saturday 7 sept.
16:00 – open
17:10
pavel tchikov
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MMM is an electroacoustic project based on an unique remote controlled acoustic instrument with percussive strings and bells, polyphonic strings sustainers, and a custom four-speakers diffusion set up.
The whole set up is controlled by the performer. A custom controller is used to vary the speeds of the sustainers, allowing the access to a wide range of sustained overtones of the strings. A computer and a phone are used for sequencing the solenoid motors for producing the percussive sounds, controlling their dynamics, processing and live panning on the quadraphonic diffusion set up, offering an enhanced-acoustic experience.
The project was developed during residencies at Overtoon and Q-O2, and premiered at the Showcase Emerging Sound 2024 at Stuk (Leuven).
18:30
gerard herman
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Gerard Herman sings songs in dutch about his street, other streets, mediocrity and other things, musically accompanied by Milan Warmoeskerken.
19:50
loup uberto — duo with lucas ravinale
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“ It’s been a long time since we thought about a set we could build with this habit : to sit around a table after the concert and play our songs and percussions frugally, like a bunch of grandmas at the end of a meal. We’ve been hunting some songs from north Italy, some old languages, and we hope this will begin a dance. “
Lucas Ravinale and Loup Uberto (two musicians from Bégayer) pick up field-workers polyphony.
North-Italian repertoire (Bergamo, Po valley, Piemonte, Venezia), traditionally sing “a capella“ by a group of women, here delivered by a song-and-percussions duo. Pandeiros, tamburelli, fanfare-drums and old circuit bended radio-transistors bring up a strange trance with songs from partisans, pacified militaries and playful peasants.
21:10
los dansing queenc
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Los DQ is a phenomenon. Originating from the moldy, burgundy Maastricht culture, DQ is perhaps the best-kept secret in the Dutch music and art scene.
This completely normal band plays absurdist pop with the driest sense of humor. They freed themselves from any preoccupation with how their material should sound or look, sometimes resembling the cowboy playboys from another, particularly twisted parallel universe. Los Dansing Queenc offers plenty of entertainment for the curious, jaded and vaguely hip people. Los Dansing Queenc questions itself. It is a pursuit of being chronically out of place. Self-deprecation through perfection bordering on clumsiness and orchestrated disorder determine the face of the group. Blending elements of entertainment, high-brow art and would-be stardom trying to create a new definition of quality.
Los Dansing Queenc questions itself. It is a pursuit of being chronically misplaced. Self-deprecation through perfection bordering on awkwardness and orchestrated disorder define the group’s face. Mixing elements of entertainment, high-brow art and would-be stardom, they try to create a new definition of quality.
sunday 8 sept.
16:00 – open
17:10 – yann leguay
18:30 – lucile desamory & carola caggiano
19:50 – simon beeckaert & leon jespers
21:10 – joachim badenhorst
17:10
yann leguay
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7 haikus for a turntable
“When I listen to a record, I often wonder if it’s really the turntable that spins the record on its axis, or if finally, the disc is stationary and it is the whole earth which is in rotation below?”
Between an active installation and a dadaist DJ set, the series of haikus for a turntable unfolds in 7 acts a circumstantial and ephemeral experiment on the edge of the absurdness and around the vinyl record.
Yann Leguay is a Brussels based artist located somewhere between conceptual art and music. Within his wide range of practices and a deep interest in the technical object appears a critical thinking on the evolution of technology.
Never where we expect him, always seeking for new forms, both musical and performative, we find him in numerous projects: solo in OOTIL, in duo with Lise Barkas (Acétylene), or with Aymeric de Tapol (Cancellled) and soon again with Inga Huld Hakonardottir for a next creation.
His work has been released on various labels such as Vlek, ArtKillArt, Consumer Waste, Impulsive Habitat, Tanuki, TTT…
18:30
lucile desamory & carola caggiano
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Lucile Desamory (1977, Brussels) is a visual artist, filmmaker, actor and musician who has lived and worked in Berlin since 2004. She explores the boundaries of perception, excess, appearances and stories that are often not taken seriously. Her fascination with marginal phenomena consistently results in the use of various media, including film, paintings, drawings, embroidery, collages, photographs and her voice. She combines these various techniques to create more elaborate creations, such as installations, films, radio and performances.
Carola Caggiano & Lucile Desamory perform hits by Dalida, Mina, old Polish cabaret songs and Schubert Lieder. With or without microphones, they wander through these well-known melodies that serve as vessels for emotions.
In Dutch, Arabic, French, Italian, English and Yiddish, Desamory and Caggiano invite you into a thrilling lament. With their special guest, Alina Sargsyan, they cause a murmur and aim for a delirious state of communion.
19:50
simon beeckaert & leon jespers
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Simon Beeckaert and Leon Jespers play live electronics and bass. Consisting of a combination of pre-programmed sequences and samples with improvised melodies, resulting in weird clubby dance music. The duo’s use of noisey and more left field elements adds something eerie to the music that is reminiscent of horror movie or early videogame soundtracks. Beeckaert played in a wide range of bands, contributing to multiple Heaven Hotel releases as well as playing in Loverman Trio and Echo Beatty. He also publishes cassette tapes under his own label ‘VZW Jazz Zendelingen’. Jespers is active as 1/4th of De Kloe, an electronic / rock band, and playing in several bands ranging from soundscapes to acid. He also produces visual work and runs a publishing house called ‘Zwarte Pagina’ in collaboration with Mieke ‘Mik’ Schelstraete. Beeckaert and Jespers first worked together on Jespers’ ‘2 Songs’ (2024), a release on Why Keith Dropped The ’S’.
21:10
joachim badenhorst
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zero years kid
Badenhorst sees Zero Years Kid as a playground to accommodate other ideas and interests besides jazz. Together with Jan de Vroede, Lennart Heyndels and Erik Heestermans, he performs a colourful amalgam of hip-hop, pop, dance, R&B and jazz, with playful, poetic lyrics in his mother tongue. He complements his clarinet and sax with samples and electronics and the result is a surprising fantasy world in which it is delightful to get lost.
‘No Borders’ is an ode to breaking boundaries, daring to colour outside the lines or boxes and not sticking to expectation patterns.
Joachim Badenhorst : voice, clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, electronics.
Lennart Hendels: electric bass, modular synth
Jan De Vroede: Guitar, piano
Erik Heestermans: Vocals on ‘Lang geleden’
permanent collection
The Roskot Foundation supports sound art in many ways and is owner of a (stil small) collection of sound art installations.
meriton maloku
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live painting
Meriton Maloku (°1989) is a Kosovo born artist who lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and received a Master’s Degree in Printmaking.
Maloku’s work travels between a shifting constellation of disciplines. His research- based practice focuses on different aspects of daily life, politics, philosophy and art history. This odd marriage between the banal and the fundamental is translated into artworks while pinpointing oppositions such as private and public, presence and absence or comic and tragic. Through strategies of repetition and playfulness Maloku opens up and charges the space between viewer and work.
He will paint live at roskot on both days.
His paintings also add colour to the new ‘les ateliers claus’ gazette. Don’t forget to pick up your copy at roskot.
hans beckers
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klopotec orkestra
In a remote Norwegian fishing village stands an old magical wooden house, the Krakeslottet. The man who lives there gathers up wood: beautiful pieces of wood from old buildings and branches shaped by the sea, washed up on the beach, rafters from old houses, sheds and farms, saved from demolition. Hans Beckers, who has amazed BIG BANG audiences many times with his intriguing sound installations, has visited the bewitching Krakeslottet, where he built klopotecs – rattling windmills from north east Slovenia – from old wood pharmacie hommes, each with its very own character . In the 16th century klopotecs were used in vineyards to drive away the snakes and help the grapes to ripen. Hans has now turned them into an exciting sound installation
Kapotski
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Triple Deck – sound art installation
Triple Deck is a release/installation that represents Kapotski in its purest form. The result consists of three mono tracks, one for each musician, recorded simultaneously during an improvisation session. Each track gets its own vinyl record. The three records are played on three different decks with three separate speakers. The decks are set to auto-repeat. Thus, Triple Deck is composed of three unsynchronised records, forming an aural reconstruction of a typical KapotskI performance. The three records were released together in a limited edition of 50 copies on the label Les Albums Claus – Les Ateliers Claus.
Coffee Randomizer
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Coffee Randomizer, a circuit bent coffee machine spitting out oscillating frequencies instead of black gold.
Peter Keene is a British artist living in Brussels, making (sound) installations and other electric sculptures where he explores art, sound and science. Always with his excellent sense of humour.
Frédéric le junter
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At 5 years old, I was impressed by the harbour sounds from Dunkerque, also by visual aspects from these huge installations? At the same time, I started to build toys in volume, starting with papers et found objects. My first radio in 67, makes me discover the overdrived guitars from the english rock groups, that’s was the starting point I heard music.
At 28 years old, I started again with making things, and I join different fields I was focused on like music instruments, mechanics, actions, found objects, in a first mechanical sound machine.
I like making tools, simples instruments, sound prothesis I cannot play as a master with but rather with a kind of instability, surprises, with i need in fact to improvise.
Pierre Bastien
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Pierre Bastien’s is a french musician born 1953 who builds his own machineries, at the cross between music and visual art, that blends live trumpet sounds with screen projections of on-site, mechanical sound sculptures in a very poetic way. His work is described as “a timeless sounding orchestra, both futuristic and slightly dada, conjuring ancient traditions in its surprisingly sensuous music.”
Bastien has been called a “mad musical scientist with a celebrity following” by The Guardian. Collaborating in the past with filmmaker Pierrick Sorin, fashion designer Issey Miyake, singer and composer Robert Wyatt and Aphex Twin (who released three of his albums on his label Rephlex) to name a few, he is one of the most influential experimental musicians working in the field. In 1986 he formed his own self made one man orchestra, Mecanium and made over 20 records over the years.