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Oscillation ::: Materia Forma
The 2024 festival Oscillation ::: Materia Forma is a reflection on form, format and performance. Six days of sound celebrations, featuring concerts, (in-situ) performances, a conference, round table conversations, a walk, and a series of workshops, hosted by VK Vaartkapoen in Molenbeek, and complemented with outings to B.A. in Anderlecht and the Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Molenbeek […]
Hannah Todt
“I wonder why the flute has holes” is an ongoing project that explores the materiality of steel tubes and their sonic qualities by reinterpreting them as a polyphonic flute that is to be played by several people. The relationship between form, function and efficiency as well as the creation of associations are central questions in […]
Sholto Dobie
Sholto Dobie will present a short listening session of work-in-progress and a performance with self-constructed instruments. Sholto Dobie creates instruments with analogue technologies which draw on the functions and designs of folk and traditional wind instruments, such as bagpipes and organs. Their appearance several thousand years ago represent a technological shift in music, as humans […]
Second Sundays #48 – Lázara Rosell Albear
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
MUSIKAA/Klara Festival – Suzan Peeters & Bao Sissoko
Improv rendezvous Accordionist Suzan Peeters and kora player Bao Sissoko bring their different musical worlds together in a concert in which improvisation, curiosity and the joy of playing are paramount. A project by Bozar in collaboration with QO2 and VK, with Suzan Peeters (accordion) and Bao Sissoko (kora)   Full program of Musikaa at VK […]
Showcase Emerging Sound 2024: Anouk Kellner, Pavel Tchikov, Lawrence McGuire, Kaat Vanhaverbeke
STUK & Q-O2 present: Showcase Emerging Sound 2024 Maak kennis met de volgende generatie Belgische geluidskunstenaars Meet the next generation of Belgium-based sound artists Anouk Kellner Pavel Tchikov Lawrence McGuire Kaat Vanhaverbeke ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ PRAKTISCH / PRACTICAL ➤ Donderdag / Thursday 16.05 – 19:00 ➤ Start: STUK Studio (4e verdieping / 4th floor) ➤ Gratis met […]
Loup Uberto Open Studio/Concert at L’AXOSO/Aquarium & Zonneklopper
After his residency at Q-O2, Loup Uberto extends his stay in Brussels, with another residency at L’AXOSO/Aquarium, next to Les Brigittines.   Following on from his January residency at QO2, a time dedicated to recording and writing an album and a book in progress, he is opening up the composition stage to his collaborators Soledad […]
Paul Gründorfer
As part of the residency, I intend to investigate sound phenomena that emerge due to different levels of amplification of voice-like fragments and subliminal sound experiences.   I aim to explore how speech or phonetic voice elements resonate and are reflected in different environments, inhabiting imaginary abstract spaces through the use of digital feedback synthesis […]
Franziska Windisch
Over the recent years, Franziska Windisch has worked on performative settings in which participants engage in movement, listening, and sound making in outdoor spaces, often accompanied by selected text or sound fragments. Some of these works were based on individual scores for each performer with an openness for interaction. During the residency at Q-O2 she wants […]
Violeta López López
To execute the word is an artistic research on the possibilities of language beyond its established limits and its capacity to generate new perceptual realities.  To execute the word is to kill it in the sense of detaching it from its conventional meaning and, at the same time, to put it into action, as happens […]
Loup Uberto
Loup Uberto shows some short pieces of the work done during his residency at Q-O2, featuring lives with :   Soledad Zarka: Dance performance for masks, gestures, feedbacks and Italian work songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT6d_iCcuAI   Vin de Sprite: Antoine Loyer: vocals, guitar / Donatien Toma Ndani Djemelas: vocals, organa https://glucklabel.hotglue.me/?VIN+DE+SPRITE/   Violeta Lopez Lopez: Duo for […]
Second Sundays #47 – Vito Ricci & Lise Vachon
For its 47th edition, Second Sundays hosts New York based composer Vito Ricci & experimental vocalist Lise Vachon, as part of their EU tour. Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of […]
Audio Mastering Workshop with Christophe Albertijn
In this workshop artist, musician, sound-wizard and initiator of the Huis Label Christophe Albertijn, will introduce you into the art of mastering. In one day you will be guided through the general terminologies and history of mastering techniques. You will setup your own mastering session and work with a series of open-source plugins. The objective […]
SIBYLLINE PLAYLAND – students of La Cambre
SIBYLLINE PLAYLAND  We are cyborgs. We invite you to our cyborg tale. With sound, let’s invent a cyborgian language.   With works by Zélie Boggio Simon, Lissa Djata, Justine Ferrer, Lise Hugot Jamme, Emmeline Jorion, Oumayma Kefi, Alessandre Mirgaux, Lola Nogué, Roxane Rajic, Amarine Rignanese, Thibault Rousselet, Justine Salamin, Louis Simon, Maori Thiénot, Angélina Verschueren, […]
mmile : Attila Faravelli + Ryoko Akama
Presentation of the work in progress by sound artists Attila Faravelli and Ryoko Akama, as part of a residency programme organised by Ramdom as part of the Ogni Altro Suono festival (Italy), in collaboration with La Semaine du Son / De Week van de Klank and the Waking Life festival (Portugal).   This multidisciplinary project […]
DIY : hydrophones w/Jeroen Uyttendaele
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.   Event of La Semaine du Son. […]
Second Sundays #46 – Loup Uberto
Vast documentary experience, of literary, sound and photographic creation, carried out in Italy, France, Tunisia and on the roads, this Treatise on singing is intended to be an abundant and long-term archival work, which will include a book, a background of digital and discographic recordings, numerous field collections, a phenomenology of singing, a corpus of […]
Hannah Todt
During her residency at Q-O2, Hannah Todt will focus on her research on vascular instruments. Her aim is to create contemporary forms of collective rituals through the reinterpretation of traditional craft techniques and found materials, resulting in performances and installations. Based on her interest in how historiography can be influenced by different forms of storytelling, […]
Reuben da Rocha
I will be conducting experiments in exploratory, quadriphonic, voice-and-electronics-based improvised music processes, working with extended voice techniques, phonetic non-semantic chanting and asynchronous loop patterns, lo-fi synthesizers, field recordings, and heavy delay and reverb distorted textures. My inquiry is based on the principles of live mixing, the radical exploration of frequency parameters, and the dynamic possibilities […]
Introduction to Modular Synthesis (using Automatonism) w/ Felisha Ledesma (SOLD OUT)
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 […]
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh
This residency is a collaboration with KRAAK and is aimed at making recordings for a new release.
Sholto Dobie
In my work, I create my own instruments with analogue technologies. The instruments I make draw on the functions and designs of folk and traditional wind instruments, such as bagpipes and organs. Their appearance several thousand years ago, for me, represents a technological shift in music, as humans extended the reach of their lungs, by […]
Loup Uberto
Recording of Piedmontese songs for sparse and raw sound elements, transistors, mobile phones, bowed instruments and chanterelles… Sound documentation in Brussels with Antoine Loyer, a series which will enter into conversation with numerous other collections in Tunisia, Italy and France carried out since January 2023 and brought together in a vast archive of documentary experiences. […]
Violeta López López
“To execute the word” is an artistic research into the possibilities of language beyond its established limits and its capacity to generate new perceptive realities. With this purpose the word is detached from its qualities as a lexical element (semantics, syntax) in order to free it and reinterpret it from new points of view. This […]
Second Sundays #45 – Xavier García Bardón
For its forty fifty edition, Second Sundays invites Xavier García Bardón, Brussels’ greatest living resource on all things experimental and expanded cinema. He will present a listening session informed by years in the cinema, on a variety of different media. Xavier García Bardón is a researcher, teacher and curator based in Brussels.   Second Sundays […]
Pavel Tchikov
Mechanical Sound Object (working title)   The intention behind that project was to experiment with a mechanical approach of music-making beside exploring some of the synthesis techniques (granulation, spectral resynthesis, etc.). At the beginning it was inspired by Aphex Twin’s works (Druqks & Computer Controlled Acoutsic Instruments, both using motor-played acoustic instruments and synthesis techniques) […]
Christophe Albertijn – HUIS – Open Studio
During his residency at Q-O2, Christophe will focus on organising the material from the last 3 years since the start of the HUIS label, which consist of not only the recordings which have been released digitally, but also video images, photography, texts, unreleased recordings and more. With the aim of making a publication, these materials […]
Pavel Tchikov
– second part of residency –   Pavel Tchikov works on a set up of handcrafted motor-driven mechanical instruments (bells and strings). Those intruments are played from a modular sytem, which is used not only to control them but also to process the outcoming signal and to ditribute it in a qudraphonic environment. The mechanical […]
Constanza Castagnet
Distante   Constanza will do a live performance using voice and computer, based on a series of tango songs from her great grandfather. They were manipulated and transformed with the idea of going beneath the surface and capturing sonic nuances resisting the conventional notation and style of tango. The distortion and manipulation of materials plays […]
Second Sundays #44 – Gerard Herman
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Workshop with Magno Caliman: Hardware hacking and experimental electronics (FULL)
=> Sessions on Saturday 2/12 and Sunday 3/12, 11h to 17h [waiting list] <=   Hardware Hacking and experimental electronics   In this workshop we will experiment with the electronic circuits as materials for experimental artistic practices. Making use of simple alligator clips and batteries, we’ll modify and hack scrap speakers and motors, turning them […]
Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
In this presentation, Lale will introduce an essay, which is currently in process. It is called Seda and deals with the role of the sonic spectrum and our ecological interaction, as well as on her functional illustrations that become sound installations. Following the reading, Lale will play a short concert.   “Only then: you bounce, […]
Second Sundays #43: ASUNA
For its forty-third edition, Second Sundays invites Japanese musician ASUNA, for a ride through his intensive knowledge of micro labels around the world. ASUNA was a definite highlight of the most recent Oscillation Festival, where he performed his psychedelic ‘100 Keyboards’ plus took part in the long form group  improvisation with Farida Amadou, Clara De […]
Arthur Chambry & friends
The idea behind my residency at QO2 is simple: to create a temporary playground in Brussels for local musicians. Above all, it’s a place where we can meet, form alliances, discuss, share, experiment and play. Thinking and practising how we meet is just as important as thinking and practising our sounds. That’s our starting point, […]
KRAAK presents: Eve Aboulkheir (FR) & Andrew Pekler (DE)
Presenting KRAAK’s latest release ~ and first CD in a while! ~ Eve Aboulkheir’s “Hypnagogic Walks” gets unleashed into the world to the sound of live performances by this electroacoustic sound sorceress of the digiage, as well as some sentimental guitar escapism by none other than dexterous sound wiz Andrew Pekler.   Eve Aboulkheir The […]
Constanza Castagnet
The project I am working on started with a sudden rush of nostalgia, likely catalyzed by living abroad. This feeling compelled me to establish a connection with my city, Buenos Aires and my own personal history. I remember my mother mentioning that my great-grandfather was a pianist, composer, and doing the clandestine craft of ghostwriting […]
Christophe Albertijn – HUIS
HUIS residency Q02   This residency will focus on organising the material from the last 3 years since the start of the HUIS label, which consist of not only the recordings which have been released digitally, but also video images, photography, texts, unreleased recordings and more. With the aim of making a publication, these materials […]
Clara Lévy & Stéphane Clor
L’oriole   Clara Lévy – violin Stéphane Clor – piccolo cello   L’oriole mixes the string colors from the violin and cello with a timbral mechanism made of transducers set on sounding bodies. The sound of the acoustic instruments vibrates through different materials, offering new possibilities of colors and textures drawn from these suspended resonators. […]
Second Sundays #42 : Clara Lévy
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Nika Son
During the residency at Q-O2 Nika Son experiments on a new composition for a multi-channel sound piece in interaction with light and moving image. For the presentation she’s following the thoughts and questions surrounding various states of mind in the wake of insomnia, the desperate striving for sleep and the longing to stay awake in […]
Chloë Janssens & amy pickles
waiting rooms for doom Two reporters are speaking from the inside. They witness characters emerging out of architectures and submerged city infrastructures, they register these coded signs in a highly subjective manner. They squeeze themselves into spaces and roles that cannot contain a human form, such as sinking through polluted, radioactive soil, being transmitted through […]
Sebastian Dingens
Making recordings in Brussels and of ‘found objects’ in the city. Searching for the sound of the ‘ideal city’ (possibly in collaboration with 4th grade children). Creation of a score based on almost daily walks through Duden Park and Forest Park, using the relief, number of steps, weather conditions, etc. as decision-making criteria for musical […]
Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
Seda means voice, noise and sound in Farsi and thus reflects the open approach to the auditory medium, which linguistically restricts thinking e.g. in German or English. Whereas the auditive/sonic spectrum is widely differentiated in German (e.g. Rauschen, Geräusch, Ton, Klang, Lärm, Stimme) the English language is more holistic with the term sound or noise. […]
Yannick Guédon & D’incise
As part of their residency, D’incise and Yannick Guédon are offering listening walks in the vicinity of Q-O2. Each tour lasts an hour and a half. You can make an appointment to attend by email: ensemble@thymes.fr The exact time will be arranged with each participant, depending on their availability. You can also call 0486 4321 […]
Second Sundays #41 – Valérie Vivancos
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Marija Rasa
18:00 : First Session 19:30 : Second Session In this upcoming presentation, Marija Rasa will introduce bee there – a new sound piece (in progress) in the ongoing Microlands series, consisting of compositions for multichannel audio setups. In these pieces, she sculpts fictional soundscapes out of delicate noise, electronic sounds, and field recordings of quiet […]
Limpe Fuchs & Valérie Vivancos
Following a long-distance musical collaboration, which resulted in an album, studio rehearsals a first residency and a performance at the last Oscillation Festival, Limpe Fuchs and Valerie Vivancos, wish to explore new ways to improvise together. The research is mainly based on voice work and objects, whether it be acoustic or electroacoustic ones, including metal, wood […]
TRACKS audiowalks – launch
TRACKS launch in Brussels Audio walk from Kiosk Radio to Beursschouwburg, where the new smartphone app Tracks is presented to the public 23/06/2023, 16h: 
Kiosk Radio & Beursschouwburg, Brussels +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Practical Come prepared: download Tracks on your smartphone and bring headphones. 23/06/2023 16h: Kiosk Radio
, Warandepark/Parc Royal
, 1000 Brussels 17h: Beursschouwburg (Zilveren Zaal)
, Rue Auguste […]
Second Sundays #40 – Hampus Lindwall
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Arthur Chambry
Clara Lévy & Stéphane Clor
L’oriole mixes the string colors from the violin and cello with a timbral mechanism made of transducers set on sounding bodies. The sound of the acoustic instruments vibrates through different materials, offering new possibilities of colors and textures drawn from these suspended resonators. Eery and acute, the music thus flutters in long contemplative flights and […]
Sandar Tun Tun
My current research extends the themes explored in my previous project ‘Minor Noise,’ which delved into transmission, auditory reminiscence, and sonic imprints, focusing on what is physically internalized rather than verbally communicated. I now carry on the exploration of metabolization, turning my attention on the intricate fabric of emotions and expressions resonating within the outlet space […]
Pavel Tchikov
Pavel Tchikov works on a set up of handcrafted motor-driven mechanical instruments (bells and strings). Those intruments are played from a modular sytem, which is used not only to control them but also to process the outcoming signal and to ditribute it in a qudraphonic environment. The mechanical instruments have inbuilt infra-red sensors, reacting to […]
Nika Son
During the residency I want to work on a new project that continues to revolve around the subject of insomnia. I would like to to delve deeper into the aspects of certain intermediate states in relation to sound and light. In particular, between sleep and wakefulness, between desperate striving for sleep and the longing to […]
Maria Komarova
During the residency, I will focus on the exploration of materiality of daily objects by working with the principle of amplification. I am interested in the semantics of the term as well as technical aspects related to it, which imply the state of things before, during and after the process (of amplification). My idea is […]
Yannick Guédon & D’incise
Second part of the residency +++++++++++++++++++ terrir Yannick Guédon – conception, voice, composition d’incise – flutes, objects, composition   With terrir, we want to explore certain modes of attention to the environment and context in which a sound situation takes place. The aim is to create a flexible device that will allow us to apprehend […]
Shamica Ruddock
Shamica Ruddock is an artist-researcher often found working between sound and moving image. Through sound Shamica considers the ways Black diasporas are engaged and presented. Shamica has been particularly interested in how black technosonic production functions as a form of speculation, narrativising and worldmaking; and the potentials of sonic fictions as a method to generate […]
Limpe Fuchs & Valérie Vivancos
Following a long-distance musical collaboration, which resulted in an album, studio rehearsals a first residency and a performance at the last Oscillation Festival, Limpe Fuchs and Valerie Vivancos, wish to explore new ways to improvise together. The research is mainly based on voice work and objects, whether it be acoustic or electroacoustic ones, including metal, wood […]
Marius Tarakdjioglou
Speleologica   During his residency, Marius has developed techniques and tools that expand the possibilities of exploring the inner dimension of the body with sound as a material trace, by using a piezoelectric microphone on surfaces such as flesh, rocks, calcite, etc. A space is recreated where the imagination can be projected into a virtual […]
Marius Tarakdjioglou
In this residency I would like to develop techniques and tools that expand the possibilities of exploring the inner dimension of the body through sounds as material traces, using a piezoelectric microphone on surfaces such as flesh, rocks, calcite, etc. All this recreating a space where we can project our imagination into a virtual place […]
Fret Frette — Students of Ecole d’Art Université Laval (Quebec) & RITCS Radio (Brussel)
Fret Frette   The six artists will present in a performative way some games, songs or media constructions which relate to their respective languages, their friendship and translations.  Above all, they try to meet and play in the middle of those newly established communications, which they try to continually remake in order to keep fooling […]
Yenting Hsu
Intersection   Yenting Hsu is an artist from Taiwan. She started her residency with a research about objects, but then turned to the theme of ‘meetings’ and ‘intersections’, which reflects her fascination for the diversity of cultures in Brussels. For her presentation, Yenting will propose a listening session in which she weaves together field recordings […]
Second Sundays #39 – festival special ::: o tempo
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Marija Rasa
Marija Rasa will be developing the project throughout the month-long residency in Q-O2. Involving all creative stages of this project including searching for outdoor particularly quiet places, investigating ways of listening, recording, reviewing and processing collected material, composing and editing.
Re-Ghoster Extended: Jérôme Noetinger – Nicolas Field – Thomas Florin – Fritz Welch – Nate Wooley
Re-Ghoster grew out of a chance encounter between Anglo-Swiss percussionist Nicolas Field, Italian tape & electronics wizard Valerio Tricoli and Swiss pianist Thomas Florin in Geneva in 2018. They quickly discovered a like-minded longing to experiment and distort sound textures in new ways, to explore compositional concepts by using improvisation and the impulse of the […]
Hannah Ellul
I will develop new work that addresses ideas around language attrition, translation and song. It takes as its starting point how a mother tongue—in this case, Arabic—is lost, and what happens as a result. It began with my own observations of my mother and other relatives’ changing relationship to Arabic, their own first language, as […]
Giulia Rae
During the residency, I will expand my ongoing research on immersive sound by investigating the relationships between sound material and listening context. Sound is here approached primarily as vibrational matter, formed in its propagation through different speakers’ configurations and materials, and put in relation to light, space and human/non-human body. Being matter interacting with the […]
Jambes
Jambes presents Quille, episode 1 listening session, 60 min   An experimental podcast recorded with previous residents at Q-O2, around the themes of sound’s recent history and the documentation of certain ephemeral practices, impermanent objects or working paths. The interviews were recorded in a spontaneous and unstructured way – while walking around Brussels, cooking, throwing […]
Oscillation ::: o tempo
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Second Sundays #38 – Chris Evans
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Farida Amadou and workshop participants
A Concert with participants of the Improvisation Workshop, lead by Farida Amadou.   With: Luana Santos, Marius Tarakdjioglou, Liévine Hubert, Eric Mersch, Michele Giovannini, Julie Paraire, Florence Borgers, Sara Di Costanzo, Suzan Peeters.   This event happens in collaboration with Bozar and Klarafestival, in the frame of Musikaa, a Molenbeek-based music festival. The goal is […]
Victor Guaita Igual & Lukas De Clerck & Suzan Peeters & Andrés Navarro García
The group presents an un-scored collaborative composition, keeping an spontaneous dynamic while still developing ideas. There is a certain fragility about working in a quartet. Already the timbers of the instruments: viola, accordion, percussion, organ/aulos/pipes; are constantly on and off balance, at times merging together in tones and overtones, other times being distinctively four independent […]
Yenting Hsu
All objects have their stories and souls. During the residency, I will explore sound of objects from local, the surface and the texture of objects, the possibilities of usage beyond the normal way of using them, and the diversity of making sounds. To understand and imagine how they are used, stories related to objects, their […]
Showcase Emerging Sound 2023 — Diana Duta, Stijn Wybouw, Tom Malmendier & Emilie Skrijelj, Florence Cats
STUK, Q-O2, Musica & C-TAKT present: Showcase Emerging Sound 2023 Meet the next generation of Belgium-based sound artists Diana Duta Stijn Wybouw Tom Malmendier & Emilie Skrijelj Florence Cats ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ PROGRAMMA 18:00-22:00 Stijn Wybouw – KRAMP and the Shakers (installation) 20:00 Performances: Stijn Wybouw – KRAMP and the Shakers Tom Malmendier & Emilie Skrijelj – […]
Rupert Enticknap
Rupert Enticknap presents a research project which uses musical melody as a lens to investigate the intersections of class, race, identity politics and the embodiment of histories present in ‘accent’ of spoken language. It will explore these issues in a postcolonial framework working with audio cassettes of interviews with his maternal grandmother who was born […]
Second Sundays #37 – Aymeric de Tapol
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Improvisation workshop with Farida Amadou
Are you a musician with a connection to Molenbeek who is curious about improvisation? Are you interested in playing music together with others and would you like to get to know other musicians from the neighborhood in the context of a Molenbeek-based music festival?   On the 5th of March, you can join a 4 […]
Younes Zarhoni
My installations are an interweaving of polyphonic singing, tradition, sound installations, graphic scores and spatialisation. Sound sculptures based on polyphonic vocal songs composed, recorded and sung by myself. Polyphonic compositions with separately recorded voices.  The compositions are on the one hand an interaction between maqams (the micro tonal harmonic system for structuring musical compositions in classical […]
Rupert Enticknap
At Q-o2 Rupert will work on a research project which uses musical melody as a lens to investigate the intersections of class, race, identity politics and the embodiment of histories present in ‘accent’ of spoken language. It will explore these issues in a postcolonial framework working with audio cassettes of interviews with his maternal grandmother […]
martiensgohome
The martiensgohome project was never limited to the medium of radio and the collective has also performed live, built sound-installations, produced records and tapes and created objects like a usb-key with 24h of music, a set of musical postcards, a book of soundwaves. This illustrates their interest in the questions of diffusion and media. This […]
Kim Laugs
ECHO ROOM This installation imagined specifically for Q-O2 focuses on the degradation of auditory information and the resulting miscommunication. Do we hear what we want to hear by filling in the missing or unclear parts with our own knowledge and worldview? By passing through various methods of chain communication, the voice finds its way to […]
Kim Laugs + Gilles Gobert & Inger Elisabeth Gleditsch + Kobe Wens & DKO Sound Design / La Semaine du Son
ECHO ROOM – Kim Laugs This installation imagined specifically for Q-O2 focuses on the degradation of auditory information and the resulting miscommunication. Do we hear what we want to hear by filling in the missing or unclear parts with our own knowledge and worldview? By passing through various methods of chain communication, the voice finds […]
Yannick Guédon & D’incise & Lucie Perineau
terrir Yannick Guédon – conception, voice, composition d’incise – flutes, objects, composition Lucie Périneau – artist researcher, cartoonist   With terrir, we want to explore certain modes of attention to the environment and context in which a sound situation takes place. The aim is to create a flexible device that will allow us to apprehend […]
Louise Vind Nielsen
MOSHPIT The moshpit is a cluster of people gathered in front of the stage at concerts. In the moshpit the audience dance energetically and push against each other, jumping up and down. You might know it as “pogo”. The moshpit is a ritual space for fans and affiliates. A condensation of energy and ecstasy. In […]
Fifteen Brain Cells Left – students of ENSAV La Cambre
FIFTEEN BRAIN CELLS LEFT We are cyborgs. We invite you to our cyborg tale. With sound, let’s invent a cyborgian language.   With works by Mina Albespy, Raphaël Bauduin, Clara Bougon, Lucille Briffaud, Élise Comte, Clément Decooman, Théo Desmaizières, Azad Eurdekian, Lune Jusseau, Milan Marly, Anatole Mélot, Billy Moisseron, Charly Molle Cousin, Valentine Vadella, Lou […]
Clara Lévy & Stéphane Clor
Exploring the interdependency (working title) is a research led by the cellist Stéphane Clor and violinist Clara Lévy. Their aim is to blur the lines between acoustic and amplified sounds through a system of transducers set on their instruments but also within the space on various sounding bodies (brass percussions, wooden objects etc.) The musical […]
Victor Guaita Igual & Lukas De Clerck & Suzan Peeters & Andrés Navarro García
Lukas, Suzan, Victor and Andrés are all Brussels based artists with a practice ranging within/and/or/around contemporary classical and experimental music, improvisation and sound art — Lukas and Victor perform together as Ï Î, Victor and Andrés created Grey and Grey Extended, Suzan performs often solo or in different settings and is studying a master program […]
Chloë Janssens & amy pickles
waiting rooms for doom Two reporters are speaking from the inside. They witness characters emerging out of architectures and submerged city infrastructures, they register these coded signs in a highly subjective manner. They squeeze themselves into spaces and roles that cannot contain a human form, such as sinking through polluted, radioactive soil, being transmitted through […]
Louise Vind Nielsen
MOSHPIT The mosh pit is a cluster of people gathered in front of the stage at concerts. In the mosh pit the audience dance energetically and push against each other. The mosh pit is a ritual space for fans and affiliates. A condensation of energy and ecstasy. However, in the mosh pit, generally perceived as […]
Second Sundays #36 – Performensk
  Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in […]
Aymeric de Tapol / Glauco Salvo
Two post-residency presentations in forms of concerts / listening sessions Aymeric de Tapol continued and took time to focus on his research on hypnotic polyrhythms on modular synthesizer, that he has been exploring for the last 3 years. « When you are listening to something that seems the same thing during a really long period, […]
BOOK LAUNCH : Going Out – Walking, Listening, Soundmaking by Elena Biserna
A new book, published by Q-O2/umland editions, edited by Elena Biserna is out soon !   We will celebrate it, with an evening program of music, screening, discussion.   – Screening of the video work “Encouragements“, presented by Anna Raimondo   – Listening session of a selection of works related to BNA-BBOT, presented by Flavien […]
Second Sundays #35 – Futura Resistenza / Frederic Van de Velde
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Second Sundays #34 – Julia Dyck
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
PAM p.m.
PAM p.m. in het kader van Misoogst where: Cas-co, Vaartstraat 94, 3000 Leuven date: 16 september hour: 15-17u An organisation of Werktank and Cas-co   PAM (Platform for Audiovisual and Media Arts) organises meetings to dis­cuss com­mon issues and to sha­re know­led­ge and tools about the devel­op­ment, pro­duc­ti­on, dis­tri­bu­ti­on, pre­sen­ta­ti­on, and reflec­ti­on of audio­vi­su­al and […]
Aymeric de Tapol
Aymeric de Tapol is an experimental musician and field recordist, based in Brussels. He played in the wall-of-noise band ZOHO, is part of the duo Cancellled 404 with the Artist Yann Leguay, and collaborates with the collective radio art station p-node. His music was released by different labels, such as TTT, Vlek, Lexi disques, Tanuki, […]
Paul Abbott
Anne Gillis & XT [Seymour Wright & Paul Abbott]
Anne Gillis (France) and XT [Seymour Wright (UK) and Paul Abbott (UK)] develop three new site-specific works, following the collaboration they started, in 2021. During Covid restrictions, the trio initiated their collaboration by developing new work—remotely—which was ‘broadcast’ to an in person and online audience at Cafe OTO in London.   The three interdisciplinary artists […]
Glauco Salvo
During my residency at Q-O2 I will work on my ongoing project Field Studies, a series of works on the practice of field recording. In particular I will focus on the gap between the experience of recording in an open environment – listening through a set of microphones, amplifiers and headphones – and the recorded […]
Tomás Cabado
For this residency, Tomas has been working on a solo set for acoustic guitar and processed field and archive recordings. The material used comes from different practices: some of it are short pieces for solo guitar, others are recordings of realizations of text scores in public and domestic contexts, and some others are archive materials […]
Kim Laugs
During his stay at Q-O2, Kim Laugs will investigate the various methods in which a voice and the message it conveys are distorted or faded to the point of misinterpretation and the miscommunication resulting from it. What do we hear when indirect mediums translate a human-generated sound and influence its meaning? What do we hear? […]
Second Sundays #33 – Liew Niyomkarn
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Marjolijn Dijkman & Pom Bouvier b.
Electrify Everything Experiments and Observations on Electricity Concept: Marjolijn Dijkman and Pom Bouvier-b.   Sound: Pom Bouvier b. Visuals (graphics and film): Marjolijn Dijkman Text fragments: Jean Katambayi Mukendi   During the residency at Q-O2 Pom Bouvier b. and Marjolijn Dijkman will further develop their collaborative performance ‘Electrify Everything’.   The immersive live performance ‘Electrify Everything’ translates the […]
Mark Vernon – Magneto Mori: Bruxelles / Brussels
‘Magneto Mori: Bruxelles / Brussels’ gathers people’s earliest or most vivid memories. Mark recorded these recollections direct to tape which was then buried in the ground for 2-weeks (along with magnets that partially erased the recordings) before being excavated and used as the basis for a new de-composition. The process is an analogy for the […]
Mark Vernon – Magneto Mori: Bruxelles / Brussels
Sound artist Mark Vernon is currently in residence at Q-O2. For his project ‘Magneto Mori: Bruxelles / Brussels’ he invites you to pass by and share your earliest memories with him. On Thursday, 11th August between 10h and 19h there will be a day long drop-in session where you can come along to meet him […]
Rebecca Lane & Clara de Asís
2-hour long sound performance for flutes, synthesizer, percussion, field recordings & silent whistles.   Distances Bending is an ever-expanding process – a building up, distilling and mirroring of materials particular to each artist’s sonic practices, responding to and inhabiting a space over multiple hours or days. During the residency, sonic and visual materials have been […]
Oscillation ::: Public Address
>>> FESTIVAL WEBSITE   The fourth edition of the Oscillation festival is dedicated to the question what it means to address a public, and how, by changing the site of a performance, the relationship between audience and performer shifts. Inspired by the transitory nature of public space, many artists are drawn to formats which resist […]
Circular Music by Jürg Frey with Stan Maris, 
Florence Cats, 
Michaël|le Grébil Liberg, 
Yannick Guédon, Clara Lévy, D’incise
Circular Music :: Jürg Frey performed by Stan Maris – accordéon, 
Florence Cats – theremin, 
Michaël|le Grébil Liberg – Cistre, 
Yannick Guédon – voix
, Clara Lévy – violon
, D’incise – electronic   Circular music and Extended Circular Music are series of pieces with open instrumentation where the musical material becomes a space framing silence, rather […]
Florence Cats
i perform with a theremin, drawing sounds in the air, inspired by stars’ phenomena i use fingers, whole body, water, metal, breath, voice starting from nothing raising tiny vibrations into acoustic and electric sounds sound and light reflected through paper, wall, eye and ear moving in space tuning sign and signal to silence and void […]
Tomás Cabado
For this residency, I’ll be working in a solo set for acoustic guitar and processed field and archive recordings. The material I’m using comes from different practices: some of it are short pieces for solo guitar, others are recordings of realizations I did of text scores in public and domestic contexts, and some others are […]
Alice Hui-Sheng Chang
Alice Hui-Sheng Chang is a sound improvisor, experimental vocalist, and experiential arts therapist from Taiwan. During her residency, Alice has recorded various in-site performances, and composed a series of works based on Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”: poetic scores drawing from Alice’s experience of displacement, hallucinaton, and transformation. It is a reflection on how thinking […]
Second Sundays #32 – Peter Fengler
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Rebecca Lane & Clara de Asís
Distances Bending is an ever-expanding process –  a building up, distilling and mirroring of materials particular to each artist’s sonic practices, responding to and inhabiting a space over multiple hours or days.  During the residency, the artists will develop the sonic and visual materials that will inform an environmental system in which the artists can perform inside, […]
Jambes
An experimental podcast recorded together with some of the previous residents at Q-O2, around the themes of sound’s recent history, how to document certain ephemeral practices or impermanent objects, individual working processes but also lighter topics rooted in day-to-day life. The interviews were recorded in a spontaneous, unstructured way – while walking together through the […]
Anna Kravets – Emergency Rehearsal
Emergency Rehearsal “I invite you to a bunker as a preparation for thinking about an emergency: what it does to our bodies and which types of responsibility it evokes, practically and emotionally. Having experienced my habitual reference system fall apart together with the hopes that the full-scale war would not actually break out, I start […]
Anna Kravets – Emergency Rehearsal
Emergency Rehearsal “I invite you to a bunker as a preparation for thinking about an emergency: what it does to our bodies and which types of responsibility it evokes, practically and emotionally. Having experienced my habitual reference system fall apart together with the hopes that the full-scale war would not actually break out, I start […]
Mark Vernon
During the residency period I will be working on a process-based piece that investigates the collective memory of Brussells residents and intertwines it with the environmental sounds of the city to weave new and unexpected narratives. It is an exploration of tape recording as a form of memory storage and the deliberate distressing, eroding and […]
Sarah van Lamsweerde, Esther Mugambi & Raoul Carrer
Sarah van Lamsweerde, Esther Mugambi, and Raoul Carrer will be back for a sequel of their “Sore Spots” project:   During WW I and II, civilians were encouraged to create victory gardens: vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks to reduce the pressure on food supply brought on by the […]
Lia Mazzari & Teresa Cos & Futura Resistenza
Post Residency Presentation/Celebration: Whip cracks listening session.   Lia Mazzari will play and comment her little anthology of whip cracks, which she has collected in many different places over the past few years, and which she has worked with during her residency.   The presentation will be followed by a concert of Lia on amplified […]
Giulia Francavilla
Giulia is participating in a joint residency with iMAL and the Klankvorm Collective. More info here: https://www.imal.org/en/events/klankvorm-presents-kinetic-sounds
Klankvorm presents Kinetic Sounds
Compositions by Anni Nops, Julian Edwardes, Rotor, Macular, Floris Vanhoof, Giulia Francavilla, Daan Johan   The ‘Kinetic Sounds’ installation is the physical result of a Klankvorm research project on the topic of sound and movement. The project was realized in close collaboration with the Macular Collective after a long trajectory of experiments in which sound […]
Forest Village: Archipelago of Habitats – walk with Jérôme Giller (full/waiting list)
Forest Village: Archipelago of Habitats   In this walk, Jérôme Giller proposes to survey the bottom of Forest by connecting blocks of habitation that allow us to understand the historical, sociological and economic evolution of of the industrial area, distributed around the railway line 124 which connects Brussels to Charleroi.   Free upon registration (waiting […]
Florence Cats
At Q-o2 Florence will focus on experiments with theremin, voice, interference, water and conductive junk, to see how they perform and interact, considering the specific situation to expand the inner perception through sign – signal – sound – space – silence – void.
Anna Kravets
Since emotional instability and daily self-reconstruction are now my fellow travelers between EU and UA, I set out to look for descriptions to indescribables, anew. Addressing social and emotional experience through direct speech practices has already been my focus before, when creating conditions or scripts for unusual interactions. Yet this residency is an amazing opportunity […]
Second Sundays #30 – Michele Giovannini
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Laetitia Gendre & BMB con. [POSTPONED]
THIS EVENT IS BEING POSTPONED   During the residency, in which Laetitia Gendre & BMB con. (Justin Bennett and Roelf Toxopeus) have collaborated for the first time, they have explored different ways of working together combining layers of reality and media using techniques like live-drawing coupled to sound-making, drawn and projected scenography, field trips, paper […]
Second Sundays #31 – ugne&marija
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Second Sundays #29 – Lieven Martens (Dolphins into the Future)
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Alice Hui-Sheng Chang
I grew up in Taiwan, and received my arts education in Australia. I moved between Australia and Taiwan over four times in the last twenty years. I often reflect on how my thinking framework shifts with my immediate context, influenced both by the language and social structure I sit within. During the residency, I will […]
Lia Mazzari
Sonic ecologies of whips   “As we entered another lockdown our embodiment of the obligations of mobility and immobility draw us towards other ways of knowing. The Q-O2 residency is an opportunity to reclaim a productive space of artistic research, capacity building and the imaging of alternative worlds. My aim is to study, record and […]
Meta PAM
PAM (Platform for Audiovisual and Media Arts) has grown out of a diverse assembly of organizations and practitioners working with moving image, sound art, or media art.   PAM invites anyone who works in media arts to meet, to discuss common issues and to share knowledge and tools about the development, production, distribution, presentation, and […]
Portraits sonores de pays—Depicting Places : Rodolphe Alexis + Eric La Casa + Els Viaene
International conference organised by Pauline Nadrigny (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), David Martens (Université KU Leuven) and Alexandre Galand, in collaboration with PointCulture and Q-O2.   Depicting places. This is a common practice in all art forms. What about the particular fortune of the country portrait genre in the field of sound art? How can composition, […]
Portraits sonores de pays—Depicting Places : Stéphane Marin + Gaël Segalen
International conference organised by Pauline Nadrigny (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), David Martens (Université KU Leuven) and Alexandre Galand, in collaboration with PointCulture and Q-O2.   Depicting places. This is a common practice in all art forms. What about the particular fortune of the country portrait genre in the field of sound art? How can composition, […]
Peter Kutin
I.M. – Immutable mobile (current state)   During the last years I intensely explored and composed with circular movements of light- and sound-sources. Following this path, I will present the state of an yet unfinished piece I am currently developing during the Q-O2 residency; ‘Immutable Mobile’ is based on the rotation of light-sources and an […]
Compositions for IKO audio speaker
The IKO is a revolutionary new 3D audio speaker. It is the most compact speaker system based on 3D audio technology, Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA), available in the world today. The IKO speaker projects Higher Order Ambisonics in a unique way, namely, from a central point outwards instead of the usual way, via an array […]
The IKO audio speaker – workshop wth Jürgen De Blonde (full)
The IKO is a revolutionary new 3D audio speaker. It is the most compact speaker system based on 3D audio technology, Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA), available in the world today.   IKO is an audio speaker that is able to project Higher Order Ambisonics in a unique way, namely, from a central point outwards instead […]
Rebecca Wilcox
During her residency Rebecca will be focussing on the relationship between the durational, diffuse aspects of sound and how they might be represented on a page. She will be looking at scoring and mapping in relation to ways of reproducing sonic feeling after the fact. She will be exploring the tensions between a live, or […]
Margherita Brillada
Volker Zander
Trautonium Sweeps   „A while ago I assembled myself a modular synth unit that you could call a Trautonium. I wanted to understand the sounds and mechanics of this early electronic instrument invented within Paul Hindemith’s progressive atonal composition class in the late 1920s in Weimar period Berlin. My basic Trautonium features a subharmonic generator, […]
Showcase Emerging Sound 2022 – Marija Rasa Kudabaitė, Vica Pacheco, Raphael Malfliet, Léa Roger
Raphael Malfliet – Governors (20’) Vica Pacheco – Animacy Or A Breath Manifest (30’) Marija Rasa Kudabaitė – 111A / -18°C (15’) Léa Roger – Primary Respiratory Mechanism (25’)   Every year STUK, Q-O2 and Musica present a sample of new sound art in Belgium. Four promising sound artists are selected and put in the […]
Second Sundays #28 – Céline Gillain
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
ONLY ONLINE (live event CANCELLED): Songing With Our Ancestors – Radio Session with Peggy Pierrot
RADIO BROADCAST on radio p-node Public Live Event at Q-O2: CANCELLED   Live radio session with writer, radio dj and educator Peggy Pierrot. From Drexciya and other Detroit techno bands, to historians and science fiction writers, to Solomon Rivers, author of speculative and literary fiction such as The Deep, the Atlantic Ocean – known here […]
Songing With Our Ancestors – Voice Workshop with Johanna Peine and TOI
How much of jellyfish, fish or amphibian is still present in the human body and voice? In this workshop we try to get to the bottom of this question by exploring the movements of early phylo- and ontogenesis in connection with the sound of our voice. According to the phoniatrist J. Abitbol, the human larynx developed from the […]
Maia Urstad
cancelled (Photo Judy Price)
Maia Urstad — Another Night Journey (postponed)
Another Night Journey is a sound creation by Norwegian composer and field-recordist Maia Urstad. The project will explore the state between wakefulness and sleep, the hypnagogic state one can feel while travelling by train. In the framework of Europalia.
Maia Urstad
cancelled   Maia Urstad will be setting up her installation “Another Night Journey” in the framework of Europalia.
Paula Montecinos Oliva + Geraldine Vanspauwen & Maan Methven
(Un)bound wor(l)ds (Paula Montecinos): How can poetics become a dance? How can a word become a sound? When we connect every word with its own music, what intermediate spaces emerge? With the interest to explore the human voice as a transductive device, we will work on reconverting collective claims and poetics of diaspora and migration, […]
Second Sundays #27 – Myriam Van Imschoot
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Laetitia Gendre & BMB con.
During the residency, in which Gendre & BMB con. will collaborate for the first time, they intend to explore different ways of working together for short, intense periods, combining layers of reality and media using techniques like live-drawing coupled to sound-making, drawn and projected scenography, invented instruments, paper as sound source etc. etc. The results […]
Léa Roger & Flavio Bagnasco
LISTENING AND DISTURBING DATA TRANSMISSION We are continually surrounded by data streams that we cannot perceive. We would like to work on possible ways to interfere with these kind of streams of electromagnetic waves that are constantly present in the air (wifi, bluetooth, GPS…). These signals are like the visible light radiation but at lower […]
Elena Biserna
Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir
Lilja María’s practice focuses on exploring connections between art disciplines by incorporating sonic, visual and performative elements in her works. During the residency, she will be working with an audio-visual sculpture called Imaginary Spaces, which she has been developing over the past few months. Exploring themes based on the tension between what is tangible and […]
Julie Pfleiderer with Oxana Omelchuk, Tom Pauwels and Christine De Smedt
[cancelled] The intrinsic scale – a vocabulary (working title)   Music touches us inside, both individually and collectively. The moment it does touch us, when we listen, however, is difficult to put into words. Depending on the musical genre, people will formulate their sensation differently according to their personal and individual vocabulary. What does influence […]
Luke Nickel
Tending the Garden    I primarily create work collaboratively with musicians using digitally-recorded oral transmissions as compositional seeds. The resulting works exist only in the memories of my collaborators, making them prone to decay and transformation. During my time at Q-O2, I will explore the idea of “tending” to several of these musical collaborations, including […]
Paula Montecinos Oliva
(Un)bound wor(l)ds   How can poetics become a dance? How can a word become a sound? When we connect every word with its own music, what intermediate spaces emerge?   With the interest to explore the human voice as a transductive device, we will work on reconverting collective claims and poetics of diaspora and migration, […]
Peter Kutin
One More Hammer Going Boom – Students of La Cambre (FULL)
ANOTHER HAMMER GOING BOOM We are cyborgs. We want to connect to one another despite a global virus and despite everything.  Come into our cyborgian tale. With sound, let’s invent a cyborgian language. With works by Marie Aynaud, Areti Chourdaki, Camille Cireddu, Élise Comte, Félix D’Aoust, Toàn Daubin, Corentin Descamps, Sarah Dessardo, Robin Faymonville, Lou […]
Farida Amadou — Entre-temps
Inspired by the sounds and passing images she has captured through the windows of moving trains, the musician Farida Amadou presents an audiovisual installation in two parts. A first space, littered with objects from the railway universe, is mixed with amplified piano chords, allowing the public to create a sound improvisation. A second space combines […]
Second Sundays #26 – Floris Vanhoof
This is a Covid Safe Ticket Event, so please bring proof that you are vaccinated, recovered or tested, and be in time. Capacity is limited. No reservation necessary.   Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and […]
Lenyema Okiteke
Through this research and creation project, Lenyema approaches the Luba sound archives present in the AfricaMuseum collections in two ways: firstly as a sociological tool, by confronting his hypotheses – linked to his father’s career – with the narratives, fictional or not, that may accompany them, and secondly as a musical object, by exploiting the […]
Free Improv Lab with Farida Amadou (full)
3rd session of the cycle of Free Improv labs with Farida Amadou:   Playing what you feel in the moment, feeling the energy of other players and of the space and always being aware of what is happening around and inside your own personal circle. 
Choose to be silent, choose to challenge others, challenge yourself.
 […]
Donal Sarsfield
In the creation of a ‘live’ hörspiel Donal Sarsfield shall attempt to find points of contact between sounds which will involve walking, singing, listening, talking, and thinking, although not in equal parts! Come listen to some of the most historic floors of Europe! Clap, like you’ve never clapped before! Discover the difference between renaissance, romantic […]
Sébastien Roux, Deborah Walker, Yannick Guédon, Cyprien Busolini + Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta
This is a Covid Safe Ticket Event, so please bring proof that you are vaccinated, recovered or tested, and be in time. Capacity is limited. No reservation necessary. ————————- Les Disparitions How does a sound disappear? Does it give way to silence? What does it replace? When we become aware of its disappearance, how long […]
Un jour pour une nuit entre les deux – Anima Animus
Anima Animus is a vocal duo composed of musicians and sound artists Claire Serres and Delphine Dora. This wednesday they will open their studio to the sunset, with the voice as a vehicle of exploration between interiority and exteriority, presence and absence, shadow and light. The performance moves from the body and the voice into an […]
Farida Amadou
Entre-temps   Inspired by the sounds and passing images she has captured through the windows of moving trains, the musician Farida Amadou presents an audiovisual installation in two parts.  A first space, with two plate-reverbs presented as metal sound sculptures, is mixed with amplified piano strings, allowing the public to create a sound improvisation. The plates […]
Second Sundays #25 – Peter Fengler / De Player – There is never a perfect copy – POSTPONED to 21/11
Title: there is never a perfect copy on sound reproduction and its implications plus unexpected pop-ups and eclectic push ups   Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music […]
Free Improv Lab with Farida Amadou
Playing what you feel in the moment, feeling the energy of other players and of the space and always being aware of what is happening around and inside your own personal circle. 
Choose to be silent, choose to challenge others, challenge yourself.
 Free Improv Lab is a series of guided collective free improvisations, exploring the […]
Inter_Section (Claudia Schmitz & Sabine Ercklentz)
The duo INTER_SECTION – founded in 2019 by Claudia Schmitz (time-based media aritst) and Sabine Ercklentz (trumpet, electronics) – develops space-based audiovisual real-time performances involving gestural and intermedial transcription. The project is conceived as a long-term research. Each phase is characterised by a specific impulse, a new perspective and related questions and aesthetic solutions in […]
Showcase Emerging Sound 2022
STUK, Q-O2, Musica & C-TAKT present an annual showcase of new sound art in Belgium. A selection of works by promising sound artists will be presented on 14 & 15 May 2022 at Q-O2. The showcase shows the diversity of the Belgian sound art landscape and gives the next generation of sound artists a boost. […]
Francesca Hawker
Francesca Hawker will present ‘a night on the Giselle’, a medley of songs, poems, and performative gestures, created while on residency at Q02. During the residency, the nearby canal acted as a convenient conveyor-belt of material inspiration, carrying a slew of objects which were chosen intuitively by Francesca + friends on a series of canal-side […]
Second Sundays #24 – Chris Dreier / ex-Die Tödliche Doris
Chris Dreier is a Berlin-based musician, photographer, radio-maker and artist. Between 1981 and 1982, she performed as part of the legendary West Berlin punk band and performance group Die Tödliche Doris. The group was founded by Wolfgang Müller and Nikolaus Utermöhlen in 1980. In the 1980s, Die Tödliche Doris performed music influenced by post-punk, French […]
Sisters with Transitors
Laurie Anderson lends her voice to narrate the epic of electronic music through the journey of women musicians, pioneers in their fields. The film is simple in style, but with a wealth of astonishing archive material, and manages to build a stimulating narrative and raise pertinent questions with a certain finesse. This series of portraits […]
Laetitia Gendre & BMB con.
During the residency, in which Gendre & BMB con. will collaborate for the first time, they intend to explore different ways of working together for short, intense periods, combining layers of reality and media using techniques like live-drawing coupled to sound-making, drawn and projected scenography, invented instruments, paper as sound source etc. etc. The results […]
Donal Sarsfield
In the creation of my ‘podcast/Hörspiel’ for the Distractfold Ensemble last year using recorded sounds, musical sketches and text, I realised the potential of joining all the disparate elements of my musical practice into a cohesive and obliquely entertaining whole. I would like to use the residency to develop an event which focuses on the […]
Free Improv Lab with Farida Amadou
!!! Registration opens 2 weeks in advance of each session !!!   Playing what you feel in the moment, feeling the energy of other players and of the space and always being aware of what is happening around and inside your own personal circle. 
Choose to be silent, choose to challenge others, challenge yourself.
 Free […]
Tracks public audiowalks Brussels
Guided audiowalks in Brussels, by Lukas Anthierens, Justin Bennett, Jonathan Frigeri & Eric Desjeux, Yannick Guédon, Confluences (Giulia Vismara & Franziska Windisch), Anna Raimondo   Different points of departure – see programme below. In English, unless indicated otherwise. For free   On Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 August, various guided audiowalks will take place in […]
Anima Animus
Anima Animus is a vocal duo composed by musicians and sound artists Claire Serres and Delphine Dora. Their meeting was born from a common practice, that of voice as a vehicle of exploration between interiority and exteriority, voice as energy aspects and metamorphosis. Our first piece was improvised and recorded in a church during the […]
Lukas De Clerck + Angélica Castelló (La Semaine du Son)
Two solo sets in the framework of La Semaine du Son Reservation mandatory
Workshop Free Improvisation with Angélica Castelló
Workshop free improvisation, creative reflecting and sound making. Creating new soundscapes produced by objects, machines or musical instruments. The participants need no prior knowledge in music, more important is the curiosity on sound organization.   Timing: 11:00 to 13:00 – meeting -knowing each other – discussion – first improvisation 13:00 to 14:00 Break 14:00 to […]
Het Blokfluitasiel
Sommercamp – Het Blokfluitasiel
Gladys Garcia
Gladys Garcia lives and works in Brussels and she is Che Vuoi, a solo musical project. She’s been working for the past year on ‘Night Songs’, a series of songs composed of modular and analog synthesizers as well as texts. She thinks of these melodies and songs as nocturnal landscapes out of which comforting or […]
Selu Herraiz
I observe how the dissolution of the ego becomes imperative for us to turn into humanity and pass through this pandemic moment together. An immersion in the abyss to listen to the silence, return to earth and look at life and the planet from the bond and not from a self that is an expanded […]
Amber Meulenijzer – Saab Sculptures / Paesaggimaginati
In situ performances on 15, 22 and 27 august, 18h >>   15/8 : 18:00 > Parc des Etangs / Vijverpark – pond next to Maurice Caremelaan 50°49’21.5″N 4°17’01.4″E   22/8 : 20h > changed location and hour: Anderlecht Abattoires, Ropsy Chaudronstraat 24, 1070 Brussel   27/8 > Parking Panorama / Van Helmontstraat 15, 1000 […]
Het Blokfluitasiel
Het Blokfluitasiel is a collaboration between instrument builder Lukas De Clerck, composer Angélica Castello, and music teachers Katelijne Lanneau and Matthias Verniers with their pupils from Music Academies Jette/Brussels (recorder class) and St.Vith (organ class). The project builds on Lukas De Clerck’s instrument “AirBag/14Holes”.   During a summer camp at Meakusma in Eupen they have […]
Angélica Castelló
Walking from Scores Conference – Elena Biserna, Jean-Francois Pirson & Franziska Windisch
During the conversation, curator Elena Biserna will elaborate on her project ‘Walking from Scores’, addressing the idea of walking as a relational practice and the score as an invitation to action. She will be joined by artist-pedagogue Jean-Francois Pirson, who expresses his relationship to space through various practices such as drawing, photography, installation, text and […]
Vera Cavallin
Working on the harp: a moment to observe my instrument from a new perspective, as an independent body, as a generator of ideas and sounds transcending the instrument itself. As an object, as an old friend, as an obsession. Talks, music, silences, fights might emerge from this one-to-one encounter. Food for work and try.
Francesca Hawker
Methods: • Rhyming e.g. Through blue shoots you grew, You flew through blue shoots, You knew clues do move, You do shoot new moves, You move loose you do • Bar work e.g. ordering poems, ordering drinks, making poems, making drinks, rhyming poems, rhyming drinks • Memorisation through walking with someone who hasn’t been before • […]
Walking from Scores Expo – Elena Biserna
Walking from Scores is a collection of hundred verbal and graphic scores by artists, collectives, and composers on walking, listening and sound production in urban space. The project explores the relationship between the aesthetic sphere and the everyday, the dynamics of sound and listening in urban space, and the (porous) boundaries between artist and audience. […]
Andrés Navarro García
Andrés will play “Opera with Objects” by Alvin Lucier and his own new piece for cymbal and mixer.
Andrés Navarro García
Andrés dedicates this residency to a sound research in which percussion instruments are activated by means of small appliances. This first step of the project will focus on cymbal overtones reinforced by feedback. The project is alternated with working on Alvin Lucier’s piece “Opera with Objects”, to give the appliances, as well as the performer’s […]
Léa Roger & Flavio Bagnasco
LISTENING AND DISTURBING DATA TRANSMISSION We are continually surrounded by data streams that we cannot perceive. We would like to work on possible ways to interfere with these kind of streams of electromagnetic waves that are constantly present in the air (wifi, bluetooth, GPS…). These signals are like the visible light radiation but at lower […]
Ugne Vyliaudaite
Ugne Vyliaudaite is a musician and art historian from Lithuania, living and working in Brussels. She is a part of electronic duo “Ugne&Maria” with Marija Rasa Kudabaite where they experiment with the violin, synthesisers and sampling techniques. Their compositions revolve around down-tempo as well as dance-orientated approach, including multilayering composing principles and improvisation. During the […]
Daniel Dariel & Seijiro Murayama on radio p-node
Live Broadcast Concert with Daniel Dariel & Seijiro Murayama at Q-O2 Brussels; preceded by an interview, in which we find out more about their backgrounds and practices, and reflections on music & improvisation. The conversation is in french! Listen to the whole radio transmission on our podcastchannel >>> here
Walking from Scores Workshop – Elena Biserna
The ‘Walking from Scores’ workshop is open to artists, musicians, performers, students, and alike, interested in exploring in a post-disciplinary way the relationships between sound, listening and the everyday environment. The participants discover the possibilities of walking in the urban space and in the meantime broaden their view of and relationship to that environment. The […]
Ugne Vyliaudaite
Daniel Dariel & Seijiro Murayama
>> the concert will be transmitted on radio π-Node on 23 June at 18h: https://p-node.org/   Pour nous à Q-O2, l’expérience est inouïe.   Comme vous le savez, si un résident suit son projet de A à Z, c’est assez peu intéressant. Le côté inhumain des choses peut le devenir, quand tout est placé sous […]
Selu Herraiz
LILItH ‘ 2 1   Lilith’21 is a lunatic androgyne being who creates audio-puncture sessions to liberate emotions and proclaim the universal love. A trip through sound to find the non-verbal state of mind. Combining noises, samples, field recordings and voices, it creates a direct channel to get in contact with the outer space. Transmuted […]
Daniel Dariel & Seijiro Murayama
How does one develop the work of improvisation? If one plays a written piece, one can rehearse it. But in improv, how does one work? Does one build a personal language? But how? By improvising? Anyhow, if you use an instrument, you have to learn how to play it – this is the opinion shared […]
Amber Meulenijzer
SAAB SCULPTURES / PAESAGGIMAGINATI   The Saab Sculptures is a series of works placing the Saab 900 car in different contexts, thus questioning, transforming, pimping public/private space. The current etappe in this research consists of a sculptural/sonorous exploration, translated in a mobile soundsystem carrying 12 Toa horn-speakers, mounted on the car’s roof. The sculpture will […]
Sarah van Lamsweerde, Esther Mugambi & Raoul Carrer – Agripuncture / Sore Spot Singing
Workshop sessions on 9, 16, 23 of June, 9h45 – 11h45, priority for people who engage for the three sessions. 12€ for 3 workshops or 2€ paspartoe (VIPO) Registration via De Vaartkapoen 02/413 04 10, or devaartkapoen@vgc.be   In this work­shop on the rooftop gar­den of Q‑O2, Esther Mugambi, Raoul Carrer and Sarah van Lamsweerde […]
PAM.pm #6
Register here: https://forms.gle/5yDCfQLR9APMGVAn7     The next PAM.pm session will focus on self-organisation and tactics for artist-run initiatives in sound and media arts. Artist collectives will introduce themselves and share their stories and best practices. It’s about the challenges of small-budget organisations, sharing infrastructure, inventing formats, expanding distribution or other solutions. After the introductions you […]
Myriam Van Imschoot
Radio broadcast on Friday 21 mei 2021 at 19h   ===> radio player will be activated at 19h   Performer, composer and vocalist Myriam Van Imschoot speaks about her recent work, and her fascination for the voice in its most pristine forms. She comments on audio excerpts of some of her last performances. With the […]
PAM p.m.
PAM (Platform Audiovisual and Media Arts) organises monthly gatherings, called PAM p.m., where artists, curators, producers, and organisations working in these disciplines can share questions with one another and enter into a conversation. All topics can be addressed: fundraising, distribution, (co-)production, authorship, inclusion,… Unlike previous editions, for PAM p.m. 4, no specific conversation partners were […]
Showcase Emerging Sound 2021 – Dominique ‘t Jolle, aRzu Saglam, Andrés Navarro García, Beyt Al Tapes, Anne van de Star, Charlie Usher
STUK, Q-O2 and Musica present a sample of new sound art in Belgium. Six promising sound artists were selected for the Showcase Emerging Sound 2021 at STUK. The showcase shows the diversity of the Belgian sound landscape and gives the next generation of sound artists a boost. Given the circumstances, this year’s showcase will primarily […]
Oscillation ::: Tuned Circuits – workshops
In the week proceeding the festival, Tuned Circuits hosts a number of workshops with invited guests, offering practical skill sharing related to the thematics of the festival.   Fri 23/4 14h-18h ::: Stellan Veloce – Tuning Harmonicas This work­shop starts from the dia­ton­ic har­mon­i­ca and dives into tun­ing and col­lec­tive impro­vi­sa­tion, with inspi­ra­tion from the […]
Sébastien Roux, Deborah Walker, Yannick Guédon, Cyprien Busolini
How does a sound disappear? It can stop “dead” and produce an “absence”. It can recede like the sea, almost imperceptibly. Or, its timbre crumbles, frequency after frequency. Does it leave space for silence? Or what is it replaced by? Another sound can take its place. Or another sound can mask it (notion of critical […]
Giovanni Lami
Elena Biserna
Ine Claes
During her residency at QO-2, vocal artist, choreographer and performer Ine Claes will be focussing on two parts of her ‘20-‘21 musical development. The first part focuses on a research on vocal acoustic looping. She invites different vocalists to experiment with as Maja Jantar, Lynn Cassiers and Justine Maxelon. Repetition and looping has always been […]
Oscillation ::: Tuned Circuits
===> Oscillation festival 2021 ::: Tuned Circuits   The interaction of tone, as though a tone were a being. The tone itself may contain a complex spectrum or it may be a more reduced, transparent, or singular vibration. But it is always influenced by what is happening around it, in its periphery, and there are […]
We had no idea the microphone was on – students of La Cambre
WE HAD NO IDEA THE MICROPHONE WAS ON   => live stream starts on 25/2 at 18h30   We are cyborgs. We want to connect to one another despite a global virus and despite everything.  Come into our cyborgian tale. With sound let’s invent a cyborgian language.   With works by Terje Abusdal, Léna Babinet, […]
Els Viaene
During my time at Q-O2 i continue my research ‘Sound as vibration’. At this point i’m preparing a lecture/performance in which i make my acquired knowledge and research tangible and visible for an audience. A form of embodied knowledge. In this performance i will take a closer look at my shifting roles throughout the different […]
The Oceanographies Broadcast
Listen via our podcast-channel: here ——————————————————————————————- What’s your relation to the ocean? Is there an element of the ocean that is particularly relevant to you?   The Oceanographies Institute functions as a collaborative platform between the artists Marialena Marouda, Charlie Usher and Elpida Orfanidou. TOI’s focus is, essentially, the relation between two bodies of water: […]
PAM p.m.
Third PAM p.m. meeting.  PAM shares knowledge about the development, production, distribution, presentation, and reflection of audiovisual and media arts. It organises a variety of activities to highlight the diversity of its field. This time organised by Auguste Orts and Courtisane. More info and registration: https://augusteorts.be/activities/95/pam-pm-3 or https://www.courtisane.be/nl/event/pam-pm-3
Geraldine Vanspauwen & Maan Methven
Geraldine Vanspauwen and Maan Methven share a fascination for sound as an audiovisual medium, connecting the physical with the non-physical world. They collaborate on sound design and music. Currently, they are working on compositions that depart from the tangible knots of the landscape, going deeper towards the voices heard from within. How can we listen […]
Wendy Van Wynsberghe – The ephemeral choir machine aka the Sampler Sampler
>>>> The ephemeral choir machine aka the Sampler Sampler   In pre-recording times, we kept traces of music and melodies in our head. They faded out, they morphed, blended, they got replaced. Contemporary music samplers are highly formatted in their interface, shape and output. This installation tries to weave these elements together and give them […]
Eveline Vervliet & Marco Fusi
Composer Eveline Vervliet and Instrumentalist Marco Fusi work together in the creation of a new work for viola, electronics and video. During a residency at Q-02, they will research an audiovisual, interactive framework. Within this framework, the movements of the musician influence an electronic soundtrack and a video.   Driven by an interest in unpredictable […]
PAM p.m.
PAM (Platform for Audiovisual and Media arts) shares knowledge about the development, production, distribution, presentation, and reflection of audiovisual and media arts. With this aim we started PAM p.m., gatherings where this exchange can take place in an informal setting. December’s inaugural PAM p.m. proved that there is indeed a strong need for sharing knowledge […]
Marialena Marouda & Oceanographies Institute
Wendy Van Wynsberghe
Lukas De Clerck
David Weber-Krebs
Pak Yan Lau
– Add wings to a pepper to make a dragonfly – (Add a pair of wings / to a pepper pod, you would / make a dragonfly – corrected haiku by Basho)   Hear / Sound impressions inspired by Haikus With a mix of live made concrete sounds, archival online sounds, instruments and voice, we […]
Pak Yan Lau
David Helbich
Franziska Windisch – orientation/dance (listening)
orientation/dance   How is listening determined by perspective and orientation? In this workshop we will develop and experiment with different listening exercises dedicated to urban public space that explore listening as a way to orient and situate oneself in space and in relation to others. The exercises will be conceived for custom-made listening modules built […]
Lukas De Clerck – Bloedneus en de Snuitkever
Bloedneus en de Snuitkever is a musical project for newborn sonic adventures. The Aulos, a double reeded double pipe, stands in the center of the research. Detached from it’s former owners and their entire culture, the instrument is sort of an enigma. Breathing air into an instrument silenced for over a millennium, Bloedneus en de […]
Planète Concrète
Sagittarius Celebration Q-o2 is our current residency base station for sonic discoveries & streaming on: http://www.ooooo.be/ruelles or http://stream.p-node.org/dab.mp3 and dab + p-node Paris & Mullhouse and maybe we appear on http://giss.tv:8000/tvcentraal.webm   With the support of Flemish Community Activation Fund.   http://www.ooooo.be/ruelles  http://p-node.org  
PAM p.m. (online)
Sign up for a conversation with peers from the audiovisual, sound, and media arts community and get to know other artists, producers, curators and programmers. Organised by STUK, in collaboration with PAM. Please register here.   PLANNING 15:00-15:10 Plenary room: Welcome 15:10-15:20 Field rooms (Sound / Media / Audiovisual): Presentation round 15:20-15:40 One-on-one conversation 1 […]
Maria Komarova
The fish within – voice workshop with Johanna Peine & The Oceanographies Institute >> postponed <<
The fish within Oceanographies Workshop #1   How much of jellyfish, fish or amphibian is still present in the human body and voice? In this workshop we try to get to the bottom of this question by exploring the movements of early phylo – and ontogenesis in connection with the sound of our voice. According […]
oracle & Ruben Nachtergaele – postponed
During lockdown, oracle transformed their vocal practice into a telepathic practice to offer another form of connection in times of crisis and isolation; one that involves magic, imagination and communication through “waves/energy/particles”, reaching beyond physical borders. A variety of people responded to the call, ranging from the oracle community to persons from different communities in […]
Carlos Casas workshop: Imploded Cinema – postponed
Expanded Found footage and archival practices Introduction to Carlos Casas’ use and practice around archival sources and found footage in his film “Cemetery” and other works. Participants will conceptually and practically create a found footage piece and present it at the end of the workshop.   People with skills on premiere or other video programmes […]
Matière Mémoire : Carlos Casas, Karbé Dinel, Hampus Lindwall – postponed
Karbé Dinel – Solo Live (guitar & electronics) Hampus Lindwall – Solo Live (TB303) Carlos Casas – MUTIA Live Label Night of Matière Mémoire
Workshop & performance with Stellan Veloce – postponed
Stellan Veloce (http://stellanveloce.de/about/) is a Sardinian composer, performer and cellist living and working in Berlin. They compose pieces for acoustic instrumental ensembles as well as working on installations or performance pieces focusing on timbre, repetition and sound densities.    During three workshop sessions and one performance (Rainy Days Festival in Luxemburg, curated by Ictus), Stellan Veloce […]
Sylvain van iniitu & E42.A8
With the current situation, the residency content will be itself improvised, along the changing possibilities for meeting/live performance. It might be a translocation of the activities of E42.A8. For a fortnight, E42.A8 would happen outside its native walls, on a more continuous mode. It might help rally some new participants, allow for more sustained developments, […]
Planète Concrète
Planète Concrète is an open pink noise universe staged by strange / loving creatures. Making new prostheses. Writing lyrics, playing a beat, trying a movement with GIY (gather it your self) self-built instruments. Sonic Discoveries. http://ooooo.be/planeteconcrete/
Els Viaene
Sound as vibration   Since a very long time now i approach sound in my work as an end product, namely something i record with my microphones and then use as a material that i mould and remould. This process then results into a composition, a live performance or an installation. In my current practice […]
David Weber-Krebs
At QO2 I start the research and development phase for my next project, the Silencing of the World. This research focuses specifically on the sound aspect of climate change and mass extinction. Here I aim at something simple and complex at the same time: to find an auditive and performative strategy to make the spectators […]
Stellan Veloce
During this month I will experiment with tuning and different techniques of the diatonic harmonica. My fascination for the this instrument started more than a decade ago when I brought one on a hitchhiking trip, being it the only harmonic instrument I could fit in my pocket. I would like to create a group of […]
Stéfan Piat – postponed
For this presentation, please confirm your presence at info@q-o2.be. Masks are mandatory and the bar will be closed. ************ Stéfan Piat’s work focuses on recording and reproduction processes such as photography, video and sound. This in combination with digital tools and installation. His projects explore the specificity of these techniques in relationship with ideas such as […]
Stéfan Piat
During his residency Stéfan Piat has worked on the development of two on-going projects :   Nightshift a dual screen video showing an empty room punctuated by the presence of windows. While the camera pan slowly like a video surveillance device, the space loops endlessly on itself.   Listening Ears (in collaboration with Brigitte Hoornaert) […]
Elena Biserna – walking from scores
This presentation concludes the workshop “Walking from Scores” (October 3 + 4) and the residency from Elena Biserna. Walking from Scores is a collection of around 80 non site-specific scores by artists, composers and collectives involving walking, listening and sound-making in urban space. The project explores the relationship between the aesthetic sphere and the everyday, […]
Elena Biserna talk – Ambulatory sound-making: re-writing, re-appropriating, presencing auditory spaces
A talk by Elena Biserna that aims to explore the aesthetical, social and political potential of sound-making in ambulatory practices in music and the sound arts. [Places are limited, please reserve via loes@nadine.be]   The World Soundscape Project’s definitions of soundwalking and related map-scores often underlined the role of sound-making. In many of the early […]
Oscillation Tape Release – Marcus Bergner + Mika Oki
On Friday October 2 we will celebrate the release of a new set of tape cassettes which bring together several works from Oscillation Mayday Radio Marathon, featuring Giovanni Lami, Elisa Ferrari, Julia E Dyck&Diana Duta, martiensgohome, Planète Concrète, Penates, Olli Aarni, Teresa Cos, Lazara Rosell Albear, Edyta Jarzab & Pawel Kreis, with design by Meeuw […]
Animated Matter – Maria Komarova + Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle + Overtoon
Open studios: 16:00-18:00 (Overtoon) Concert: 20:30 (Q-O2)   >>> Open studios at Overtoon are between 16:00 and 18:00 on Saturday 17 October, Rue Paul Devauxstraat 3, 1000 Bxl. Visitors will need to reserve via office@overtoon.org. Work by Christoph De Boeck, Aernoudt Jacobs, Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle, Maria Komarova, and David Helbich will be shown.   >>> Concert at Q-O2, 20h30 (doors 20h), […]
Sarah van Lamsweerde, Esther Mugambi, Raoul Carrer
Agripuncture / Sore Spot Songs   During WW I and II, civilians were encouraged to create victory gardens: vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks to reduce the pressure on food supply brought on by the war effort. The victory gardens were a type of propaganda, showing an enemy the […]
Showcase Emerging Sound 2020 : Dominique ‘t Jolle, Andrés Navarro García, aRzu Saglam, Beyt Al Tapes – postponed
STUK, Q-O2 and Musica present a sample of new sound art in Belgium. Four promising artists show their work with a parcours through the STUK building. In order to develop their work, they were given residency time and space. The showcase shows the diversity of the Belgian sound landscape, from installation over improvisation to performance, […]
Limpe Fuchs workshop – percussion, self-built instruments & improvisation [waiting list]
In this workshop Limpe Fuchs will give a practical introduction to her self-built instruments, which she will be using for her concert on September 2nd: the  Metallophone which is made out of  40 metal tubes tuned to the Lucy-Harrison scale in 2 octaves, three pendulum string instruments, four tube drums, a soprano kettledrum, as well […]
Limpe Fuchs & Pak Yan Lau – two solos [sold out]
Limpe Fuchs is a german musician and instrument builder whose vibrant performances develop from a real time engagement with the ecology of the space at hand. Using wood and granite stone rows, ringing bronze within pendulum string instruments and employing the percussion, viola and voice she studied at the Munich Conservatory she sensitises the process […]
Inne Eysermans & Lotte Brown + Jeroen Uyttendaele
Inne Eysermans & Lotte Brown After designing an online iteration of two texts written by Lotte Brown and Stine Sampers, as part of a virtual residency at Q-O2 earlier this year, I’m currently adapting the project from viewing on mobile devices. In this live presentation, the audience will be invited to explore the the work […]
Inne Eysermans
During this second part of residency I will work with text, sound, electronics and computation. This by means of overhearing, text-to-speech, text input and processing via code, whereby new and infinite sequences of text are generated. Methods such as Markov Chains are used in the generation of these bots. They form the basis for various […]
Second Sundays #23 – Cabaret sentimental: Jambes (Diana Duta) & Nicolas Jorio
A recording studio is a small house, populated with friends, strangers and various apparitions. Its purpose is the creation of sound records (“writings layde up for remembrance”) of the encounters it has witnessed. Each of these gestures leaves not only a recorded trace, but also a presence. Characters of such a cabaret may include a […]
Jonathan Frigeri & Eric Desjeux
We must see the Belvédère Sonore as an imaginary structure built to take full advantage of the wind blowing through the pines or as a gazebo erected to enjoy the murmur of a fountain. In this case, for the residence at Q-O2 in Brussels, we have imagined a music for three sculptures located in the […]
Aela Royer workshop : Vocal Lab
In this workshop, we will work the voice through the image of a synthesizer progressively shaping a simple tone into a complex abstract sound. Here the body will reveals to be a highly technological object. We will use somatic technics and body movements to approach the vocalic system as a harmonizer, the consonants as ADSR […]
Björn Jauss & Stefan Fraunberger
A collaborative project between Stefan Fraunberger and Björn Jauss, exploring a blend of derelict transylvanian pipe-organ sounds and minimalist synthetic flows. Following up on their previous project “Zerlinker”; in their current project, “Quellgeister” originating from decaying human-build ritual machines encounter analogue electro-shamanism summoned from feedback. Both artists will exchange their respective investigations on the transformations […]
Elena Biserna workshop : Walking from Scores
The workshop is open to artists, musicians, performers, students and anyone wishing to explore the relationships between sound, listening and the everyday sphere, the potential of walking in urban space, as well as an expanded notion of notation from a post-disciplinary perspective. The program is organized in several theoretical and practical sessions focused on walking, […]
Elena Biserna
Walking from Scores is a collection of around 80 non site-specific scores by artists, composers and collectives involving walking, listening and sound-making in urban space. The project explores the relationship between the aesthetic sphere and the everyday, the dynamics of sound and listening in urban space and the (porous) boundaries between artist and audience. It […]
Alina Ozerova
‘Sound as a by-product. Eat me’ is a presentation of participatory sound installation-in-progress where sonic textures of pre-packed meals consumption will be intertwined with a non-scored multisensory experience. The public is encouraged to come in slightly peckish for bites and sounds, with warm fingers and relaxed jaws. We are looking forward to establishing sonic and […]
Liew Niyomkarn
For this post-residency presentation at Q-O2, I’d like to invite people to have a conversation on sound as a medium for connecting with community; for making culture and performative acts through listening. My initial project while in residence was the development and creation of a map and accompanying sound device. What is more compelling for […]
Alina Ozerova
Sound as a by-product. Eat me.   ‘Sound as a by-product. Eat me’ is a research for participatory sound installation where sonic textures of packed food consumption will be intertwined with a concept of ‘industrial lunch concert’. It is an attempt to created a non-scored performative sound environment which allows a different haptic contact between […]
Laurent Güdel
* Note: Due to safety measures regarding Covid-19 this event has a limited capacity of 20 people. Please be punctual to be assured a place. We are doing all we can to keep you safe. *** For this end-of-residency presentation at Q-02 we will listen collectively to some sound works / multi-channel compositions (electronic / […]
Ioana Mândrescu
Inne Eysermans
This coming weekend, a web iteration of two texts written by Lotte Brown and Stine Sampers, will be online and to be viewed via www.inneeysermans.com. Text-sound-image and storytelling are being explored through performance and interaction in a web environment. Musician and sound artist Inne Eysermans developed this project during a virtual residency at Q-O2, this […]
Charlie Usher
EPAS stream
In the context of their ‘corona-residency’ at Q-O2, the EPAS – European Postgraduate in Arts in Sound students will present their work online and organize and mini live stream festival. EPAS is as post graduate a one-year intensive course in the creative potential of sound both of itself and in connection with other disciplines. This […]
Revisit: Oscillation ::: Mayday Radio Marathon
Revisit the full playlist here
Aela Royer
The human voice is a complex sound synthesis device. When considered from a singing perspective, the human voice is curiously both a highly technical object and the living embodiment of one’s spirit and soul. For any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic* ! The soundtrack “La jeune fille en feu”, from Jean-Baptiste de Laubier […]
Oscillation – Mayday Radio Marathon :: online workshops with Julia E Dyck and Jasmin Guffond
29/4 14h: Julia E Dyck: Bedroom Transmission workshop Julia E Dyck hosts a virtual encounter where participants will set up their own DIY internet radio stream. Following the technical procedure, the group will engage in relational experiments using different methods of transmission and discuss the subversive and transformative potential of radio. 90 mins – 10 […]
Inne Eysermans
During this residency I will work with text, sound, electronics and computation. This by means of overhearing, text-to-speech, text input and processing via code, whereby new and infinite sequences of text are generated. Methods such as Markov Chains are used in the generation of these bots. During my residency in Q-O2, they form the basis […]
Jeroen Uyttendaele
I want to investigate how the content of information may change as a result of transfer from one medium to another. Or how interference can be used as an expressive element. Hereby I want to develop a series of kinetic sound sculptures that exchange “information” within a network. In the residence I want to work […]
Laurent Güdel
During this residency, I would like to learn from the experiences accumulated by the people working in Q-02. Together with my friend and comrade Lionel Gafner, I work as a curator of experimental music ans sound practice at the Lokal-Int, a small art centre in the Swiss working-class city of Biel/Bienne. An officially bilingual city, […]
EPAS students (European Postgraduate in Arts in Sound)
Stéfan Piat
Nightshift a dual screen video showing an empty room punctuated by the presence of windows. While the camera pan slowly like a video surveillance device, the space loops endlessly on itself.   Listening Ears (in collaboration with Brigitte Hoornaert) a video portrait of remaining parabolic sound mirrors scattered on the coast of England.   Stéfan […]
Liew Niyomkarn
I am an interdisciplinary artist and performer. My work takes an obligatory view on geography’s historical roots, explored in its relation to audio culture, rituals, nature-society, and territory. I transform those pieces of information into sound, essays, objects, and transfigure it into a performance.   I will focus on the development and creation of a […]
Tucuxi (Mika Oki & Irwin Barbé)
Sounds and liquids share some of the same properties : they can fill up a space, and they can fill you with an emotion.   Following their residency at Qo2, Mika Oki and Irwin Barbé will present a generative sound installation producing an entirely synthesised aquatic soundworld, that will evolve on its own for an […]
Oscillation – Mayday Radio Marathon
Oscillation ::: Mayday Radio Marathon > website   The second edition of Oscillation festival will take place as a 3-day radio marathon over the first weekend in May, in resonance with the International Day of Workers. In the absence of project funding, the format of radio offered us a possibility to nonetheless continue the festival […]
Limpe Fuchs workshop – percussion, self-built instruments & improvisation
In this workshop Limpe Fuchs will give a practical introduction to her self-built instruments, which she will be using for her concert on September 2nd: the  Metallophone which is made out of  40 metal tubes tuned to the Lucy-Harrison scale in 2 octaves, three pendulum string instruments, four tube drums, a soprano kettledrum, as well […]
Limpe Fuchs & Pak Yan Lau – two solos
Limpe Fuchs is a german musician and instrument builder whose vibrant performances develop from a real time engagement with the ecology of the space at hand. Using wood and granite stone rows, ringing bronze within pendulum string instruments and employing the percussion, viola and voice she studied at the Munich Conservatory she sensitises the process […]
Second Sundays #22 – Beyt Al Tapes
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Frederik Croene & G.A.M.E. studenten – postponed
Frederik Croene & Ghent Advanced Master Ensemble:   The musicians of GAME have been working with Frederik Croene in a three-day residence-workshop at PostX Merelbeke in December 2019. This collaboration resulted in a series of co-created soloworks for flute, voice, violin, laptop and electric guitar and two pieces for ensemble. The pieces were the result […]
Diana Duta + Future Perfect
Future Perfect (Julia Dyck and Amanda Harvey) will perform a work-in-progress creation engaging with transmission practices via pirate FM radio and internet live-streaming. Their work explores the nature of perceptual contact with the world, including the ways in which we can attune to those in our shared environment. Composed of field and VLF (very low […]
Sarah van Lamsweerde & Esther Mugambi
DJ workshop with Lendl Barcelos
Lendl Barcelos will offer a 4-hrs DJ workshop in anticipation of hens presentation of CUE on the 9th of February. The workshop will give a basic introduction to some techniques used when mixing, opening questions about the listening experience DJs often navigate.   No technical knowledge is required. Participants will be asked to bring a […]
Future Perfect
At Q-02, Future Perfect will continue their current research which focuses on radio, and more broadly sound, as a community tool in a time of technological change, as well as to the transformative practice of listening. Motivated by a deep interest in sonic healing, noise, and public acts of care, they will create audio guides […]
Elisa Ferrari – postponed
At Q-O2, I will work on two parallel projects that adopt sound-performance and radio as expanded forms of publishing. I will develop a solo set for voice and amplified objects focusing on a selection of entries from the “Dictionary of Superstitions” (edited by Iona Opie and Moira Tatem) and “Valtrompia: un’altra storia,” a publication that […]
Mika Oki & Irwin Barbé
Under the alias Tucuxi, we’ve been exploring for more than two years years now some of the links between electronically generated sounds and real subaquatic recordings. Through several residencies like Silo, GRM, and Sonica, our Liquidation Totale radio show on french community radio LYL and several events in unusual locations like a sensory deprivation tanks […]
Marialena Marouda & Charlie Usher
The Oceanographies Institute studies the relation between the human body and the vast body of the ocean. It is interested in singular human-ocean encounters and the knowledge that is inherent in those encounters. In a series of private meetings, the Ocean Conversations and Demonstrations, the Institute dives into different people’s experiences and memories of the […]
Diana Duta
Diana Duta’s current research centres on the work of phonetician and inventor of the universal phonetic alphabet, Alexander Melville Bell. In the mid- 1860s, Bell came up with a rather complicated and now largely forgotten way of transcribing every possible sound into a symbol, starting from the position of the speech organs. His alphabet, called […]
Jonathan Frigeri & Eric Desjeux
Belvedere Sonore We must see the Belvedere Sonore as an imaginary structure constructed to take full advantage of the wind blowing in the pines or as a kiosk erected to enjoy the murmur of a fountain. Inspired here are the landscapes to be listened to in Chinese literature. In the old Treaty of Music attributed […]
Second Sundays #21 – Brandon LaBelle + Lendl Barcelos (!! program change due to storm forecast)
!! Program change: The book presentation of Brandon LaBelle is cancelled due to the upcoming storm this afternoon. Lendl Barcelos’ presentation starts at 17h. Cocktail of the month will be changed to a Dark and Stormy.   Doors 16h30 Listening Session 17h00 After Program 18h00   Listening session and book presentation: On Acoustic Territories Brandon […]
Surround Choices (students of La Cambre)
EN We are cyborgs. We are trying to connect to one another. Come into our cyborgian tale. With sound let’s invent a cyborgian language.   A new Sound Art and Experimental Music course was initiated at La Cambre – École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels by Céline Gillain and Myriam Pruvot, in collaboration with Julia […]
Caroline Profanter + Henry Andersen + Julia Eckhardt (La Semaine du Son)
Three solos.
Toma Gouband & Mathieu Calleja + Maja Jantar & Ine Claes (La Semaine du Son)
Toma Gouband & Mathieu Calleja: Cymbow Three cymbals played with a bow, sounding stones, a singing drum, vibrating cymbals. This duo lets you fly through the multiform architecture of the space through sound vibrations. An experience where time transcends itself, where at the same time voices rise in the air and bury themselves in the […]
Sara Manente + Oracle
Sara Manente: WICKED TECHNOLOGY/WILD FERMENTATION   By linking practices of fermentation, feminism and artistic research, Sara Manente is interested in putting together techniques that transform thought, perception and doing (of togetherness) in live cultures and live arts.   For the residency in Q-o2, Sara will work on multilayering and morphing digital and analog sounds for […]
Second Sundays #20 – Pak Yan Lau
Pak Yan Lau : OLD, NEW AND DEAR – WABI-SABI Pak Yan Lau lets us listen to music of old, new and dear music people, following the concept of wabi sabi: the beauty of imperfection.   Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an […]
Lendl Barcelos
CUE begins simply by recording the usually-unheard cue channel(s) of DJ mixes of invited artists. Listening in on what is pre-listened opens space to hear what a DJ hears in the strange private-public modality of a DJ performance— testing out of tracks, shifts in tempo (for beat matching), multi-layered sound collages— so the seams of […]
Andrés Navarro García
“For Amplified Metal Plate”   This project started in Logos Foundation (Gent) at the beginning of the year and has had its next step in Q-O2 during this month. The main idea of Andrés is to collect elements of the city daily life and to relocate them in “art places”. Daily life elements appear on […]
Pak Yan Lau
In this residency i aim to explore my writing for an ensemble piece called Bakunawa. Trying out the possibilities of 10 pendules sounding together, experimenting with ring modulators and frequent analyzers on 4 different toy pianos, (all slightly differently out of tune), to understand what sounds their natural overtones can produce. Experimenting with prepared celtic harp, […]
Second Sundays #19 – Palermo – Marcus Bergner (Arf Arf)
For its last edition of 2019, Second Sundays invites poet, film maker and artist Marcus Bergner of the legendary Australian sound poetry group Arf Arf (with Frank Lovece, Marisa Stirpe and Michael Buckley) for a session and screening soaked in 16mm, and super 8 film, sound poetry, art history and train sounds. Everything brought to […]
aRzu Saglam & Maria Lepistö
This is a restaurant We are back and still won’t give you what you need. We are both present. We move and you move. You are also present. You want to get what you need, what you deserve. But none of that is really here. Nothing you really need is here. ‘This is a restaurant’ […]
Andrés Navarro García
Gea Brown / Yannick Guédon
  20h30: Yannick Guédon 22h: Gea Brown __________________________________ Gea Brown – Et puis comme on dit, comme on parle de Bruxelles, soit on l’aime et on s’y attache, soit on la déteste et on la quitte.   Sound performance, turntables, cdj’s, looper and sampler machines, voice   The performance was born by collecting vocal materials […]
What Happens if …? workshop with Milena Kipfmüller & Klaus Janek
The duo Sounding Situations (Milena Kipfmüller & Klaus Janek) is currently at residency at Q-O2 and doing an open workshop in the context of A.PASS. This is not only very open in its form but as well open to everybody who would like to join. It is not organized as a group workshop but as […]
Second Sundays #18 – Cowgirlboy Records, presented by Santé Loisirs
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Milena Kipfmüller & Klaus Janek
Work in progress of a live poetry and music set up based on a text of Etel Adnan – To be in a time of war. Klaus Janek- double bass and live electronic Milena Kipfmüller – voice and recordings of the author Etel Adnan
Asuna & Minoru Sato + Floris Vanhoof (org.by Meakusma X Meeuw Muzak)
Minoru Sato and Asuna started collaborating in 2004, combining Asuna’s use of decompressed wind organs with Sato’s resonating glass tubes. Their main focus is on acoustic phenomena such as the vibrations, reflections, resonances and fluctuations of sound waves. They compose and perform these phenomena as aural experiences.   In 2008, Keisuke Oki was invited by […]
Mixed Currents – Linda Jankowska, Dejana Sekulic, Irine Rosnes, Gilles Doneux, Sam Salem, Pablo Galaz, and Colin Frank
In this performance Mixed Currents will present new works that investigate physicality, virtuosity, and liveness by colliding the acoustic with the electric and the virtual with the real. Featuring Linda Jankowska, Dejana Sekulic, Irine Rosnes, Gilles Doneux, Sam Salem, Pablo Galaz, and Colin Frank. Mixed Currents is a collaborative research project aiming to further understand […]
Gea Brown
oracle
Vocalizing is an alternative, obscure and concrete way to touch the unknown and hostile. oracle is an eyes-closed body-voice improvisation practice reading diverse spaces; train stations, parks, institutions, forests, public libraries, urban gardens and private living spaces. It interacts with these surroundings through instant sound and movement composition and expands the boundaries between individual emotional […]
aRzu Saglam & Maria Lepistö
This is a restaurant   We are back and still won’t give you what you need. We are both present. We move and you move. You are also present. You want to get what you need, what you deserve. But none of that is really here. Nothing you really need is here.   ‘This is […]
Second Sundays #17: Sara Manente and Christophe Albertijn
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
BRAUBLFF (Materie und Laut) 8 – Katalin Ladik, Loré Lixenberg, Slow Reading Club, Beyt Al Tapes / organised by Kraak
The eighth (and possibly last!) episode in our notorious BRAUBLFF (Materie und Laut) series that explores where and how language transforms into music. In collaboration with De Player in Rotterdam.   Movement is at the heart of Serbian-born poet Katalin Ladik’s work. Incidence touches on incidence, and the result is a series of dynamic mutations […]
Luke Fowler + moro sphinx (Mathieu Lilin, Arnaud Paquotte, Daniel Dariel) / iMAL pre-opening
Concert at the occasion of the pre-opening of the new space of iMAL.   morosphinx (>soundcloud) is in its actual form a trio (double bass, baritone saxophone, percussion). We want to understand the silence and the background as an elastic material, and make it sensitive to the audience. Our goal is to create, through the […]
Yannick Guédon
e s p a _  , for 7 singer – performers, is centered on notions of space and movement in relation to sound. This unamplified,  a capella  piece is conceived to reveal the acoustic specificities afforded by the architecture of a place. In other words, we explore how a musical composition can bring us to […]
On sound and microphones – workshop with Alex Reynolds and Luke Fowler / organised by elephy
On sound and microphones Speakers: Alex Reynolds (ES) & Luke Fowler (UK) Language: English Entrance: The morning lecture is free. The afternoon workshop is 15€ (including a delicious lunch by Paso a Paso)*. For both please reserve your seat by emailing info@elephy.org before 10/11/2019. Please also state if you are a student, freshly graduated or […]
Dejana Sekulic & Gilles Doneux
Dejana+Gilles explore the idea and illusion of freezing one singular moment of sound and making the smallest particle of a sounding event perceivable for all its depth. Exploring the moving and still time in which this grain exists, testing possibilities, characteristics and roles of acoustic and electronic instruments and playing with actions, interactions and hierarchies, […]
Marie Raffn
Marie Raffn will present selected exhibitions, work developed during the residency as well as sound pieces in general. Recently she has composed sound and choreography based on an enlarged abstract sculptural score (one could position oneself inside), which incorporated elements from semiology such as music and dance notation as well as apparatuses from the world […]
La Nuée
La Nuée (english : the flock) is a brussels based band founded in 2017.   Our concept is based on the idea of translating bird’s flock behaviour into collective music improvisation to develop a unique musical language. A lot about the behaviour of flocks is still unknown. The formations they fly seem to serve not […]
An evening with The Quixtet
The Well Tempered Circle (a special “dual space” version) by Stefaan Quix   with the participation of: Aya Suzuki, Rubén Martinez Orio, Birgit Eecloo, Wim Pelgrims, Jacob Vanneste, Simon Florin, Jelle Van Dooren, Simon Decraene, Andrés Navarro Garcia, Jelle Proost.   The Ensemble The Quixtet presents a new version of the piece “The Well Tempered […]
Second Sundays #16 – book launch: Éliane Radigue – Intermediary Spaces / Julia Eckhardt
SECOND SUNDAYS #16 Julia Eckhardt: Éliane Radigue – Intermediary Spaces / Espaces intermédiaires Sunday Sept 15, 2019 Doors: 16h30 Listening session and Book Launch: 17h00 (free entry)   For its 16th session, Second Sundays celebrates the launch of the new publication from umland “Intermediary Spaces / Espaces Intermédiaires,” an in-depth interview between Éliane Radigue and […]
Katharina Klement + Mariana Carvalho
During her residency-period at Q-O2, Mariana is investigating relations between bodies and space. Exploring how sound is propagated and vibrates inside and outside the body, or taking body as a filter – with it’s flesh, bones, materiality -, she expects to create a dispositiv to share different points of listening, dealing with inner and outer […]
Milena Kipfmüller & Klaus Janek
In the last 2 years we continued developing our mobile concert format concerto ambulante, first performed at the Q-O2 2017. A further development of the project culminated in the idea of conceiving the format as mobile radiophonic opera. A first sketch has been developed during a residency in Jerusalem in 2018 and performed it at […]
Mariana Carvalho: Sound_body_listening – exploring inner sounds with Eutony
This workshop explores relations between body and sound, working the awareness of the body’s inner space. It is an immersive experience of sound-making and listening, using some tools of eutony, a somatic practice developed by Gerda Alexander. The participants will experiment different corporeal states and configurations provoked by conscient observation. Individually and in group, they […]
aRzu Saglam & Maria Lapistö / Emma Bennett & Antonia Barnett-McIntosh
aRzu Saglam & Maria Lapistö This is a restaurant We are not here to give you what you need. We don’t move our mouths. And you don’t move your mouth. The voices move. You want to follow them. But they are not really here. Nothing you really need is here. ‘This is a restaurant’ is […]
Marie Raffn
Marie Raffn works with language. She utilizes the voice as a way to convey the discrepancy between content and form, spoken and written word. In her sound pieces, she often combines rather technical sketches of space with the poetics of spoken words in a very sensitive manner. She uses her own poems and scores as […]
Pom Bouvier b.
An Archipelago   a proposal by Pom Bouvier-b with the participation of Aéla Royer, Jérôme Poloczek, Johannes Eimermacher, and Darius Dolatyari.   Duration: 1h (18h-19h)   documentation:       website: Johannes Eimermacher : http://johanneseimermacher.com/ Jérôme Poloczek : http://www.popovchka.net/ Darius Dolatyari : https://www.instagram.com/dariusdolatyari/?hl=fr Aelia Royer : (pas de site) Pom Bouvier-b : https://pombouvierb.blogspot.com/    
Sara Manente
WICKED TECHNOLOGY/WILD FERMENTATION   By linking practices of fermentation, feminism and artistic research, Sara Manente is interested in putting together techniques that transform thought, perception and doing (of togetherness) in live cultures and live arts. For the residency in Q-o2, Sara will work on multilayering and morphing digital and analog sounds for what she calls […]
La Nuée
La Nuée (english : the flock) is a brussels based band founded in 2017. Our concept is based on the idea of translating bird’s flock behaviour into collective music improvisation to develop a unique musical language. A lot about the behaviour of flocks is still unknown. The formations they fly seem to serve not only […]
Dejana Sekulic & Gilles Doneux
“What Hides the Grain of Sound” (by Dejana Sekulic and Gilles Doneux) “In dense portions of the Milky Way, stellar images appear to overlap, giving the effect of a near-continuous sheet of light . . . The effect is a grand illusion. In reality . . . the nighttime sky is remarkably empty. Of the […]
Nomi Epstein
“I’d like to talk about two strains in my recent work. Both come out of my work with controlled indeterminacy which I write primarily using text notation.   1. Modeling/Alone Together- my conception of sonic activity in our daily lives and its representations or translations within my compositions.   2. Recording project pieces- a series […]
Simon Labbé / Elizabeth Dobson
Elizabeth Dobson During my time at Q-O2 I have been exploring a range of cultural, technical and conceptual resources, and drawing on a range of influences including Oliveros, Westerkamp, Reich (because I adore transparency of process), and Barbierri. This presentation will include excerpts from the new piece that is emerging. It combines field recording, acousmatic […]
Oscillation at Decoratelier Jozef Wouters
Music by Eliane Radigue   Occam XXVII (percussion: Enrico Malatesta) Adnos I-II-III (diffusion: Emmanuel Holterbach)   Eliane Radigue is renowned for her electronic music, in particular with the ARP Synthesizer. Her compositions are defined by micro-events due to subtle overtone shifts that dance above a seemingly static tone, with a profoundly moving result. In 2005, Radigue […]
Oscillation in situ
• 11h—22h in situ: • 11h Isabelle Stragliati: Meditation/Sound/City: a soundwalk • 14h—18h Thierry Madiot with Yanik Miossec: Sound Massage • 18h25 Oracle: Reading the Zone • 19h30 Paulo Dantas: Conversations • 21.30h Anna Raimondo: Derrière la mer   • Isabelle Stragliati Meditation/Sound/City: A soundwalk “Noise pollution results when we do not listen carefully. Noises […]
Oscillation at Argos
Torse (Maryanne Amacher, Charles Atlas, Merce Cunningham, 1977)   In 1976, Maryanne Amacher created Remainder, a composition to accompany Merce Cunningham’s Torse, a choreography from the same year. Charles Atlas’ two-channel dance film Torse was produced in 1977 at the University of Washington with three 16mm cameras facilitating various simultaneous perspectives on the dancing event. […]
Oscillation at La Senne
Durational performance dara dara by Rie Nakajima, Aki Onda, Akio Suzuki & David Toop.   Visual and sound artists Rie Nakajima, Aki Onda, Akio Suzuki and David Toop, present a durational performance hovering in the liminal space between installation and concert. Through complex and diverse uses of objects, instruments and the performing bodies, the installation reorients the audience members’ […]
Oscillation at Brasserie Atlas
Concert on waves by Enrico Malatesta, Doron Sadja, Tomoko Sauvage, Mark Fell.   • Enrico Malatesta Rudimenti This is an open project, aimed at broadening the Enrico Malatesta’s personal research on percussion instruments and their surfaces, intended as habitable spaces able to receive the vitality of what surrounds them, to adapt and react. Rudimenti comprises multiple […]
Oscillation at Werkplaats Walter
Concert shifted meaning by Peter Ablinger, Lucy Railton, Andrea Neumann, and Jennifer Walshe.   • Peter Ablinger Weiss / Weisslich 7b: “Panpiece”  (1999) Weiss / Weisslich 20: one or more cymbals (1992, 95) Das Wirkliche als Vorgestelltes (2012) In his ongoing series Weiss / Weisslich (“white / whitish”) Ablinger explores subtle variations in the use […]
Oscillation at Cinema Nova
Concert and film program light and colour with Manuel Lima, Michael Vorfeld, Mariska De Groot, alternating with short films by Luke Fowler. Pretalk with Luke Fowler and Guillaume Maupin.   • Manuel Lima Whistle Song A work for organ (pre-recorded), electronics, whistle and red light. It takes as its point of departure a series of […]
Oscillation at Le Lac
Sound and poetry with Paulo Dantas, Anne-Laure Pigache & Jérôme Noetinger, Marc Matter, and Guillaume Maupin.   • Paulo Dantas [bʁy.sɛl] | [ˈbrʏ.səl] The performance[bʁy.sɛl] | [ˈbrʏ.səl] is comprised of a (re)collection of recordings of banal situations; resonances / feedbacks; distortions of words; and confusing translations into French and Dutch of personal texts, focused on […]
Oscillation at Eglise St. Jean-Baptiste
On resonance concert with Adam Asnan, Sofia Jernberg, Rebecca Glover, and John Butcher.   • Adam Asnan Live set Adam Asnan will present a live work that continues to explore the performativity of early digital reverb hardware, placing emphasis on the reverb as a voice in itself. It is mostly repetitive in nature, based on motifs […]
Oscillation at La Fonderie
In-situ performance inbetween with Franziska Windisch, Els Viaene, Jonathan Frigeri, and Pierre Berthet & Rie Nakajima.   • Franziska Windisch Encounters #06 / Chora Encounters is an ongoing experimental series that circles around the question of how acoustic, spatial and temporal structures of a work define the interaction between the members of an audience and how […]
Second Sundays #15 – Alex Reynolds
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
aRzu Saglam
“fragile egos” is a sound research about the most vulnerable part of the human animal: the fragility of its ego. Those moments, when the ego gets hurt and how it deals with that is fascinating to me. Therefor are the stories and situations facing intimidation, irritation and the need for validation a narrative guideline to this research. […]
Two Envelopes (Jacob Vanneste & Lisa Kokwenda Schweiger) play Broekman, Emmery, Roelofsen, Bezemer, Quix
Two Envelopes play compositions for percussion and harpsicord:   Jesse Broekman – no title* Julia Emmery – Franky’s Funeral Ruud Roelofsen – Translucid V Boris Bezemer – Stuk voor Two Envelopes* Stefaan Quix – OST of Merlin Goes Wild * Wereldpremière  
Oscillation opening
Exhibition opening, book launch The Middle Matter: sounds as interstice and sonic interventions by ooooo & Lucie Vítková.   • ooooo QRBMHN ~~~…….CQ CQ CQ…..PAN PAN PAN../…**./  ooooo will arrive by boat on the Brussels Canal with a public performative interface for translocal radio telecommunication by Planète Concrète, rock band, 206, . . .  After the open lab […]
Oscillation performances
  Oscillation opening → THURSDAY 25/4, 18h at Q-O2 Exhibition opening, book launch, and sonic interventions by ooooo & Lucie Vítková.   Oscillation on waves → FRIDAY 26/4, 20h at BRASSERIE ATLAS Concerts by Enrico Malatesta, Doron Sadja, Tomoko Sauvage, and Mark Fell.   Oscillation shifted meaning → SATURDAY 27/4, 20h at WERKPLAATS WALTER Concerts […]
Oscillation workshops
→ MONDAY 29/4: 13h—16h Enrico Malatesta : Rudimenti Rudimenti revolves around sound and its modes of perception and production, with a focus on the relation between objects and surfaces; the workshop is aimed at sharing Malatesta’s main research interests through simple practical experients that it is useful to observe: \ sound as a form of […]
Oscillation symposium
→ FRIDAY 26/4 moderated by LEONIE PERSIJN 10h–13h: space and perception: Annette Vande Gorne, Lila Athanasiadou, Aki Onda. 14h–17h: subliminal awareness: Xabier Erkizia, Pedro Oliveira, David Toop.   → SATURDAY 27/4 moderated by LINNEA SEMMERLING 10h–13h: causing impact: Juliette Volcler, Séverine Janssen, Salomé Voegelin. 14h–17h: voice and words: Jennifer Walshe, Beatriz Ferreyra, Manfred Werder.   […]
Oscillation festival exhibition
Lucie Vitková‘s Portraying the Cityscape portrays parts of Brussels as well as its people. During her one month Q-O2 Interfaces residency at MAAC, she used different media to dig deeper into the surrounding neighbourhood, met lots of new people, and invited many of them to participate in the project. She created over fifty graphic scores, […]
Second Sundays #14 – Giulia Vismara / Michael J Schumacher
from 15h: open studio Michael J Schumacher at 17h: listening session with Giulia Vismara and Michael J Schumacher   Giulia Vismara: Blowing up trajectories   What lays beyond the idea of an absolute, fixed, undialectical space? Could a space emerge from contingent trajectories shaped by the movement of bodies? In other words, what happens when […]
GÓMS
GÓMS play:   G.Gobert, “BEFHP#1”, for banjo, flute, percussions, harp and electronics S.Sciarrino, “Canzona di ringraziamento”, for solo flute H.Morales Murguia, “\_/ “, for amplified triangle G.Gobert, solo on electronics.   Each piece will be introduced by an “entr’acte” for casio and harp.   GOMS is Gilles Gobert, electronics/ Quentin Manfroy, flutes / Aya Suzuki, […]
noid / Nichola Scrutton
Post residency presentation and concert of our current residents:   noid presents and plays his new composition Sympathy for cello and 12 resonant snare drums. It extends the physical range of the instrument by the means of placing a set of chromatically tuned snare drums around the cello player. Sponsored by alto-beat   Nichola Scrutton […]
Workshop Two Envelopes (percussion and harpsicord) – on the collaboration between musicians and composers
This workshop is directed to composers and musicians who are interested in reflecting their mutual creative exchange and collaboration. How can the musician nourish the inspiration and knowledge of the composer about the instrumentation and finally be the megaphone of his imagination? What is the value of such an intense exchange if it is considered […]
Viola Yip / Kevin Fairbairn (SMOG n34)
Viola YIP: Lazy Susan & Bulblle Incorporating the design of a Lazy Susan (a turntable for dining) as its foundation, Lazy Studies features it as a performative tool that allows the translation of our musical body gestures into sounds via sonic feedback. This mechanically and digitally mediated feedback is made musical through various turning speeds […]
Michael J. Schumacher
The spaces we inhabit – for living, eating, and all manner of aesthetic experience – have a profound but often subconscious effect on our emotions. The “new frontier” in sound involves the foregrounding of spatial effects through the enlargement of the possible interconnections between sonic events and their encompassing ambience, the exploration of active virtual […]
Second Sundays #13 [POSTPONED]
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Showcase Emerging Sound 2019 – Lukas De Clerck, Rubén Orio & Lore Stessel, Jonathan Frigeri, Oona Libens
STUK, Q-O2 and Musica present a sample of new Belgian sound art. Four performances by young makers are presented in a parcours through the STUK building. This showcase shows the diversity of the Belgian sound landscape, from audiovisual creation over live radio work to spatial music, meant as a little push for the next generation […]
Adela Prochazkova / Oscar Martin + Irma Nex + Jana Jan
During this residency Adela Prochazkova has followed up her long term interest in theory of listening and sonority of urban paving. The residency project focused on further conceptual development of Henri Jacobs’ palimpsest paved on the promenade of Molenbeek canal which has been extended by creating sonic palimpsest of Molenbeek district with the aim to […]
Mariana Carvalho
For her residency-period at Q-O2, Mariana intends to investigate relations between bodies and space. Exploring how sound is propagated and vibrates inside and outside the body, or taking body as a filter – with it’s flesh, bones, materiality -, she expects to create a dispositiv to share different points of listening, dealing with inner and […]
Katharina Klement
Katharina Klement will focus on the development of a new solo: suite pour une femme seule 1.5 for zither, preparations, electronics. She started her first solo of this series in 2015 with the line up clavichord, zither, synthesizer, ringmodulator, prerecorded sounds, transducer. The base is a quite strictly organized structure with several free spaces for […]
Emma Bennett & Antonia Barnett-McIntosh
At Q-O2 we will return to the conversation that, seven years ago, after hours of listening, speaking, speaking-over, recording, replaying and transcribing, settled as a performance score for two voices. Accent, the piece that emerged, began as an attempt to understand our differing techniques of pronunciation by imitating one another’s accents (Antonia is from New […]
Pom Bouvier b.
Her music is an exploration of the creation and transforming material. She is making the experience of fragility, collapse and time in a physical body music and proposes sound paths that would awake this constantly passing between inside us and surrounding world. She has a particular attention about space and acoustic and use to work […]
Nomi Epstein
Having focused curatorial and performance work (mostly through my ensemble a.pe.ri.od.ic) over the last decade or so on a particular type of text score for open ensemble, Nomi Epstein will create a set of essays on the performance practice and rehearsal process of interpreting and realizing this repertoire. Nomi Epstein will use this residency period to […]
Gea Brown
This project at Q-O2 aims to record vocal material, collected over 2 weeks of residency in the city of Brussels, principally intended as an immersion in the Belgian capital, absorbing the events (whatever they may be) while drawing the vocal imprint, with a performative approach that makes no distinction between the personal and artistic spheres. Gea Brown will ask […]
Simon Labbé
This residency will be articulated around the development of modes of intervention in urban space. I will be focusing on scoring methods that use fiction as generative material for the production of new forms of spatial practices. Simon Labbé lives and works in Montreal. His composition work takes form in writing, performances, recordings, installations and […]
Elizabeth Dobson
The bow presses on the edge of a sound, offering some kind of promise, to become transported?   Sensation, resistance, transference, understanding, repetition, adjustment, sensation, resistance, transference, understanding, adjustment, sensation, resistance, transference, understanding, adjustment, sensation, resistance, transference, understanding continuously mediating interface with physical objects, psychological tools of meaning, personal, and cultural evolution. The interrelationships that […]
Nichola Scrutton
During her Q-O2 Residency, Nichola Scrutton will primarily be working on sound and score materials for Night Vision. The starting point for Night Vision was a series of non-narrative texts captured through an experimental writing practice in the middle of the night lying down in a semiconscious, or liminal, state, over the course of a […]
noid
During his residency noid will be working on a new composition involving a cello and 12 resonant snare drums. The idea is to extend the physical range of the instrument by the means of placing a set of chromatically tuned snare drums around the cello player.   Sponsored by alto-beat
Colette Broeckaert
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Second Sundays #12: Charlie Usher
Soft thought and mixed feelings   Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on […]
Samson Pignot & Alma Sauret / Ioana Mândrescu
Samson Pignot & Alma Sauret followed a walking protocol on a daily basis, for which one of them chooses a direction, the other the strict opposite. It is an exercise in being attentive to the places, and experience their heterogeneity. Encounters are provoked, and the collected materials become performative vocabulary: seeking to coexist with this […]
Oscillation – on sound’s nature
  >> Oscillation festival website   Oscillation is a project and festival circling around various aspects of the nature of sound, with a special curiosity about its capacity for creating and sharing space, its propensity to occupy the zones in between spaces, positions, events, discourses, etc: a betweening space. Sound travels, hops borders, passes through […]
Second Sundays #11 – Kim Laugs: Rendez-vous at Club Cosmpolitan
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Gundega Graudiņa & Björn Jauss + Asher Lev
Resident duo Gundega Graudina & Björn Jauss present Modulute. It is not only a project, but also an instrument. It combines DIY electro-acoustic instrument, DIY electronic circuits, Supercollider on Bela platform, Eurorack modular.   In 2017, Asher Lev created the performance Tube To Daughter Sea which concentrated on a resonant meaning, a meaning whose ‘sense’ […]
Jasmine Guffond
During this residency Jasmine Guffond will focus on recording musical work with her custom made Chrome browser Plug-In, Listening Back. Listening Back is a practice-based research project that explores sound as a method of investigation into the nature of contemporary digital surveillance. Focused on the proliferation of ubiquitous online surveillance, and the methods by which […]
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Oscar Martin
During the residence period Oscar Martin will be working on a new prototype of the installation BSM/NHC bionic sound machine – non human composer. Read more about it here.   The start point of the installation it is to create a bio artificial ecosystem that evolved symbiotically, generating a non-human sound composer. The bio machine […]
Adela Prochazkova
During this residency Adela Prochazkova will follow up her long term interest in theory of listening and sonority of urban paving. The residency project will focus on further conceptual development of Henri Jacobs’ palimpsest paved on the promenade of Molenbeek canal which will be extended by creating sonic palimpsest of Molenbeek district with the aim […]
Ioana Mândrescu
For the Q-O2 residency Ioana Mândrescu will develop a series of acousmatic intermezzi. In their  final form, these intermezzi will serve as transitions between pieces of a contemporary classic recital performed by the Muela-Mândrescu flute and piano duo. They will be especially designed for a specific set of works by Pierre Boulez, Jonathan Harvey, Luciano […]
Samson Pignot & Alma Sauret
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Dirty Ear Forum #8
Daily radio tea time from Wednesday-Friday 13-15/2 15:00-16:00. Listen here: http://radio.gsara.be:8000/bruxelles.opus   Public presentation on Friday 15/2 18:00 at Q-O2.   Elena Biserna Caroline Claus Lia Garcia Jerome Giller Brandon LaBelle Anna Raimondo   Through collective research and experimentation, sound and listening will be utilized to reflect upon the politics of space. This will include […]
Jasmine Guffond
Jasmine Guffond is an Australian sound-artist and composer. She has been working in Berlin since 2015, earning a Master in Sound Design there. Her albums have been released on labels like Sonic Pieces (Deaf Center, Nils Frahm, Kreng …) and Staubgold. Her latest album ‘Degradation Loops’ was released on Karlrecords in October 2018. On it, […]
Second Sundays #10 – Jasmine Guffond: Listening Back. The Web Never Forgets.
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a […]
Isabelle Sainte-Rose
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Graine (Isabelle Sainte-Rose) + ensemble 0 (La Semaine du Son)
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Second Sundays #9 – Graham Kelly – Skull Island & YoungEun Kim
SECOND SUNDAYS #9: Graham Kelly – Skull Island Parts 1&2 + YoungEun Kim: Red Noise Visit (2018) *** NB: This event exceptionally takes place on a Saturday. *** 16h30 : Doors 17:00 YoungEun Kim (short film screening) 17:20 Graham Kelly (video lecture / listening session) Drinks until 20:00   For its 9th iteration, Second Sundays […]
GAME (Ghent Advanced Master Ensemble)
An eclectic GAME program with work from up-and-coming compositional talent from all over the world. In this program, which was built around the students’ own proposals, the members of GAME discover new names in the field of contemporary music, they discover new playing techniques and chamber music formations.   Karl Naegelen: ‘aa duo’ Christopher Trapani: […]
Gundega Graudiņa & Björn Jauss
Gundega Graudina and Björn Jauss first met at the Experimental Music Fair in Jette in 2015 where Björn was giving a lecture on using sounds to drive synths. Later on, they explored different string instrument and synth configurations until Modulute was formed – an electroacoustic duo which combines a self-designed electro-acoustic Renaissance lute and a […]
Asher Lev
Tube To Daughter Sea  is a post production residency. In November 2017, Asher Lev created the performance, Tube To Daughter Sea, which concentrates on a resonant meaning, a meaning whose ‘sense’ is supposed to be found in resonance. The piece aimed to be on the edge of a sounding meaning, approaching sound as nothing more […]
[waiting list] OPEN CALL / We are trying to have a conversation (whistling group)
During the month of November Lukas De Clerck will work around the topic of whistling in an urban context. For his residency, he is looking for people who can whistle at any ‘level’. The idea is to create whistling interventions in public space.   Meetings: – 9, 16 November at Q-O2 from 10u-13u (with a […]
Second Sundays #8 – Anna Raimondo
Second Sundays is a monthly series of curated listening sessions organised by Q-O2 work space. Each month, on the second Sunday, an artist or researcher is invited to present a series of listenings based on their practice or current research. The atmosphere is informal, and each listening session is accompanied by a specifically selected cocktail.  […]
Klaas Hübner aka Mr. Tuttle at Maison des Cultures and Repair Café
Klaas Hübner aka Mr. Tuttle will be repairing your broken objects at Maison des Cultures Molenbeek, Rue Mommaertsstraat 4, Molenbeek 17 october: 2-5pm 20 october: 10am-1pm and at the Repair Café at La Waq, Rue de Liverpoolstraat 2, Molenbeek 25 october: 6-8pm     more info: caroline@q-o2.be
Bela workshop
Bela is a multilanguage (Pure Data, Super Collider, C/C++) interactive music platform for ultra-low latency audio and sensor processing. The platform consists of Open Source software and hardware. Bela is used by audio enthusiasts, interactive artists, musicians, wearable technology designers, installation artists and digital tinkerers worldwide. Constant, QO-2 and Recyclart organize an introductory workshop with […]
Radical Sonic Tranformations – exploring music’s potential to enact social justice and feminist ideals
We invite you to join electronic musicians and educators Bonnie Jones and Suzanne Thorpe, founders of TECHNE, for a day-long exploration of music’s potential to enact social justice and feminist ideals.   TECHNE is an arts education initiative focused on building inclusivity and gender equality in creative technology fields. In our workshop, we will consider […]
Jonathan Frigeri & Klaas Hübner: post-residency presentation & concert
Interfaces residents Jonathan Frigeri and Klaas Hübner present their work in progress. Between the magical world of hidden radio waves and the adventure of repairing, breathing new life into broken stuff.     Jonathan Frigeri   jfz.zonoff.net/jfz     SMOG aka Klaas Hübner (live-set with self-built instruments) Electromagnetic fields, hisses, hums and noises. Ambient electronic […]
Free Repair of Household Items and Furniture at your home in Brussels
A PIPE OF A DIFFERENT COLOUR From September 27 till October 25, 2018, from 11am to 7pm weekdays   Appointment at: harrytuttle247@gmail.com or +49 157 39474073 (whatsapp)   Repairs will be made preferably with recycled materials and with simple tools brought by bicycle. All repairs are free of charge, donations welcome. No paperwork, no warranty! […]
We Are Trying To Have A Conversation
Whistling Group Performance at Square Marie Janson (Carré de Moscou) in Saint Gilles     We are Trying to have a Conversation, is the title of this performance in public space as a result of a series of workshops around whistling, guided by Lukas De Clerck: transition of breath into tone, (long-distance) communication, spatialisation, proximity, […]
Multicultural poetry evening for peace and solidarity – Alhadi Adam Agabeldour
African international institute for peace (AFIIP) and Arab Pen Club present:   Multicultural poetry evening for peace and solidarity   open stage / open mic entrance free   the stage is open for poets and musicians, to participate in this event; for participation, please register in advance/contact: afiip1971@gmail.com   “One of the most beautiful moments of […]
From Split Sheets to the Streets – on intellectual property and copyright – Melissa E. Logan & UniCAT
The one-day symposium and reflection day From Split Sheets to the Streets: how we credit, share and collect for intellectual property today and tomorrow will examine the worlds of intellectual property and ownership of music – beginning from the present and extending into models for the future. It aims at dissecting and reconstructing ideas of […]
Hacking the Piano: Patricia Alessandrini & Tiptoe company
In “Hacking the piano” string instruments of Tiptoe Company & ChampdAction are confronted with the piano as a sound object. The performers enter into dialogue with “piano hackers”: artists/composers who have an original and personal relationship with the keyboard instrument. While they still use the piano, they have deconstructed or rebuilt the instrument to fit […]
Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka post-residency-talk + concert with Daniela Fantechi (Orpheus Institute)
“noise, water, trees”   Her presentation is a diary of explorations over the past weeks, walking at the crossroads of “where Europe is made” and where everyday life happens. While Europe is often described as a machine or intangible body, the materiality of the city speaks a different code. Navigating traces of European industrial history […]
Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger & dieb 13 & Martin Tetreault / Bonnie Jones & Suzanne Thorpe
Isabelle Dutoit: stem/voix & clarinette(s) Franz Hautzinger: trompet(te) Martin Tetreault: turntable + electronics Dieb 13: turntable + electronics   Depuis maintenant quatre ans, Isabelle Duthoit travaille en étroite collaboration avec Franz Hautzinger, véritable révolutionnaire de la trompette. Un duo hors norme, énorme, qui navigue entre le concret et l’abstraction totale. Un binôme fusionnel mais capable de s’ouvrir à tout, comme […]
Signe Boe post-residency-talk + live-set by Improvisers Duo Guts’n’faders
Signe Boe will present recent works, developed during her residency, and tell some anecdotes around them. In her work she is currently interested in the status of the female voice: how it is objectified and how a humor (still) exists, that sexualizes the voice and the said. This has also been the focus of her […]
WORKSHIP with Beatriz Ferreyra
“On this workship, we are facing the infinite possibilites of the sonic universe.”   Beatriz Ferreyra will introduce us to the nowadays still new musical vocabulary to recognize all characteristics of sounds for electroacoustic composition, based on the Schaefferien Treatise of musical objects, to which she significantly contributed during the 1960s. The workship focuses on […]
Ian Mikyska
During his residency in Brussels, Ian Mikyska has been working on a solo performance concept with the working title “Not Everyone Wants Banjo”. He uses the banjo as a resonator, its strings excited by electromagnetic vibrations and prepared with various metal, plastic, and wood implements. The goal is not to perform, not to put forward […]
Second Sundays #7: CAVE CLUB presents Stine Sampers & Jan Matthé
For its 7th edition, Second Sundays invites ongoing literary/design salon Cave Club to ring in it’s post-summer return. Cave Club began in 2016 as an underground space drawing on the codes of a literary salon organised by designer Roxanne Maillet. Contributing authors are invited to read their texts aloud for an audience, with these readings […]
Esther Mugambi & Sarah van Lamsweerde
In this residency, Esther Mugambi & Sarah van Lamsweerde exploit their ongoing exchange by combining practices: developing the sound component of a performance work for public space by Sarah (Georgic Gardens / Agripuncture) and work together on a solo project by Esther (Podcast for Introverts).   For a future performance project titled Georgic Gardens, a […]
SWEET SPOT #2 – music for loudspeakers : Beatriz Ferreyra, Daniel Perez Hajdu, Laryssa Kim, Gael Segalen
A presentation of music on a acousmonium with the legendary Beatriz Ferreyra (fr) as a central guest, who will play in the middle. The other live acts are the young futurians Larissa Kim (it) + Daniel Perez Hajdu (cu/b) + Gael Segalen (fr)   The new concert series SWEET SPOT proposes a varied program of […]
Alice Pamuk + Lucie Vítková – Open doors at MAAC
MAAC Open House + Drink and Performance. Painting, drawing, installation, video, photography, textile and sound work, the MAAC now has six workshops – which also host collectives – in full activity where are interspersed and meet some of the driving forces of creation current plastic. The workshops are primarily an individual work place but also […]
Native Instrument / Olli Aarni
Native Instrument is a Berlin based sound collaboration bringing together the field-recordings archive of Felicity Mangan and the abstract vocabulary of Stine Janvin Motland. Often referred to as insect techno, Native Instrument’s music is constructed using electronic and vocal adaptations of wildlife audio recordings originating mainly from the Australian and North European fauna; mixing the […]
Fietstocht / promenade en vélo: Brussels woordenboek / dictionnaire Bruxellois – Paulo Dantas
>>> in case of rain: presentation at Q-O2 at 18:00 – for confirmation: 0472-616753 <<< [sic] Als onderdeel van zijn residentie in Interfaces Network, Paulo Dantas biedt een fietstocht voor iedereen, van noord tot zuid aan het kanaal van Brussel. Het fietstocht begint om 17:45 uur onder de brug van de Ring, ten noorden van […]
Multi-user 3D environments as sonic instruments with Marko Ciciliani
A masterclass with Marko Ciciliani. The goal of this two-days workshop is to collaboratively design a 3d environment built in Unity and to perform with it. The environment will offer a multitude of affordances for sonic and musical interactions. Participants will be able to enter the environment simultaneously, as in multi-user games. Here, the simultaneous […]
Isabelle Stragliati: 4 meditative sound walks
In the framework of her Interfaces residency, Isabelle Stragliati proposes 4 meditative sound walks in the city. The walks are open to all and daily take place from Wednesday 25 to Saturday 28 July. The walks depart at 11 am from Alphonse Lemmens Square in Anderlecht and will last approximately 1 hour. Please join and […]
YoungEun Kim
This residency will focus on one of YoungEun Kim’s latest interests regarding standard pitch. She will take a look at various attempts among different cultures to establish and standardize the system of sound, specifically from the Middle Ages to the Modern Times. During this residency, she will research standard pitch A (440 Hz) and histories […]
Bonnie Jones & Suzanne Thorpe
The research space to explore during our residency is the impact of our teaching work on our own artistic musical output. We want to explore how we make our work and how the pedagogy we developed with TECHNE has impacted our choices in sounds, materials, and structures.    Topic areas:  – electronic music through social […]
Patricia Alessandrini & Tiptoe company
This residency will focus on further preparations of a large-scale project that will result in a multi-media theatrical piece for Donatienne Michel-Dansac and the Ensemble InterContemporain for 2019. The piece builds upon the previous music theatre piece Parlour Sounds by Patricia Alessandrini. It features the soprano in a home environment of the 1960’s in which […]
Justin Bennett
Justin Bennett is using this residency period to investigate the acoustic territories of the city of Brussels.   Territories of language: voices, narratives. Territories of security: signals, announcements and sirens. Territories of work. Territories of birds and animals. Underground territories: the reverberations and resonances of the tunnels and passageways of the city.   Firstly, he […]
Justin Bennett
Justin Bennett is using this residency period to investigate the acoustic territories of the city of Brussels.   Territories of language: voices, narratives. Territories of security: signals, announcements and sirens. Territories of work. Territories of birds and animals. Underground territories: the reverberations and resonances of the tunnels and passageways of the city.   Firstly, he […]
Melissa E. Logan
Melissa E. Logan is focusing on copyright during her residency with Q-O2. The work will open into the symposium From Split Sheets to the Streets – on intellectual property and copy right – Melissa E. Logan & UniCAT taking place at AB Salon on November 24th. Logans interest in copyright grew from a hoarding of […]
Manuel Pessoa de Lima / Paulo Dantas / Isabelle Stragliati / Pom Bouvier b.
Manuel Pessoa de Lima is a composer-performer whose work includes sound based performances, lectures, and installations. For this evening he will present a piece including four red light bulbs, sound collages and speech.   Paulo Dantas Paulo Dantas est un artiste sonore, musicien et professeur Brésilien. Ses activités sont basées dans les enregistrements en audio, […]
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay @ RoSa
As part of his research residency at Q-O2, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay has designed a participatory, navigational score for RoSa, a library of feminist and gender topics in Brussels. The score guides participants through RoSa’s collection following feelings, memories and personal curiosities, and involves reading, speaking, transcribing, and letter-writing. Brussels, please join him for a group […]
Lukas De Clerck
During his residency Lukas De Clerck will work around the topic of whistling. Whistling is used in different communities as a tool for communicating It allows people to bridge great distances but also to communicate in secret. While being perceived as an ephemeral, playful melody Whistling functions in this moment as a very approachable, powerful […]
Max/MSP & Arduino introduction course – Sebastian Lexer (CANCELLED)
-THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED-   This Max/Arduino introduction course by Sebastian Lexer will give artists interested in media and technologies a comprehensive entry to working with interactive technologies. Max is an established software tool to develop bespoke and individual artistic projects. In the morning session of this introduction course we will be exploring audio and […]
Seoul Express: NEIGHBOR SOUND
NEIGHBOR SOUND Performance + Open studio   Seoul Express is an artist duo. Minki Hong and Youjin Jeon are collaborating since 2015. They create an integrated image by combining various media like sound, music, moving image, movement, physical materials and engaging with new media technologies.   The project Neighbor Sound is an exploration of the […]
Audio Visualizer for Analog TV – Youjin Jeon
In this workshop, we can make an audio visualizer working for analog TV. It reads audio signals from any sound player like your smartphone and convert audio signals into video signals of analog television. By assembling the circuit built with ATmega328p (a microcontroller chip found on Arduino Uno board), you can understand how the circuit […]
CRYSTELLING – BolwerK [Marthe Van Dessel]
Since 1998, BolwerK is a moniker of Antwerp based activist and performer Marthe Van Dessel, developed to explore software- and hardware-based thinking as strategies for activism. She creates interfaces, devices, & protocols to investigate questions around the commons and collective identities. Read more about BolwerK and the practice of crystalling here.   This Crystelling event […]
CRYSTELLING – BolwerK [Marthe Van Dessel]
Since 1998, BolwerK is a moniker of Antwerp based activist and performer Marthe Van Dessel, developed to explore software- and hardware-based thinking as strategies for activism. She creates interfaces, devices, and protocols to investigate questions around the commons and collective identities. Read more about BolwerK and the practice of crystalling here.   This Crystelling Open […]
Kids Workshop with Manuel Lima – graphic scores and sound performance
– The workshop is fully booked! –   “Develop your personal way of hearing the world by making a drawing that can function as a sound score. In this workshop you are invited to perform your own sound piece from graphic scores made by yourself.”   Workshop for kids: 9 – 12 years Monday – […]
(In)visible Radio Creatures #2 – Anna Raimondo
(In)visible Radio Creatures#2 – transgeographical radio happening is part of Atlas of Transitions Biennale Right to the City | Diritto alla città hosted with Chloé Despax with the precious participation of: Mazen, Moussa, Hamed, Zazà, Lamin, Carlos and Silvia. In live streaming on Radio Città del Capo. This is a European project with ten partners in […]
Klaas Hübner
The title of this residency is “A Pipe of a Different Color”. During his stay at Q-O2 workspace Klaas Hübner will offer his service to the citizens of Brussels. He will use his handcraft skills for simple repair of household items and furniture. He will also offer his service for free, but accept donations of […]
Jonathan Frigeri
Jonathan Frigeri reveals inaudible messages, like “oracles“ that are hidden to the human ears, “probably telepathic messages, from other minds deep in thought” (John Cage). Equipped with a special recording device that capture electromagnetic waves through the air, he will explore public and private spaces in Brussels. Whenever he finds an interesting “message” he will […]
Ian Mikyska
Ian Mikyska will work in Brussels on a programme that has the working title “Not Everyone Wants Banjo”. This is a solo exploration of the interactions of banjo strings and electromagnetic vibrations. The goal is to put himself and his own performance in the background, rather finding spaces and situations for the instrument and its […]
Second Sundays #6 – Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
For its June session, Second Sundays invites Canadian artist Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay. We will listen to a variety of vocal material – sung, spoken and screamed – from the artist’s personal collection. The program will be a combination of historical sound recordings that haunt and guide his sonic universe, and voice-driven works from his own […]
Railroad Concrète – Duo JD Zazie / Heidrun Schramm
Duo started in 2017 with the project Railroad Concrète  based on actual train sounds, developed in the form of compositions and sound installations. Railroad Concrète plays with noises, inner resonances, sonic landmarks, signals, social sounds and train station’s acoustic qualities. On Sunday May 27 they will present the development of their work integrated with new […]
Alice Pamuk
Alice Pamuk will develop a sound installation in which short phrases of pop music are looped and broadcast in the space. The proposal arises out of several years of research around pop music (a.o. a previous project of analysing interviews of American rappers and hip hop producers). Despite this fascination for pop music, Alice Pamuk […]
Valeria Merlini&Heidrun Schramm [Railroad Concrète]@AuQuai
Concert by Ambient Lay Down. The 4th edition takes place at a new location with more space to lay down.   Railroad Concrète / Electroacoustic 0x4D546864 / Deconstruction of midi classics Cornil / Memories soundscape   Q-O2 residents Duo JD Zazie / Heidrun Schramm present Railroad Concrète – Electroacoustic. The duo started in 2017 with […]
Lucie Vítková
During this residency, Lucie Vítková is going to realize a project called Portraying the Cityscape. It will focus on chosen places in Brussels and portray their sonic features. Lucie Vítková is going to record a place, transcribe the recording into a score and play it back into that place on accordion. In the project, she would […]
Sabrina Montiel-Soto
YOU ARE NOT AUTHORISED TO VIEW THIS IMAGE is a sound installation that goes back to essentials things, sound, rhythm and measure.   The project is a sound installation based on a scenario of natural and fragmented histories between Central Africa and Venezuela. The objective in this residency is to work with the archives of […]
Isabelle Stragliati
Meditation/Sound/City. Meditation is often connected to silence. But we know that silence doesn’t exist. So what do we do with the constant sound stream we have to deal with every day? How can we use sound as a mean to be more connected to ourselves and to our environment? Practising field recording since several years […]
Paulo Dantas
“Language​ ​learning​ ​as​ ​field​ ​recording,​ ​body​ ​as​ ​media​ ​-​ ​Between​ ​Flanders​ ​and​ ​Wallonia,​ ​the effort​ ​to​ ​be​ ​​modified​ ​by​ ​the​ ​field”​ is the title of this residency. This​ ​project / performance​ gravitates around ​an​ ​expanded​ ​idea​ ​of​ ​field​ ​recording,​ ​in​ ​order​ ​to​ ​partially​ ​document language​ ​variety​ ​in​ ​the​ ​City​ ​of​ ​Brussels.​ ​The aim is not […]
Jane Dickson: Are These Waves
Are These Waves is a new chamber opera for two sopranos and choir, realised in collaboration with La Monnaie/De Munt. The work illuminates the fantastical relationship between love and death in opera, particularly in relation to the fate of women. Voice is the impetus for a structure which interweaves text, light and movement. A distilled […]
Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka
This residency is called “Europe – eArope. A sonic expedition into Bruxelles”. Brussels is not only a city where people live, but also a place where Europe is “made” and “heard”. It includes not only the sonic environment of its architectural landscape with its inhabitants, but also the sounding traces of the European Government, countless […]
Olli Aarni
During this residency Olli Aarni will work with portable recording devices such as cassette players and use found objects and different spaces in the city to create music with minimal interaction by the artist. He aims to reduce and rethink the artist’s role in creating music, find ways to avoid interfaces common to electronic music, […]
Signe Boe
Signe Boe works with narratives, materialized in situations of time based media, flat and spatial objects as well as textual and performative formats. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and a diploma from The Nordic Sound Art Program. In her work she is currently interested in the status of […]
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
During this residency at Q-O2, Nemerofsky Ramsay will continue his research into the participatory potential of the museum audioguide. He will work in collaboration with BNA-BBOT and the RoSa Centre of Expertise, Library and Archives for Gender Equality and Feminism, whose collection will serve as a site of artistic inquiry. He hopes to develop and […]
Second Sundays #5 – Sabrina Montiel-Soto
For its 5th edition, Second Sundays invites the Brussels-based, Venezuelan artist Sabrina Montiel-Soto to present a session based on her research findings working through the audio and film archive of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren: a richly researched listening session on the complexities and contradictions of colonialism and representation.   The artist […]
GÒMS
GÒMS was born at the beginning of 2018. The basic idea was to have fun together, building up an ensemble whose aim is to research on sound and music writing, following each of the musician artistic interests. Indeed, all the musicians are composers, each of the musician composes for the whole ensemble, as to develop/research […]
CRYSTELLING – BolwerK [Marthe Van Dessel]
>> last news concerning weather circumstances: https://www.facebook.com/events/2041754269479072/?active_tab=discussion / 0491-744.211   Since 1998, BolwerK is a moniker of Antwerp based activist and performer Marthe Van Dessel, developed to explore software- and hardware-based thinking as strategies for activism. She creates interfaces, devices, & protocols to investigate questions around the commons and collective identities.   From 15 April […]
Manuel Lima
Manuel Lima is a pianist performer-composer. Themes in his work often include creating irony around the notion of high culture, destabilizing the traditional concert setting, intimate stories with confessional elements, and unique multimedia elements created for site-specific performances. With the aid of a full tuition grant from the Brazilian government Lima attended and received his […]
Jane Dickson & Sebastian Lexer
A joint residency with La Monnaie | De Munt for the rehearsal and performance of Are These Waves, a new chamber opera for two sopranos and choir. Are These Waves illuminates the fantastical relationship between love and death in opera, particularly in relation to the fate of women. Voice is the impetus for a structure […]
Seoul Express
Seoul Express is een kunstenaarsduo. Minki Hong en Youjin Jeon werken samen sinds 2015. Ze creëren een geïntegreerd beeld door verschillende media te combineren. Denk hierbij aan geluid, muziek, bewegend beeld, beweging, fysieke materialen en interactiemogelijkheden van nieuwe mediatechnologieën.     Minki Hong studeerde film en werkte als producent mee aan talloze films en documentaires. […]
Giulia Silvestri
Giulia Silvestri’s research starts from her personal experience with classical music. She played the piano and the violin for eight years in a serious ambience, which made her consider music only from a strictly technical view, imposing this approach also on other domains such as the visual arts one. After a few years of break, […]
Valeria Merlini & Heidrun Schramm
Soundartists JD Zazie and Heidrun Schramm started their Duo in 2017 with the project Railroad Concrète based on actual train sounds, developed in the form of compositions and sound installations. Railroad Concrète plays with noises, inner resonances, sonic landmarks, signals, social sounds and train station’s acoustic qualities. The focus of their residency will be the implementation […]
Begüm Erciyas
The upcoming residency by Begüm Erciyas relates to a piece that is a dialogue with an artificial voice. The audience enters a horizontal landscape. They spread out, lie down and make themselves comfortable, each with an interface pillow.  The audience and the interface start a – partly scripted and partly unscripted – dialogue. They talk about […]
Teresa Doblinger & Filipa Botelho play Pierluigi Billone
Pierluigi Billone: 1+1=1   One drop plus another drop makes one larger drop, not two! This is how the «nutcase» Domenico in Andrei Tarkovsky‘s film «Nostalghia» explains the inscription 1+1=1 on the wall of his house, pouring two drops of oil into his hand.   In 1+1=1 by Pierluigi Billone scored for two bass clarinets […]
Patricia Alessandrini
Patricia Alessandrini will present her work with feedback systems in an open studio event open to the public. This will feature a short – ca. 10 minute – demonstration of the system, followed by a Q+A discussion session. Participants will also have the opportunity to try out the feedback system themselves if they wish. This […]
SWEET SPOT – workshop
Spatialization on the Acousmonium with Sophie Delafontaine   Language: French Date: 6 May, 2-5 pm Capacity: 10 participants (FULL! mail us for the waiting list) Fee: 15 euro Registration: caroline@q-o2.be no previous experience required   What does “space” mean in acousmatic music? And what is acousmatic music after all? In this workshop you will hear […]
SWEET SPOT #1 – music for loudspeakers
The new concert series SWEET SPOT proposes a varied program of acousmatic and electro-acoustic music from local and international composers. A setup of more than 30 loudspeakers creates an immersive listening environment and invites the audience to open the ears to 360 degrees.   The first part of this concert is dedicated to a series […]
Brandon LaBelle – Sonic Agency / Doron Sadja
Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance. Presentation of the new publication, Sonic Agency, by author and artist Brandon LaBelle. Published by Goldsmiths Press, London.   In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book from Goldsmiths Press highlights sound’s invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and […]
Second Sundays #4 – Teresa Cos
In this session Teresa Cos focusses on a song that morphs through different iterations and traces it back in the history of music. ‘Music for The Gift’ by Terry Riley seems full of fragments. They are however mainly based on a recording of Chet Baker’s band playing Miles Davis’s ‘So What’ from his 1959 album […]
BolwerK [Marthe Van Dessel]
Since 1998, BolwerK is a moniker of Antwerp based activist and performer Marthe Van Dessel, developed to explore software- and hardware-based thinking as strategies for activism. She creates interfaces, devices, & protocols to investigate questions around the commons and collective identities.   From 15 April to 15 June, BolwerK will inhabit three distinct locations around […]
Dhrupad singing workshop – Marianne Svašek
Dhrupad singing – the space in between the notes   During the workshop, Marianne will focus on different voice technics used in Indian classical music, like linking notes. She will explain the form of the style and way of improvising. It will be a practical vocal workshop.   Dhrupad is the oldest form of North-Indian […]
Workshop: Creating Imaginary Conversations with Found-Speech – Marc Matter
Workshop: Creating IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS with Found-Speech   This workshop focuses on the use of pre-existing speech-samples taken from media-footage, and the possibilities to ‹perform› an imaginary conversations with our own found speech-material. Appropriation has been known, used and discussed as artistic practice for a long time. It can also be found in other fields like […]
Manama / G.A.M.E. concert
-Pierluigi Billone: ‘Mani.Gonxha’ (2011) for two Tibetan Sounding Bowls *Performer: Elliot Harrison This work by Pierluigi Billone (1960) could easily be named: ‘What the hand knows’. Each object is given the right presence and the right music. Each object is given a new alphabet. Here, percussion is no longer the art of hitting things, but the art […]
Second Sundays #3 – Marc Sabat
This session focusses on Berlin composer Marc Sabat’s pieces using “tuneable intervals”, a harmonic system he has built up and crafted over a rich body of work. He writes: “In John Cage and the Theory of Harmony composer James Tenney described an idea of “harmonic space” — a network of connections between tones, based on […]
Second Sundays #2 – Caroline Profanter: Octo-Phonie*music for 8 loudspeakers
Caroline Profanter is the host for theis listening session, which is dedicated to a series of fixed-media pieces composed for 8 loudspeakers. The octophonic diffusion puts the listener into an immersive spatial environment. This tradition in acousmatic music includes a limited number of pieces of known and unknown composers, that are rarely heard in public […]
Yannick Guédon, Deborah Walker & Cyprien Busolini
Post-residency concert – the program:   L’insistance des possibles Yannick Guédon   s’approcher s’éloigner s’absenter Antoine Beuger   Deborah Walker, violoncelle Cyprien Busolini, violon alto Yannick Guédon, voix
Sound & Participation – workshops
NOTE: Registration for the workshops is required! The fee is 20 euro per workshop. Send an e-mail with the workshop(s) of your choice to eveline@q-o2.be to book your place. Bookings take place on a first come first served basis. The reply you will receive contains all the details for bank transfer to confirm your participation. […]
Sound & Participation: symposium DAY 1
Monday, February 26 – KASK Miry Concert Hall (Ghent) | Moderator: Leonie Persyn full program as pdf Will you attend the symposium? Registration is not mandatory, but recommended. Let us know here if you can come.   10h – 13h: networks and institutions   Care of Editions – Performative Distribution This talk looks at a […]
Sound & Participation: symposium DAY 2
Tuesday, February 27 – KASK Miry Concert Hall (Ghent) | Moderator: Chiara Nuzzi full program as pdf Will you attend the symposium? Registration is not mandatory, but recommended. Let us know here if you can come.   10h – 13h: the public and the social   Carolyn Chen – Music in Social Spaces In social […]
The Third Guy + Simon Bolay & Yannick Guédon play Beuger, Ciciliani, Profanter, Maierhof
Concert program: Simon Bolay & Yannick Guédon play: Antoine Beuger: one tone. rather short. very quiet The Third Guy play: Marko Ciciliani: Atomic Etudes, for monome controller Caroline Profanter: the talking piece  Michael Maierhof: Splitting 56. 2. Marko Ciciliani: New composition   The Brussels based duo The Third Guy (percussionist Ruben Orio and guitarist Primož […]
Second Sundays #1 – Henry Andersen: Perfect Lives
In 2018, Q-O2 will initiate a new monthly series of listening sessions by invited guests. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The series takes place on the second […]
Teresa Cos
Teresa Cos is working with music and moving image. Her current project relates to deconstructing the idea of loop. During her residency she will experiment more extensively and for a concentrated amount of time with her archive of music loops. By means of improvised music sessions that make use of loop machines and effects to […]
Doron Sadja
This residency will focus on developing a series of short sound pieces called “Airsonic Sculptures” that explore the phenomenon of standing waves, the physical dimensions of sound, and the relationship between frequency, space, and the movement of the listener. Sound is a physical vibration. Air particles compress and contract – through space – at a […]
Patricia Alessandrini
This residency will focus on the preparations of a large-scale project that will result in a multi-media theatrical piece for Donatienne Michel-Dansac and the Ensemble InterContemporain for 2019. The piece builds upon the previous music theatre piece Parlour Sounds by Patricia Alessandrini. It features the soprano in a home environment of the 1960’s in which […]
Sabrina Montiel-Soto
This residency will focus on the development of the sound installation People of the Wellspring / Les Gens de La Source. The project goes back to essentials things as sound, rhythm and measure. The sound installation is based on a scenario of natural and fragmented histories between Central Africa and Venezuela. The objective of Sabrina Montiel-Soto […]
Marc Sabat & Mareike Lee
Light Ground (2016-) is a continually evolving work combining multiple layers of projected light and sound by Mareike Lee (video, installation and live drawing) and Marc Sabat (composition and performance with violin). The musical ground is a precorded four-channel track of slowly transforming patterns played on two Indian tanpuras. In a cycle over approximately two […]
Jane Dickson & Sebastian Lexer
“Are These Waves” is an experimental chamber opera for two women which questions the relationship between love and death within the apparatus of opera, particularly with regards to female autonomy. The voice is the impetus for a fugal structure which interweaves sound, text, light and movement; a foundation for an abstraction of the dichotomy of […]
La Semaine du Son: Judit Emese Konopas + Roberta Miss (+nurse+)
La Semaine du Son takes place at various locations in Brussels. The aim is to provide the audience a better understanding of sound and sound art and to underline their importance in society through lectures, concerts, film screenings and installations. Q-O2 organizes a double concert with:   INTER / ACT / SON Judit Emese Konopas […]
Workshop: Critical Writing On Sound Art
Critical Writing On Sound Art is a seminar-structured workshop examining techniques for critical writing about sound art projects. The focus of the workshop will be on applying these techniques to sound art, however the exercises presented could also have application in other areas of arts writing. Participants will explore a number of brainstorming exercises designed […]
pali meursault, Lee Patterson & Frédéric Nogray
Concert by a trio that is always exploring new directions. Born during the summer of 2014 in Grenoble, this trio gets together musicians who share a common taste for field recordings but left their microphones for experimenting with acoustic, mechanical, electrical and electronic phenomena. Their choice of instrumentation appropriates various technical and industrial elements: Frédéric […]
Showcase | Book Release | Radio Picnic
Release of the musical book Mensa Sonora, published by Editions Ripopée (Nyon), celebrating six years of Radio Picnic – Residence for Creative Radio (Berlin-Brussels). Concerts and radio performances with: Èlg, Christophe Piette, Marc Matter, Kim Laugs, Marco Lampis, Eleonora Polato & Simon Riat, Stephanie Pfister & arc en ciel électronique, Christophe Clébard, Johnny Haway. Food […]
Elms Willdick
Elms Willdick is a sonical marriage between Karen Willems and Stijn Dickel. Elms Willdick is a deranged playground with traditional instruments (but often used in an onorthodox way), field recordings, amplified objects, voices, performances and scenographical discoveries. Elms Willdick is an ode to freedom, intuition, creativity, adventure and non-formalized listening. This concert by Stijn Dickel, […]
Fantôms Orchestra (Frédéric Nogray, Lee Patterson & pali meursault)
Frédéric Nogray, Lee Patterson and pali meursault invite you for a weekend of collective experimentations (English spoken).   The first day of the workshop will be dedicated to instrument building. Borrowing simple DIY techniques from the musician’s own setups, the participants will learn to amplify and sonify everyday objects. Using contact microphones based on piezo […]
Fantôms Orchestra Performance
Frédéric Nogray, Lee Patterson and pali meursault will perform together with participants of the Fantôms Orchestra workshop. They improvise and make music with their unusual orchestra. With the help of simple DIY techniques, sonification of everyday objects and creation of electronic toys new instruments emerged. All the original creations are brought together and tuned into […]
Sónma, corps phonographes (Anne Lepère & Marion Sage)
In this post-residency presentation the body is considered as a phonograph that marks vibrations at distance and resonates with external events. How do we prepare it in order to reach states of relaxation allowing us to better perceive and pay attention? The creative spirit becomes a builder of a place, a habitat. Voices will resonate […]
Shelley Hirsch – voice workshop (waiting list)
Due to great success, Q-O2 organizes the workshop “Exploring Your 1000 Voices: Surprise Yourself!” with Shelley Hirsch again.   The workshop focuses on: -locating resonances in the body in the room -unleashing the imagination, conjuring sonic imagery
-finding/fuelling language real and imaginary -improvising with an expanded vocabulary that is authentic, all your own, stretching your instrument […]
Ruta Vitkauskaite
This post-residency performance of Ruta Vitkauskaite explores the act of solo performing. After many years of working as a composer, in the context of numerous collaborations and as workshop leader, she realised that at this stage of her life she has little solo works – mostly of all of her music relies on other people. […]
Shelley Hirsch – voice workshop (waiting list)
Due to great success, Q-O2 organizes the workshop “Exploring Your 1000 Voices: Surprise Yourself!” with Shelley Hirsch again.   The workshop focuses on:   -locating resonances in the body in the room -unleashing the imagination, conjuring sonic imagery
-finding/fuelling language real and imaginary -improvising with an expanded vocabulary that is authentic, all your own, stretching your […]
Elms Willdick
Elms Willdick is a sonical marriage between Karen Willems and Stijn Dickel. Elms Willdick is a deranged playground with traditional instruments (but often used in an onorthodox way), field recordings, amplified objects, voices, performances and scenographical discoveries. Elms Willdick is an ode to freedom, intuition, creativity, adventure and non-formalized listening.   In this residency Elms […]
Sónma, corps phonographes (Anne Lepère & Marion Sage)
Workshop with Anne Lepère & Marion Sage. In the framework of creating an album dedicated to an active listening attitude and participation of the listener, we will be testing some experiments carried out during our residency at Q-O2 in August 2017. Research questions relate to the use of the body that allows us to perceive […]
Anna Raimondo
During her residency Anna Raimondo will re-map and reflect about cities from a gendered perspective. Nourished with recent theoretical and artistic researches, a special focus will be directed to the city of Brussels itself. What is a women friendly place within the urban space? What implies to be or feel as a woman in the […]
Enrico Malatesta
Rudimenti is an open project, aimed at broadening my personal research on percussion instruments and their surfaces; intended as habitable spaces able to receive the vitality of what surrounds them, to adapt themselves and to act back. Rudimenti comprises multiple trajectories of research: from writing texts to the realization of scores/instructions for percussion ensembles; to […]
Yannick Guédon, Deborah Walker & Cyprien Busolini
The composition L’insistance des possibles bears a strong focus on aleatory elements in its performance. The idea of imitation is at the very heart of the work. During this residency, Yannick Guédon, Deborah Walker & Cyprien Busolini mainly work on aspects of imitation related to their research on the wide variety of its possibilities. Read […]
Roberta Miss aka +nurse+
In her medium-spanning practice Roberta Miss explores various aspects of daily life, from a global to a more intimate perspective. Her multi-cultural origins influence her visual and sound work: a hybrid practice crossing different mediums, combining old and new technologies (such photography, printing techniques, traditional crafts and sound). From installation to club mixes, her work […]
Judit Emese Konopas
During her residency Judit Emese Konopas will develop her project INTER/ACT/SON. Everyone is catalyst, translator and witness of their environment. Cities are labyrinths, projections of our lives. People, their noises, sounds and also those voices define places and the atmosphere as well. She will invite people and let them interact in order to better understand […]
Fantôms Orchestra (Frédéric Nogray, Lee Patterson & pali meursault)
Frédéric Nogray, Lee Patterson and pali meursault invite you for a weekend of collective experimentations (English spoken).   The first day of the workshop will be dedicated to instrument building. Borrowing simple DIY techniques from the musician’s own setups, the participants will learn to amplify and sonify everyday objects. Using contact microphones based on piezo […]
Microphones Laboratory
An informal gathering of people interested in audio recording qualities. We listen to the differences between microphone brands of the hi-fi and the lo-fi field and in different recording situations: outside/inside, far/close, ambiance/instrumental. We will listen and compare, do A/B (blind)tests, analyse spectrums, evaluate and discuss. Bring one or more of your own microphones and/or […]
pali meursault, Lee Patterson & Frédéric Nogray
MEURSAULT / NOGRAY / PATTERSON Born during the summer of 2014 in Grenoble, this trio gets together musicians who share a common taste for field recordings but left their microphones for experimenting with acoustic, mechanical, electrical and electronic phenomena. Their choice of instrumentation appropriates various technical and industrial elements: Frédéric Nogray’s singing bowls are originally […]
Interfaces: open call for residencies in Brussels
Interfaces is an international, interdisciplinary project, involving partnerships between organisations across Europe. Through Q-O2 workspace, Interfaces calls for residency proposals for artists, practitioners, theorists, and educators working in the fields of sound, music, site-specific and/or participatory strategies for residencies of 1-2 months each in Brussels, Belgium between January 2018 to June 2019. Interfaces is a […]
Thomas Olbrechts
STACKMEMORY is an open semi-composition in which an instant composed piece is resampled over and over. It is functioning as a live-score to improvise on until the point where the music reaches a dense orchestral sound in which 6 to 7 layers have been recorded on top of each other.   The VOICE – PROJECT originated in […]
SMOG night: junk & the beast | Benjamin Thigpen
Benjamin Thigpen – Sonic incandescence    A concert of intense, immersive, multichannel music. Meditative and extreme with the motto “Every moment you are born, decay and die” by Buddha in mind. Benjamin Thigpen makes music for loudspeakers: electroacoustic works (composed on electromagnitic support); pieces for live computer performance; interactive music for computer and acoustic instrument(s); […]
Brecht Ameel | E42.A8
The electro-acoustic improvisation E42.A8 is grounded in an old warehouse in the countryside. It is  a place where we create the conditions that make improvisation possible, a pretext for meeting, but also an end in itself.  The place is always open to newcomers so that the configuration of players is therefore always changing. No compositions, […]
Ruta Vitkauskaite
During her residency Ruta Vitkauskaite will develop new work that will result in a project that is focused on the act of performing alone. Since she has been involved in many collaborations that resulted in collective staged multimedia performances over the years, the need grew to work individually as a classical composer. She will work […]
Pia Palme
No noise is an island – A collection of instrumental and recorded sounds, texts, scores, pictures, video   This evening is an invitation to look at the current work and process of Pia Palme. Texts, fotos, videos, and perceptions were gathered during her residency as she walked through the city on foot, day by day. […]
Azahara Ubera
During this residency Azahara Ubera will develop a performative lecture. She will be unfolding an archive of silent voices made out of a collection of:   1-Political slogans 2-A collection of poems by feminist poets 3-A somatopolitical, physical collection that constructs the physical regime of the binary system of gender   The project is called […]
Felicity Mangan
Tijdens haar residentie zal Felicity Mangan een werk ontwikkelen om haar reeks self-made speakers in het kader van een release bij Aural Tools te vergezellen. Aural Tools specialiseert zich in uitgaven rond en met eenvoudige objecten en luistertools die amper of niet documenteerbaar zijn op media zoals CD of LP.    
TinTin Patrone & Tim Huys
TinTin Patrone and Tim D. Huys show a short improvised audiovisual performance with a structure they created during their residency at Q-O2. By means of self-experimentation or in a framework designed for audience participation, new musical instruments are developed and music rituals even as conventions are questioned. Patrone and Huys will share and present their […]
Stefaan Quix
The Brussels based artist Stefaan Quix will work together with 10 percussionists of the Quixtet during the month of November. He will focus on a number of live-based compositions for percussion and electronics. New elements in his method are related to the arrangement of musicians spread across a circle (“Der Wohltemperierte Kreis”), the use of […]
Kiste#1 + Golem Mechanique
20:30 Post residency presentation: Golem Mechanique INLAND – Introspection. Murmurs. Repetitions A work on the inner monologue. The word and its unremitting repetition as a vector of jamming understanding. The word is a manipulation.   21:00 Concert: Filarowska, Filipa Casaca Bothelo and Hanna Madeleine Kölbel Kiste#1 is about the possibilities of coexisting and cocreating. The […]
Caroline Profanter & Polyphrenic Creatures / Marco Lampis / The Second Sound launch
Caroline Profanter & Polyphrenic Creatures: SPENDATIME live alive lived listening encounters happen in a fictional waiting room. Waiting is considered as a condition, a state without any destination. In the lingering there is a potential to which we rarely give importance. The setting is made to distract you from a linear time progress. In an […]
Aki Onda: Space Studies Project
Aki Onda invites visitors to experience his new and work-in-progress Space Studies project and fosters casual conversations about the creative process. “Sound is a primarily spatial phenomenon. How exactly does sound take shape and move within an environment? How do dynamics, reflection, and absorption transform sound? How does the visual interact with the listener’s aural […]
Pia Palme
“Silent city, noisy mind” is a residency that relates to performing a cartography of inner and outer spaces. In summer, when cities across Europe appear empty and quiet, the urban body as a physical organism becomes more audible. At that very moment, it is possible to listen to the sound of the city structure. Walking […]
Anne Lepère & Marion Sage
This Q-O2 residency will result in the creation of an object: a bodily and sonorous album. It will be the result of different protocols that Anne Lepère & Marion Sage will experience in the framework of sound-body articulation. Which surrounding sounds move the body? And which internal sounds allow the body to invent singular movements […]
Writing About Sound Workshop: describing sound
Writing About Sound is a seminar-structured workshop that will examine techniques for the complex task of describing sound. The focus of the workshop will be on applying these techniques to sound art, however the exercises presented could also have application in creative and critical writing. Participants will explore a number of exercises designed to stimulate […]
Eliane Radigue: Occam IV & Catherine Lamb: Prisma Interius IV
Occam IV, composed by Eliane Radigue, invites the listener to immerse into the sound through infinitesimal and infinite metamorphoses of textures. Prisma Interius IV, composed by Catherine Lamb, is an investigation of the interaction of tones and ever-fluctuating shades based on Just Intonation. — Occam IV 2011 Eliane Radigue performed by Julia Eckhardt, viola link: […]
Tiptoe Company, Frederik Croene & Patricia Alessandrini
Guitarist Jona Kesteleyn and bassist Peter Lenaerts (Tiptoe Company) explore new horizons in cooperation with pianist Frederik Croene. The latter has developed and refined its own musical vocabulary on the basis of his Piano Démécanisé, a dismantled piano whose naked piano part is played by elements of the same piano. The trio will explore this […]
Tiptoe Company, Frederik Croene & Patricia Alessandrini
Pianist and composer Frederik Croene, and composer and sound artist Patricia Alessandrini are working together with bassist Pieter Lenaerts and guitarist Jona Kesteleyn, the musical heart of the Tiptoe Company’s ensemble. The starting point of this concert relates to the sound and the playing techniques of the “piano démécanisé” from Frederik Croene’s repertoire. This sound […]
Primož Sukič | Kobe Van Cauwenberghe
Guitarconcert & CD release. Primož Sukič has lately been fascinated by DJ sets. Like an improviser will choose which note to play next, a DJ combines pieces by others, he tweaks them, and synchronizes them to the point where terms like identity or ownership are not longer recognizable or important. This kind of approach mirrors […]
Meryem Bayram & Wannes Deneer
Post-residency presentation.
Ruta Vitkauskaite & New Music Incubator (NMI)
New Music Incubator (NMI) is an international exchange platform for professional composers and performers. They are currently working together with  ECSA, the umbrella organization for European composers. This concert features contemporary music by Erik Peters (SE), Girilal Baars (SE), Mingo Rajandi (EE), Ruta Vitkauskaite (LT/GB), Sandra Kazlauskaite (LT/GB), Annika Cleo (FI), Sabine Vogel (DE), Martin […]
Milena Kipfmüller & Klaus Janek
Post-residency presentation of Milena Kipfmüller’s and Klaus Janek’s mobile performative workstation which they developed during their Q-O2 residency. Please bring your smartphone (if you have) and headphones to experience the public situation in which they perform live a radiophonic piece combining a text by the Lebanese author Etel Adnan with sounds of the streets. Everything […]
Workshop: Writing About Sound Art
There Are No Words: Writing About Sound Art   There Are No Words is a seminar-structured workshop focused on the practice of writing about sound art. The workshop will centre primarily on articulating sound art projects in a way that is accessible for readers outside the discipline, including multi-disciplinary funding and residency juries and the general […]
Tintin Patrone & Tim Huys
Part of the work of Tintin Patrone and Tim Huys deals with the development of musical instruments, researching the relationship between musician and instrument, even as questioning music rituals and conventions by self-experimentation or in a framework designed for audience participation. During this month-long residency, they try to advance their former electronic-analogous approaches of their […]
Caroline Profanter & Polyphrenic Creatures
This residency investigates a fictional waiting room: a grey zone, a transition, a temporary abolition of the time, of the usual activities, of thoughts about productivity. Waiting is considered as a condition, a state without any destination. In the lingering there is a potential to which we rarely give importance. The setting is made to […]
Aki Onda
Sound is a primarily spatial phenomenon. How exactly does sound take shape and move within an environment? How do dynamics, reflection, and absorption transform sound? How does the visual interact with the listener’s aural perception?   During this residency at Q-O2, Aki Onda develops his new performance-installation project “Space Studies,” which explores the interplay between […]
Golem mecanique
The Golem Mecanique project has recently focused on the exercise of the drone. A re-appropriated drone through voice, stacking of vocal materials on magnetic supports, instrumental fields, recordings, until the extinction of the recognition of the sources. This new line of research has been clearly influenced by listening and the  study of traditional music, but […]
Jane Dickson
More info coming soon.
Rebecca Lane
One way to objectify what we imagine is to make images. But images, in their turn, provide occasions for further thoughts and imaginings. But what can these be thoughts and imaginings of? Of sights, no doubt, but also of sounds. For this project Rebecca Lane will create works on paper – drawings, diagrams, notation, collages […]
Edita Dermontaité
Sound and form   ‏Edita Dermontaité focuses on art and research, interdisciplinary and in the past collaborated with scientists, illustrators, designers and architects. In 2016 she started PhD at KU Leuven/LUCA School of Arts, where she stresses the possibilities of multilayered thought, art process and production of an art work. Her project focuses on sound […]
Meryem Bayram
Autonomous Scenography ’FOURFOLD’ As in the previous production Autonomous Scenography, Meryem Bayram does not start from a story or scenario. The project is neither performance, theatre, dance or any other form of “staging” but more a generator of changing, autonomous scenographies – a machine that continously produces different images. Using a limited series of formal […]
Conquista
The first goal of this residency is to work on a ca. 40 min composition together with the composer, with the concept of the conquista in mind. We want to make a gradual development by adding musical parameters like instrumentation, rudimental sound, colour, melody, rhythm, harmony, intervals, dynamics and silence into the composition. We will […]
The Third Guy + Two Envelopes
As the end result of their residencies, the Brussels based duos TheThirdGuy & Two Envelops present an evening featuring voices, percussion, audience collaboration, harpsichord, guitar, objects, sine tones, field recordings and James Brown interviews. Concert programme:   The Third Guy Michael Pisaro – Hearing metal #4 James Saunder – All the things we make you […]
Milena Kipfmüller & Klaus Janek
Frequency fields. Milena Kipfmüller & Klaus Janek will engineer a solid set as composition instrument. At the beginning of the research tehy decide about abilities and aesthetic characteristics of the instrument, which will intrinsically define its sounding and performative qualities. At this stage a guest from Berlin, Lukas Matthaei will work with them. Then they […]
Romy Rüegger | Deena Abdelwahed – Performatik festival
The Personal and the Political   Romy Rüegger and Deena Abdelwahed reflect on the ways in which you can relate to the world and how you can interpret the past as part of the present. Their performances approach and actualize the personal as the political, or analyse the personal politically. This performance and this concert […]
Marco Lampis
The work of Marco Lampis is based on sound perception and on the relationship between sound, objects, space and body. One of his main theoretical reference points is the philosopher Henri Bergson. His writings about “duration” and his “theory of intuition” allowed him to expand his research towards an always more installative practice direction, more materic, […]
Romy Rüegger
During the stay at Q-O2 Romy Rüegger will work on a script and a performance for one or several performers, projections, walls and subwoofer, that explores digital presets and how they shape the recordings and texts through which we speak – as a tool to intervene into the gendered reproduction of normed and normative understandings and […]
Pak Yan Lau & Rie Nakajima | Kalimi
Pak Yan Lau plays the piano and writes music for dance, theatre and film. She mainly focuses upon free improvisation and poetic sound-mosaics by integrating the prepared piano and toy instruments. Rie Nakajima will be playing with objects. Her works are most often composed in direct response to unique architectural spaces using a combination of […]
Tiptoe Company, Frederik Croene & Patricia Alessandrini
More info coming soon.
The Third Guy
AlltheTHINGSweMAKEyouDO   “Well, shall we/think or listen? Is there a sound addressed/not wholly to the ear?” -William Carlos Williams, “The Orchestra”   The words of this American poet clearly address the identity of sounds, and therefore also the identity of the performer who produces them. There is always a continuous question/interplay of to whom do […]
Sara Pinheiro
Acousmatic Foley is a project dedicated to the study of sound in film and acousmatic music. For this residency, the project takes Chantal Akerman’s first short movie “Saute Ma Ville” (1968) as a case study. Throughout Akerman’s sound-work, the project wishes to foreground concepts as “sound-motif”, “sound-actor” and “sound-prop”. Due to the project’s theoretical and […]
Francesca Saraullo & Cabiria Chomel & Theater Tartaar
Dancing Auto Portraits is a sonic and choreographic research project with mentally disabled actors (Theater Tartaar) in the Belgian countryside. Francesca Saraullo and Cabiria Chomel are artistically involved in Rihabitare i… il futuro, a project of cultural and artistic innovation for the Abruzzo region in Italy. “Re-inhabiting the future” is a project of artistic residencies […]
Caroline Claus – L28_Urban Sound Design studio
Visit the blog of the ongoing project here. The program as pdf can be found here.   The undeveloped open space along the Western ring railway L28 has long been marginalized in Brussels planning processes. Thanks to its natural, historical and ecological richness the site is an excellent research object, especially in the context of […]
Shelley Hirsch & Joke Lanz / Bénédicte Davin
Shelley Hirsch is an award winning, critically acclaimed vocalist, composer, and storyteller whose mostly solo compositions, staged multimedia works, improvisations, radio plays, installations and collaborations have been produced and presented in concert halls, clubs, festivals, theaters, museums, galleries and on radio, film and television on 5 continents. Joke Lanz is one of the most prolific […]
Shelley Hirsch – voice workshop
Exploring Your 1000 Voices : Surprise Yourself with Shelley Hirsch. Surprise Yourself! The workshop focuses on : -locating resonances in the body in the room -unleashing the imagination, conjuring sonic imagery
-finding / fueling language real and imaginary -improvising with an expanded vocabulary that is authentic, all your own, stretching your instrument in unexpected ways in […]
Ben Vida & Lucio Capece
Lucio Capece and Ben Vida present a new collaborative composition for electronics, shruti box and slide saxophone. Building on a shared musical language of microtonal harmonic structures, Capece and Vida’s new work utilizes the expanded sonic phenomena of inner ear distortion products, beating, Shepard and difference tones and non-specific sound objects. This work pushes beyond […]
Eleonora Vittoria Polato & Jonathan Frigeri Zonoff
Altered states of objects – concert for transducers, objects and tape. This is an orchestra where each object connected to a transducer becomes a loudspeaker, each of which has its own sound identity, its unique voice. In reality the object becomes more than a loudspeaker, it becomes an instrument into itself and not just an […]
Carl Stone + Stijn Demeulenaere
Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling.” and “one of the best composers living in (the USA) today.” He has used computers in live performance since 1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time […]
Eric Wong & Pak Yan Lau & Audrey Lauro + Giulia Vismara
The evening features at 20:30 trio Pak-Yan Lau, Eric Wong and Audrey Lauro, preceded by the post-residency performance of artist in residency Giulia Visamra at 20:00.
Ben Vida & Lucio Capece
Lucio Capece and Ben Vida present a new collaborative composition for electronics, shruti box and slide saxophone. Building on a shared musical language of microtonal harmonic structures, Capece and Vida’s new work utilizes the expanded sonic phenomena of inner ear distortion products, beating, Shepard and difference tones and non-specific sound objects. This work pushes beyond […]
Razen + Varkenshond
Razen is a group of multi-instrumentalists based in Brussels. From strict and uncommon choices of instruments and improvised, psychedelic hybrids they generate sound on an intuitive melting point between old European music, deep listening and historical avantgarde. “a heady brew of deep listening music that is almost medieval in mood and wholly reverential in technique” […]
Tomoko Sauvage & Francesco Cavaliere
Japanese-Italian duo, Tomoko Sauvage and Francesco Cavaliere, interprets “Green Muisic”, a piece by a Danish fluxus composer, Henning Christiansen. They play green objects, from plants, tea, oil, glass, ceramic, cassettes to green-painted synthesizers (Christiansen painted his violin green), some amplified with different types of microphones. Their ‘set up’ installation looks like a laboratory of pigments […]
Tomoko Sauvage & Francesco Cavaliere
Japanese-Italian duo, Tomoko Sauvage and Francesco Cavaliere, interprets “Green Muisic”, a piece by a Danish fluxus composer, Henning Christiansen. They play green objects, from plants, tea, oil, glass, ceramic, cassettes to green-painted synthesizers (Christiansen painted his violin green), some amplified with different types of microphones. Their ‘set up’ installation looks like a laboratory of pigments […]
Wannes Deneer
Wannes Deneer works on an inventory of his sound ideas and inventions, through means of simple sketches and plans. Via a sorting system Wannes tries to get an overview.  
Sara Pinheiro
Acousmatic Foley is a project dedicated to the study of sound in film and acousmatic music. For this residency, the project takes Chantal Akerman’s first short movie “Saute Ma Ville” (1968) as a case study. Throughout Akerman’s sound-work, the project wishes to foreground concepts as “sound-motif”, “sound-actor” and “sound-prop”. Due to the project’s theoretical and […]
MV Carbon
MV Carbon is a New York City based, interdisciplinary artist and musician. Her current work explores interchangeability, the human mechanism, perceptive states of consciousness, and the empirical force of nature. Carbon’s has solo releases on Ecstatic Peace (US) and Discombobulate Records (UK).  She and  Jenny Gräf Sheppard formed Metalux in the 90s (Load, Hanson, 5RC, Veglia) and continue to record and perform together. Carbon was […]
David Birchall & Vicky Clarke
Noise Orchestra are sound artists David Birchall and Vicky Clarke who create NOISE MACHINES that translate light into sound. Inspired by the radical spirit of the post revolutionary Russian avant garde; they combine light, turntables, analogue electronics and graphical scores to turn images and objects into noise, a process called graphical sound. Following a residency […]
Razen
From their debut in 2010 on, the Brussels-based Razen aimed at using the unique timbral and drone characteristics of their chosen string and wind instruments in improvised, instinctive music that mixes pre-industrial, spectral and ethnic dreamtones with trance and medieval mysticism. Originally a duo of Brecht Ameel and Kim Delcour, over the past years Razen […]
Jacob Vanneste & Lisa Kokwenda Schweiger
Two Envelopes Two Envelopes consists of a harpsichordist and a percussionist who find their own adventurous path through the early music and contemporary repertoire in order to go beyond their classical fundament while combining it with theatrical elements and performance, as well as with electronic sounds and audiovisual art. In our programs we walk on […]
the other the self #3 – performances & lectures day 2
Performances and reflections on the artistic treatment of voice and language in regard to gender and identity. Shifting paradigm between public and private, official and subversive, known and new, formal and flu, sense and sound, male and female, up and down – to mostly everything in between. How do language and voice shape gender and […]
the other the self #3 – performances & lectures day 1
Performances and reflections on the artistic treatment of voice and language in regard to gender and identity. Shifting paradigm between public and private, official and subversive, known and new, formal and flu, sense and sound, male and female, up and down – to mostly everything in between. How do language and voice shape gender and […]
Presentations SoCCoS micro-residency
Presentations by international and local students that have been invited through the SoCCoS residency and research network. Free entrance.
Finding Song Home at >Molenbike
! Sorry, the Sonic Bikes can not ride out because of the rain ! The Sonic Bikes of Kaffe Matthews and the Bicrophonic Research Institute are available on Molenbike, an initiative by the Centre Communautaire Maritime: RENDEZ-VOUS* avec vos vélos à la fête du vélo de Molenbeek : • dès 10h00 à 14h00 au Centre […]
The Wowawiwa Boombike Experience
Wowawiwa (Alma Söderberg & Hendrik Willekens) presents The Wowawiwa Boombike Experience. It takes you on a sonic journey through the center of Brussels. During this tour the composition of the music is influenced by the composition of the city. It leads you through busy streets and quiet corners, playing noisy loops and soft samples. Both the acoustic and visual […]
Real and Imaginary Embodied Landscapes / RITCS students
Real and Imaginary Embodied Landscapes / Molenbeek Brussels, 8 June 2016 – 9 June 2016 A two-days workshop and a round-table discussion with a parallel exhibition that explore the idea of silence in the sensory experience of diverse layers of Brussels. The event is included in the actions of the Urban Emptiness Network (http://urbanemptiness.org/), which […]
Eleonora Vittoria Polato & Jonathan Frigeri Zonoff
Zbigniew Karkowski: “From an extremely real point of view, in the heart of our physical existence, we are made of sound and each display of shape in the universe is nothing but sounds that took a visible form.” The creation of an ecosystem of sounds will be at the heart of this residency. The basic […]
SoCCoS micro-residency
This micro-residency is directed to students or young professionals with a practice in music and sound art. The topical complex on which we will work is voice, gender, language and identity. A group of 10 participants will be guided through a program of workshops (Myriam Van Imschoot, Peter Westenberg, Marc Matter), presentations and visits at […]
Caroline Daish
Field recording the performance moment During this residency I will work with dramaturg Sara Jansen and composer Oxana Omelchuck. With Oxana I will research ways to compose for text and vocals within narrative propositions. We will track vocal qualities and ways of scoring for live text performance. With Sara we will discuss the in-between public […]
Giulia Vismara
“I was always fascinated by architecture. 
Over the years I collected a lot of sound material and data, both qualitative and quantitative, related to some specific architectures.
 Sound, thanks to its immediacy and multi-directionality, is an exceptional medium to understand the architectural forms. Sound as a tool to highlights some invisible aspects of architecture. During […]
MV Carbon
MV Carbon is a New York City based, interdisciplinary artist and musician.  Her current work explores interchangeability, the human mechanism, perceptive states of consciousness, and the empirical force of nature.
Alma Söderberg & Hendrik Willekens
Wowawiwa – Urbanimalism Urbanimalism takes the music of wowawiwa to the streets of Brussels and beyond. Together with radio researcher Dieter Van Dam, a concert will be performed and captured from bikes going around in the city center. WOWAWIWA is the music project uniting Alma Söderberg and Hendrik Willekens. It was born in a bar […]
Saout Radio & Deena Abdelwahed
Saout As A State Of Mind #2 A week of radiophonic listening in FM and on streaming and enriched by live sonic experiences for your ears Brussels, 9-13 May 2016 www.saoutradio.com Issuing from the Tunisian alternative music scene, with strong foundations as a funk and jazz singer, Deena Abdelwahed has been exploring the realm of […]
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
The final presentation of the residency at Q-O2 will start with a performative reading from the artists’ book project ‘A Nomad’s Guide to Listening’ (2016) The event will be followed by live multi-channel performance of two recent works: 1. Decomposing Landscape (2015) 2. Exile and Other Syndromes (2016)
V.Squad! & Heather Frasch (and more)
An American night with V.Squad! These… by Jonathan Sokol for bariton saxophone and tuba Aphasia by Mark Applebaum for tape and hand gestures Improvisation Quintet Nucleus by Alex Mincek for tenor saxophone and percussion Encounters 2 by William Kraft for tuba The ceiling was breathing. It bulged & receded by Heather Frasch (world premiere) for […]
Text/Space/Architecture (TSA) – workshop students of KULeuven/Cultural Studies
Text/Space/Architecture (TSA) is a facilitator-led creative writing workshop exploring the connections between public/private spaces and the production of written text. Participants will be led through a series of writing exercises centered outside a conventional writing environment. Armed with notebooks, writers will leave the comfort of their desks, to explore different parts of the city, finding […]
martiensgohome – 20th anniversary
Twenty years ago a program, entitled “martiensgohome!” as an homage to the novel of Fredric Brown, made its debut on air on Radio Campus. A few years later the show has evolved into a more complex project where the point is not to promote nor broadcast music but to create it on the spot and […]
It’s Frankenstein, stupid!
Dr. Frankenstein maakt wat dood is levend. Dr. Frankenstein rêve de beauté. It’s electric, eclectic, fantastic. Dr. Frankenstein was geen Einstein. Dr. Frankenstein ain’t no Einstein. Dr. Frankenstein n’était pas un Einstein. It’s a monster. Le monstre est monstrueux. Het monster wil de l’amour, liefde, love. By and with: Esra, Souadatou, Younes, Ikram, Hajar, Souhaïla, […]
Eliad Wagner & Andi Stecher
Collaborative musical systems / compositions for percussion and modular synthesizer. Trying to bring together composition and improvisation by using simple gestures /sets of rules. The rules are clear enough to set the direction and dictate the play out of each piece, while remaining necessarily simple, to support the gentle dynamics of the free improvisation process.The […]
Dianne Weller & Ruben Nachtergaele
Working Title: Choreographing the Listening Residency information for new sound installation performance working with: Dianne Weller, Ruben Nachtegaele, Alessandra Coppola, Fanny Zaman, Ludo Engels, Hans Meijer, Elke Van Campenhout & Elias Vervecken (foley expert) Emiliano Battista (philosopher) (scientists) TBD “The audience’s ears hear sounds, and their eyes see you being that sound. Dance is the […]
Graham Lambkin / 
Hour House / 
Astor
Sundays are perfect when it comes to enjoying music the right way. Not rarely, a slow vagueness appears and becomes tangible, like a sweet, melancholic existential emptiness – or poetry, as you choose to name it. Together with Editions Abscondita, a label that takes up the role of curator, we will fill this emptiness. This […]
It’s Frankenstein, stupid!
Saturday 7th 18:00 and Sunday 8th 15:00 – free but please reserve. Two 4th classes of the secondary professional schools Regina Pacisinstituut in Laeken en Athénée Royal d’Ixelles,  develop their own version of the novel of Frankestein by Mary Shelley, together with a team of coaches, Carly Wijs (scenography), Audrey Lauro (music), Roman Vanhoutven (dance), […]
Muta Imago – open rehearsal
Muta Imago at Q-O2 started to develop “Bartleby”, the second chapter of the bigger project “American tales” which aims to produce three video-sound performances based on three different american novels from the XIX Century. For the end of the residency Muta Imago opens the studio and offer the possibility to assist to a live reading […]
Hyper-listening: praxis – workshop with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Hyper-listening: praxis Workshop with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay During their everyday navigation, errant and itinerant listeners may interact with various  sites  considering and/or perceiving them as spatio-temporally evolving but gradually disorienting auditory situations following sonic memory, imagination, and previous experience of other sites. The listener may relate to these situations by thought processes generated by means of […]
Performing your Field Recordings – workshops
In this Soundlab we will investigate and fine tune how to take recordings to a live audience. What makes a recordist a good  performer? Where do  personal and artistic ambition play? How do you  communicate with an  audience? As a point of departure, the participants will need to find out and define for themselves what […]
Heimo Lattner & Judith Laub
Spread the voice No. 1 Special situations call for special forms of communication. Sometimes the message complicates the situation, while other times, it’s the situation itself that does that. In the case of the whistled language, Silbo Gomero, it’s a case of both. On La Gomera, a volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean, for centuries, […]
New Music Incubator & Ruta Vitkauskaite & Martin Q Larsson
New Music Incubator invites you to experience five music compositions as the result of a collaborative-collective creation. The event encompasses classical, experimental, pop and jazz music traditions, explores improvised, composed and semi-composed musical structures, and brings live interaction and a trans-disciplinary approach to the stage. New Music Incubator (NMI) is an international exchange of professional […]
Peter Westenberg
The hybrid linguistic gene pool of Brussels creates good conditions for citizens to perform language sensitivities on a daily basis without having to stay within conventional uses of language. To build bridges to languages that we don’t necessarily master ourselves, we instrumentalise many things amongst which our bodies, cultural religious political convictions and origins, social […]
Eliad Wagner & Andi Stecher
You can follow the artist’s blog while they are in Brussels. Andi Stecher and Eliad Wagner, while working together as improvisers, managed to develop a common musical language as well as a unique vocabulary of sounds. Consequently, they decided to expand on each other’s more technical and theoretical interests – Wagner’s work with musical system […]
Muta Imago
Bartleby is a visual/sound/speech performance freely inspired by the famous namesake book by Herman Melville. The short novel is narrated by an elderly lawyer who relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known: Bartleby, a scrivener that he hired and who, little by little, started to change his world. At first, Bartleby […]
Caroline Claus
Urban Sound Design Research How can sound contribute to qualitative urban design and planning? How and in what forms might this happen? The research of Caroline Claus consists of the development of a method for a qualitative approach of sound in regional urban planning and design projects. She explains:   I use the avant-garde output […]
Peter Cusack
Peter Cusack, known for his participation in various international projects, will perform and lecture on different facettes of his work, such as field recording and acoustic ecology, and will give insight in current developments of his work and research. En collaboration avec La Semaine du Son et Point Culture de Bruxelles Centre  
Peter Cusack
The idea of the residency to explore how Peter Cusack can use field recordings in performance, both as a soloist and with other performers. The intention is to leave the recordings recognisable so that their information content remain significant but to make them flexible enough to play with other instruments (guitar) or performers, mostly through […]
Live House #4 : Daniel Brozek (Czarny Latawiec) & Caroline Claus
This Live House features Daniel Brozek aka Czarny Latawiec and Caroline Claus. Together they will make an assemblage of recordings which have inspired them. Daniel presents the installation he’ll have worked on during his residency at Q-O2, aspacial sound environment including texts from library collections of city folklore, field recordings and found spoken traces of languages […]
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
A Nomad’s Guide to Listening The sounds of everyday offer an entryway into a poetic contemplative mood in which a constant traveller of the physical world may indulge involving pre-cognition. Instead of articulating corporeal “things” in the physical space of the world the traveller may prefer to remain detached as an elevated self and engage […]
the other the self #2 – Susan McClary
Lecture: “New Operas, New Women?” Although almost all operas involve the dramatic representation of women and men, few musicologists or critics took gender into account before Catherine Clément’s L’opera ou la défaite des femmes (1979): a book that helped launch feminist music criticism. This talk will examine the ways the ensuing debates have affected the conventions for portraying gender […]
Daniel Brozek / Czarny Latawiec
The main subject for Czarny Latawiec’s sound works is the process of tracing fagile correlations between places’ past soundscapes of places and people memories hidden behind their beliefs and daily rituals. During the residency he plans to collect vast library collections of city folklore field recordings and found spoken traces of languages and outlandish cultures. […]
Anthea Caddy & Judith Hamann
Cello II is an immersive performance experience, exploring the acoustic capacities of two cellos through electroacoustic spatialisation, durational listening and site specific use of room tone. listen Using amplification to identify microscopic and subtle nuances of the cello, the double cello project develops works that identify a combination of pitch and resonance, positioning them within an […]
Anthea Caddy & Judith Hamann / Inge van den Kroonenberg / Jürgen De Blonde (Köhn)
Doors and shop are open at 19:00h. / concert at 20:30h precise. Jürgen De Blonde : MD4KP1 Inge van den Kroonenberg : Sing it back Anthea Caddy & Judith Hamann : double cello Jürgen De Blonde (Köhn) plays MD4KP1, a work which consists in no-input feedback of a minidisc fourtrack (yamaha md4) which has been treated […]
Live House #3: Anne Lepère
Shop and doors open at 17:00h. 20:30h sit-down Anne Lepère: Autour de Babel #327 – Hailuoto Blue  Reminiscence of a voyage in the Grand North… The idea of this mix was conceived during an artistic residency on the island Hailuoto which was organised through Soccos (Sounds of Culture, Culture of Sounds) and was guided by artist Antye Greie Ripatti […]
F.K. Donche
During the November ’15 residency at Q-O2, F.K.Donche will create automated musical pieces for 3 Fizmo’s on a multiple speaker setup. The works will be composed on hardware midi sequencers. Depending on the processing power of the sequencers live modulating might be added to the performing of the pieces, In preparation of these compositions the artist […]
Inge van den Kroonenberg
Geräusche und Stimmungen / part II In the first part of Geräusche und Stimmungen I performed Duration Piece #11. A composition in which voice and synthesizer build on a slow, purposeful unfolding of sound. For part II I will examine the aural qualities of audio feedback in relation with the singing voice. The fusion and […]
Live House #2 : Inge van den Kroonenberg / sit-down: Jürgen De Blonde (Köhn)
!!! The concert is postponed to one week later (to be confirmed) !!! Doors and shop are open at 17:00h. 20:30h Inge van den Kroonenberg presents results of her residency in which she experimented with voice and feed-back. She will perform Geräusche und Stimmungen (part II) / Sing it Back – Vocal Feedback Performance ‘Sing it Back’ […]
Live House Shop open
The Live House Shop is open every Monday from 17h, offering music and sound art related cd’ and books. You can pass by and listen, discuss, buy, deposit new or selected second hand stuff. There is a different choice to be discovered each time.
Tiina Sainila & Mikko Kanninen
SOUND – MOVEMENT – SPACE In Brussels Tiina Sainila & Mikko Kanninen will work with kids in a local community house. Most of the kids have roots in immigration. We will host a workshop that focuses on three things: sound, movement and space. In the workshop the kids will learn how to make sounds and […]
Tiina Sainila & Mikko Kanninen
Presentation: sound – movement – space Tiina Sainila and Mikko Kanninen from Hai Art (Finland) hosted a workshop for the kids in Maison des Cultures. A creative week concentrated on sound, movement and improvisation in different spaces and ended with a performance at Charleroi danses attic. Tiina and Mikko will tell about their experiences and show a video about […]
Live House opening night – Af Ursin, Willem Styfhals, F.K. Donche
LIVE HOUSE OPENING NIGHT Shop opens at 17h // lecture & performances at 20h Willem Styfhals Lecture: Canonization and Listening in the Late Age of Mechanical Reproduction Af Ursin (aka Timo van Luijk) Solo Performance F.K.Donche Live House sit-down #1 ———————- Willem Styfhals speak about Canonization and Listening in the Late Age of Mechanical Reproduction […]
workshop for children 6 to 9 years
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Aurélie Lierman
Aurélie Lierman will during her residency at Moks research the speaking voice in an acousmatic context by creating a vocal theater piece, exploring the boundaries between music and meaning. THEME: Fukushima 3/11 ­ HOME AS A SHELTER Aurélie Lierman will reflect on the idea of home as a symbol for ‘shelter’ and ‘safety’, and its […]
Aurélie Lierman at MoKS
Dejana Sekulic
Sensonarium 1.0 a living instrooment study (2015/2016) What if you were a particle of a sound? If you could perceive sound as being inside of it? The interactive sound installation, Sensonarium, is a live in instrument, a living instrument, a living room – any space, being an instrument. A membrane that holds a sound. Being […]
Finding Song Home >> Zwijgstil
In the framework of Zwijgstil Q-O2 and De Munt feature Finding Song Home, the sonic bike opera made for Brussels by Kaffe Matthews. It explores the injustices of birthright and the power of nations governments to enable or prevent the free movement of its citizens. Through meeting and sharing with often illegal non-European Brussels immigrants, […]
Jaume Ferrete
The research Afónica/Masculinities is a document as well as conversation based research and creation project on the issue of masculinities. It fits within the frame of the growing interest in this issue in academia and social movements. Special attention is paid to the problem of unsaying (from) a position characterized by the privilege of saying. […]
the other the self#1 – Open Forum
Open Forum – open for proposals 11h: Jane Dickson, Lucy Duncombe, Anneke Kampman: presentation on the work process of Labyrinthine 12h Dianne Weller: presentation 12.30h 14h Sara Baldini: the flutists voice – pieces for flute by Alireza Farhang and Kaija Saariaho 13h – break (lunch foreseen at the space) 14h Hannah Reardon-Smith: Taking risks – composition, […]
the other the self#1 – festival: Lina Lapelyte, Jane Dickson, Richard Scott
— festival booklet—- Richard Scott : Boy-players and Britches. An Illustrated History of Operatic Drag Jane Dickson : Labyrinthine (with Lucy Duncombe & Anneke Kampman) Lina Lapelyte : Candy shop – the Opera (with Angharad Davies, Anat Ben David, Sharon Gal, Nouria Bah, Heidi Heidelberg and Rebecca La Horrox) In co-production and collaboration with: La Monnaie/De […]
the other the self#1 – workshops
—reservation necessary by email— —workshop overview— 1) Lina Lapelyte – Decomposing the mainstream October 8, 2015 (10:00 – 13:00) Q-O2 (Quai des Charbonnages / Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, 1080 Bruxelles / Brussel) In this workshop Lina Lapelyte will propose her own music making techniques to collectively create tunes. Using individually or collectively chosen texts, participants will create […]
the other the self#1 – festival: Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Lorenz&Boudry
— full festival program—- Lecture (17.00) Pauline Oliveros : Listening to Now: Women as Composers Screening & Performance (20.00) Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz : To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation Pauline Oliveros : Pauline’s Solo In co-production and collaboration with: La Monnaie/De Munt, Beursschouwburg, Aifoon, Kraak, Ictus/MaNaMa, Crisap London, […]
the other the self#1 – festival: Jaume Ferrete, AGF, C. Spencer Yeh, Simon Vincent
— full festival program—- Jaume Ferrete Vazquez : Voz Mal/Files Simon Vincent : …FALLING MAN, RISING WOMAN… AGF/Antye Greie-Ripatti : #Voicenoise Hack C. Spencer Yeh : Solo Voice I-X In co-production and collaboration with: La Monnaie/De Munt, Beursschouwburg, Aifoon, Kraak, Ictus/MaNaMa, Crisap London, RoSa bibliotheek. Ondersteund door het Creative Europe Program van de Europese Unie.
Finding Song Home / BE SSST Festival
Finding Song Home, the Sonic Bike Opera by Kaffe Matthews, as guided tours, during the BE SSST Festival. Download the tour guide here.
João Farelo
Fall is a Sound Art and Intermedia project. It is an extension of a work that started in October 2014 during a residency program devoted to the theme Paths of rural mobility, organised by Binaural/Nodar – Cultural Association. The continuation of the work will be framed within the specific context of the Brussels Parks and […]
Finding Song Home and The Magnificent Heardryer / La Semaine du Son
On car-free Sunday it will be your best chance to experience Kaffe Matthews’ Sonic Bike Opera ‘Finding Song Home’ in the framework of La Semaine du Son. Also in our courtyard The Magnificent Heardryer by Bart de Melker.
Anne Quirynen & Simon Vincent
—– THIS RESIDENCY HAS BEEN POSTPONED —–
Susana Santos Silva & Torbjörn Zetterberg
The first album of Susana Santos Silva (trumpet) & Torbjörn Zetterberg (double bass) was recorded in the north of Sweden. In a snow covered cabin in the mountains, they captured the harsh and at the same time extremely beautiful and tranquil surrounding environment. This incredible experience resulted in a work in which nearly everyone could […]
Susana Santos Silva & Torbjörn Zetterberg & Val King
Susana Santos Silva and Torbjörn Zetterberg, together with video-artist Val King, have explored different in- and outdoor locations in Brussels where they made short musical improv-interventions. These were recorded and videoed and will be made into music-clips. In this presentation they will show some of the material, some raw, some finished, and conclude with a […]
Begüm Erciyas & Matthias Meppelink
In spring 2014, during a residency in Kyoto, Begüm Erciyas got increasingly interested in Karaoke as a form of putting one’s own voice into play. Due to her reservations to sing in front of others, she started booking Karaoke rooms on her own and started to question if the act of reading a script out loud […]
Caroline Profanter
Klangkabine/Akusma Disko is an ongoing project: a cabin with a surround sound system designed for one person. The objective is to create a spatial environment for immersive soundscapes or moving sounds. Each loudspeaker can be operated independently. The sound sequences are arranged in geometrical patterns or positioned precisely as spatial figures. The sound gestures in […]
Caroline Claus at A-I-R laboratory Warsaw
Rishin Singh & Johnny Chang
Paper Trail Exploring an Alternative to the Printed Score The objective of the Singh-Chang residency is to shift the focus of investigation from sounds to the score itself, and experiment with alternative notation formats. * Print-based scores are the dominant form of communication between composer and performer. Is this because it is the most effective […]
DIY open listening day
compositions, improvisation, curated listening, workshops. This day is a follow-up on the Interpretations-festival of last December 2014. workshops::: 14:00 Inge Vanden Kroonenberg : Geräusche und Stimmungen (part I : workshop voice) 60′ “Voice, articulation, and sound, as well as the speech organs involved in their production, can not only direct the creation of meaning but […]
Johnny Chang & Rishin Singh – paper trail #2
PAPER TRAIL – Exploring an Alternative to the Printed Score. Compositions by Johnny Chang & Rishin Singh Johnny Chang : aural score (pre-recorded sound) “Stories My Grandmother Told Me” – performer, Rishin Singh Growing up in Kaohsiung, my grandmother used to lay out wet tea leaves for drying on the fifth floor of our family […]
Johnny Chang & Rishin Singh – paper trail #1
PAPER TRAIL – Exploring an Alternative to the Printed Score. Compositions by Johnny Chang & Rishin Singh 23/6 – 7-10pm Installation/Performance The objective of the Singh-Chang residency is to shift the focus of investigation from sounds to the score itself, and experiment with alternative notation formats. Sports! Johnny Chang: sport score – baseball version “Brooklyn […]
Finding Song Home – Kaffe Matthews and the Bicrophonic Research Institute
++++ Matinées on Sundays 7th and 14th of June, 10:00 – 14:00 on reservation++++ ++++ Sonic Bikes available on reservation at Q-O2 (0472-616753) and at La Monnaie ++++ ++++ Sonic Bikes at DIY Day at Micro Marché Saturday 6th of June ++++ Finding Song Home is the new sonic bike opera made for Brussels by […]
Begüm Erciyas
In spring 2014, during a residency in Kyoto, I got increasingly interested in Karaoke as a form of putting one’s own voice into play. Due to my reservations to sing in front of others, I started booking Karaoke rooms on my own. I started to question, if the act of reading a script out loud while […]
Finding Song Home – Kaffe Matthews
Finding Song Home on Brussel Nieuws ++++ Matinées on Sundays 7th and 14th of June, 10:00 – 14:00 on reservation++++ Finding Song Home is the new sonic bike opera made for Brussels by Kaffe Matthews and the Bicrophonic Research Institute(BRI) with tech development by Tom Keene. It is a work that explores the injustices of […]
EASTERN WAVES on TOUR : Mirt / Maja S.K. Ratkje / Sultan Hagavik
Over the last five years Bôłt Records became a leading label in Polish experimental music. The focus on the rich yet unexplored tradition of Polish avant-garde music together with insights into the new scene proved fruitful. Among the label’s main projects is “Polish Radio Experimental Studio”, series of albums combining re-mastered and de-noised archival recordings […]
Gwenaëlle Rouger & Fabienne Séveillac & Etienne Graindorge
VOICES AND PIANO, scenes for voices and hand Gwenaëlle Rouger, pianist and Fabienne Séveillac, mezzo-soprano, soloists from the new music ensemble soundinitiative, driven by a desire to shake up the traditional concert paradigm work on ‘Voices & Piano’, a program of sonic theatre exploring the junction between text, gesture and sound.  The inspiration for the […]
soundinitiative : Gwenaëlle Rouger & Fabienne Séveillac & Etienne Graindorge
VOICES AND PIANO, scenes for voices and hands Gwenaëlle Rouger & Fabienne Séveillac: voice, piano, keyboard, tables, tapes, electronics, misc. objects & videos Etienne Graindorge, technique Gwenaëlle Rouger, pianist and Fabienne Séveillac, mezzo-soprano, soloists from the new music ensemble soundinitiative, driven by a desire to shake up the traditional concert paradigm created ‘Voices & Piano’, […]
Jane Dickson & Nic Chalmers
Dickson & Chalmers will use the residency to carry out a series of sonic and textual experiments on themes of transformation, negation and gender, particularly in relation to the way in which fragile, delicate disturbances to both text and sound can become a form of subtle violence. Their research will focus on developing a piece […]
Robin Jonsson
If trees had ears. If trees had ears is a sound-performance of 1 hour that will be played out in a completely dark room. I’m starting with the assumption that trees are conscious and reflexive of their surroundings and the performance will present what a tree perceives of its world. This will be done mainly […]
Robin Jonsson
also 01/04/2015 – 14:00 !! and 02/04/15 15:00 If trees had ears. If trees had ears is a sound-performance of 1 hour that will be played out in a completely dark room. I’m starting with the assumption that trees are conscious and reflexive of their surroundings and the performance will present what a tree perceives […]
Ryoko Akama
almost empty – fields and waves   Sine waves and object vibrations respond to text. Akama’s residency is inspired by the idea of field and wave as phenomena. The performance examines almost empty in order  to manipulate space or materialize  field. The result of the work will be presented in the framework of the Performatik […]
Miki Yui
“mamagoto” During my time in Q-O2 residency, I will work on new performance/installation piece(s) “mamagoto”. “mamagoto” means in japanese a child play to simulate cooking or adults habits.  “mama” means in baby language “food” and “goto” means “matter” or “things”.  In my work, this “matter” goes beyond  the “culinary” habit, it is a simulacrum. My […]
koto・mono – things and matters: Miki Yui / Rie Nakajima / Ryoko Akama – Performatik15
koto・mono – things and matters Miki Yui – Rie Nakajima – Ryoko Akama Three performances in which small things and matters play the central stage in the framework of festival Performatik Miki Yui – mamagoto ‘mamagoto’ is  ‘manegoto’,  an imitation, is a common game among children, repeating what one heard or saw ; imagine and […]
Kaffe Matthews & Tom Keene
Finding Song Home is a new Bicycle Opera directed by Kaffe Matthews with technical development by Tom Keene and the Bircrophonic Research Institute (BRI), commissioned by La Monnaie and Q-O2. The opera will open with an interactive sonic bike game in La Monnaie plaza and Molenbeek Square on 9th & 10th May 2015, followed by […]
Ruben Martinez Orio & Adam Rosenblatt & Mark Applebaum
Percussionists Ruben Martinez Orio and Adam Rosenblatt will work on compositions by the American composer Mark Applebaum. “The manner in which I compose varies from work to work and within a given composition. Occasionally I will through-compose a piece, that is, start at the beginning and compose in a linear fashion. More often some portion […]
Benjamin Glorieux
Since its creation in 1977, Brian Ferneyhough’s Time and motion Study II for singing cellist and two assistants has inspired many music-lovers worldwide. It is an extremely challenging piece in many different ways: one needs to develop appropriate technical abilities, both as a cellist and as a sound-engineer; the piece triggers quite some philosophical questions; the mere […]
Ruben Martinez Orio & Adam Rosenblatt – Mark Applebaum / Joseph Kudirka
19:00 post-residency concert by Joseph Kudirka Concert and installation featuring music boxes and hand made paper scores, crafted during the residency. 20:30 concert by Ruben Martinez Orio and Adam Rosenblatt – work by Mark Applebaum -Entre Funérailles II, for Solo Vibraphone. 1999 -Aphasia, for singer and tape. 2010 -Gone, Dog. Gone, for two percussionist. 2012 […]
Joseph Kudirka
At Q-O2, I will be working on my ongoing piece, untitled. The score for this piece is comprised of hand-made pieces of paper, made by recycling the detritus of daily life (empty cigarette packets, train tickets, dead flowers, worn-out clothing, bread bags, etc.) into otherwise blank pages. As the pages come into being related to […]
workshop Sonic Bikes – Kaffe Matthews & Tom Keene
Development of concept and practical realisation for interactive Sonic Bike games in Brussels. Open to anyone. Technical skills not required. Permanent presence and inscriprion preferred but not imperative. 1st part: Sat 21st and Sunday 22nd: 10 – 4pm • The BRI will present its past and present projects, including the current technique used on sonic […]
Stage kinders/enfants – Sonic Bikes
workshop for children 10-14 years old: hunting for sound and stories, recording, editing, biking,…with Kaffe Matthews and Ivan Vrambout http://www.lamaison1080hethuis.be/nl/Stages_/
Deborah Walker
STARFLUX Music uses the harmonic spectrum as a musical model, but most often in ascending or descending order, and less frequently in geographical order, like the order of overtones of a linear course on a string. On this course, we do not hear the sounds from low to high, but their intervals vary according to […]
Deborah Walker & Isabelle Sainte-Rose & Daniel Perez Hajdu
Sorry, this entry is only available in %LANG:, For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Deborah Walker présentera les expériences faites à Q-O2 sur Starflux, un work-in-progress autour d’un mode de jeu particulier sur le violoncelle, qui […]
Isabelle Sainte-Rose & Daniel Perez Hajdu
Daniel Perez Hajdu : acousmatic composer. Isabelle Sainte-Rose : cello player. During this residency we will work from the acoustic materials produced by the cello, guided by three axes: – the metamorphosis of the sound – the relation of tonic and complex sounds – the spatialisation of recorded and/or directly played sounds
Henry Vega & Anat Spiegel: Wormsongs
Wormsongs – Henry Vega Henry Vega, live electronics Anat Spiegel, voice Emmanuel Flores, real-time visuals In the Wormsongs Vega creates a digital language that covers the spectrum between noise and pure sine creating a style that can be described as micro-minimal with a passion towards machine-kind. Inspired by Spiegel’s voice, Vega orchestrates streams of automatic […]
Alma Söderberg & Hendrik Willekens
wo wa wi wa is the collaboration between Hendrik Willekens and Alma Söderberg. In the project ‘voice circuitry’ they work with the voice of Alma and the electronic processing of that single sound source by Hendrik. The musical composition is accomplished through means of sculpting the body of sound that realizes itself between the voice […]
Anat Spiegel & Henry Vega
working on: Wormsongs – Henry Vega Henry Vega, live electronics Anat Spiegel, voice Emmanuel Flores, real-time visuals In the Wormsongs Vega creates a digital language that covers the spectrum between noise and pure sine creating a style that can be described as micro-minimal with a passion towards machine-kind. Inspired by Spiegel’s voice, Vega orchestrates streams […]
Interpretations.
Festival & winter school Is all art interpretation? A translation into yet another shape, frame or context? Could editing be a contemporary form of interpretation? How does memory filter our listening? Who is the author? An array of concerts, lectures and workshops will explore different aspects of the topic. Composition and improvisation, the potential of […]
Interpretations. – workshops
INTERPRETATIONS. – WORKSHOPS 1) Angharad Davies – Search & Reflect – Improvisation December 4, 2014 (10:00 – 13:00) This workshop will consist of exercises that have helped shape and inform Angharad Davies’ own musical practice. The session will include exercises from John Steven’s workshop handbook “Search and Reflect” and Pauline Oliveros’ “Deep Listening” pieces along […]
Bram Borloo
LE PIANO-PENTAGONE Sound installation: Reconstruction of the map of Brussels with a deconstructed piano. Vocabulary: Brussels Geography, Piano Practical step-by-step plan: 1. Opening event: for this, I will invite musicians (members of R.O.T.?) to make a recording about the dismantling of the piano. The recording of this is not included in the project, but is […]
Bram Borloo & Roel Heremans
Bram Borloo – Piano Pentagon with Laurent CartuyVels & Christophe Piette Roel Heremans – Room C ‘Piano Pentagon’ is an installation which evokes the map of Brussels, made out of the pieces of a dismantled piano. The piano frame represents the hill on which the city is build. Site specific sounds of the Brussels cityscape and […]
Roel Heremans
Room C 8 random persons enter a space with headphones on. A voice on the headphone asks the listener to close his/her eyes and to imagine certain things.
Eliane Radigue: Occam Océan, Geelriandre – Ars Musica
Eliane Radigue: Occam IV, Occam River V, Occam Delta VI 
(Julia Eckhardt, viola – Catherine Lamb, viola – Deborah Walker, cello)(2011-14) Eliane Radigue: Geelriandre 
(Lionel Marchetti, interprétation, spatialisation)(1972) OCCAM OCEAN 
Eliane Radigue: “The idea for this piece was initially inspired by a large mural that I saw by chance in 1973, at the Museum of […]
Guy De Bièvre & Anne La Berge
BUGS A guided improvisation for 2 – 6 players BUGS is a commission from the NOW Orchestra in Vancouver, Canada with a premiere in November 2014. Guy de Bievre and I will be working together on the version for two players at Q02. I will create a work where each player will be given a […]
Guy De Bièvre & Anne La Berge & Johan Vandermaelen
Guy De Bièvre, Johan Vandermaelen and Anne La Berge will perform ‘Time Zones 0.4 (private mutations)’ by Guy De Bièvre and a composition by Anne La Berge.
Kaffe Matthews
Kaffe Matthews is visiting Brussels to set first steps in the research to build Sonic Bikes for Brussels. With them she will realize a Bicycle Opera and Sonic Bikes trajectories which will be launched on 9th and 10th of May 2015.
Tilde (Attila Faravelli, Nicola Ratti, Enrico Malatesta)
Tilde is a sonic intervention trio composed of Attila Faravelli, Nicola Ratti and Enrico Malatesta. Our aim is realizing sound actions which are at the same time separated from and joined to a specific context, as if caring about this gap or just dealing with it could expand/destabilize both ourself and what’s around us. We […]
Kaffe Matthews: Sonic Bikes
Sound artist Kaffe Matthews is presenting her project ‘Sonic Bikes’ at Rits School of Arts. A Sonic Bike is a musical instrument that plays locative music through two bike-mounted speakers made by the journey and speed at which the cyclist pedals. The cyclist therefore becomes the performer and the passers by the audience. Created by […]
Stijn Dickel
In October I’ll complete my scholarship about “listening and moving / being moved”. During my residency I’ll focus on listening-improvisation and listening-compositions.
Stijn Dickel
In 2014 Stijn received a scholarship from the Flemish Community (Kunstendecreet / Commission Mixed Media) and focused in his solo work, which took shape within Aifoon, on the relationship between listening and movement / being moved. In the contraction of sound art with performance, he has a particular focus on both the conscious and the […]
Jim Denley & Mike Majkowski / Konk Pack (Thomas Lehn & Roger Turner & Tim Hodgkinson)
KONK PACK are Thomas Lehn, Roger Turner and Tim Hodgkinson. For over fifteen years this group has amazed audiences at festivals and concerts all over the world with the sheer energy of its rapid-fire interplay, earning numerous critical accolades. Since 1997, Konk Pack have toured regularly throughout Europe, completed three major tours of the US, […]
Quiet Ensemble
– THIS RESIDENCY HAS BEEN POSTPOSED –
JD Zazie
During my residency I will work on my next solo release. My intention is to focus on new sound material (field recordings; sound effects; vinyls) and to explore different techniques of playing and mixing in order to expand my vocabulary.
JD Zazie
Cathy Lane
I have been working in the Outer Hebrides, remote islands off the West coast of Scotland, on and off for the last ten years. Much of the work has been driven by wondering how the rich history of the islands can be experienced and interrogated through sound. In late 2013 The Hebrides Suite, a CD […]
David Bergé
In this residency David Bergé will be preparing the installation intersecting surfaces, displaying the photographs taken by Le Corbusier in 1911 throughout his Voyage d’Orient.
Yannick Guédon & Thomas Bernardet
_ _ te mp _ _ In March 2012, Thomas Bernardet invited me to make a performance for the opening of his exhibition in the art gallery Living-Room (Montpellier, France). The performance began with an empty space that ended to be ‘occupied’ by 3 static shot videos. The sound performance was thought as a kind […]
Yannick Guédon & Thomas Bernardet
VELAK Export #3
Lale Rodgarkia-Dara & Anna Steiden / Audrey Lauro & Pak Yan Lau / Ingrid Schmoliner & Juan Parra / Yannick Franck / Tamara Wilhelm & Daniel Lercher & Vinzenz Schwab / Floris Vanhoof / Shrack / DJ: Tommy De Nys / Stephanie Quirola Velak, a Vienna-based collective engaged in electroacoustic music, meets Brussels. As part […]
VELAK Export #3
Reinhard Dundler & Paul Gründorfer / Johannes Eimermacher & Irene Pacini & Caroline Profanter / Pauwel de Buck / Laura Mello / Gueule Populaire (Margaret Unknown & Rosi Rehformen) / Els Viaene / Krach der Roboter / Stephanie Quirola VELAK, a Vienna-based collective engaged in electroacoustic music, meets Brussels. As part of the latest project, […]
Natasha Anderson
Initially I developed my playing set-up — a tailored, multi-sensor environment mounted on a Paetzold contrabass recorder interfacing with DSP software — to enable immediate and intimate control over the playing of the electronics. I was interested in the combined semantics of visual and musical gestures and trying to work out if, within a politics […]
Jenny Gräf & Marcia Bassett
Throughout the residency, Graf and Bassett will make piece of work inspired by physical acoustical spaces, both public and private. Several field recordings made in the city of Brussels and its surrounding region will be used as material for musical experimentation. We will invite a select number artists from the region to contribute field recordings […]
Jenny Gräf & Marcia Bassett
A piece of work inspired by physical acoustical spaces, both public and private. Several field recordings made in the city of Brussels and its surrounding region will be used as material for musical experimentation. We will invite a select number artists from the region to contribute field recordings to our project as well. Throughout the […]
Maria Balabas & Mihai Balabas
Which are the elements that create for a tourist the sonorous specificity of the city of Brussels? Can one perceive an urban rhythm and the fluid relations between the city and its inhabitants? Are the balances between the intensities of sounds – as they reverb in the city – signs of our unconscious life as […]
Maria Balabas & Mihai Balabas / Monophonique
The post-residency presentation of Maria and Mihai Balabas will take place at the festival Monophonique at Les Halles de Schaarbeek. Maria Balabas is a Romanian radio maker and sound artist. She performs a sound study she and her brother Mihai made about Brussels during her residency at Q-O2,a series of soundscapes dedicated to Brussels, trying […]
Yannick Franck / Maria Balabas & Mihai Balabas & Catalin Milea
‘Muzică pentru trei radiouri’ (music for three radio’s) is the trio project of Maria and Mihai Balabas and Catalin Milea. The title refers to them each playing a radio, besides their other instruments. Yannick Franck will play his piece “Hierophany” in an electroacoustic live set.
Bartaku & Karl Heinz Jeron & Ruta Vitkauskaite
The Aronia M. Overture This residency is the first stage in the development towards the first “Aronia M. Overture”, the attempt to assist the Aronia Melanocarpa (Chokeberry) in expressing its essence and the relations to its ambient environment: a former Soviet plantation on the edge of a Latvian village that since 1991 transformed from a […]
Bartaku & Karl Heinz Jeron & Ruta Vitkauskaite
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval & Ferran Fages & Bonnie Jones
Over the past few years, my instrumental research hangs on two major hinges: a deliberation on the bassoon as an object crystallising a western musical tradition; a radical diversion using a literal deconstruction of the instrument, played, broken up, amplified. In the same while, I never approached this exploration as an end in itself. I […]
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval & Bonnie Jones
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval & Ferran Fages
Robin Hayward & Christopher Williams
Reidemeister Move The Hayward Tuning Vine www.robinhayward/vine was initially invented as a way of visualising the harmonic space implicit within the microtonal tuba. Now it can also be played as an instrument in its own right, by emitting tuned sinetones when one touches a joint between the colored struts. This is made possible by rfid […]
Emmanuel Holterbach
Gabriel Paiuk
Within our environment saturated by technical media, the devices of sound technology impart upon their output a series of conditions inherent in them. Media sound embeds particular physical characteristics of the emitting devices, their particular diffusion patterns and their interaction with their acoustic surrounding, their particular scale, and the diverse outcomes of the procedures involved […]
Gabriel Paiuk
G.A.M.E. & MaCaDam
G.A.M.E.  will be bringing work by Maté Zsigeti, Alexander Glyde-Bates and Ben Jameson, who are all PhD students of composers Michael Finnissy, Ben Oliver and Matthew Shlomowitz at the University of Southampton (U.K.).  The concert on 11 March is a first public performance of the new works in the presence of the three composers. The […]
LSTR – SoE
In the framework of La Semaine du Son, Aifoon will present the avant-première of LSTR, a listening book illustrated by Wim Lots with composition made from field recording by Peter Cusack, Emmanuel Holterbach, BJ Nilsen, Richard Devine. Q-O2 will make for the occasion a summary of the traveling blog of Sounds of Europe, which was held in […]
Okkyung Lee
During my residency at Q-02, I’ll be working on developing a module that will allow me to compose music for solo cello and a fluorescent light. I’m very much intrigued by the idea of creating a piece with non musical elements and expanding and blurring the perception of musical performance and composition. The ideal outcome […]
Okkyung Lee
Alma Söderberg & Hendrik Willekens
The stuff that Idioter is made of Alma Söderberg will develop a choreographic score involving sound, language and movement. Hendrik Willekens will be making perspective drawings. Both of them will be playing a sampling and drum machine. The final result will be a performance where sound and image are created live in front of the […]
Catherine Lamb & Bryan Eubanks
Harmonic Arrays   Experiments in combining acoustic holography with various harmonic filters.   “Chords” are created by filtering (tuning) 9 different loudspeakers which play sounds (field recordings or white noise in different interiors) recorded through 9 microphones. The microphones used for recording and the loudspeakers used for playback are arranged in the same linear pattern. […]
Catherine Lamb & Bryan Eubanks
Bryan Eubanks and Catherine Lamb will perform a work in progress they have been exploring while in residence at Q-O2. The piece abstracts harmonic relationships from recordings made in the “empty” working space at Q-02 using very tight filters. These harmonics are then highlighted by acoustic instruments (in this case viola and soprano saxophone)  
Jaume Ferrete

Jaume Ferrete

My residency in Q-O2 will be focused primarily on finishing the first phase of the project Voz Files; and a public presentation of it. This project has been a conversation based research on the uses of the voice its associated discourses, forms of circulation and availability. I’ve recorded conversations with a variety of people at […]
Jaume Ferrete
Ruth Barberan & Alfredo Costa Monteiro & Ferran Fages
The trio atolón is composed by some of the most active musicians in improvised music in Spain: Ferran Fages (acoustic turntable), Ruth Barberán (trumpet) and Alfredo Costa Monteiro (accordion). Formed in 2003 in Barcelona, its members share an intense experience together since 1998. The music is strictly improvised. The approach of each instrument is made […]
Ruth Barberan & Alfredo Costa Monteiro & Ferran Fages
Roeland Luyten
“Supersync” is een onderzoek in drie delen naar in hoeverre klank, beweging en stem elkaar op een super synchrone manier tegemoet kunnen komen. Binnen de context van een dans en theater performance worden verschillende soundcue mogelijkheden onderzocht. Een gedeelte focust zich op hoe de klank de aanzet is voor een dansbeweging en hoe een danssequens […]
Rie Nakajima
During the stay Rie Nakajima will focus on creating a site specific installation at Q-O2 space through interventions with composer Guy De Bièvre and sound artist Pierre Berthet.
Rie Nakajima & Pierre Berthet & Guy De Bièvre & Johan Vandermaelen
Andrea Parkins
Andrea Parkins
Pak Yan Lau & Andrea Parkins
The concert of Pak Yan Lau and Andrea Parkins at Q-O2 is part of La Générale du Canal
Pak Yan Lau
Pak Yan Lau

Pak Yan Lau

SOLO for Toypiano’s, Recordplayer, Pendule and Electronics. Solo research of the metamorphosis of sounds, and in particular the sound of 6 different toypiano’s in combination of use of recordplayer, bowed pendula and electronics. The interest goes strongly to how to put sounds out of their context and reorganize them into another space, another time. Transforming […]
Margarida Garcia & Manuel Mota
Margarida Garcia and Manuel Mota work together regularly since 1996. They are now planning to release music together again – their last full album collaboration was in 2001, despite spending these last years recording and performing together. During the residency in Q-O2 they will have the technical  facilities and opportunity to be focused on recording […]
Margarida Garcia & Manuel Mota
Carol Robinson & Frances-Marie Uitti
Clarinetist, Carol Robinson and cellist, Frances-Marie Uitti integrate their individual arts into a finely woven tapestry. Their mutual inclination towards the spiritual and sublime was honed by parallel years of working with composers after their initial work with Giacinto Scelsi. Having shared many concerts, they  join together as spectacular colorists; two bows, birbyne, string resonators, […]
Yannick Franck

© Anna Drodz

Yannick Franck
Tuned City Brussels: Ephemeral Atmospheres
>>>> full program on line The resonances and atmospheres that either catch our attention or pass unnoticed are an interesting aspect of a city’s soundscape. This element of complex sonic philosophy will serve as the starting point for the festival’s last day in Haren, situated at the north-eastern edge of the Brussels Capital Region. Despite […]
Tuned City Brussels – Workshops
Tuned City has always focused on direct, participatory situations to explore auditory modalities. Some participatory workshops continue during the Tuned City event itself. Invited artists will each share their individual tools for listening to the city, and offer both a deeper insight into their artistic practice and a chance for the participants to become actively […]
Tuned City Brussels: Situational Listening
>>>> full program on line This day focuses on the methods and strategies for artistic exploration and utilisation of city space from the sonic perspective, concentrating in particular on the physical and psychological influences that shape the way we hear. The program will consist of an interconnected series of site-specific sound walks, interventions, performances, installations […]
Tuned City Brussels – Noise and Multiplicity
>>>> full program on line Noise is a notion containing a multiplicity of meanings. It is highly subjective, complex, difficult to define. On the first day of the festival the topic will be explored through its concrete embodiment in the area around the Botanical Gardens. This part of northern central Brussels is highly condensed and […]
Tuned City Brussels – Opening Night
Felicity Ford & Valeria Merlini – Listening Back and Forth in Brussels (radio performance) David Helbich – Drag + Drop (a social choreography, an urban contemplation) (walk) Marina Rosenfeld & Okkyung Lee – P.A. Work for loudspeakers and solo performer (concert at Curo Hall) >>>> full program on line Tickets: €8 (festival pass €25) !!!!!!!!! […]
Burkhard Beins & Liz Allbee
Tisha Mukarji & Angharad Davies + Mensch Mensch Mensch
Mensch Mensch Mensch is Liz Allbee (trumpets, electronics, vox) & 
Burkhard Beins (analog synthesizers, live-electronics). Multi-instrumentalist Liz Allbee and percussionist Burkhard Beins team up for some live-electro-acoustic explorations. Informed by their connatural musical backgrounds ranging from industrial/noise via musique concrète to free improvisation the two players create interactive fields of an imaginarchic nature. Angharad Davies […]
Tisha Mukarji & Angharad Davies
Jean-Philippe Gross & Jean-Luc Guionnet
“With ‘ANGLE’, we put our trust in the possible rejuvenation of the relationship binding electrical and acoustic instruments and their relationship to a transmission system. There is a part of immeasurable between the two, and this is something that we not only accept, but we want to deepen this divide to see what stays before […]
Jean-Philippe Gross & Jean-Luc Guionnet
“With ‘ANGLE’, we put our trust in the possible rejuvenation of the relationship binding electrical and acoustic instruments and their relationship to a transmission system. There is a part of immeasurable between the two, and this is something that we not only accept, but we want to deepen this divide to see what stays before […]
crys cole
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 […]
Sounds of Europe: book launch ‘In the Field’ (Cathy Lane, Angus Carlyle) & closing event
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 […]
Pionierinnen der Klangforschung
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 […]
Andrea Neumann & Sabine Ercklentz
Julie Rousse

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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 […]
Julie Rousse
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 […]
Tuned City Brussels: workshops

© Christina Kubisch

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 […]
Tuned City Brussels: presentation workshops

© Christina Kubisch

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 […]
Tuned City Brussels: Lecture-event #2

© Roberta Gigante

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 […]
Marinos Koutsomichalis
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 […]
Marinos Koutsomichalis
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. 
2 Films
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 […]
Soundlab: Sonic Gardening (Davide Tidoni, Paul Devens)

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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 […]
Performatik : Franziska Windisch / Hallveig Agustsdottir & Frederik Croene / Jeroen Uyttendaele & Dewi de Vree
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 […]
Pablo Sanz
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. […]
Pablo Sanz
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 at Artefact (Felicity Ford, Peter Cusack, CRESSON / Pascal Amphoux)

© John Grzinich

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 […]
Sounds of Europe: symposium ‘In the Field’
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 Brussels: Lecture-event #1 (Carsten Stabenow, Lamberto Tronchin, Ariane Wilson, Luc Deleu, Justin Bennett)

© Carsten Stabenow

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 […]
Davide Tidoni

Camminare nella Frana, Torino 2012, photo by Andrea Macchia

“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 […]
Displaced Sounds: Charlemagne Palestine / Jens Brand & Frederik Croene
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 […]
David Helbich
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 […]
The Week of the Sound: Okkyung Lee & Lee Patterson

© Sebastien Sighell

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 […]
Displaced Sounds – Charlemagne Palestine + Frederik Croene & Jens Brand
Charlemagne Palestine + Frederik Croene plays Jens Brand ‘New Methods … (Disappearancepiece 3)’
Sylvain Chauveau & Charlotte Hubert
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
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 […]
Katerina Undo – The Creatures orchestra ‘Unplugged’
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 – The Creatures orchestra ‘Amplified’
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, Seiji Morimoto, Patrick Thinsy, Adam Asnan, Pauwel De Buck

© Patrick Thinsy

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 […]
Sarah Hughes

Song of Swan

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 […]
Sarah Hughes
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 […]
Lee Patterson

© Jonathan Coleclough

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 […]
Momentum: brunch and artist talk
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 […]
SoundLab Prague
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 […]
Lee Patterson

© Jonathan Coleclough

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 […]
Joanna Bailie
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.
Joanna Bailie
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.
Els Viaene
Franziska Windisch
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.
Wen Chin Fu, Matteo Marangoni, Jeroen Uyttendaele, Dewi de Vree

Wen Chin Fu

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 […]
Al Margolis, Katherine Liberovskaya, Guy De Bièvre & Phill Niblock
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 […]
Nicolás Carrasco Díaz

© Nicolás Carrasco Díaz

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
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 […]
Stephen Cornford, Ben Gwilliam
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 […]
C.fieldechoes

© C.fieldechoes

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 […]
C.fieldechoes
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 […]
Open House
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 […]
Time Inventors’ Kabinet (TIK) Festival
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, Ruth Barberan
Margarida Garcia and Ruth Barberan have been collaborating as a duo since 2002. At the time, both were living in Barcelona they played at Gracia Territori Sonor, Musica Libre in Madrid, ZDB in Lisbon, in Opava and Prague, Czech Rpublic. Margarida and Ruth (together with Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Ferran Fages) form the group Octante. […]
Margarida Garcia, Ruth Barberan
Margarida Garcia and Ruth Barberan have been collaborating as a duo since 2002. At the time, both were living in Barcelona they played at Gracia Territori Sonor, Musica Libre in Madrid, ZDB in Lisbon, in Opava and Prague, Czech Rpublic. Margarida and Ruth (together with Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Ferran Fages) form the group Octante. […]
Yann Gourdon

© Yann Gourdon

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

© Yann Gourdon

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 + Glück

© Johannes Horn

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 […]
RAZEN
RAZEN
Aernoudt Jacobs
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 […]
Pierre Gerard & Sylvain Chauveau
An acoustic and minimalist workshop in the architecture with Sylvain Chauveau.  
Eliane Radigue, Rhodri Davies & John Butcher

© Martin Popelář

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 […]
Pierre Gerard, David Papapostolou & Andy Graydon

© Andy Graydon

“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 […]
Pierre Gerard, David Papapostolou & Andy Graydon
“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 […]
Anne Wellmer

© Alejo Duque

martiensgohome
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: […]
martiensgohome
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: Anthea Caddy – Tomoko Sauvage
‘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 […]
Anthea Caddy
Plus Minus & Tape That

© David Helbich

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 […]
Tiptoe Company
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 […]
Wouter Huis
Sorry, this entry is only available in %LANG:, For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Wouter Huis werkt vanuit de relaties van verschillende media. Tijdens zijn verblijf in Q-O2 gaat hij aan de slag met de installatie […]
a three

© Patrick Farmer

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. […]
Patrick Farmer, Dominic Lash, Helena Gough + Korhan Erel

© Patrick Farmer

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 […]
BXL -NYC Spatialized

© Ludo Engels

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 […]
Stefan Piat

Sans-titre (provisoirement), 2010-… installation sonore in-situ

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.        
Anonymous
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

© Jez riley French

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 and […]
Displaced Sounds – Brandon LaBelle, Michael J. Schumacher, Karin Bijsterveld
Karin Bijsterveld (NL) geeft een lezing met als titel Acoustic Cocooning: How the Car became a Listening Booth over de geschiedenis van de autoradio. Hoe evolueerde de auto van een luidruchtig door explosies aangedreven voertuig naar een mobiele, stille cocon?   Voor Room Tone maakte Brandon LaBelle (US) 3 audio-opnames van/in zijn appartement in Berlijn. […]
POPCORN
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 […]
POPCORN
  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 […]
Matthias Koole
Exchange: Berlin / Brussels
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.   […]
Matthias Koole
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 […]
Matthias Koole, Peter Jacquemyn, Stefan Prins
Sorry, this entry is only available in %LANG:, For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Matthias Koole (elektrische gitaar & effecten), Peter Jacquemyn (contrabas & stem) en Stefan Prins (live-electronics) houden in het kader van de Q-O2 […]
Cyrille Flament
RadioShellac diffusera un programme radio qui aurait pu être émis en 1927 ou en 1933. Il sera reçu localement à Q-O2 le 18 juin 2011, mais la retransmission captée 78 ans plus tard subira des perturbations spatiales et temporelles qui mettront à jour des matières sonores ; matières issues de 78 tours en shellac parvenus […]
Cyrille Flament
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 […]
Tim Vets
Sportswear Revenge
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
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 […]
Koboku Senju
Koboku 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 numerous concerts in Japan and Europe, finding a particular way of making music together. Their new release […]
TUMBLE
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 […]
TUMBLE
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 […]
Mr.Probe (Marieke Berendsen + Bruno Nelissen) + Zwerm, Jeroen Stevens & Gregory Frateur
Sorry, this entry is only available in %LANG:, For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Na een periode waarin zij beiden met andere projecten bezig waren, staken Marieke Berendsen (viool) en Bruno Nelissen (e-gitaar/ compositie) weer de […]
Wild Classical Music Ensemble & SPECTRA ensemble
concept & composition: Joris Blanckaert http://www.muzi-a-zeny.be/
Wild Classical Music Ensemble & SPECTRA ensemble
concept & composition: Joris Blanckaert http://www.muzi-a-zeny.be/
Kim Myhr & Sébastien Roux
Kim Myhr & Sébastien Roux
Razen
Hallveig Agustsdottir, Frederik Croene
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, […]
Hallveig Agustsdottir, Frederik Croene
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, […]
Eleh + Aymeric de Tapol
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 […]
Sarah Hughes, Patrick Farmer & Kostis Kilymis
“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 […]
Sarah Hughes, Patrick Farmer & Kostis Kilymis
“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 […]
Bonnie Jones, Christine Sehnaoui, Andrea Neumann + KAMAMA (Luca Marini, Audrey Chen)
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 […]
Bonnie Jones, Christine Sehnaoui, Andrea Neumann
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 […]
Performatik 2011 > Dawn Scarfe: Tuning to Spheres / Agnes Meyer-Brandis: Space Travelling
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 […]
Els Viaene & François Martig
The 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. 16:00 > 17:30 installation + 17:30 performance, free entrance
Els Viaene & François Martig
The 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. 16:00 > 17:30 installation + 17:30 performance, free entrance
Displaced Sounds – Frederik Croene: Roll over Czerny
Sun. 20 February 2011 : “Roll over Czerny” by Frederik Croene (BE) Een klassiek recital met originele pianomuziek van Carl Czerny en nieuwe muziek van FREDERIK CROENE voor Le Piano Démécanisé (ontmantelde piano).
Annette Krebs & Steffi Weismann: Telefon
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.
Annette Krebs & Steffi Weismann: Telefon
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.
Radu Malfatti
The workshop will consist of three days improvising towards a composition, which will be performed in a final concert on the last evening.
Radu Malfatti, Kevin Drumm, Lucio Capece
Barbara Hindahl + hans w. koch: angel of abstract
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 […]
Barbara Hindahl + hans w. koch: angel of abstract
A la fin du 16ième siècle, le mathématicien anglais John Dee se mit à communiquer avec des anges présumés, qui lui apprirent de manière compliquée la langue des anges utilisée par Dieu au moment de la création du monde. Les livres dictés pendant ces séances se composent de grandes tablettes remplies de lettres dans l’alphabet […]
Els Viaene
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 […]
Aki Onda & Lionel Marchetti
This concert is organised by Extrapool as part of the ‘Brombron’ project.
Stevie Wishart/The Sound of Gesture > CD/DVD Launch + Performance
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 […]
Mecha/Orga
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, […]
Mecha/Orga + Mieke Lambrigts
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, […]
Presentation of the project ‘DoUndo / recycling G’
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. […]
Lee Patterson & Tim Parkinson / Luke Fowler
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)’, […]
Mieke Lambrigts
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 […]
Mieke Lambrigts
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 […]
Displaced Sounds / Akio Suzuki
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 […]
LandSoundCityScape > Rits Audio-Atelier
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
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
Follow an open class by Chris Watson in the new cinemaspace of RITS (Dansaertstraat 70, 1000 Brussels). Advance bookings only. Tell us about your favourite Brussels sound via listen@myfbs.be and secure your place. Participation is free.[L]http://www.chriswatson.net/[eL][L]http://www.rits.be/[eL][L]http://www.myfbs.be/[eL]
Chris Watson
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 […]
Jeannette Muñoz
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 […]
Jeannette Muñoz
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 […]
Eszter Salamon
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.
Greg Malcolm, Phyllis Chen + Rob Dietz, Xavier Dubois
Xavier Dubois (BE), guitarPhyllis Chen + Rob Dietz (USA), toypiano + visualsGreg Malcolm (NZL), guitar(in collaboration with http://www.matamore.net/)
Johnny Chang & Luke Munn: ‘You Are Here’
‘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 […]
Luke Munn & Johnny Chang: ‘You are here’
‘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 […]
Festival Canal > Tomoko Sauvage
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 […]
Festival Canal > Pierre Berthet, Wendy van Wynsberghe
CITY GARDEN – KANAL LABS, TRIANGULATED Three 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 […]
Stefaan Quix
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 […]
Permafrost @ Isea2010 Ruhr
“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
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
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 […]
Portrait Michael Pisaro
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 […]
Alfredo Costa Monteiro & Pascal Battus
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 […]
Alfredo Costa Monteiro & Pascal Battus
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 […]
‘City of Sounds’ (Transmedia)
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 […]
Birgit Ulher
Stefaan Quix: 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 is the standard form of axiomatic […]
Momentum #5: Pierre Berthet plays Tom Johnson / Aki Onda
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 […]
Lee Patterson
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 […]
Momentum #5: Angie Simplicity
James Orsher + Kerstin Fuchs
//2009// release cd-book
The cd-book was released on compost and height /2009/ is on the radio Cafe Sonore from the 15th of August.  
Mieke Lambrigts
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 […]
Mr.Probe (Marieke Berendsen + Bruno Nelissen)
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 […]
David de Buyser
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 […]
Platform N.01
David De Buyser invites Platform N.01 for a concert.with:Philippe ColasDavid De BuyserKurt Du TréErik GhysselsAnette HirschVincent JacobsRoel KerkhofsYounes Zarhoni[L]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2fMATpWIp8[eL]
David de Buyser: ‘Acoustic Mirror_ MOSS’
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 […]
Nicolas Desmarchelier & Neil Davidson / Grégory Duby
Sylvain Chauveau & Pierre Gerard / Annette Krebs & Taku Unami
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 […]
Felicia Atkinson / Annette Krebs
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 […]
Felicia Atkinson
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 […]
Displaced Sounds – Toshiya Tsunoda, Manu Holterbach & Michael Northam, Mieke Lambrigts
  Mon. 29 March 2010 : Toshiya Tsunoda (JP), Manu Holterbach & Michael Northam (FR & US), Mieke Lambrigts (BE) De muziek van de intrigerende Toshiya Tsunoda verkent minimale subsonische vibraties. Met zijn field recordings en subtiele collage’s registreert hij vaak het geluid van ‘onhoorbare’ materialen en objecten. Tsunoda exploreert op weergaloze wijze de lyrische […]
Olivier Toulemonde, Agnès Palier, Jack Wright / HOQUETS (McCloud Zicmuse, François Schulz & Maxime Lê Hùng)
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 […]
HOQUETS (McCloud Zicmuse, François Schulz & Maxime Lê Hùng)
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 […]
Patrick Thinsy
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 […]
Vorwolf (Michael Vorfeld + Christian Wolfarth)
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 […]
Vorwolf (Michael Vorfeld + Christian Wolfahrt)
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 […]
Angharad Davies
Antres (Mathias Forge + Yoann Coste)
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 […]
Antres (Mathias Forge + Yoann Coste)
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 […]
Pali Meursault
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 […]
Pali Meursault
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 […]
Osso Exótico / Mieke Lambrigts
Rhodri Davies (solocompositions by Jean-Luc Guionnet, Ben Patterson, Tim Parkinson, Eva-Maria Houben, John Lely)
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)
Rhodri Davies + Jean-Luc Guionnet
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.
Felicia Atkinson
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 […]
Mieke Lambrigts
Lucio Capece
Matthias Koole, Stefan Prins, Mário Del Nunzio
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, […]
//2009//
Kim Myhr & Jim Denley
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 […]
Permafrost @ Burning Ice #2
Opening 24 nov @ 19:3024 nov > 27 nov 2009 (19:30 > 23:00)
Dorsey Dunn
In 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’ from the sonic point of view: a collection […]
Dorsey Dunn
In 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’ from the sonic point of view: a collection […]
Dorsey Dunn
In 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’ from the sonic point of view: a collection […]
Tomoko Sauvage / Daniel Meyer Gronvold & Havard Volden
Daniel Meyer Grønvold: Acoustic tabletop guitar, Lo-fi electronics, Dictaphone Håvard Volden: Acoustic 12-string tabletop guitar, lo-fi electronics, Discman Two 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 […]
Christina Clar
Christina Clar, Yves Arcaix, Silvia Platzer, David Neaud / Olivier Toulemonde
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 […]
Displaced Sounds – Eliane Radigue: Naldjorlak I, II, III
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 with incredibly subtle harmonics, sub-tones and partials […]
Andrea Belfi
Aernoudt Jacobs : Permafrost
Sorry, this entry is only available in %LANG:, For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Met Permafrost biedt Aernoudt Jacobs een verwonderende ervaring voor je ogen en oren. Hij ontwikkelde een machine waarin water langzaam bevriest en […]
Andrea Belfi / Z’EV & Luc van Acker
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 […]
Z’EV
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 […]
Z’EV
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 […]
BRXLBRAVO: ARTLAB² > Olivier Toulemonde / Christina Clar / David Helbich / The Wild Classical Music Ensemble / Letter Pieces (M. Shlomowitz) / ……
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 […]
Z’EV
Z’EV : EYEar EVENT #1
daily performance > 19:30 – 20:00
Michael Schumacher & Nisi Jacobs (DRAW) / Stefaan Quix
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. […]
Stefaan Quix
During his residence, Stefaan Quix will be working on a prototype of a new audiovisual work inspired by the so-called ‘ultraviolet catastrophe’ which moved physicists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to extend classical, Newtonian mechanics to quantum mechanics, thus laying the foundation of the more contemporary, fragmentary approach of time and space.
Aernoudt Jacobs : Permafrost
Manu Holterbach & Pierre Berthet
Solo Pierre Berthet: “mouvements”, for bendir and voice Solo Manu Holterbach: exotic instruments, oscillators, phonographs Duo Manu Holterbach / Pierre Berthet: electronics, objects, recordings / waterdrops with support of the French Community
Manu Holterbach
Olivier Toulemonde
Felicia Atkinson
During her 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.
Tim Parkinson
Annette Krebs
Jez riley French
Jez riley French
Manfred Werder
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.
Manfred Werder
Singing Bridges : Jodi Rose & Frederik De Wilde
During the Q-O2 residency Jodi Rose developed a musical interface in collaboration with Frederik De Wilde, to trigger audio samples. The audio samples are field recordings of different bridges from all over the world. The interface will be live performed by Jodi Rose and available for public try-out. In addition a score (in progress) made […]
Jodi Rose & Frederik De Wilde
Momentum #4 Lunch & Artist Talks
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 […]
Seijiro Murayama & Jean-Luc Guionnet
Seijiro Murayama & Jean-Luc Guionnet
Brocante Sonore + Dead Fish Fuck + Pierre Mansire
Anne Wellmer
the Magic I.D.
Jodi Rose & Frederik De Wilde
Opening Zennestraat 17: Mieke Lambrigts & Kurt Du Tré
Soundinstallations by Mieke Lambrigts (B) & Kurt Du Tré (B) Mieke Lambrigts presents a site-specific sound intervention ‘a listening post’, using the acoustic qualities found in the space as part of the composition. With hardly anything except for field recordings and sinus tones, she creates a subtle soundtrack that merges almost completely with the environmental […]
Martijn Tellinga
Carol Robinson / Larry Polansky
Larry Polansky: The World’s Longest Melody Larry Polansky – for jim, ben and lou – guitar, harp and percussion Larry Polansky – Ontslaan – electric guitar quartet – creation Larry Polansky – 34 Chords – solo electric guitar Christian Wollf – Pairs – guitar duo As composer, Larry Polansky clearly follows in the steps of […]
Carol Robinson & Christina Clar
Patrick Thinsy
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 […]
Mieke Lambrigts
Mieke Lambrigts
Displaced Sounds – Steve Feld (US), Zoe Laughlin (UK), Aernoudt Jacobs (BE)
Displaced Sounds – Steve Feld (US), Zoe Laughlin (UK), Aernoudt Jacobs (BE) Steve Feld (US) doceert wereldmuziek en noemt zijn onderzoek anthropology of sound. Na jaren research bracht hij recent het album Rainforest Music From Papua New Guinea uit waarin hij geluids- en akoestische vormen verbindt met sociale en historische betekenissen. Zoe Laughlin (UK) het geluid […]
Krakatau / Leen Verheyen
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 […]
Speling#1
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 […]
Aernoudt Jacobs : Permafrost
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 […]
Esther Venrooy / Yoko Higashi & Agathe Max
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: http://www.kwadratuur.be/audio.php?id=827
PERFORMATIK09 @ Q-O2: Pierre Berthet / Michael Vorfeld
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 : ‘Light Bulb Music’
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 : ‘Expirateurs’
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 […]
Olivier Toulemonde, Christine Sehnaoui & Mathias Forge / Ignaz Schick & Martin Tetreault
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 […]
Sigrid Keunen
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.
Sigrid Keunen
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 Festival : David Linton & Hahn Rowe
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 + Kim Myhr & Sebastien Roux
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
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 […]
collectief reFLEXible + LEMUR
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 […]
expo + vinyl 58T
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, […]
Christina Clar & Fabrice Moinet
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 […]
Christina Clar & Fabrice Moinet
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? […]
Robin Hayward
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 […]
Robin Hayward : Jan van Gorp
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 […]
PARK58
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 […]
Barbara Hindahl
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 […]
Barbara Hindahl + drink on the new Q-O2 space (11/09 > 18:00-22:00)
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
kunstenwerkplaats.be / lab-art.be / arts-lab.be
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 […]
Gene Coleman + Nordzucker
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#3 Brunch & Artist Talks
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 + ‘objet trouvé’ Gaëtan Bulourde
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 […]
Patrick Thinsy
installation & filmopen05/06/2008 19:00 – 20:3006/06/2008 18:00 – 21:0007/06/2008 18:00 – 21:00 08/06/2008 19:00 – 20:30
Z’EV + Patrick Thinsy
Patrick Thinsy
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 […]
martiensgohome
CRANC
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
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 […]
Angharad Davies
Burkhard Beins : SEKANTE
Friday 19 > 21h Saturday/Sunday 16 > 21h Monday 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 […]
Burkhard Beins : soloperformance ‘POR’
For the opening of SEKANTE there will be a live performance of POR, a “hand-played” version which was actually the origin for the sound installation SEKANTE.
RITS: Radio meets Art meets Audio
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
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).
Kurt Du Tré : Transcriptions
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 […]
Kurt Du Tré
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 […]
Robin Hayward : Jan van Gorp
‘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 […]
Christelle Fillod : Intertidal
‘Intertidal’, a 16mm film installation researching the non-areas in between times and spaces.
Anne Wellmer & Relly Tarlo
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 […]
Anne Wellmer & Relly Tarlo
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 […]
Aernoudt Jacobs : Permafrost
‘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 […]
Annette Krebs & Luca Venitucci / Olivier Toulemonde
SET 1: Olivier Toulemonde – set de table/acoustic objects SET 2: Annette Krebs – tabletop guitar, Luca Venitucci – accordion and electronic devices Luca 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 […]
Andrea Neumann
Andrea Neumann, composes a solo piece for Julia Eckhardt – viola
Ignaz Schick : Rotating Surfaces
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.
Ignaz Schick
CONCERT SERIES
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 […]
Jason Kahn
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) […]
Jason Kahn : Wires
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 : Unheard Brussels
[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 […]
Jason Kahn & Norbert Möslang
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 […]
DUO Jim Denley + Silvia Platzer
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
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 […]
TAPE THAT
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 […]
TAPE THAT
Julie Morel
visual artist – 16mm film, installation, drawings
DUO Lucio Capece + Kevin Drumm
Lucio Capece – soprano sax, bass clarinet & electronicsKevin Drumm – prepared guitar, electronics
Doris Kuwert
Manu Holterbach over Eliane Radigue
lecture + installation
‘Naldjorlak’, een compositie van Eliane Radigue voor Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis (cello)in coproduction with Argos
TRIO Joachim Devillé – Silvia Platzer – Julia Eckhardt
Q-O2 invites you to open moments in the scope of Joachim Devillé’s residency
Joachim Devillé
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 […]
collectief reFLEXible
Q-O2 invites you to open moments in the scope of Joachim Devillé’s residency
Wandelweiser meetings Düsseldorf
Julia Eckhardt – viola Els van Riel – video, film
Ludo Engels
Stevie Wishart, Julia Eckhardt & Rhodri Davies
Stevie Wishart, Julia Eckhardt & Rhodri Davies
Stevie Wishart, Julia Eckhardt & Rhodri Davies
Thomas Ankersmit + Giuseppe Ielasi
Radu Malfatti en Kwintet
Radu Malfatti en Kwintet
Orbes : Manu Holterbach / Sophie Durand + Hitoshi Kojo
Manu Holterbach and Sophie Durand invite Hitoshi Kojo to cooperate on their ‘harmonic glasses’ project.
Orbes : Manu Holterbach / Sophie Durand + Hitoshi Kojo
Manu Holterbach and Sophie Durand invite Hitoshi Kojo to cooperate on their ‘harmonic glasses’ project.
Robin Hayward – ‘Jan Van Gorp’
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 Glissandinos + Schnee
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 […]
Annette Krebs
TRIO SOWARI
Aernoudt Jacobs: ‘Phantom Melodies’
open8-9-10 en 15-16-17 March14:00 to 18:00Aernoudt Jacobs: ‘Phantom Melodies’ – sound installation
DUO PARASITES
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
concert evening in the scope of the exhibition ‘a room of one’s own’
— 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
Aernoudt Jacobs: ‘Phantom Melodies’
BRXLBRAVO > Aernoudt Jacobs – Els van Riel
Aernoudt Jacobs presents the sound installation ‘Phantom Melodies’ and Els van Riel the 16 mm-film installation ‘DOES DISTANCE SLOW DOWN’. 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 to distance? Or is […]
Alessandro Bosetti
“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”.
Franz Hautzinger – Thomas Lehn – Bertrand Gauguet
Els van Riel: ‘the remarkable absent’
video-installation: Trevor Richard Wells – for a breeze of morning moves
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, […]
Q-O2 @ Altitude 1000
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 – Els van Riel + Silvia Platzer @ Altitude 1000
“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 […]
duo Robin Hayward-Annette Krebs
concert beeld-geluid Chiyoko Szlavnics en Els van Riel
Chiyoko Slavnics en Els van Riel
Jens Brand en hans w. koch
“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 […]
residentie Q-O2 werkhuis, Rhodri Davies
promenade + concerten ‘Amber’ en ‘Sound like water’
At the kind invitation of Yves Poliart of les Halles de Schaarbeek, the following artists will be occupying side corridors and other backstage areas of les Halles de Schaarbeek between 13 and 15 October 2006:<BR> Julia Eckhardt, Antoine Beuger, Christine Gregor, Trevor Richard Wells, Ludo Engels, Julie Morel, Christelle Fillod, Els van Riel, Jo Huybrechts. […]
Event#04: DoUndo / recycling G – Full Event
PROGRAM 20u00 ‘Bruno S’, Stefaan Quix 20u30 ‘Playground G’, Aernoudt Jacobs (20’) with Silvia Platzer 21u00 ‘Green Piece’, Anne Wellmer (25’) with Lucio Capece 21u40 ‘Unfinished Light’, Ludo Engels (15’) with Silvia Platzer 21u55 ‘HCATS (MPIG)’, Jens Brand (20’) with Silvia Platzer en Roel Avonds 22u15 ‘Doundo’, Els van Riel (15’) with Stevie Wishart 22u30 […]
Katherine Liberovskaya + Al Margolis + Phill Niblock
residentie Q-O2 werkhuis, Christelle Fillod
residentie Q-O2 werkhuis, Silvia Platzer
residentie Q-O2 werkhuis, Tine Van Aerschot + Stevie Wishart
Axel Dörner en Robin Hayward
DoUndo / recycling G – Jim Denley, Jens Brand, Ludo Engels
residentie Q-O2 werkhuis – Aernoudt Jacobs
DoUndo / recycling G – Anne Wellmer, Els van Riel, Aernoudt Jacobs
residentie, Christoph De Boeck
residentie Q-O2 werkhuis, Silvia Platzer
a room of one’s own – not being located where you’re supposed to be
In March 2006, Q-O2 presented a three day music festival in Brussels in the scope of the exhibition A Room of One’s Own. Musicians and composers from Brussels and Berlin were invited to present new experimental work starting from the basic questions: “What does our everyday environment/space mean to us?” and “How does the space […]
residentie Q-O2 werkhuis – Andrea Neumann + Sabine Ercklentz
concert Stefaan Quix
residentie Q-O2 werkhuis – Stefaan Quix
concert M I S I I K I
residentie Q-O2 werkhuis – Tine Van Aerschot
Lucio Capece + Mattin : NMM (No More Music at the Service of Capital)
NMM (No More Music at the Service of Capital) Mattin – computer feedback Lucio Capece – mixer feedback modified by saxophone Mattin uses computer & guitar – feedback to accentuate the processual and ins-stant character of the improvisation performance. The feedback technique he uses is self-generated and self-sufficient. Much of Mattin’s exploration in sound is […]
amber
DoUndo / recycling G – Els van Riel @ argosfestival
DoUndo / recycling G – Jim Denley, Sergio Mence, Stefaan Quix
Minimalisme Weekend : DoUndo / recycling G – Els van Riel
Portret Christian Wolff
Christian Wolff (°1934) Pairs (1968) 10’ Stones from the Prose Collection (1968-1986) 10’ Tuba Song (1992) 5’ Burdocks (1970-1971) 20’ –interval– Exercises (1973-1975) 10’ Violist Pieces (1997) 5’ Keyboard Miscellany/ Incidental Music (world premiere) 10’ with Johan Bossers piano, Lucio Capece bass clarinet, Julia Eckhardt viola, Robin Hayward tuba, Silvia Platzer cello, Chiyoko Szlavnics saxophone, Adelheid Sieuw flute, Christian Wolff piano Introductory talk with Christian Wolff and Mark Delaere at 19h15 in the Vergaderzaal, deSingel Antwerp.
Instant Music
Sorry, this entry is only available in %LANG:, For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. INSTANTmusic is een samenwerkingsverband tussen 5 verschillende podia met als doel de elektro-akoestische en geïmproviseerde muziek te ondersteunen. Met Anders Hana (Noorwegen) […]
DoUndo / recycling G – Jens Brand, Els van Riel, Stefaan Quix, Ludo Engels
Phill Niblock and DoUndo/recycling G in the context of BRXLBRAVO, presents five premieres: 16:30 Stefaan Quix “Bruno S” Els van Riel new piece Phill Niblock “Valence” 17:45 Ludo Engels new piece Jens Brand “HCATS(MPIG)” Phill Niblock “Valence” A co-production with Halles de Schaerbeek.
DoUndo / recycling G – Anne Wellmer, Aernoudt Jacobs
DoUndo/recyling G in the context of BRXLBRAVO, presents two new creations by Aernoudt Jacobson and Anne Wellmer. Aernoudt Jacobs “Playgroung G” Playground G ‘Playground G’ is an installation/performance with a number of modificators, noise shapers and noise makers. They all have the purpose of altering the sound of the viola through different materials (ig. ice, […]
Abstract Adventures # 5
Jennifer Walshe, Stefan van Eycken, Alex Arteaga
Sorry, this entry is only available in %LANG:, For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Abstract Adventures#6 Dit programma stelt drie jonge, maar sterke persoonlijkheden centraal, waarvan er naast ‘ouder’ werk creaties worden gebracht. Deze drie benaderen […]
Lost&Found
Lost&found is an improvisation for dance, video and music. Each performance this trio is being complemented by a fourth : the space. During the performance one questions the intuitive and direct necessity of the smallest movement, of the tiniest sound and image. This questioning involves as much the sounds and the image produced by the dancer, […]
Island Universes @ dedonderdagen
Island Universes is an ensemble piece for tuba, bass flute, viola, bass clarinet, and harp, with live electronics and the mechanical sounds of 4 slide projectors. The audience is immersed in a series of Island Universes* where electronic and instrumental sound interact with the gradually darkening concert space and the continuously changing gaseous images of […]
Island Universes, Concertgebouw Brugge
Island Universes is an ensemble piece for tuba, bass flute, viola, bass clarinet, and harp, with live electronics and the mechanical sounds of 4 slide projectors. The audience is immersed in a series of Island Universes* where electronic and instrumental sound interact with the gradually darkening concert space and the continuously changing gaseous images of […]
Treatise by Cornelius Cardew
Keith Rowe is one of the pioneers of the European improvisation scene. He works in a conceptual way, inspired by visual arts. For this project, Keith Rowe will conduct the working proces of an electro-acoustic ensemble. ‘The Treatise’, a graphic score by Cornelius Cardew, will function as the formal and conceptual starting point for the […]
Treatise by Cornelius Cardew
Keith Rowe is one of the pioneers of the European improvisation scene. He works in a conceptual way, inspired by visual arts. For this project, Keith Rowe will conduct the working proces of an electro-acoustic ensemble. ‘The Treatise’, a graphic score by Cornelius Cardew, will function as the formal and conceptual starting point for the […]
Treatise by Cornelius Cardew
Keith Rowe is one of the pioneers of the European improvisation scene. He works in a conceptual way, inspired by visual arts. For this project, Keith Rowe will conduct the working proces of an electro-acoustic ensemble. ‘The Treatise’, a graphic score by Cornelius Cardew, will function as the formal and conceptual starting point for the […]
Muziek in Beeld #3
In the context of the Artefact festival: Anne Quirijnen/John Cage: Music for two Ludo Engels/Alvin Lucier: In memoriam Jon Higgins Els van Riel/Antoine Beuger: Unwritten Page Robert Suermondt/George van Dam: Beluga Yael Andre/George Brecht: recipe Jennifer Walshe/Jo Huybrechts: As mo cheann Q-O2 invited seven film- and videomakers to develop a work inspired by the relationship […]
Kunsu Shim, Jürg Frey, Lost&Found
Abstract Adventures #4 November 22: Kunsu Shim: Ich Höre den leisen Atem der Palmen November 23: Jürg Frey: und ging und ging November 24: Lost&Found (with Els van Riel, Anouk Llaurens, Julia Eckhardt) SMAK, Gent; in the context of Fricties, a festival by Vooruit Gent. Abstract Adventures is a coproduction between MUSiCLAB/Les Bains::Connective and Q-O2.
Anthony Coleman
Abstract Adventures #3 – work around Coleman: Christian Marclay, Elliott Sharp, John Zorn and others June 7: work by Anthony Coleman The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same The Hidden Agenda My Beautiful Garden is Open Mise and Abime June 8: Influences on Coleman Giacinto Scelsi, Trio à cordes Anton Webern, Satz […]
Manfred Werder/ Michael Pisaro
Abstract Adventures#2 December 1: Manfred Werder, Fur Einige Ausfuhrende December 2: Michael Pisaro, The collection With musicians: Manfred Werder (gitaar, objecten), Julia Eckhardt ( altviool), Normisa Pereira da Silva (fluit) In collaboration with Incidental Music, at CCNOA Brussels. Abstract Adventures is a coproduction between MUSiCLAB/Les Bains::Connective and Q-O2.
Muziek in Beeld
Sorry, this entry is only available in %LANG:, For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. In december 2000 voerde Q-O2 ‘muziek in beeld/musique en image’ op in het kader van Brussel 2000. Er werden vijf videasten/cineasten aangesproken […]
John Cage/Pauline Oliveros/ Phill Niblock
Abstract Adventures#1: June 22: John Cage/Kunsu Shim, Musicircus June 23: Pauline Oliveros, Sonic meditations, From Unknown Silences June 24: Phill Niblock, Early Winter, Five More String Quartets with musicians: Paula Defresne (clarinet), Lucy Grauman (alt), Adelheid Sieuw (flute), Gabriela Fragner (double bass), Julia Eckhardt (viola), Vincent Malstaf (electronics), Alex Waterman (cello). Abstract Adventures is a […]
concert/installatie Rhodri Davies en duo Rhodri Davies – Stevie Wishart
SOUNDS
Sebastian Dingens - WALKS
Pavel Tchikov 29/11/23
Nika Son - Scatter


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