Klankson 2
| NEDERLANDS | FRANCAIS |
Through soundrooms, audio sculptures, hi tech sound design, confessing robots, a true tapestry of sound, sonorous interventions, ... KLANKSON 2 explores the space between sound pollution and sonic beauty.
SOUNDROOMS
FREE! FROM 14h TIL 22h in various galleries
AIFOON: SOUND LABYRINTH
Aifoon is an educational organisation researching silence in active ways. Through the observation and recording of sound, they seek to express ideas and stories poetically. Exciting sound collages, amazing sound sculptures, fascinating do-it-yourself sound experiments, ... always with a focus on experience. For KLANKSON, aifoon has developed a labyrinth where one can explore sound in a visual, tactile and of course auditive mini environments: acoustic laptops, a multitouch synth by Floris Vanhoof, acoustic filters, pick up coil table, ... a true ear-opener!
http://www.aifoon.org
DUANE PITRE: FEEL FREE
Duane Pitre is an American avant-garde composer, skateboarder and sound artist. His work often focuses on the tensions between electronic sound / acoustic instrumentation and chaos / discipline. Pitre frequently utilizes alternate tuning schemes that focus on microtonality, enabling him to explore unaccustomed harmonic intervallic relationships. He released “Feel Free” on Important Records, a piece that turns random cacophony into an amorphous, organic unfolding of plucks and swells. A gently swaying tapestry of sublime, droning beauty. Brainwashed suggests this is probably the only piece that can be looped into eternity without ever becoming boring and we agree wholeheartedly. At les ateliers claus Pitre will present a new installation/performance of Feel Free - blurring another classical distinction.
http://www.duanepitre.com
TOMA GOUBAND & MATHIEU CALLEJA: c Y m B o w s 
For more than 10 years their paths have repeatedly crossed in mutual exchange of inspiration and light. These two illuminated musicians mold melody, texture and every possible element into resonance and play with the energies that surround them. They generate an ample sound where each frequency finds it’s personal space for vibration and yet remains connected to other frequencies. By means of the cymbows – cymbals stroked with a classical string bow and claybells – the musician forgets himself, stepping back in order to allow the music to sing, vibrate, breathe and unfold on it’s own. And when the balance is found and the frequencies interact, interfere and intertwine, the eye of the cymbow has opened, it’s nature flying on the gravel of time, in time, from this instant towards…. A shape, a sculpture of sound, slowly floating on, already gone!...
http://par4chemins.com/cymbows.html
ROBERTA GIGANTE
In her research Roberta Gigante explores the relation between public space, image and sound. She is interested in places that are characteristic of ambiguous social identification. Places where the creation of ‘meaning’ is continually possible, where the work of art can be incrusted - a revitalisator - a meeting of identities. After first steps within theater and installation art, she started focusing on sound, combining this new interest with her explorations of the urban space, she investigates how art can modify our reality by creating an amplification of every day life.
PETER KEENE
The work of Peter Keene is in a constant flux. He experiments, builds, deconstructs, rebuilds, renovates and recycles as a ‘mad professor’. His playground: the intersection of science, contemporary music & art. For over 30 years he experiments with electronic sounds, prepared television screens, radio’s, magnetic tape, vintage synths, bizarre army equipment & a lot of soldering. His works are sometimes very musical, sometimes a subtle critique of our modern times. After a first collaboration in january, we re-invite Peter Keene to exhibit a focused selection of his machines, including confessing robots and image/sound synthesizer that responds to movement.
SOUNDHAPPENINGS
10€ / TIME SCHEDULE TO BE ANNOUNCED
OVAL
Markus Popp’s now legendary early album releases sent shockwaves through the “electronica” landscape in the late 1990’s - introducing a unique, new sound aesthetic. With an undeniable instinct for the pleasantly irritating, the drastic and the dreamy, Popp pioneered “glitch”, provoking an entire generation of musicians to this day. After a long hiatus, Oval is back, changing the game all over again with a new “hyperreal” style proving him to be a true visionary of digital audio and beyond. Handcrafted polyrhythmic phrases, riffs and structures, bristling with tiny resonances & plenty of detail. Newer additions to Popp’s portfolio are audio for film, installation art, dance and interactive media as well as designing his own music software Ovalprocess. In the past Popp has also worked for/with: Björk, Jim O’Rourke & Ryuichi Sakamoto.
http://markuspopp.me
DJ SNIFF
Takuro Mizuta Lippit (aka dj sniff) work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing, instrument design and free improvisation. He is interested in how a mediated musical memory, from archival collections of vinyl records to digitally captured sounds during a performance, can be used to create a new sonic reality that emerges through the fleeting notion of the "now." This pursuit has led him to create customized instruments that allow him to intuitively access and re-play these different temporalities ingrained in our listening consciousness. He’s involved with STEIM's R&D lab and its artistic direction as well as collaborating with music innovators and jazz legends as Evan Parker, Otomo Yoshihide, David Toop, C. Spencer Yeh, ...
http://www.djsniff.com
JEAN D.L. & PAUWEL DE BUCK
For the second time the Brussels art laboratory Bains Connective organizes ResSounds Lab, a residency project with the focus on music and sound. For this edition BC invited video artist and musician Jean D.L., who at his turn invited the sound artist Pauwel De Buck to research and practice together during two weeks in the BC studio's. During the Klankson II sound art day of Les Ateliers Claus both artists present an intimate improvisation, mixing sound layers and field recordings, as a first outcome of their collaboration.
Belgian video artist and musician Jean De Lacoste (b. 1984) explores the phenomenological perception of familiar places (related to memories, anecdotes, family...) and non-places which don’t really belong to anyone but through which we pass as a video artist. As a musician, Jean D.L. develops a universe at once intimistic and noisy, made of hazy soundscapes. http://www.jeandl.net
Pauwel De Buck is a soundartist living and working in Ghent, Belgium. His soundworks have been presented in installations as well as in performances. He utilizes location recordings of the urban environment to combine them with analogue electronic sounds. http://pauweldebuck.blogspot.com/
MUEROS
Whilst base camp has only recently been established in Bruxelles, Mueros has voyaged since 2005 through the expression of the indecipherable, using sound textures, text, improvisation. Assimilating their influences and avoiding traditional categorization, they oscillate amongst the vast spectrum of possibility that is sound, song, minimalism and the unavoidable cultural mess that calls itself “rock”. (be that good or bad) This time consisting of Matthieu Vergez & Chris Farmer, Mueros proposes an exploration of the poetic resonances of matter: metal, glass, water with space and sinuous melodies as part of a work in progress to be unveiled by the end of the year.
http://www.mueros.org/
DELPHINE AUBY: Écrivez Je Crierai
Delphine Auby is the modern version of a town-crier. She develops a displacing experience through researching a neighbourhood or theme by having people write letters. Later on she expropriates these letters by screaming its contents at the top of her lungs. This time she’ll give sound to the letters of a.o. prostitutes from our beloved little corner of brussels - accompagnied by a drummer, exploring the rhythm of letters and screams.
http://ecrivezjecrierai.unventdunord.be/
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