Michele Giovannini, based in Brussels, partakes in different sound projects combining guitar and electronics.
More recently he has been exploring further the acoustic possibilities of the guitar and the boundaries of its inner potential as a sound generator.
He hosts VOLUME on Kiosk Radio, moving freely from ambient and experimental sounds to ritual and traditional music.
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Yannick Guédon & d'incise (voice & self-built shakuhachi)
Very new duo, assembling patterns and silences, listening to birds, wondering how a specific territory shape the musical practices of its linked community.
Yannick Guédon is a composer and vocalist, known for his contextual sound situations and his Eliane Radigue's Occam solo performance.
d'incise is a polymorphous sound shaper, electronic musician often going unplugged, manipulating acoustic or conceptual tools.
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The performance by Sylvie Bouteiller and Damien Leblois is part of an extensive exploration of sound based on the study of physio-chemical processes, decomposition and corrosion phenomena, and the history of techniques. Specifically, these artists will bring into the sonic space the swift biting pace of etching with nitric acid on preamplification circuits. This gesture both minimal and theatrical will involve, in each phase simultaneously, opposing directions where sinuous metal cavities will form rhythmic movements. Each explosion, friction, tinkling, and beating can be likened to the needle passing over an empty vinyl groove, the sliding of a glacier, rain, or the somber modesty of avant-garde electronic music.
Transe sidérurgique ou transe sidérurgicale ? transe des usine?
Metal detector music- magnetic music- iron zone- local magnetic anomaly
A spate of nails, the iron is in the blood, it's in the bag- feromil , it's pill time...
iron in the loudspeakers. doing it and doing it well, making iron sing.
sound prospecting through magnetic fields. Iron planet. Steel in blood -steel mood- steel band- still and still- steel
Happy Fuji News
Happy Fuji News is a live-animated performed movie made out of 200 woodblock prints, written, carved and printed by Eric Kinny over the course of 2016-2022.
Prints are shown and thrown at the rhythm of an audio soundtrack with MIDI guitar music by Raphaël Desmarets and characters voices by McCloud Zicmuse, Siet Phorae, Molly Rex, Ma Clément, Alice Perez & Joey Wright.
The story follows a touristic guide at the foothill of Japan's Mt. Fuji, escaping commercial hardship through the chance meeting of a Soundcloud ASMR artist.
With an equally comedic and dramatic approach, Happy Fuji News is a surrealistic dive into the world of tourism, apps, geology (and more..) done in a joyously performed proto-cinematic way.
In English (no subtitles) - duration: 33min
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Antoine Loyer has a soft but confident voice and a slightly stoned guitar that emits sounds from another world. His music is a subterranean rustle, a singular and expressionist vision, rather bizarre, vaguely incomprehensible, devilishly poetic, strange, lonely and inexplicably brilliant." (Panik, 2014)
"Talamanca, his sixth album, was released on 2 June on the Le Saule label.
Vin de Sprite is a group formed at Créahmbxl (Création et Handicap Mental), which now works mostly as a duo: the charismatic Donatien Toma Ndani Djemelas on keyboards and vocals and Antoine Loyer on guitar and vocals.
They have developed a repertoire of funny, bastard, explosive French-language songs with no pattern.
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20 international improvisers, from Brussels and from different generations-backgrounds.
United by the ambition to live sound freely, together they explore the uncertainty and beauty of spontaneity.
A unique project in today's Belgian free-impro scene.
A collective where the individual preserves his singularity.
Ana Simón - Andrés Navarro - Audrey Lauro - Blanca Prieto - Cecile Brochè - Emmanuel Cremer - Franco Panizon - Grégoire Tirtiaux - Guillaume Vanespen - Jan Pillaert - Joachim Devillé - Johannes Eimermacher - Joseph Nowell - Marcello Giannandrea - Matteo di Leonardo - Peter Jacquemyn - Sofia Kakouri - Suzanne Peeters - Thomas Olbrechts - Yann Lecollaire
Radio Hito is the melancholic melody-driven project of Brussels-based composer, writer and artist Y.-My Zen Nguyen.
Her output is the result of an investigation into methods of building narratives in structures of pop melodies.
Her texts - mostly in Italian - are either her own or by poets whose works resonate with her.
Her sparse and minimal piano/keyboard set-up gives space to the most compelling element of her music, her voice, which softly but surely conveys the interwoven poems. A tape of live recordings from the Musa Ullakolla festival was released on KRAAK in 2021 and her debut appeared on the Midi Fish label.
daniel dariel also playing with Wash Club
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Valentina Vuksic (CH) is a sonic artist and works on the side-effects of the computational. She explores a highly individual articulation of hard- and software mediation; the processes in such intermediate spaces are rendered audible through novel invocations.
Tripping through runtime ° improvisation with/in electromagnetics of computing ° a noisy electrosmog disco played with the stress-tool for system administration ° strictly terminal
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Designs and builds sound objects and installations (steel, plastic, water, magnetic fields,…).
Presents them in exhibitions and solo performances since 1988 mostly in Holland, Germany, France and Belgium.
Tin cans, whistles, locomotive suspension springs, porcelain bowls, compressor top bells, ping pong balls, agave dry leaves, sponges, steel wires, branches, paper foils, plastic bags, silver papers, pink gloves, piano, balloons, buckets, feathers, water, scraps, peebles, flower pots, guitar, metal tubes, paulownia tree seeds, pearls, bamboo sticks, logs, bones, stones, filter queens...
RN and PB have been creating various ways to vibrate things so that their acoustic shadows dance around: invisible air volumes that reshape constantly, move in the space, enter in the most secret places and inside ourselves. A way to get closer to things inherent spirits is to listen to them. Eventually encouraging them to produce sounds and resonate by various means: to hit, caress, shake, beat, scrape, scratch, claw, boil, clap, rattle, rock, throw, move, magnetize, clamp, cook, pinch, galvanize, motorize, bow, blow, pluck, heath up, let flow, freeze, drop, drip, connect, roll, mix, extend, sing...
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With Slumberland, Belgian musician, composer and instrument maker Jochem Baelus has been unleashing obscure, hypnotic krautrock and post punk colored with distorted exotica, upon us since 2013.
Slumberland’s tactile sound is generated by a battery of sewing machines, film projectors and other dismantled, mechanical objects.
So far, he released a solo album, the 2019 release ‘Sea, sea, sea Drifter // See, see, see Drifter’, alongsided by 2 drummers and a recent collaboration with Tuvan voice-artist Sainkho Namtchylak.
But last year Jochem Baelus also constructed a brand new sound installation which he takes on the road solo.
Expect rattling drones of motoric ‘bagpipes’ grinding, accompanied by compelling, melodic & minimal compositions and complete stillness.
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