eleh is pure minimal drones as pure as they can get. Eleh began as long ago as 1999 as an exploration of analog synthesis, emphasising low frequency [...]

Image, sound, movement, (musical)score are topics which Hallveig Agustsdottir will be exploring during her residency. Based on the visual aspect of Kandinsky’s compositional theory explained in Point and Line to Plane, she intend to extend the image to audio in the live performances. “[T]he element of time in the point is almost completely eliminated which, [...]

“We plan to spend our time at q-o2 entrenched within familiar practices consciously utilised to afford varying and unforeseen connections within elements of our practice that are not utilised directly in our methods of performance. Not wishing to create the same environment from a different environment we learn how to relate to the action of [...]

“We plan to spend our time at q-o2 entrenched within familiar practices consciously utilised to afford varying and unforeseen connections within elements of our practice that are not utilised directly in our methods of performance. Not wishing to create the same environment from a different environment we learn how to relate to the action of [...]

KAMAMALuca Marini (drums/percussion)Audrey Chen (cello/voice/electronics)Kamama in cherokee means both elephant and butterfly. There is no overlap in meaning other than the supposed resemblance of the long trunk and flapping ears to the proboscis and wings of that insect. This duo loosely embodies elements of this kind of disparate pairing. chen and marini combine the raw [...]

Andrea Neumann, Bonnie Jones, and Christine Sehnaoui are improvising musicians based in Berlin, Baltimore, and Paris respectively. In their musical collaborations and projects, they have performed extensively in Europe, Asia, and the United States, notably the Whitney Museum (NYC), Ars Electronica (Linz), Trondheim Museum (Trondheim). Neumann, Jones and Sehnaoui bring a unique and singular approach [...]

The lecture performance by Agnes Meyer-Brandis deals with art, science and weightlessness. The starting point is an artistic project that Agnes Meyer-Brandis conducted under weightless conditions, entitled Cloud-Core-Scanner. The experiment involved a microgravitygenerating flying manoeuvre that is usually restricted to scientific work and was carried out in collaboration with the DLR (German Aerospace Centre). Meyer-Brandis [...]

16:00 > 17:30 installation + 17:30 performance, free entranceThe visual interrelation is an important aspect of their sound creation. The sound reveals what the image can’t, the sound does not illustrate.Neither is the minimal visual representation used as an aesthetic form but as a tool to create space for the sound to unfold.

Audiovisual neodadaistic performance with sound objects, speakers, live-video and texts combining analogue en digital sources. They realised since 2005 various pieces in a joined working process and will develop a new work in Brussels.

Audiovisual neodadaistic performance with sound objects, speakers, live-video and texts combining analogue en digital sources. They realised since 2005 various pieces in a joined working process and will develop a new work in Brussels.

The workshop will consist of three days improvising towards a composition, which will be performed in a final concert on the last evening.

In the late 1500dreds the english mathematician John Dee started communicating with presumed angels, who communicated to him in complicated ways the language of the angels used by god during the creation of the world. The books dictated during seances consist of large tablets filled with letters in the hitherto unknown enochian alphabet, from which [...]

In the late 1500dreds the english mathematician John Dee started communicating with presumed angels, who communicated to him in complicated ways the language of the angels used by god during the creation of the world. The books dictated during seances consist of large tablets filled with letters in the hitherto unknown enochian alphabet, from which [...]

This concert is organised by Extrapool as part of the ‘Brombron’ project.

Stevie Wishart / The Sound of Gesture (for violin, sensors and computer)”In everyday life we look without seeing, hear without listening: when a car passes we think ‘car’ – we may not even notice what colour it is or pause to identify its engine from the engine sound. In life we concentrate on the basics [...]

Last year in November Els Viaene travelled to the Brazilian Amazon forest with a group of 6 people. It was anincredible journey through the abundant wildlife of this very unique landscape. An expedition in which herears became her eyes. A place where at times, the ‘natural’ became truly bizarre.Besides hours of sound recordings she also [...]

Mecha/Orga will compose and perform a piece using field recordings that he will make during his residency at Q-O2. The procedure will be divided in three parts. The first will be recording environmental sounds in the city of Brussels and nearby areas. The focus will be on sounds of every nature, regardless of their source, [...]

Yves Poliart (La Médiathèque) ontvangt Julia Eckhardt in het kader van ‘Archipel’, een cartografie van ‘eilanden’ – tegelijk denkbeeldige en reële – uitgezet door onderzoekers en muzikanten, ergens in het midden van een ‘Bermudadriehoek’, rock, jazz en klassiek verbindend.Julia Eckhardt is altvioliste in het experimentele veld en artistiek leider van de Brusselse kunstenwerkplaats Q-O2. Zij [...]

Lee Patterson is a sound artist who investigates hidden sounds within our daily environment. In searching for alternative methods for making sound with a piano, he realised that each piano possesses its own distinct character due to design, manufacture, age, use, and other factors. Such sonic idiosyncracies allow unique possibilities within each instrument. ‘Pianoworks (2010)’, [...]

Mecha/Orga will compose and perform a piece using field recordings that he will make during his residency at Q-O2. The procedure will be divided in three parts. The first will be recording environmental sounds in the city of Brussels and nearby areas. The focus will be on sounds of every nature, regardless of their source, [...]

For the new installation ‘Background noise’ Mieke Lambrigts works with recordings of what we perceive as silence or filter out in an everyday context, e.g. constant pitches of power substations, power plants, server farms. She bridges the various recordings with sinus tones, in order to create a transposition between different ‘spaces’, some kind of architecture [...]


Suzuki’s journey as an artist began in 1963 with a performance at Nagoya station, in which he threw a bucket full of junk down a staircase. The inspiration behind this performance – the idea that if one were to hurl an object down a well-balanced stairway, a pleasant rhythm might be the result – took [...]

De studenten van de 3de Bachelor Radio stellen hun eindopdrachten voor van het Audio-Atelier.Dit jaar werkten ze rond het thema “De Stad”. Een thema dat kadert in een groter onderzoeksproject “My Favourite Brussels Sound” > http://www.myfbs.be/Vorige week nog werden ze in het auditieve stadslandschap ondergedompeld onder leiding van de Britse sound recordist [B]Chris Watson[eb]. Docenten [...]

RAZEN will use their residency at Q-O2 as an opportunity to experiment with different improvisational approaches and extended techniques, and to refine their methods of both the amplification and recording of their multi-layered ur-trance.

Chris Watson uses field recordings to recount his memories of the Antarctic expedition he went on in 2009 with David Attenborough. Whilst snow blindness may have become a familiar concept, snow deafness is still a mostly unknown and highly underestimated phenomenon. Chris Watson stretches your eardrums across an imaginary polar landscape, evoked through the poetry [...]

During her residency at Q-O2, Jeannette Muñoz will film and record in Brussels, and will keep working on material which she will film and record over the course of one month in a remote village in Liguria this September.The presentation will include film works she has realised in London this spring, and some of the [...]

During her residency at Q-O2, Jeannette Muñoz will film and record in Brussels, and will keep working on material which she will film and record over the course of one month in a remote village in Liguria this September.The presentation will include film works she has realised in London this spring, and some of the [...]

Xavier Dubois (BE), guitarPhyllis Chen + Rob Dietz (USA), toypiano + visualsGreg Malcolm (NZL), guitar(in collaboration with http://www.matamore.net/)

Choreographer Eszter Salamon will work on a new piece ‘Elucidations’, a science-fiction musical narrative, evolving around: bodilessness, a composition of sensation-landscapes and a shift from vision as the dominant perception sense to listening.

‘You Are Here’ will respond to both the geographic and social landscape of Brussels, documenting and focusing on sites which are ignored or unwanted, both locally and wider afield: abandoned buildings, transient spaces, industrial sites and the hidden features of urban locations. This research will be incorporated into future projects and pieces, with an installation/performance [...]

The new project by Tomoko Sauvage, musician/soundartist, balances between performance and installation.Soundmaterial are waterdrops, the setup consists of 8 water-filled porcelain bowls and 8 underwater microphones. The serene, contemplative aquatic soundscape is woven from the fragile sounds of water waves and drops resonating in the bowls.19/09 – 15 > 18:00 with performance at 17:00For FreeCompilothèque, [...]

CITY GARDEN – KANAL LABS, TRIANGULATEDThree Brussels art labs invite you to N° 30-34 quai des Charbonnages /Koolmijnenkaai where OKNO, the artist-run organization for art and media technology, will be opening its roof garden for its Open Greens project. You’ll be able to sample Brussels honey and drinks made from plants grown in the garden. [...]

‘You Are Here’ will respond to both the geographic and social landscape of Brussels, documenting and focusing on sites which are ignored or unwanted, both locally and wider afield: abandoned buildings, transient spaces, industrial sites and the hidden features of urban locations. This research will be incorporated into future projects and pieces, with an installation/performance [...]

32 stochastic ZFC variations for viola In mathematics, Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice, is one of several axiomatic systems that were proposed in the early twentieth century to formulate a theory of sets without the paradoxes of naive set theory like Russell’s paradox. Specifically, ZFC does not allow unrestricted comprehension. Today ZFC [...]

“The International Symposium on Electronic Art is one of the most important festivals for digital and electronic art. Being one of the projects of RUHR.2010 European Capital of Culture, this year the symposium will be held in Germany for the first time. At several venues in the cities of Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg, the festival [...]

Wolke (German for “cloud”) invites you into a twilight universe of stories both dark and luminous. A quartet headed by singer Anja Kowalski, Wolke’s musical vocabulary is as idiosyncratic as it is personal: with keyboard, laptop, drums and guitar effects, the band melts jazzy grooves over experimental compositions and sober songwriting. Anja’s german background furthermore [...]

Wolke (German for “cloud”) invites you into a twilight universe of stories both dark and luminous. A quartet headed by singer Anja Kowalski, Wolke’s musical vocabulary is as idiosyncratic as it is personal: with keyboard, laptop, drums and guitar effects, the band melts jazzy grooves over experimental compositions and sober songwriting. Anja’s german background furthermore [...]

Michael Pisaro (born 1961) is an American experimental composer. He has created over 100 works for a great variety of instrumental combinations, including several pieces for variable instrumentation. He teaches composition at the California Institute of the Arts. Remarkable and unprecedented in its novel use of silence, duration, and structure, his work is regarded by [...]

Pascal Battus : paper & microphonesAlfredo Costa Monteiro : paper & microphones(duo formed in 2008)Here, paper is diverted from the silence absorbed in reading or from the secret of a consumer product that it wraps, to deliver a single sheet of white noise, without any message-bearing vocation.It becomes a vibrating body or a speaker of [...]

Pascal Battus : papier & microphonesAlfredo Costa Monteiro : papier & microphones(duo formed in 2008)Here, paper is diverted from the silence absorbed in reading or from the secret of a consumer product that it wraps, to deliver a single sheet of white noise, without any message-bearing vocation.It becomes a vibrating body or a speaker of [...]

Transmedia presents City of SoundsThe city sounds continuously surround us although we are not always aware of this activity. What we call ‘noise’ induces annoyance but very often we miss the subtle changes of tones and sounds that surround us, sound waves generated by every single entity in the city maze. The Transmedia Postgraduate in [...]

In mathematics, Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice, is one of several axiomatic systems that were proposed in the early twentieth century to formulate a theory of sets without the paradoxes of naive set theory like Russell’s paradox. Specifically, ZFC does not allow unrestricted comprehension. Today ZFC is the standard form of axiomatic [...]

Aki Onda: “First Thought Best Thought” Over a span of two decades, Aki Onda has been using the cassette Walkman for making field recordings which he keeps as a sound diary. He considers these recordings to be personal memories, and not just sounds. Aki Onda will play his first cassette recording which he made in [...]

London concert series “Music We’d Like to Hear” has invited sound artist Lee Patterson to create a new work for piano for July. Lee uses contact mics and hydrophones to investigate and reveal unheard sounds in the daily environment, for example within the structures of buildings, or underwater in ponds, or in the combustion of [...]

>>>>> You can order the cd-book on [L]http://compostandheight.blogspot.com/[eL]>>>>> /2009/ on the radio from the 15th of August on: listen on [L]http://cafesonore.radio6.nl/[eL]

Meet Mr. Probe: a unique constitution, new music, interdisciplinary projects After a period when they were both working on other projects, Marieke Berendsen (violin) and Bruno Nelissen (e-guitar/ composition) have rejoined forces. Mr. Probe, which was born out of this, now launches its first programme, with plenty of new compositions. Mr. Probe invited a number [...]

For the new installation ‘Background noise’ Mieke Lambrigts works with recordings of what we perceive as silence or filter out in an everyday context, e.g. constant pitches of power substations, power plants, server farms. She bridges the various recordings with sinus tones, in order to create a transposition between different ‘spaces’, some kind of architecture [...]

ACOUSTIC MIRROR _ MOSS: this art project cultivates moss in a protected environment. Daily recordings through pictures, sound recordings, data on temperature and humidity enable a mapping of the gradual growing process of moss. These data recordings will be used to render computer-generated images, which will be projected onto the moss. The sound recordings of [...]

ACOUSTIC MIRROR _ MOSS: this art project cultivates moss in a protected environment. Daily recordings through pictures, sound recordings, data on temperature and humidity enable a mapping of the gradual growing process of moss. These data recordings will be used to render computer-generated images, which will be projected onto the moss. The sound recordings of [...]

Sylvain Chauveau is a french composer of quiet music for piano, electronics and vocals who has released solo records on labels such as Type, FatCat and Creative Sources. Pierre Gerard is a minimalistic electroacoustic musicion. For this duo, he will perform the cello. Taku Unami plays several string instruments or objects vibrated by inaudible frequencies [...]

During her first residency at Q-O2 in Rue de la Senne, Felicia Atkinson created an installation called “Little Fires”. It was composed on the floor with very simple materials such as different kinds of paper, fabrics and wood. Like a large score to walk through. Felicia Atkinson will continue this experience in the Q-O2-space in [...]

During her first residency at Q-O2 in Rue de la Senne, Felicia Atkinson created an installation called “Little Fires”. It was composed on the floor with very simple materials such as different kinds of paper, fabrics and wood. Like a large score to walk through. Felicia Atkinson will continue this experience in the Q-O2-space in [...]

Olivier Toulemonde, Agnès Palier, Jack WrightThis improvisation-trio brings together two duos, Jack Wright (saxophone) and Agnès Palier (voice), which performed the first time in Paris in April 2005, and Agnès and Olivier Toulemonde (acoustic objects), who have performed extensively in Europe and recorded a CD. The three toured together in Fall 2006 in France, Switzerland [...]

Patrick Thinsy’s current project is ‘A Smoking Thing’, a combination of a sound installation and live action, using smoking pills and fuses, filling the room with smoke and amplifying / recording / remixing the sounds made during the event. The next step is creating a network of different sized pipes in which the fuses will [...]

In their very sound oriented duo work, the two percussionists Michael Vorfeld and Christian Wolfarth create music that transcends the boundaries of improvised and composed music, as well as those between instrumental and electro-acoustic music, showing the influence of electronic music on contemporary musicians. By using unconventional playing methods and individually arranged set-ups of percussion [...]

In their very sound oriented duo work, the two percussionists Michael Vorfeld and Christian Wolfarth create music that transcends the boundaries of improvised and composed music, as well as those between instrumental and electro-acoustic music, showing the influence of electronic music on contemporary musicians. By using unconventional playing methods and individually arranged set-ups of percussion [...]

ANTRESYoann COSTE : technic and sound mixingMathias FORGE : tromboneThese two musicians will work on the link between playing and recording, and especially the spaces where this recording is made. To do so, they propose to spend one week in a place, work on this place and give a result of their experience with a [...]

ANTRESYoann COSTE : technic and sound mixingMathias FORGE : tromboneThese two musicians will work on the link between playing and recording, and especially the spaces where this recording is made. To do it, they propose to spend one week in a place, work on this place and give a result of their experience with a [...]

Composing in, about and with a city, with several rules in mind but also some room to cheat: with his residency in Brussels, it is not Pali Meursault’s intention to undertake a strict topographic (or topophonic) survey nor to appeal to the subjective evocation of a (sonic) landscape. It is probably unlikely that we can [...]

Composing in, about and with a city, with several rules in mind but also some room to cheat: with his residency in Brussels, it is not Pali Meursault’s intention to undertake a strict topographic (or topophonic) survey nor to appeal to the subjective evocation of a (sonic) landscape. It is probably unlikely that we can [...]

6 solocompositions for harp:Ben Patterson: pages to save our planet (7min)Tim Parkinson: harp piece (19min)Jean-Luc Guionnet: dyslexic harp (deciphered in the dark) premiere (10min)intervalEva-Maria Houben: aeolian harp (harp solo) premiere (18min)John Lely: cycling in…(14min)Jean-Luc Guionnet: harp as filter (9min)

During their residency together, Rhodri Davies and Jean-Luc Guionnet will work on two compositions by Jean-Luc Guionnet, commissioned by and wrote for Rhodri Davies.

During her first residency at Q-O2 in Rue de la Senne, Felicia Atkinson created an installation called “Little Fires”. It was composed on the floor with very simple materials such as different kinds of paper, fabrics and wood. Like a large score to walk through. Felicia Atkinson will continue this experience in the Q-O2-space in [...]

HOQUETS is an artisan collaboration of music and art based in Brussels based on creating a language based on simple instrumentation based on reused or self constructed materials based on the search for the musicality of everyday objects. This collaboration unites the various research that each member of the group had been and is currently [...]

Belgian-Brazilian Evening:Matthias Koole & Mario Del Nunzio (e-guitar)Stefan Prins (live electronics)Program:Mário Del Nunzio, Serenata Arquicúbica for Electric Guitar and Optional Video (2008) 17’Henrique Iwao, Segundo Solo for Electric Guitar and Live-Electronics (2009) 14’ (première)Bernardo Barros, Trama for two Electric Guitars and Tape (2009) 10’ (première)Stefan Prins, Not I for Electric Sustain Guitar, handheld ventilator and [...]

Jim Denley and Kim Myhr met in Sydney in early 2007, and “Systems Realignment” was recorded six months later. Since then the duo has done numerous concerts in Europe and Australia. “Systems Realignment” is an attempt to rethink their fundamental musical methodology. There is an interest in materiality, almost at a primitive level, without being [...]

Opening 24 nov @ 19:3024 nov > 27 nov 2009 (19:30 > 23:00)

Performance, November 19, 20:30Installation, November 20-21, 14 > 18:00In a large, quiet room, a long “corridor” of sound cuts through an otherwise empty space. A Sensation of Movement is an exploration of the spaciousness and flow of time in the context of sound. As such, it is a rethinking of the idea of a ‘kinetoscope’ [...]

Performance, November 19, 20:30Installation, November 20-21, 14 > 18:00In a large, quiet room, a long “corridor” of sound cuts through an otherwise empty space. A Sensation of Movement is an exploration of the spaciousness and flow of time in the context of sound. As such, it is a rethinking of the idea of a ‘kinetoscope’ [...]

Performance, November 19, 20:30Installation, November 20-21, 14 > 18:00In a large, quiet room, a long “corridor” of sound cuts through an otherwise empty space. A Sensation of Movement is an exploration of the spaciousness and flow of time in the context of sound. As such, it is a rethinking of the idea of a ‘kinetoscope’ [...]

Daniel Meyer Grønvold: Acoustic tabletop guitar, Lo-fi electronics, DictaphoneHåvard Volden: Acoustic 12-string tabletop guitar, lo-fi electronics, DiscmanTwo active players in the new generation of Norwegian improvisers. The duo has worked together for a two-year period, looking into the possibilities of similar instrumentation. It started out as a strictly acoustic duo but has gradually incorporated contact [...]

Une oreille pour entendre même mal ces bribes d’un antique cafouillis(from the manuscripts of Heiner Müller’s Hamletmachine)Performed by Christina Clar, Yves Arcaix, Silvia Platzer, David Neaud“We would like to explore this bilingual German/French version of the Hamletmachine’s manuscripts, considering first, the written pages as a musical score bringing into play both the set of typographical [...]

With Charles Curtis, Carol Robinson, Bruno Martinez After more than 30 years of infinitely discrete electronic music, Eliane Radigue abandoned her cherished Arp 2500 synthesizer to devote herself entirely to acoustic composition. Monumental in length (2h30) but delicate due to the acoustic treatment of the pulsing and murmuring sounds, Naldjorlak was conceived as a trilogy [...]

Z’EV, catacoustic percussionist and pioneer of industrial music, is in concert together with Luc Van Acker in Beursschouwburg where Z’EV headlined a show in February 1981, a show Luc Van Acker opened with his first professional performance. For this show they will each be using a yamaha RM-50 rhythm sound modules, the king and queen [...]

Concept: Aernoudt Jacobs / Uitvoerende Productie: Q-O2 werkplaats, Overtoon / Coproductie: Happy New Ears, STUK, Vooruit, Q-O2, Overtoon / Uitvoering Koelinstallatie: Universiteit Diepenbeek, Departement Industriële Wetenschappen en Technologie (iRefrigeration.eu) / Geluidsconsultatie: Amplus/AevoxMet de steun van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap en Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie

open03/10/2009 > 11:00 – 18:0004/10/2009 > 14:00 – 18:00

In Zennestraat 17, the former laboratory of the Ministery of Economic Affairs, a temporary artistic hub was opened in April 2009. During BRXLBRAVO, a cross-over of contemporary work from all disciplines will be presented. Several workspaces will join forces with the resident organizations, to inject a supplementary dose of experimental art. The platform arts-lab.be will [...]

Michael Schumacher & Nisi Jacobs (DRAW) (US)Schumacher is a composer, performer and installation artist based in NY. Working with electronic and digital media, he creates sound environments that evolve over long time periods. Jacobs is a video artist with a background in painting. As DRAW Jacobs creates large-scale multichannel video performance and installation work. DRAW’s [...]

daily performance > 19:30 – 20:00

Each day of his residency he will compose and present a 30min piece from sources recorded during the day. Besides the stereo presentation of the composition, the piece will also be broadcasted from under a horizontally suspended 46cm drum covered with salt crystals. On October 1 there will be a live percussion performance, followed by [...]

Solo Pierre Berthet: “mouvements”, for bendir and voiceSolo Manu Holterbach: exotic instruments, oscillators, phonographsDuo Manu Holterbach / Pierre Berthet: electronics, objects, recordings / waterdropswith support of the French Community

Manfred Werder is composer and performer, he lives in Zürich. His work actualizes time and space by letting appear the world’s natural abundance. Most of his actual works are text scores.After his residency he will perform and comment his compositions, and discuss his work with composer-collegue David Helbich.

MOMENTUM – Platform for Performance-Art is an annual international festival focusing on visual art performance. For the fourth year in a row Momentum offers a platform for internationally renowned artist and young upcoming artists who consider Performance-Art as their primary medium.The fourth edition of Momentum will take place on the 5th, 6th and 7th of [...]

In May and October 2009, an old laboratory of the ministry of economic affairs in Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne -a unique location in the heart of Brussels- will be the location to discover a crossover of innovating and contemporary artistic work. Eight artistic organizations, both Flemish and French-speaking have been offered the chance [...]

Larry Polansky: The World’s Longest Melody Larry Polansky – for jim, ben and lou – guitar, harp and percussionLarry Polansky – Ontslaan – electric guitar quartet – creationLarry Polansky – 34 Chords – solo electric guitarChristian Wollf – Pairs – guitarduo As composer, Larry Polansky clearly follows in the steps of his mentor James Tenney [...]

During his residency, Patrick Thinsy will be working on a new project mixing installation and sound work. His research will deal with smoke, and the various manners of apprehending smoke, of controlling it and fixing it on a video / photo / audio support. Which are the sounds generaly associated with smoke? What sounds do [...]

Julia Eckhardt (DE) plays new compositions by Andrea Neumann (DE), Chiyoko Szlavnics (CA), Anne Wellmer (DE) and Stevie Wishart (UK). The four composers, also performers and improvisationists (re)score new and existing compositions written for viola and media. Julia Eckhardt, violist and curator, performs the pieces with a number of composers, according to a process involving [...]

Krakatau is a young music theatre collective, founded by theatre-maker Leen Verheyen, actress Joke Raes and visual artist Dries De Win. During their residence, they have been preparing the music theatre show Human Interest, together with musicians Marie Koop and Ephraim Cielen. This show is based on news facts from recent years, featuring young criminals [...]

Esther Venrooy will perform “vessel”, a spatial composition consisting of field recordings of cargo ships, drifting on sound waves. The piece was presented at Diapason Gallery as a site-specific multichannel sound installation in October 2008.Audio fragment Yoko Higashi: [L]http://www.kwadratuur.be/audio.php?id=827[eL]

Permafrost is intended to be a soundsculpture addressing in the first place the freezing process of water. At the core of Permafrost is a silent machine producing sounds according to her specific condition: the crystallization process becomes sound source, the outgrowing matter becomes visible and tangible. New possibilities derived from contemporary media are applied as [...]

Kaaitheater presents the second edition of Performatik, a festival based on contemporary performance. This year more artforms are included + the festival expands outwards by alliances with various partners in Brussels and by widening the time perspective by using the Italian Futurism of Marinetti and his companions. Performatik09 is not a nostalgic look back at [...]

Michael Vorfeld, musician and visual artist, plays percussion and self designed stringed instruments and realises electro-acoustic sound pieces. Light Bulb Music is an audio-visual performance working with sounds generated by the use of different light bulbs and actuating electric devices. The changes in the light intensity, the rhythm of the flickering and pulsating lights are [...]

Pierre Berthet, composer and percussionist, designs and builds sound objects and installations. One of his inventions is the reversed vacuum cleaner. At the end of the tubes of the reversed vacuum cleaners are fixed flexible tubes (bicycle air chamber). When it is switched on, the flexible tube gets in regular motion on the ground. An [...]

Christine Sehnaoui (saxophone), Mathias Forge (trombone) and Olivier Toulemonde (acoustic objects) are (still) part of the young generation of improvising musicians. They follow the paths cleared by their masters, fascinated from the very beginning by the freedom this practice has to offer, and they are totally dedicated to listening and playing with sound. They have [...]

Showings of the performance “In this case” (for violin, viola and little box), a wordless piece for two musicians (Sigrid Keunen & Dominica Eyckmans) and a ‘junction’ between classical music and performance, a ‘junction’ between life and fantasy.

In her recidency Sigrid Keunen will work on performances for viola & voice + finish the performance “In this case” (for violin, viola and little box), a wordless piece for two musicians (Sigrid Keunen & Dominica Eyckmans) and is a ‘junction’ between classical music and performance, a ‘junction’ between life and fantasy. Showings of this [...]

Intimate Strangers is curated by Meg Stuart and brings dance, music, video and installation, all mixed up and without hierarchy, in theaters and private houses, during the first week of December.Q-O2 hosts David Linton and Hahn Rowe (VS) in the scope of the INTIMATE STRANGERS PARCOURS. Linton is audiovisual artist and sounddesigner and prepares together [...]

Thomas Olbrechts, alto saxophone player & instant composer, has developed a strong individual musical discourse that plays off rigid saxophonetechniques and compositionsystems against each other. Sebastien Roux (electronics) en Kim Myhr (guitar, objects, simple mechanics) play electro-acoustic improvisations that operate within a large textural and harmonic area. The poetry of the small sound and gesture [...]

Thomas Olbrechts, alto saxophone player & instant composer, has developed a strong individual musical discourse that plays off rigid saxophonetechniques and compositionsystems against each other. Olbrechts has endeavoured to ‘theatricalise’ the operation of this system within a number of experiments: elements such as live sampling, live television, live cam are brought into musical performances. The [...]

The Antwerp & Brussels-based collectief reFLEXible (Joachim Devillé (trumpet, flugelhorn), Thomas Olbrechts (alto saxophone), Stefan Prins (piano, objects and live-electronics) focuses on free improvised music (or instant composed music) often combined with other media as dance, performance, video and film. The different backgrounds of the members gives the collectief its unique sound and character. At [...]

Dans le cadre du projet urbain PARK 58 (www.park58.be), Expo 58t présente, du 31 octobre au 8 novembre 2008, une sélection d’œuvres d’art contemporain à la gare de Bruxelles-Congrès. Avec:Beatrijs ALBERS, Charlotte BEAUDRY, Pierre BISMUTH, Bram BORLOO, Michel COUTURIER, Edith DEKYNDT, Alexandra DEMENTIEVA, Simona DENICOLAI et Ivo PROVOOST, Lise DUCLAUX, F.I.B./B.O.S., Laure GATELIER, Agnès GEOFFRAY, [...]

Opening + Intervention I19 Oktober, 18:00Openinghours 20 – 24 Oktober, 12:00 > 18:00Intervention II22 Oktober, 20:30 (installatie open vanaf 20:00)How to share human experience and encounters? How to share a space? And which space? How to be inside a space and inside ourselves? How to talk about the lives of others without telling a story? [...]

How to share human experience and encounters? How to share a space? And which space? How to be inside a space and inside ourselves? How to talk about the lives of others without telling a story? – Christina Clar (sound and video artist) and Fabrice Moinet (programmer, soundengineer) will build an installation based on interviews [...]

During residencies at q-o2, tuba player and composer Robin Hayward wrote ‘Jan van Gorp’, a composition for his trio Zinc & Copper Works (horn, trombone and tuba), inspired by the theories of Jan van Gorp (1519-1572), a Dutch physician, linguist and humanist, who believed to have proved that Brabantic was the original language spoken in [...]

PARK 58, an urban utopy, is an initiative that aims at a creative reinvention and participative re-appropriation of the city of Brussels, starting from the imaginary mental transformation of Parking 58 (a carpark in the centre of Brussels, build in 1958 for the worldexpo) into a park: PARK58. On September 21 the parking will be [...]

Robin Hayward will finish his ‘Jan van Gorp’ compositions with his trio Zinc & Copper Works, the creation will take place at the MusicalIinstrumentsMuseum.’Jan van Gorp’ is inspired by the theories of Jan van Gorp (1519-1572), a Dutch physician, linguist and humanist, who believed to have proved that Brabantic was the original language spoken in [...]

OpeninghoursSeptember 11, 18:00-22:00 > Opening + drink (on the new Q-O2 space)September 12, 12:00-18:00 September 13, 14:00-18:00

Makes situational and site-specific space drawings. Making visible the essence of a space, creates new possibilities for the perception of this place. For the new q-o2-space she will create the work dpi, a videoprojection, lying over the ’real’ space. It will show a printing printer. Simple structures and scanned photos, are pushed overdimensionally over the [...]

ARTS-LAB.BE – SEMINARThe category Arts laboratories is a mix of very different initiatives. No two laboratories are alike but they all focus on the artist and the process of research and experiment. They are therefore an invisible part of the cultural landscape.The Arts Flemish Parliament Act 2006-2009 introduced the category ‘arts laboratory’ for the first [...]

NordzuckerSince 2004 Nordzucker (Birgit Ulher – trumpet, Lars Scherzberg – saxofon, Michael Maierhof – cello) developed an individual language of sound, beyond the traditional way of using the instruments, by extended techniques, preparations with clothes pins, mutes and metal objects. The open texture of music, with lots of silence, is created with splitted, multiphonic and [...]

MOMENTUM is a yearly platform for Performance-Art. The third edition will take place on the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th of June 2008 at Bains::Connective, Wiels and Q-O2. The participating artists are Merlin Spie (B), Ria Pacquée (B), Harald Thys and Jos De Gruyter (B), Gosie Vervloessem (B), Gisela Hochuli (CH), Judith Röthlisberger (CH), Atelier [...]

JEUDI (Lausanne)Every time the Jeudi duo gives a new concert, its members (Benoît Moreau, piano/clarinet and John Menoud, guitar/electronics) seek, as an experiment, the company of a different artist. This person as a ‘objet trouvé’, in this case Gaëtan Bulourde, is like a unique treasure that the duo has found, giving every concert a new [...]

During his residency, Thinsy will work on and show his second installation made of turntables, which is untitled yet. He also will finish the recording of a solo piece he composed as a tribute to American composer Phill Niblock and will present “Light show”, a silent film that can be used as a score for [...]

CRANC (London/Athens) (Rhodri Davies – harp, Angharad Davies – violin & Nikos Veliotis – cello / video) will set up an one week audio & video virtual feedback project. Each day’s audio recording and video footage will serve as the basis for the audio recording and video footage of the next. They have no idea [...]

CRANC (London/Athens) (Rhodri Davies – harp, Angharad Davies – violin & Nikos Veliotis – cello / video) will set up an one week audio & video virtual feedback project. Each day’s audio recording and video footage will serve as the basis for the audio recording and video footage of the next. They have no idea [...]

Friday 19 > 21hSaturday/Sunday 16 > 21hMonday 12 > 18h In SEKANTE Burkhard Beins is using polystyrene objects installed on columns, corners or walls and ceiling of the room. Long strings going all across the room become played by chip-controlled propellers to make those objects resonate. Each propeller is continuously performing it’s individual course of [...]

Students audio-visual arts/radio from the RITS present their final projects of the atelier ‘audio’: expect unorthodox sounds, sounds where sound is not supposed to be, a research on lost sounds.

Kurt Du Tré will present a new interactive audiovisual piece based on the concept of transcription and experiencing different timelevels. The work consists of live videoprojection and soundimprovisation by Kurt Du Tré (video/organ), David De Buyser (laptop), Julia Eckhardt (viola), Paul Klinck (violin), Elena Dunkelman (voice), Silvia Platzer (violoncello) and Giles Thomas (guitar).

Wednesday/Thursday/Saturday/Sunday 14 > 18h and on appointmentThe recent research of Kurt Du Tré is mainly oriented to transcriptions, both in the musical sense and in a multimedia environment. He has focused on the question of original authorship in the context of arrangements and transcriptions. When he is transcribing Du Tré respects the original concept, but [...]

The recent research of Kurt Du Tré is mainly oriented to transcriptions, both in the musical sense and in a multimedia environment. He has focused on the question of original authorship in the context of arrangements and transcriptions. When he is transcribing Du Tré respects the original concept, but with a feeling that “the artwork [...]

‘Jan van Gorp’ consists of a series of compositions for the trio ‘Zinc & Copper Works’ and viola, starting from the sounds and gestures of Flemish dialects. Jan van Gorp (Johannes Goropius Becanus, 1519-1572) was a Dutch physician, linguist and humanist, who theorized that Antwerpian Flemish, or Brabantic, spoken in the region between the Scheld [...]

‘Intertidal’, a 16mm film installation researching the non-areas in between times and spaces.

Hit and blow (working title)Relly Tarlo and Anne Wellmer are picking up the idea to collaborate starting with a residency in 2008 at Q-O2. During this residency Relly Tarlo and Anne Wellmer will explore different approaches to combine their forces: Relly Tarlo is developing two new motor driven glas-pipe-instruments; the rich sound material generated by [...]

Hit and blow (working title)Relly Tarlo and Anne Wellmer are picking up the idea to collaborate starting with a residency in 2008 at Q-O2. During this residency Relly Tarlo and Anne Wellmer will explore different approaches to combine their forces: Relly Tarlo is developing two new motor driven glas-pipe-instruments; the rich sound material generated by [...]

SET 1Olivier Toulemonde – set de table/acoustic objectsSET 2Annette Krebs – tabletop guitarLuca Venitucci – accordion and electronic devicesLuca Venitucci and Annette Krebs have been playing together since 4 years.They work in the field of quiet, electroacoustic music, exploring the acoustic character of electronic sounds and the electronic character of acoustic sound materials. Also the [...]

‘Permafrost’ focuses on the central question in the work of Aernoudt Jacobs: how to transform the complexity, the affluation and the stratification of our environment to something that can be truly experienced.The installation follows the freezing process of water into ice. A thermal source will reverse the process. This cycle will be repeated continuously. Waterproof [...]

During his residency at Q_O2 he plans to work on and record his solo set-up ‘rotating surfaces’ and he wants to explore the possibilities of the Q-O2 space to transform his work into an installation.

Musicians and composers meet to explore, exchange and perform new and existing compositions by Tim Parkinson, James Saunders, Manfred Werder, Lee Patterson, Michael Pisaro, John Cage and Alvin Lucier. Friday December 14th, 20.30 Alvin Lucier – Opera with Objects James Saunders – #141207Michael Pisaro – harmony series 8a+dManfred Werder – 2005(1)Saturday December 15th, 19.00 Meet [...]

[B]Unheard Brussels[EB] is a four-channel audio piece for environmental recordings made in Brussels during the two week residency at Q-O2. [B]Unheard Brussels[EB] is one of an ongoing series of works dealing with our perception of urban spaces. These works have taken the form of sound installations, concerts and radio productions. The unifying factor of all [...]

OPEN14:00u – 18:00u + on request (tel. 0478 201 239)During his stay at Q-O2 Jason Kahn will be working on some ideas and technical solutions to the room installation [I][B]Wires[EI][EB]In this piece Kahn will investigate the acoustic and spatial properties of a given space (in this case the Q-O2 Werkhuis) through the use of steel [...]

Jason Kahn and Norbert Möslang have collaborated since 2002. As members of the MKM trio with Günter Müller and the Signal Quintet (also with Müller, Tomas Korber and Christian Weber) they have performed throughout Europe and Japan, Korea, USA, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Columbia, Chile and Brazil.This concert at Q-O2 will be their first duo [...]

During his residency he will adapt his installation ‘wires’ to the q-o2 environment. In this piece Kahn will investigate the acoustic and spatial properties of a given space (in this case the Q-O2 werkplaats) through the use of steel wires suspended vertically and horizontally. The wires will be resonated by computer-generated sound waves (sine, square) [...]

Jim Denley & Silvia Platzerthroat miked saxophone & amplified cello, stethoscopeSilvia and Jim started working together three years ago. They played acoustically.These days they meet again, to discover amplified details.

TAPE THAT tapes almost everthing and layers it with almost everything else.They create pieces of music by juxtaposing different sounds in different spaces. Live playing in the studio layered, in real time, with ambient recordings from other places, complex microphone set ups recording the sounds up close and afar, samples put directly to TAPE as [...]

visual artist – 16mm film, installation, drawings

Lucio Capece – soprano sax, bass clarinet & electronicsKevin Drumm – prepared guitar, electronics

lecture + installation

Charles Curtis (cello)in coproduction with Argos

Q-O2 invites you to open moments in the scope of Joachim Devillé’s residency

Q-O2 invites you to open moments in the scope of Joachim Devillé’s residency

expo + concertDuring his residency Joachim Devillé will create an atmosphere of an ever temporary exhibition, trying to blend the figurative and the abstract into a whole where appearing, fading, disappearing & re-emerging will be connected to aspects of location & time, to travel and wandering.In this context he will also play with the collectief [...]

Julia Eckhardt – violaEls van Riel – video, film

Manu Holterbach and Sophie Durand invite Hitoshi Kojo to cooperate on their ‘harmonic glasses’ project.

Robin Hayward will work on the first preparations for a new composition, ‘Jan Van Gorp’. This project will consist of a series of compositions for the trio ‘Zinc & Copper Works’ and viola, starting from the sounds and gestures of the Flemish dialect.Jan van Gorp (Johannes Goropius Becanus, 1519-1572) was a Dutch physician, linguist and [...]

Los GlissandinosKai Fagaschinski and Klaus Filip began their intensive collaboration early 2004. Fagaschinski plays his clarinet with an approach of sound and noise phenomena while Filip uses a laptopwith material based on sine waves, which he organizes and manipulates in various ways. The duo’s sound includes very transparent and quiet noise sections, droning clusters, beatific [...]

Q-O2 en Fifth Floor Bird nodigen samen het Canadese duo PARASITES uit, bestaande uit Diane Labrosse en Martin Tétreault. Parasites ‘streeft naar een maximaal gebruik van een minimum aan klanken en maakt plaats voor een abstracte, immateriële en impressionistische muziek, met surrealistische invloed’. ~Martin Tétreault

– PROGRAMM –Andrea Neumann & Sabine Ercklentz / inside piano & trompet – electronics Stevie Wishart / hurdy gurdy – electronics Chiyoko Szlavnics & Els Van Riel / electronics & live video– PAUZE –Group improvisation

open8-9-10 en 15-16-17 March14:00 to 18:00Aernoudt Jacobs: ‘Phantom Melodies’ – sound installation

openFriday 2 March 14:00-20:00Saturday 3 March 14:00-24:00Sunday 4 March 14:00-18:00Aernoudt Jacobs ‘Phantom Melodies’ – sound installationEls van Riel‘DOES DISTANCE SLOW DOWN’ – 16 mm-film installation A movement of an object noticed at a long distance, seems to proceed slower than its speed measured at a shorter distance.Is distance related to velocity? Is velocity inversely proportional [...]

“Voice, language, misunderstandings, sound anthropology, relational aesthetics, tone languages, conversations, headphones, geography, unspoken languages, feedback (in behaviour and physics), interview, no-control, handicap, imitation or mimetic behaviour are all somehow there”.

One thing that can be said is that painting and video are potentially both devices for producing meanings and by working in both mediums, including the interaction between them, then surely that must result in additional potentialities and open the way to delightful surprises.some notes on video/painting painting/videoIn May 1891, in a Parisian art gallery, [...]

The Altitude 1000 festival takes place between 9 and 16 December 2006. It features an audiovisual week packed with performances, installations and two parties. The festival’s goal is to link up Brussels’ audiovisual artists with each other and the wider audience.Public meetings: Altitude 1000 is about bringing people together. Several organisations are invited to present [...]

“DoUndo / recycling G is a dialogue starting from the question: what layer can be added to the rich sound layers of given viola tones. My answer is an image, composed with different layers only visible due to changes of light. At my turn I want to ask a question back to the viola: does [...]

“hans and Jens would kindly like to invite you to share an evening of part-time excitement, temporary glory and transient failure on the occasion of their first attempt to make artistic sense out of 10 years of friendship. The program will feature rather unknown classics like the ‘Global Chamber Music’ and ‘More & More’ as [...]