Meakusma Festival

03.09 – 06.09
2026
Eupen

Etienne Nillesen

Etienne Nillesen’s exploration of the snare drum highlights the diverse tonal and temporal intricacies of the instrument, employing extended durations that emphasize gradual variations in texture, overtone complexity, and psychoacoustic phenomena. Through a combination of traditional and extended techniques, he unveils an array of unexplored and unexpected sonic dimensions within the seemingly limited realm of […]

Jérôme Noetinger

Jérôme Noetinger is a French composer, improviser, and sound artist who works with electroacoustic devices such as the Revox B77 reel-to-reel tape recorder and magnetic tape, analog synthesizers, mixing desks, speakers, microphones, various electronic household/everyday objects, and home-made electronica. He performs both solo and in ensembles (Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine, Le Un, Hrundi Bakshi, Les Sirènes…), […]

Nina Ryser

Nina Ryser was born and raised in Brooklyn, and is now based in Philadelphia. Her interest in songwriting and DIY Nina Ryser is a Philadelphia-based musician, performer and composer. Her interest in songwriting and recording began in her childhood bedroom, and eventually led to her path in composition. Nina’s work has been performed by ensembles […]

Pub

The enigmatic Pub from Glasgow has been producing music ever since he was 14. At the beginning of the 2000s, his Do You Ever Regret Pantomime album and the Summer EP became two of the most celebrated releases in contemporary ambient and electronics. Pub’s music celebrates musical intuition, and develops along almost natural paths, taking […]

Sans Âge

Sans Âge is the Brussels-based duo of Arthur Chambry and Ugnė Vyliaudaitė. Their music combines trumpet, violin, melodica,  percussion, self-built wind instruments and various electronic devices. With a common experimental music background, they focus on improvisation and musical elements that turn around the nature of sound, its textures and its characteristics. With Chambry focusing more […]

Angela Anzi & Tintin Patrone

dispari invites artists Angela Anzi and Tintin Patrone to debut a very first collaborative, improvisational and metamorphic work, conceived together with Nguyen Phuong-Dan who is behind dispari – a label and platform for all kinds of auditive publications and performances at various places. Swiss artist Angela Anzi’s practice is characterized by a multimodal approach and […]

Maoupa Mazzocchetti

Brussels’ dwelling hardware enthusiast Maoupa Mazzocchetti has spent the past few years honing his own brand of deranged, industrial-leaning electronics. Drawing influence from the 80s tape scene, early concrète and Birmingham-school techno, his productions have found favor among labels such as Mannequin, Knekelhuis and early admirers Unknown Precept. Encompassing claustrophobic, noise-induced oscillations, primitive drum machine […]

Devon Rexi

Devon Rexi are an Amsterdam-based group creating dubby, playful alternative electronic music. Their 2024 mini-album Biya Ba Man explores the band’s special brand of post-punky psych-funk, killer dub-punk with pitch-shifted vocals intertwined with distorted grooves, propelled by percussion and bass. Devon Rexi say they do not write songs, because they are groove people and it […]

oh mensch

Tritune (2013), Larry PolanskyNo. 168 (1992), Anthony Braxton Microtonality, composition and improvisation are combined in this all American program of experimental music for two guitars. We will pay homage to Larry Polansky – who sadly passed away in may 2024 – with his piece “Tritune”, written for us in 2013, followed by a rarely performed duo […]

Poor Isa

Poor Isa is the duo of Belgian guitarists Ruben Machtelinckx and Frederik Leroux who found each other in improvisation and sonic exploration. They first collaborated on projects such as Linus + Skarbø/Leroux (with Norwegian drummer Øyvind Skarbø) and a two solo banjos performance (when the shade is stretched, Aspen, 2017). Machtelinckx and Leroux do not […]