mark templeton + ben bertrand + pak yan lau

MARK TEMPLETON

Mark Templeton is a Canadian media artist and the founder of Graphical, an audiovisual label dedicated to publishing his own musical and image based experiments. Mark’s audio compositions are constructed from reel-to-reel tape loops and sampled cassettes that are contrasted with contemporary sound techniques. In his published photobooks,
he incorporates his own 35mm pictures and found images, focusing on intangible fantasies and realities. During
his audiovisual performances, he utilizes digital instruments while projecting his own photographs, VHS footage, Super 8 film, and other sampled video.

Since 2007, he has released material on various international record labels and photobook publishers, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other artists. Templeton has performed live and exhibited his work at art galleries, festivals and alternative spaces throughout North America, Europe, United Kingdom and China.

ben bertrand

Ben Bertrand is a Belgian bass clarinetist and composer. With his instrument and countless machines, Ben creates his live sets with a hypnotic web of sounds. The world he presents is a fusion of diverse influences built around traditional and ancestral music, and even current electronic music. Ben Bertrand skillfully bridges the gap between extreme modernity and references to the past. Ben Bertrand toured in Europe (Rewire Festival, Cafe OTO, Ina GRM, Sonic Acts, ….). His music has been broadcasted on NTS, WFMU, BBC, France musique, …

For this night, Ben Bertrand will present a new piece for ensemble and electronics that he composed during his residency at Q-O2 in 2024. In this piece, the physical properties of the sound of the instruments interact with electronic devices.

Personal:
Violin : Margaret Hermant
Viola: Neil Leiter
Cello : Eugénie Defraigne
Percussion : Wim Pelgrims
Bass clarinet, electronics and and composition: Ben Bertrand

Pak Yan Lau

(t)ears is at the same time an audiovisual installation + a playable instrument in the format of a glass contained acousmonium, about human emotions and the fluidity of water, against the rigidity of glass.
12 hand blown glass tears are hanged on a structure with real time water drops creating a polyrhytmic backdrop, against 8 channels of pre-recorded sounds.

with christophe albertijn (soundengineer) and jan rymenants (structure + scenografie)

website: https://pakyanlau.com/