27. June 2013
Opening night 19:00h
Kaaistudio’s, Bruxelles
Listening Back and Forth in Brussels
by Valeria Merlini (IT) & Felicity Ford (UK)
Drag + Drop (a social choreography, an urban contemplation)
walk by David Helbich (DE)
ATTANTION! The opening performance at Kaaistudio and the Walk by David Helbich are sold out, but please join us at Curo Hall at 21:00 for the performance:
Marina Rosenfeld: P.A. FOR SOLO PERFORMER
performed by Marina Rosenfeld (US) & Okkyung Lee (KR)
@ Curo Hall
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28. June 2013
Day 1
Relational Noise
Noise is a notion that generates a multiplicity of meanings. It is highly subjective, complex and difficult to define. On the first day of the festival this topic will be explored through its concrete embodiment in the area around the Botanical Gardens. This part of north-central Brussels is densely layered and manifests a special character of agglomeration and urban compression. The Botanical grounds and building, constructed in 1826, appear today as a curious patch in the city fabric. As a consequence of urban developments starting in the 1960s, the gardens have become surrounded by subway lines, the ring-tunnel traffic system and high-rise buildings, such as the State Administrative Quarter and the recently built Financial Tower.
How is the urban space acoustically defined by such overlapping functionalities? What is happening within and between these structural layers? On Day 1 we will navigate the vertical topography of the city, exploring the subterranean as well as outdoor reaches of a territory extending form the Gardens to the North Train Station.
This day focuses on sonic methods and strategies of artistic exploration and appropriation of urban space, concentrating in particular on the physical and psychological influences that shape the way we hear. The program consists of an interconnected series of site-specific sound walks, interventions, performances, installations and lectures. The public is asked to come prepared for extensive outdoor walking in the zone that stretches between South Station and the Cemetery of Ixelles. The objective is not merely to stroll between the sites of artist presentations, but rather to discover and participate in the city, its situations and incidental sounds experienced along the way.
The framework of this day evokes Guy Debord’s model of the ‘dérive’, with its meandering strategies and subjective mappings though this time with an attention to aural experience of urban situations.
En cette journée nous nous concentrerons sur les méthodes et les stratégies de l’exploration artistique et sur l’utilisation de l’espace urbain à partir d’une perspective sonore et nous prêterons une attention particulière aux influences physiques et psychologiques qui déterminent notre manière d’entendre. Le programme se composera d’une série interconnectée de promenades sonores spécifiques aux sites visités, d’interventions, de performances, d’installations et de lectures. Enfilez de bonnes chaussures de marche: la zone couverte en cette deuxième journée s’étend de la Gare du Midi au cimetière d’Ixelles. Le but n’est pas de flâner seulement d’un endroit à l’autre où des réalisations artistiques peuvent être vécues, mais de partir à la découverte de la ville, de ses situations et des sons le long du parcours.
Une source d’inspiration pour cette journée fut la ‘dérive’, définie par le philosophe Guy Debord comme un voyage imprévu à travers un pays ou une ville, les contours esthétiques subtils de l’architecture et de la géographie environnantes guidant de manière subconsciente les errants, avec pour objectif ultime de vivre une expérience aussi nouvelle qu’authentique.
symposium
Relational Noise
@ Centre Rosocha beginning 10:00h
performances before/within the symposium
Felicity Ford & Valeria Merlini – Shorts: Listening to Tuned City from within and without
@ Centre Rosocha, beginning 10:00h
Kabir Carter – Report
@ Centre Rosocha, beginning 10:00h
installations during the day
Will Schrimshaw – Module for a Comprehensive Instrument
mobile, 12:00–20:00h
Udo Noll – radio aporee – fmwalks/bx
mobile, 12:00–20:00h
Dawn Scarfe – Listening Glasses (walk)
Parc Botanique/Kruidtuin, 12:00–20:00h
Joanna Bailie – Rue Royale / Rue Traversière (installation)
Le Khedive, 12:00–20:00h
Christina Kubisch + Students – Electrical Walks – Electromagnetic Investigations in the Botanical Gardens (walk)
Parc Botanique/Kruidtuin, 12:00–20:00h
Lisa Lapierre & Audrey Lauro – espace intervallaire (intervention)
Parking RAC, (start: 16:00h, 17:00h, 18:00h)
evening performances
Lukas Kühne & Robyn Schulkowsky – Space and Frequency – Rhythm Lab
Noordstation, 21:00h
Wessel Westerveld & Yuri Landman – The Intonarumori
Gesù Kerk/Eglise, 21:00h
29. June 2013
Day 2
Situational listening
This day focuses on sonic methods and strategies of artistic exploration and appropriation of urban space, concentrating in particular on the physical and psychological influences that shape the way we hear. The program consists of an interconnected series of site-specific sound walks, interventions, performances, installations and lectures. The public is asked to come prepared for extensive outdoor walking in the zone that stretches between South Station and the Cemetery of Ixelles. The objective is not merely to stroll between the sites of artist presentations, but rather to discover and participate in the city, its situations and incidental sounds experienced along the way.
The framework of this day evokes Guy Debord’s model of the ‘dérive’, with its meandering strategies and subjective mappings though this time with an attention to aural experience of urban situations.
En cette journée nous nous concentrerons sur les méthodes et les stratégies de l’exploration artistique et sur l’utilisation de l’espace urbain à partir d’une perspective sonore et nous prêterons une attention particulière aux influences physiques et psychologiques qui déterminent notre manière d’entendre. Le programme se composera d’une série interconnectée de promenades sonores spécifiques aux sites visités, d’interventions, de performances, d’installations et de lectures. Enfilez de bonnes chaussures de marche: la zone couverte en cette deuxième journée s’étend de la Gare du Midi au cimetière d’Ixelles. Le but n’est pas de flâner seulement d’un endroit à l’autre où des réalisations artistiques peuvent être vécues, mais de partir à la découverte de la ville, de ses situations et des sons le long du parcours.
Une source d’inspiration pour cette journée fut la ‘dérive’, définie par le philosophe Guy Debord comme un voyage imprévu à travers un pays ou une ville, les contours esthétiques subtils de l’architecture et de la géographie environnantes guidant de manière subconsciente les errants, avec pour objectif ultime de vivre une expérience aussi nouvelle qu’authentique.
symposium
Situational Listening
Block 1 @ Maison du Peuple, beginning 11:00h
Situational Listening
Block 2 @ Galerie Rivoli, beginning 15:00h
installations, walks, performances and interventions during the day
Will Schrimshaw – Module for a Comprehensive Instrument
mobile, 12:00–20:00h
Udo Noll – radio aporee – fmwalks/bx
mobile, 12:00–20:00h
Stalker/ON – Brussel Navigator. Walking across the edge in between: urban/rural, us/others, past/future, citizens/institution. (walk)
Maison du Peuple, 12:00 (start) – 18:00h
Guy De Bièvre – Soundwalk Passacaglia (walk)
Maison du Peuple, start 12:30 and 18:00h
limited places, please register early!
Akio Suzuki – oto-date (listening points)
various locations, to be visited any time (a map will be provided soon)
guided tour, 17:00h (start at Maison du Peuple)
limited places, please register early!
Lee Patterson – The city Tunes Itself (listening points)
Parc Paulus/Place Herman Dumont/Parc Tenbosch/Abbaye de la Cambre
(headphones and player needed, available at info point), 12:00-20:00h
Roberta Gigante – Closer (installation)
location tbc (info at info point), 12:00-20:00h
Pierre Berthet – Extended transducers and low tension small motors (installation)
Abbaye de la Cambre, 12:00-20:00h
Sybille Deligne & David Zagari – Les Porteurs (intervention)
mobile, 12:00-20:00h
evening performances
Franziska Windisch – Sonata For 4 Cardinal Points
Place Marie Jansonplein
19:00h
Rie Nakajima – As Far As Your Tortoise Goes
David Maranha & Patricia Machás – Penumbra
Maison du Peuple
21:00h
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30. June 2013
Day 3
Ephemeral Atmospheres
The resonances and atmospheres that either catch our attention or pass unnoticed are an interesting aspect of city sonority. Determining the precise nature of such characteristic instances has become a central tenet in recent sonic theories. An attention to diverse notions of ambience will serve asthe starting point for the festival’s concluding day in Haren, situated at the north-eastern edge of the Brussels Capital Region.
Despite the presence of a nearby airport and high-speed train link, Haren still maintains its tranquil atmosphere of the chicory farming village it once was. Though today this quietude is precariously nestled between abandoned industrial buildings and large scale construction sites for an expansive prison and the new NATO headquarters.
Les résonances et les atmosphères qui tantôt attirent notre attention, tantôt passent totalement inaperçues, représentent un aspect intéressant du paysage sonore de la ville. Cet élément d’une philosophie sonore complexe servira de point de départ pour la dernière journée du festival à Haren, à la limite nord-est de la Région Bruxelles-Capitale.
Malgré la présence bruyante de l’aéroport, la ligne de train à grande vitesse, les différents sites industriels abandonnés et les chantiers pour le futur quartier général de l’OTAN ainsi que pour une nouvelle prison, Haren a su préserver son atmosphère paisible de village de cultivateurs de chicons d’antan. Au programme de la troisième journée: des artistes ainsi que des théoriciens qui exploreront et discuteront les thèmes de l’atmosphère, de l’ambiance et de l’esthétisme de l’écologie.
symposium
Operative Ambience @ GC De Linde
beginning 11:00h
installations during the day
Will Schrimshaw – Module for a Comprehensive Instrument
mobile, 12:00 – 20:00h
Udo Noll – radio aporee – fmwalks/bx
mobile, 12:00 – 20:00h
Flavien Gillié, Alexia Goryn & Margaux Nessi – Haren visité
Cité Hamesse, 14:00 – 18:00h (ongoing)
Martin Howse – enclosed detection environment (EDE)
Keelbeek, 14:00 – 18:00h (ongoing)
performance
Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda – ma-ta-ta-bi
Black Buddah, 17:00h
evening performances
Zoë Irvine – Eloquent Voice: Lies and Other Truths
ZENIAL (Lukasz Szalankiewicz) – Connection Reset by Peer
Black Buddah, 20:00h
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Tickets: conference €5 – performance €5 – day pass €8 – festival pass €25 –
for reservations send us an e-mail!
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You can download the complete program brochure as pdf: TC Brussels 2013