Forêt de Soignes, mon amour

What if the arms of the beloved changed into branches and their eyes into their skin, or meters of bark going into damp earth.. roots entangled, subterranean whispers, centuries of silent witnessing.. What is a forest in a world where we see trees as objects and barely catch each other’s gaze in the metro? Other than this particular forest being older than some parts of the city of Brussels it also has a voice. Its presence is tangible in the air we breathe.

Artists and friends Jan Rymenants and Alexandra Duvekot dive into the world of forêt des Soigne in a genuine attempt to liste to its voice and honor its unique stories.

serbian born, brooklyn based violinist marija kovačević works in classical, experimental and improvisational music and theater. her project “music for broken violins” is an exploration of sonic textures with broken violins, bows and their fragments.

https://www.mkovacevic.com/
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/12/music/suite-for-a-broken-world/

in coproduction with musica impulscentre and glazen huis, this residency is to further develop and finalize (t)ears.
(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)

https://pakyanlau.com/
https://pakyanlau.bandcamp.com/

Aymeric and Eric explore polyrhytms in the spaces between the sequencer grid lines using improvisations. However minimal their resources, they set out to explore the rich textures, timbres and resonances of the pulsations and the frictions thereof, as they appear in the atmospheres of the rooms in which they work.

Eric Thielemans : Percussion, objects.
Aymeric de Tapol : Electroniques.