DO U WANT TO MOVE BACK TO LDN
DO U WANT TO MOVE BACK TO LDN is a collaborative project between John T. Gast and Solomon Garçon. Focused on experimental techniques borrowed from noise, industrial, power noise, dub, classical and film music, their live performances take an improvisational approach, much like their released work. This is in-your-face musical abstraction, beyond abstraction. From the […]
Liew Niyomkarn
Based in Brussels, Liew Niyomkarn is a sound artist and musician with a background in experimental sound practice and performance. Her work primarily explores echoes and sustained sounds achieved through acoustic instruments. She also works with Supercollider, a coding language employed to craft various tuning systems. She integrates field recordings to capture the essence of […]
Jeugdbrand
Jeugdbrand is the voice of Ultra Eczema’s Dennis Tyfus and the beat of Jeroen Stevens, both from Antwerp, Belgium. They perform a sparkling drama, a theatrical tragedy, flavored with an anarchic sense of humor. Tyfus contributes a wormhole congested with characters, one more tragic than the next. Dramatic, boastful, silly and urgent, he provides a […]
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 […]
ugne&maria
ugne&maria is a collaboration between Marija Rasa Kudabaite and Ugnė Vyliaudaite, originally from Lithuania but now based in Belgium. They made their live debut in Brussels in 2016 and continued experimenting with violin, synthesizers and sampling techniques. Their compositions have a down-tempo as well as a dance-oriented approach, including multilayered compositional principles and improvisation. With […]
Dan Nicholls
Dan Nicholls is a keyboardist, producer, and curator with an expansive and deeply entangled practice in the field of sound. Embracing joyful improvisation whilst casting aside dogma and seriousness, Nicholls’ work searches for deeper narratives, finding depth and form through quick experimentation and distillation – layering, stretching, and collaging sound and diffracting materials from many […]
5th of July
What happens the 5th of July is yet unknown to Brussels musical mysteries, but Roman Hiele, Victoria Palacios & Ferre Marnef try to search for a shared answer. Next to their homebased projects Alto Fuero, Sergeant and Hiele they now combine their bodies and fluid minds to swurl around each other and the air in […]
Nuno Loureiro
Nuno Loureiro is a musician from Porto. His music evokes a subdued sensitivity crafted from subtly ascending melodies, often eschewing a rhythmic beat. His is an effective minimalism, able to conjure up dreamlike experiences, even transcending them, serving as a gentle liftoff, seemingly attempting to break free from the overwhelming everyday experiences that both entice […]
Lawrence
Perpendicular Music is a new series of live performances by Dial Records co-founder Peter M. Kersten aka Lawrence, premiered at the finissage of Marina Pinsky’s exhibition Infinite Play at La Loge, Brussels in April 2023. A variety of acoustic instruments and pre-recorded material on cassette tape intersects with computer-based audio manipulation. Slowly growing sound clusters […]
LABOUR
LABOUR is the duo of Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander who create works based on sound. The name LABOUR is inspired, in part, by an early definition by Marx that gives ontological significance to the realm of work, as articulated by the philosopher Christopher J. Arthurs, defining labour as “the ontologically fundamental productive activity in […]