Meakusma Festival Program 2022

MEAKUSMA IS BACK!

After two difficult years, the Meakusma Festival is back and we could not be more thrilled!

Covid-19 and the July 2021 floods in East Belgium threw us for a loop, forcing us to cancel two festival editions. Now we are back with our biggest lineup ever, effectively booking many artists that were booked for last year's cancelled edition, next to many new ones of course.

Meakusma would have had a much more difficult time were it not for the continued and dedicated support of Isabelle Weykmans, minister of culture for the German-speaking community of Belgium. We have always very much enjoyed working with her and her openness to new ideas and initiatives is remarkable. She has taken it upon herself to support culture in general in East Belgium during the past two difficult years, not only working closely with Meakusma, but with many other organisations heavily impacted by the pandemic as well.

We would furthermore like to extend our thanks to our partners for their continued support. Their trust in us is vital to the way in which Meakusma works.

Last, but not least, we would like to thank you, our audience and all the participating artists in all things Meakusma, for your unrelenting enthusiasm. We would not exist, were it not for you.

Because of the aftermath of the pandemic and the current uncertain times worldwide, we are experiencing more cancellations and last minute changes, a phenomenon impacting all festivals these days. The PROGRAM UPDATE section of the festival website will inform you about all changes made to the festival lineup.

Thank you and we hope you enjoy the festival!

All at Meakusma

STUDIO NÉAU

STUDIO NÉAU

GALERIE VORN UND OBEN

DAY 1 THURSDAY

18H HEUBODEN

THOMAS DEFISE BE Les Flâneurs

Thomas Defise is a young music enthusiast from Liège, Belgium. In 2018, he co-started the Les Flâneurs musical collective aiming to explore and present genres less exposed. Defise also dedicates his time to helping non-profit music events.

18H STUDIO NÉAU

FUNKT GER IN CONVERSATION WITH PLEIN AIR

The FUNKT sound art radio show aims to show the diversity of Cologne’s electronic and sound art scenes, with some historical anchor points and insider views from different generations. They will be in conversation with the people behind Plein Air, a plant-driven synthesizer by Tim Collins, Reiko Goto, Chris Malcolm, on show the full weekend of the festival at Alter Schlachthof.

They of Alter

19H KÜHLRAUM

SUSANNAH STARK & BAND UK Stroom

Susannah Stark is a singer, composer, keyboardist and visual artist from Fife, Scotland. She makes experimental pop songs formed out of explorations into softness and vulnerability, focused on a sensory experience of voice and sound, connecting with experiences of faith and being. She will be joined by drummer Laurie Pitt (Golder Teacher, The Modern Institute) and trumpet player Philip Cardwell.

19H STUDIO NÉAU

RADIO SHOW BY WILLIAM TYLER USA

In addition to his concert with Marisa Anderson on Friday, guitarist William Tyler will present a show at Studio Néau. Weather permitting, Tyler will give a concert on the terrace of the radio station in Park Loten, experimenting with guitar and amplifier.

DAY 1 THURSDAY

20H HALLE

SKY H1 & MIKA OKI BE/FR

AD93 PAN LYL

In collaboration with STUK

The evocative, rave-crushed songs of SKY H1 capture the blurring lines between the flourishing contemporary club sounds of drum and bass, grime, dubstep and techno, injecting this exciting hybrid of rave music with ambientleaning sound design and schematic bursts of pop-oriented songwriting, Collaborating with visual artist Mika Oki, SKY H1 presents a new audiovisual show to celebrate the release of Azure. Mika Oki’s visual installation Parhelion is on view at the Galerie vorn und oben.

20H KESSELRAUM

PHILIPP MATALLA GER

Kashual

Optimo Kashual Plastik Meakusma

Philipp Matalla works with both popular and avant-garde concepts. He processes opposing influences to free himself from the usual patterns of electronic music and club culture. Collages of seemingly disparate spheres, such as texture and structure, or organism and technology, lead to clashes that are frequently expressed in his music. Loose, trippy, far-reaching, Philipp Matalla’s inimitable sound is a serious patchwork, creating a vibrant psychedelic world.

20H HEUBODEN

APULATI BIEN FR

Promesses Kraak

Apulati Bien is the moniker of Baptiste Outreglot. He creates a warped-out, designer-drugged world with fragments of neo-juke, splatter beats and arrhythmic sampling. Apulati Bien pushes the electronic realms of equally RP Boo and Hiele further into a radical terrain that is visceral, brutal and danceable.

DAY 1 THURSDAY

20H STUDIO NÉAU

RADIO SHOW BY MARISA ANDERSON USA

In addition to her concert with William Tyler on Friday, guitarist Marisa Anderson will present a radio show. Weather permitting, Anderson will give a concert on the terrace of the radio in Park Loten, experimenting with guitar and amplifier.

21H KÜHLRAUM

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POiSON ANNA UK

NTS

POiSON ANNA has collaborated with A$AP Rocky and frequently collaborates with Dean Blunt. She released her first EP in 2018 and released the acclaimed Koko on NTS in 2020. Mesmerizing, iconoclastic, fusing different spheres and rhythms with ease and poise, infused with the concrete and the abstract in equal measure, POiSON ANNA’s music heralds a new era in pop and club music.

21H HEUBODEN

ANADOL TUR

Pingipung Kinship

Exploration, introspection and celebration run through Anadol’s work. Her music and influences, as well as the history, culture and geography behind them, define her and all coalesce to create something entirely new. Turkish pop and Arabesque connect with folk as well as French pop or Flamenco, Middle Eastern melodies and orchestration, Greek adaptations, Kenny G. solos and American guitars.

21H STUDIO NÉAU

NICO BOGAERTS BE Radio Panik

Nico Bogaerts hosts the Moacrealsloa radio show on Radio Panik, uncovering unknown and undiscovered sounds beyond the usual definition of what is underground in music. Next to his radio shows at Heuboden, he will DJ at Studio Néau.

definition

DAY 1 THURSDAY

22H KESSELRAUM

SILZEDREK AUS

A Colourful Storm Blackest Ever Black Silzedrek is the latest in a long list of aliases of Tarquin Manek, conceived to explore clarinet and bass clarinet in a live setting utilizing the Eastern European and Roma sonorities of the artist’s heritage. Central to the current Australian underground scene, Manek is adept at employing higher dub logic to the rough juxtapositions and seemingly abrupt left turns his performances can take, presenting a deeply personal synthesis of timedilating folk-jazz romanticism, heavy chamber dub and a sense of smokedout inner space.

23H KÜHLRAUM

Black

DALI MURU & THE POLYPHONIC SWARM EST/FR

Stroom Wanda

Dali Muru & the Polyphonic Swarm fuse medieval-inspired troubadour poetry, cinema soundtracks and primordial electronics. Gesturing toward ancient lineages of poetry and storytelling, Dali Muru is driven by the spell of the spoken word, minimal percussive refrains, oneiric textures and deep melodic synths, channeling cinematic imagery, enigmatic narratives and spiritual frenzy. Their latest release as a duo was released on the Belgian label Stroom in 2022.

23H HEUBODEN

JAPAN BLUES UK NTS

Japan Blues is the project of Howard Williams, a Londoner and self described obsessive record collector whose work has included the release of numerous compilations, a long standing radio show on NTS, and concerts in Europe and Japan.

DAY 1 THURSDAY

00H KESSELRAUM

THE IDEALIST SWE

iDEAL Höga Nord Meakusma

Joachim Nordwall started recording electronic music in 1987. The Idealist is the result of a lifelong obsession with dub and industrial music, as well an ambition to have styles collide. He runs the iDEAL Recordings label since 1998, has a background as a leading force of ritual rock band The Skull Defekts and collaborates extensively.

00H HEUBODEN

MOLI DEL TRO BE

Les Actionnaires Moli Del Tro

Moli Del Tro is the DJ duo of Laurence Creyf and Gilles Vanneste, founder of the Les Actionnaires parties in Brussels. They recently founded Moli Del Tro records with upcoming releases by Naomie Klaus, Héron Cendré and Nâr.

01H SPEICHER

MME dUO GER

Makiphon

MME dUO are Patricia Koellges and Tamara Lorenz. They do field research into fragmented language and sound collage. Set pieces of spoken words become signals, atactic accents form repetitive rhythms, a continuous run in disharmony and harmony with connections to Musique Concrète.

01H30 HEUBODEN

MUSEUM OF NO ART GER

Séance Centre Kame House

Museum Of No Art is musician and artist Mona Steinwidder. Her music floats in a hazy lacuna, in between realities rooted in propulsive and deep bass resonance, but is also footloose, playfully deconstructing language and mixing in layers of echoing synthetic and organic tones.

11H HEUBODEN JORDI 3000 BE Yokai

Although primarily a jazz musician, Jordi 3000’s interests range from krautrock to punk to electronic music, next to Sufi music, Indian ragas and Afro-American music. He brings this amalgam of styles and influences together in his beyond eclectic and versatile DJ-sets.

11H STUDIO NÉAU

SOFT LANDING GER

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Soft Landing is a morning radio show, easing you into the festival from Friday to Sunday, run by Amelie and Jonas from the Seanaps Festival in Leipzig. Live improvisations, interviews, music and conversations will guide you through this year’s massive program with special guests for each show.

13H HEUBODEN WILTED WOMAN USA

Unifactor Antibody Palto Flats Wilted Woman’s left-field approach to electronic music was forged on the punk and DIY scenes of the East Coast of the United States, and more recently, Berlin. Hers is friendly industrial, derangement synth, stunning compositions and ‘music made to realign and confuse body and mind’. Playful and intriguing.

14H KÜHLRAUM

MUSICA MOSAICA BE Lexi Disques

Musica Mosaica champions a strictly approximate understanding of music fundamentals. After years of playing mostly improvised music in different projects, Xavier García Bardón and Emmanuel Gonay collect sounds and images from various sources, applying different protocols, coming up with a deviant perspective informed by film editing and geometry.

14H HEUBODEN

SIMONE ANTONIONI GER Verlag

Simone Antonioni is a Berlin-based artist who is the founder of the community-oriented label Verlag and focuses on composition and sound design for performance and film. He plays techno flavoured with new-wave, noise and popular music.

14H FRIEDENSKIRCHE

ORGAN CONCERT BY DELPHINE DORA FR

Three:Four

Feeding Tube Meakusma

Feeding

Delphine Dora is a musician, composer and improviser from France. A selftaught pianist and vocalist, her semi-spontaneous music also incorporates church organ, modular synthesis and field recordings. Her intimate musical universe touches upon many genres and languages. She released an album on Meakusma in 2020.

14H STUDIO NÉAU

JULIAN WEBER GER IN CONVERSATION WITH JOHN FM UK

Known for his solo work on Omar S’s FXHE Records and London-based label

The Trilogy Tapes, John FM’s sound creatively reinterprets the legacy of Detroit and the American Midwest. Julian Weber, editor at the culture section of German newspaper taz. and internet radio ByteFM, will talk with John FM about his work.

15H KESSELRAUM

LORD TANG USA

Alarm

Gigante Sound Meakusma

Lord Tang welcomes you to his dub-fueled sway of mangled beats and wizened melody as he warps the floorboards and moves the ceiling to the wall. Since releasing the first Lord Tang record on Gigante Sound (the label he co-runs), he has gone on to work with a handful of labels including Meakusma who helmed his most recent vinyl EP, Prolonged and Sustained.

15H FRIEDENSKIRCHE

SIMON JAMES PHILLIPS GER ORGAN CONCERT

Room40 Mikroton Staubgold

Simon James Phillips focuses on broadening the relational connections between musics, participants, heritages, and practises, producing immersive work that explores the perception of time and place through sound and spatialisation, building expansive sonic atmospheres and taking particular care to tailor his compositions to each context. Originally trained as a classical pianist, he has worked as a pianist, cellist, conductor, composer and artist in the disciplines of new and experimental music, classical music, non-western musics, improvisation, electronic music, theater, dance, performance, film, the visual arts and research.

15H STUDIO NÉAU

JULIAN WEBER GER

Julian Weber is an editor at the culture section of German newspaper taz. and has a radio show on ByteFM. Raised on punk, playing drums in several bands and writing for fanzines, he nowadays feels most at home on an electronic dancefloor, fusing sounds from different worlds as a DJ, while staying true to deep house, a genre he follows since the early 90s. Weber also still writes about music.

15H30 HEUBODEN

MARYLOU FR

Rinse FM Cashmere

French Berlin-based DJ and Morphine Records and Ominira affiliate Marylou has impeccable taste and focuses on a no boundaries selection. Her sets are daring and psychedelic, from traditional music, improv jazz and noise to dub, bass, footwork and jungle. She hosts shows on Rinse France and Cashmere, showcasing her eclectic and vibrating sound.

16H KÜHLRAUM

MARISA ANDERSON & WILLIAM TYLER USA Thrill Jockey

In collaboration with ReiheM

Guitarists Marisa Anderson and William Tyler distill deeply rooted and varied traditions into distinctive voices all their own. They craft music at once intimate and expansive, conversational and transcendent, fusing their singular voices into narratives that sway through lush arrangements and pastoral duets serpentine and reverent.

17H KESSELRAUM TRII GROUP & HIPÓLITO GER

Stroom Trii Musik

Trii Group & Hipólito test out an arrangement of micro-melodies, overtones, electro-acoustic percussion and voice with trigger drum machines, fm modulation, sampler, sequencer and prepared acoustic instruments in order to detect repetitive sonic solutions that scratch upon a state of aimless focus and sensorial needs.

17H HEUBODEN

LOSTSOUNDBYTES BE Vastechoses

Brussels tape label Lostsoundbytes distorts time with foggy downtempo beats and dubby cavernous howls. The bimonthly Vasteshow on LYL Radio is proof of a musical perspective turned and churned inside out.

17H IKOB

FRÉDÉRIC LE JUNTER FR

Vand’Oeuvre

Ever since 1984, Frédéric Le Junter has been building sound objects, shaking up conventional luthiery, in order to explore sound actions. His interest lies in the production of sound material and slow moving landscapes, delving into a contemplation of chaos, intertwining multiple realities.

17H30 STUDIO NÉAU

THOMAS MEINECKE GER IN CONVERSATION WITH VIOLA KLEIN GER

Viola Klein is the house music ‘auteur’ behind two beautiful and contemplative yet powerful house music records on her own Viola Klein imprint, next to releasing music on Meakusma and Workshop. Her work explores the social forces inherent in house music. She has been hailed as one of the most original voices in house music today. Thomas Meinecke is a writer of numerous novels and stories since 1986, published by Suhrkamp Verlag. As a musician, he is a member of the legendary German experimental band F.S.K. which was founded in 1980, next to collaborating on many electronic music projects with Move D since 1998.

18H KÜHLRAUM

SEPPE GEBRUERS / THIJS TROCH / ERIC THIELEMANS BE Jukwaa

Seppe Gebruers is a Belgian pianist, improviser and composer, focused on non-traditional approaches. As a genre crossing/blending percussionist with a classically trained ear, Eric Thielemans has worked his way via jazz drumming and free improvisation towards his own stance on music and performance. Thijs Troch is a Belgian piano player, mainly active in improvised music.

18H HEUBODEN

JAPAN BLUES UK NTS

Japan Blues is the project of Howard Williams, a Londoner and self described obsessive record collector whose work has included the release of numerous compilations, a long standing radio show on NTS, and concerts in Europe and Japan.

18H30 STUDIO NÉAU INSTITUT FÜR BETRACHTUNG GER IN CONVERSATION WITH

Philipp Höning and Thorsten Schneider, who are behind Institut für Betrachtung together with Wolfgang Brauneis and Hans-Jürgen Hafner, will host the IfB radio shows during the festival. Each show takes the form of an interview or audio essay, dedicated to a topic from the fields of 20th and 21st century visual art and music, (sub)culture and theory production. In doing so, aspects of cultural history and contemporary history are linked with questions of production conditions and criticism in order to look at the respective subject from as many sides as possible. They will interview special guests during the festival.

19H KESSELRAUM

YL HOOI AUS Efficient Space Kallista Kult

YL Hooi is the project of Valya Ying-Li Hooi, inhabiting a subtle and mysterious realm of furtive, dubbed-out song, sparse electronic percussion, and distant winds. Active in the Melbourne underground scene since 2017, Hooi is a member of Kallista Kult (with Sam Karmel and Tarquin Manek) and has recorded and performed with artists including Jonnine Standish (HTRK), Jarrod Zlatic (Fabulous Diamonds) and Rohan Rebeiro (My Disco).

20H HALLE

e/tape SI

Cosmic Mind Affair e/tape, originally from Slovenia, produces what could be described as ambient music, though any associations with the heavenly and blissful quickly disperse. His music evaporates the importance of pulse, tempo and other western musical basics in subtle and rewarding fashion. There is an undeniable alien quality to his music, as an ambition to dive into the inner self manifests itself in surprisingly open ways, making for honesty and cosmic directness.

20H KÜHLRAUM MOPCUT AT/FR/USA Trost

With Lukas König on synthesizers and drums, Julien Desprez on electric guitar, vocalist Audrey Chen and audio-visual artist Bernhard Rasinger, Mopcut create songs beyond language and gravity at the interface of sound architecture and performance ritual. They play minimal and expressive improvisation, noise and abstract electronics overlayed by Chen’s ecstatic vocals, with discipline and exuberance.

20H JÜNGLINGSHAUS

THE INTERNATIONAL NOTHING DE Ftarri

The International Nothing are a psycho-acoustic clarinet duo from Berlin, formed by Michael Thieke and Kai Fagaschinski in 2000. They compose multilayered sound sculptures using multiphonics, beat frequencies and tones, using a kind of pipe organ style to merge the sound of two clarinets into one complex sound.

20H HEUBODEN INKASSO & ML GER

Kashual Plastik Osàre! Editions

Inkasso, two free-wheeling bailiffs from Berlin, who released their debut album Zeichen im Schacht der verschleierten Tatsachen in the mists of the pandemic on Osàre! Editions, bring their electric toolboxes and connect them to the field recordings archive, stolen cut-up-poems, and other words with no value of ML, an also Berlin-based producer, who dropped his debut album Looted Lagoons last summer on Kashual Plastik. Together they improvise as an art form of constant, attentive and dangerous living in every moment, improvisation as the art of sound becoming.

21H KESSELRAUM

PHILIPP MATALLA GER

Optimo Kashual Plastik Meakusma

Philipp Matalla works with both popular and avant-garde concepts. He processes opposing influences to free himself from the usual patterns of electronic music and club culture. Collages of seemingly disparate spheres, such as texture and structure, or organism and technology, lead to clashes that are frequently expressed in his music. Loose, trippy, far-reaching, Philipp Matalla’s inimitable sound is a serious patchwork, creating a vibrant psychedelic world.

21H HEUBODEN

PHUONG-DAN GER

Dispari Futura Resistenza Golden Pudel

Phuong-Dan is a renowned DJ based in Hamburg, Germany. He is both resident and host at legendary St. Pauli underground venue Golden Pudel Club, spinning a unique and eclectic mix from contemporary underground techno, minimal synth, post-punk, new pop and EBM, the electronic side of krautrock, rare disco and experimental stuff. 21H30

JÜNGLINGSHAUS

MICAELA TOBIN USA

Deathbomb Arc

Micaela Tobin is a soprano, sound artist, and teacher based in Los Angeles who specializes in experimental voice and contemporary opera. Composing primarily under the moniker White Boy Scream, Micaela dissects her operatic and extended vocal techniques through the use of electronics, oscillating between extreme textures of noise, drone, and operatic sound walls. Her work incorporates ritualized gesture and amplified object-symbolism and explores her diasporic identity as a first-generation Filipina-American.

Kashual

22H HALLE

BUTTECHNO RUS TTT Trip

Buttechno is multidisciplinary electronic musician and producer Pavel Milyakov’s outlet for extensive research and hyper-focused framing of rhythmbased music. He has forged a musical language as open-ended as it is distinct, drifting from fierce techno and electro to ambient breaks and guitar drones. He has released music on The Trilogy Tapes, Cititrax, Smalltown Supersound, etc.

22H KÜHLRAUM

HOLY TONGUE UK

Amidah

Valentina Magaletti, Al Wootton & Susumu Mukai Holy Tongue is a collaboration between percussionist Valentina Magaletti, best known for her work with Vanishing Twin, Tomaga, UUUU, Raime, Nicolas Jaar and Jandek and others, and producer Al Wootton of True Records and Deadboy. A deep appreciation for the experimental dub of On-U-Sound, Muslimgauze and post-punk bands such as Liquid Liquid and 23 Skidoo informs their psychedelic, free-form, high energy, spiritual dub-dance music. For their live performance they will be joined by bass player Susumu Mukai.

23H HALLE

PESSIMIST UK

Berceuse Heroique Blackest Ever Black

Pessimist is Kristian Jabs who also operates under various monikers and in groups such as Soft Boi, Stigma, Boreal Massif and Ruffhouse. He has released music on Blackest Ever Black, his own Pessimist Productions label and most recently on Berceuse Heroique, fusing 90s drum & bass, early experimental hip hop with the bleak abstraction of Birmingham techno.

23H KESSELRAUM TRIBE OF COLIN UK

Tniegebrohood

Honest Jon’s Tniegebrohood Tribe Of Colin first appeared in 2014 with a series of shows on NTS. His releases touch on both immensity and the small. Purposely leaving space for the unspoken, there he leaves room for error, delving into spiritual realms both physical and intangible and using an understated and improvisational approach to house and techno, at times conjuring up a drone-like feel with only percussive elements.

23H HEUBODEN

NOSEDRIP BE Stroom

Nosedrip from Belgium runs the Stroom label, has a show on NTS and is one of the prime voices in Belgian club, ambient and experimental music alike. With Stroom, he has unearthed killer archival gems from the 80s and 90s Avantgarde.

23H JÜNGLINGSHAUS ANDREA PARKINS & BILIANA VOUTCHKOVA BGR/USA

Relative Pitch Important Composer-performer and violinist Biliana Voutchkova and composer and electroacoustic instrumentalist Andrea Parkins have been performing as an improvising duo since 2019. Theirs is a shared and cohesive sonic exchange between the two artists, energetic yet delicate, full of detailed articulations and surprising reciprocal sonic gestures. Andrea Parkins is an American composer, sound artist, performer and improvisational musician based in New York. Biliana Voutchkova is a dynamic and thoroughly engaged interdisciplinary artist, violinist, composer, improviser and curator with a truly personal, unconventional artistic language.

00H KÜHLRAUM

GRID RAVAGE BE

Dropa Disc

Yves De Mey, Gino Coomans & Louis Evrard

Grid Ravage’s debut album for Dropa Disc sounds organic, just like their live performances, the music being born on the spot. The tight drumming of Louis Evrard (Ottla), the razor-sharp cello of Gino Coomans (Sheldon Siegel) and the permeating electronics of Yves De Mey naturally flow into each other. The result is strikingly versatile and accessible, with tension building up in every track, diffusing the boundaries between the three performers. In this way, these three gifted musicians create a slightly paranoid, menacing, noirish atmosphere, definitely suitable as a soundtrack for imaginary night walks through the city.

00H30 HALLE

REZZETT UK

TTT

Rezzett have released an album and several EPs of distorted techno and jungle on The Trilogy Tapes, pioneering a lo-fi sound that has become ubiquitous in the world of dance music. They present a live experience that matches the raw euphoria of their recorded sound, with drum machine-driven wizards and loads of smoke and strobes.

01H KESSELRAUM

JOHN FM USA

XL FXHE TTT

Known for his solo work on Omar S’s FXHE Records and London-based label The Trilogy Tapes, John FM’s sound is one that creatively reinterprets the legacy of Detroit and the American mid-West in patchwork mosaics. There’s a lofi sheen in the recording of his spoken word and sung vocals, with US house influences skewed and slowed into downtempo chugs.

01H HEUBODEN NAOMIE KLAUS FR Bamboo Shows

Naomie Klaus is a French music producer and singer, based in Brussels. Considering herself a failed actress, she constructs her music in the form of stories and micro-sequences in which she has fun performing different characters with her voice. She evokes otherworldly fairytales for adults, where the princesses one meets are hysterical, armed and badly dressed nymphomaniacs.

01H30 HALLE

GAVSBORG JAM Equiknoxx Music DDS

Gavsborg hails from East Kingston, Jamaica and is the founder of Equiknoxx Music. All things Equiknoxx and Gavborg’s work in particular have for years now been wildly sought after, a whole new audience embracing its unique stance and vibe. He has toured extensively with the Equiknoxx Collective as a DJ & live music performer.

01H30 SPEICHER

SO SNER AUT/GER

TAL

Susanna Gartmayer & Stefan Schneider

Musician and producer Stefan Schneider and bass clarinetist and composer Susanna Gartmayer are So Sner. Gartmayer’s bass clarinet polyphonies react and intertwine with Schneider’s subtle and honed electronics. Their sound is accessible, equally oriented towards experiment and tradition. Its roots can be traced back to the UK of the early 80s, an era in which soul, synths, jazz, industrial, avant-garde and polyrhythm were blended in such a way that many possible musics emerged.

02H KESSELRAUM

WEIRD DUST BE

Crevette Jack Playmobil EAR

Weird Dust is the project of Brussels-based producer Michael Crabbé. With one eye on the past, his music nevertheless stems from a futuristic view, a paradox he cherishes in all his productions. Tribal-inspired percussion is layered with heavily processed sounds sourced from analog and digital synths. This is library music for the modern age that resonates. Like going back to the jungle, but on another planet.

02H HEUBODEN

MOOPIE AUS

A Colourful Storm

Melbourne-based label A Colourful Storm has established itself as one of the most unique and forward-thinking labels in the world. It is run by Moopie who as a DJ is daring and eclectic, connecting strands from far corners of electronic music history and pushing them forward alongside contemporary and unreleased cuts, an open-minded approach which can be heard in his Rinse FM residency, Dommune appearances, recordings for cult labels like The Trilogy Tapes and dancefloors around the world.

02H30 SPEICHER ROMÉO POIRIER BE

Sferic Faitiche

Brussels-based musician, photographer and lifeguard Roméo Poirier makes sleek, subaqueous electro-acoustic music. His debut EP was a soundtrack to four of Roméo’s favourite swimming pools, its followup an ode to eight Greek beaches and his latest Hotel Nota once again a declaration of love to being washed up on an empty beach. Poirier uses tactfully textured electronics and timeless dubbing to realise an electronic simulacra of a world which becomes real through its eccentricities and cohesive integration of sounds.

03H HALLE

re:ni UK

Ilian Tape re:ni’s sets join the dots between her dub influences and contemporary bass-driven techno, electro, jungle and breaks. She has a monthly slot on NTS together with Laksa and brings a UK sensibility to the dancefloor, bouncing across bpms with a record bag stacked full of deep basslines and broken rhythms.

03H KESSELRAUM

NTN & MOTHER FR/UK

Few Crackles Concrete Cabin TTT Ntn releases weird and unusual tracks with his mates at Few Crackles, as well as spreading his love for records, first at Rubadub in Glasgow and now as part of the Dizonord team in Marseille. Expect a wide range of danceable tunes, from Dancehall to punk and other oddities heavily charged with bass. Operational under several aliases including Mother, DJ Feedback, DJ Foodbank and DJ Floorfillers, Mark Maxwell is among the current generation of Scottish DJs thinking outside the box. Heavily involved with distribution at Rubadub, Maxwell’s activities extend to running the intermittently active Heated Heads label.

03H30 SPEICHER

ULLA STRAUS USA

Experiences

Ltd Boomkat Editions Motion Ward

Ulla or Ulla Straus is an artist by ways from Kansas and California, currently based in Philadelphia. Her music of dematerialised atmospheres and lilting rhythms has been released on labels such as Quiet Time, Experiences Ltd, West Mineral Ltd and her most recent album Limitless Frame on Motion Ward. Her 2020 album Tumbling Towards A Wall was hailed as one of the best albums of that year.

04H HEUBODEN

TIBSLC GER

Sferic

TIBSLC sculpts hazily ambiguous yet meticulously detailed sounds, hypersensitive to nanoscopic movements and fleeting midnight moods. Blending subtle environmental recordings with processed digital noise and feedback, his work is distinguished by an arcing narrative quality, intimate and voyeuristic. In May 2021 he released his debut album Delusive Tongue Shifts –Situation Based Compositions on Sferic.

05H HEUBODEN

WALRUS BE

Basic Moves Bepotel

Quixotic DJ and producer Walrus revels in idiosyncratic club music. His record label Basic Moves is an adventurous journey through the outer limits of house, techno and electro. Fresh or old tracks, current or unreleased gems, the Basic Moves imprint rephrases sounds and influences spanning multiple generations while keeping an outsider’s spirit at heart. His DJ-sets are carefully crafted assaults on what club music is often perceived to be, confronting his audience with groove and musical space, building up a quirky tension that is as serious as it is open-minded.

11H HEUBODEN LIVE RADIO SHOW BY NICO BOGAERTS BE Radio Panik

Nico Bogaerts will be hosting his live radio broadcast in the Heuboden room, featuring interviews and short, spontaneous live performances with and by artists performing at the festival. The shows will be broadcast on LYL Radio and Radio Panik. In 1992, Nico Bogaerts became part of the Moacrealsloa radio show on Radio Panik, uncovering unknown and undiscovered sounds beyond the usual definition of what is underground in music. The show has been host to performances and interviews with artists from the entire spectrum of avant-garde music.

11H JÜNGLINGSHAUS

SIMON JAMES PHILIPS GER SOLO PIANO

Room40 Mikroton Staubgold

In addition to his concert at Friedenskirche and his performance with Splitter Orchester, Simon James Phillips will also present a solo piano show. Simon James Phillips focuses on broadening the relational connections between musics, participants, heritages, and practises, producing immersive work that explores the perception of time and place through sound and spatialisation. Originally a classical pianist, he has also worked as a cellist, conductor, composer and artist in the disciplines of new and experimental music, classical music, non-western musics, improvisation, electronic music, theatre, dance, performance, film, the visual arts and research.

11H STUDIO NÉAU

SOFT LANDING GER

Soft Landing is a morning radio show, easing you into the festival from Friday to Sunday, run by Amelie and Jonas from the Seanaps Festival in Leipzig. Live improvisations, interviews, music and conversations will guide you through this year’s massive program with special guests for each show.

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12H IKOB

ERIC THIELEMANS BE A SNARE IS A BELL Oorwerk Sub Rosa

As a genre crossing/blending percussionist with a classically trained ear, Eric Thielemans has worked his way via jazz drumming and free improvisation towards his own realms in music and performance. For the past couple of years he has been focusing on the development of a body of solo works, challenging the borders of percussion. He has also worked with a wide range of sound/ visual artists, performers, dancers, etc. Lately his interests have expanded to include the research and reflective space around his practise and work and bring them into a more formal place.

12H30 HEUBODEN

PAUL PAULUN GER

Sounds Central Kompressor

Paul Paulun is a field recordist, sound research engineer, audio collector, writer on a wild array of topics and much more. Some call him a sonic archeologist. He runs the Sounds Central digital archive, now using the DJ mix as a way to make the archive speak, providing sonic environments and a sonic archeology related to that of European medieval cartographers.

12H30 IKOB

EMILIO GORDOA MEX

Wild Sonico LAS

Mexican composer, sound artist, percussionist/vibraphonist Emilio Gordoa works as a soloist next to doing work for theater, dance, documentary films, performance and other interdisciplinary contexts. Focused on experimental music, sound art, noise, free jazz, improvisation and contemporary music, he redefines the vibraphone as a source, treating it with preparations and extended techniques.

13H HINTERHOF OLAF KARNIK GER

Do The Wrong Thing

Olaf Karnik lives in Cologne and has worked for over 30 years as an author and journalist for both the written press and radio. He has published books on African-American pop music and reggae in Germanyand has been making music since 1985. His Do The Wrong Thing DJ show is broadcast on 674FM and he is involved in organising the Dub(früh)Stück in Cologne.

13H STUDIO NÉAU

JULIAN WEBER GER IN CONVERSATION WITH GAVSBORG JAM

Gavsborg hails from East Kingston, Jamaica and is the founder of Equiknoxx Music. All things Equiknoxx and Gavborg’s work in particular have for years now been wildly sought after, a whole new audience embracing its unique stance and vibe. He has toured extensively with the Equiknoxx Collective as a DJ & live music performer. Julian Weber, editor at the culture section of German newspaper taz. and internet radio ByteFM, will talk with Gavsborg about his work.

13H30 IKOB

AYMERIC DE TAPOL BE

TTT Vlek Lexi Disques Aymeryc De Tapol’s production work touches upon musique concrète, drone, pulse-driven music and field recordings, with records on Vlek, Ängström records and Knotwilg. His sonic world is unique and detailed and often plays with soothing as well as confrontational elements.

14H STUDIO NÉAU INSTITUT FÜR BETRACHTUNG GER IN CONVERSATION WITH

Philipp Höning and Thorsten Schneider, who are behind Institut für Betrachtung together with Wolfgang Brauneis and Hans-Jürgen Hafner, will host the IfB radio shows during the festival. More info on page 13.

14H30 HEUBODEN NICK MALKIN USA

Mondoj Sun Ark

Nick Malkin is an artist and musician based in Los Angeles, California. Over the past ten years, Malkin has released numerous recordings that occupy a unique space between several musical traditions: musique concrète, electronic ambient, jazz and modern compositional. He currently hosts Post-Geography, a long-running radio show on NTS and operates a small imprint of the same name with a focus on idiosyncratic electronic music. He has released albums on Geographic North, Soda Gong and Mondoj among others.

15H KÜHLRAUM

RHH BE audioMER.

RHH is the duo of Eitan Efrat and Laszlo Umbreit, mixing electronics, field recordings and drums. RHH is a natural development of their long lasting collaboration on Eitan’s audiovisual pieces in the field of contemporary art. Their music puts in motion sonic elements of different films they worked on (together or separately) as well as live improvisation on drums and various electronics. Laszlo Umbreit is a Belgian sound designer, sound researcher and musician based in Brussels. Eitan Efrat is a drummer and audiovisual artist whose practice focuses on the performative aspects of the moving image.

15H HINTERHOF ULRICH TROYER AT

4Bit Productions Deep Medi Musik

Ulrich Troyer is a composer, sound designer, musician and artist based in Vienna. He has been a member of the Vegetable Orchestra since 2005. His is committed to dub production methods which serve as a perfect playground for his sonic experiments, showcasing his love for sound system culture. He will present his project MOMENTS.

DAY 3 SATURDAY

15H IKOB

MAIKA GARNICA & AIKO DEVRIENDT BE

Maika Garnica and Aiko Devriendt got to know each other in 2017. Garnica is a visual artist who creates ceramic sound objects through which she investigates the tension between body, sound and environment. With Devriendt’s technical knowledge and musical background, the duo investigates the sound spectrum of every ceramic object. Emotionally and intuitively, they translate this into spherical, almost dreamy performances with abstract figures, flowing sound shapes and colours, complementing each other with ease and poise.

15H30 HEUBODEN

DJ MORPHEUS BE

SSR Minimal Compact Crammed

Mostly known as the man behind the acclaimed Freezone series, and as the host of his own Lysergic Factory radio show (aired weekly on several cuttingedge European stations), DJ Morpheus is a man with a rich musical history. He started out as a teenage poet, was quite infatuated with the works of the Beat Generation, published some books and translated his favourite writers into Hebrew. In the mid-Eighties he was the lead singer and main lyricist with cult band Minimal Compact. As a DJ he always looks for the most original and inventive tunes in each genre, thus earning himself the dangerous honour of being considered as ‘one of the originators of freestyle’.

16H KESSELRAUM

PAVEL MILYAKOV RUS

PSY X TTT Smalltown Supersound

Pavel Milyakov is very much known as Buttechno, but recently his focus has shifted toward experiments released under real name. Here he finds a more experimental angle, creating abstract and freeform pieces that reflect his desire to create complex conceptual works, where sound sits alongside visual artwork, representing the music across varied spaces using the possibilities of both sound and light.

16H HINTERHOF

AL WOOTTON UK TRULE Amidah

Al Wootton is a producer, DJ, artist and operator of the record labels TRULE and Amidah Recordings. Through his own releases and those on his label, he navigates between techno, dub, UK garage, and sparse, hypnotic percussion workouts. He is also one third of the band Holy Tongue.

16H STUDIO NÉAU

KNOTWILG BE RADIO SHOW

Knotwilg records is a label that acts as a personal portal into accessible experimental music. It releases music and distributes like-minded artists in contemporary DIY style, co-curates concerts, events and the annual Knotwilg festival. DJ Klakke will host a radio show at Studio Néau.

17H KÜHLRAUM EC BAND BE/USA

Meakusma

The EC Band are American Brussels-based painter, singer and musician Luke Calzonetti and Belgian visual artist, performer and percussionist Stijn Wybouw. Swirling in transcendental improv overtones, undulating layers of synth lashings, cymbal echoes, and some laid-back guitar action mesh on a spaced out trip, a sense of belonging resisting clear grasp.

17H30 HEUBODEN

LOTO RETINA FR

Promesses

Orange Milk

France’s Loto Retina, real name Tony Marie, produces crisp, digital avant-garde music using pure data and more to achieve new and exciting audio worlds. Delicate ambient moments and sections of pure texture combine with lower fidelity synth tones and samples.

DAY 3 SATURDAY

17H30 HINTERHOF

GRRRR GER

Tax Free

Percussion heavy dubs from the Tax Free camp. GRRRR are remorseless purveyors of all possible bass and structural intentions in dub music. No fillers.

18H KESSELRAUM

IGNAZ SCHICK & OLIVER STEIDLE GER

Zarek

Ignaz Schick and Oliver Steidle’s early music was clearly rooted in the noise and power play tradition with harsh and intense cut-ups. They have meanwhile subtly refined their approach, their music now displaying several layers of crisp rhythm, sophisticated noise, de- and reconstructed beats and finely processed and manipulated electro-acoustic samples combining a fresh approach to turntablism and sampling combined with virtuoso drumming. They draw inspiration from jazz, improvisation, noise and electro-acoustic music, paying tribute to hip hop, dubstep and house.

18H SPEICHER

SUSO SÁIZ ESP

Music from Memory Geometrik

Legendary Spanish ambient and experimental composer Suso Sáiz presents a concert in which he shows his restless open-mindedness in his role as a guitarist, the guitar together with electronics helping him to create atmospheres and sound textures of hypnotic beauty, shaping an exquisite sound universe often based on drones and loops often referencing American minimalist music. Ever since 2016, Saiz’s compositional work has known a huge revival, deservedly defining him as a quintessential voice in ambient and experimental music over the past 40 years.

18H STUDIO NÉAU BEYOND FOLKLORE (ÖHRCHEN & WELT)

SOLO SPECIAL

LILxRASxTIMI aka JAHxPRINZxBJUTI aka KINGxIxSEXI (Düsseldorf, Köln, Aachen) plays two hours of Soundscapes, Vaporrave, Dubpop, Heavy Listening and Dancehall with a touch of Folklore.

18H30 HEUBODEN

LUKID UK

Werkdiscs TTT Liberation Technologies

Lukid is Luke Blaid, an electronic music producer from London, England. He has released on Werkdiscs, Liberation Technologies and his own label Glum and is one half Rezzett. He also releases as Refreshers, on a record label of the same name. Lukid hosts a monthly show on NTS Radio.

18H30 HINTERHOF YEAHLENA EST

Ace Tone Tax Free

Yeahlena from Estonia, now based in Berlin, has worked closely with Ace Tone and Tax Free, helping them shape unique soundsystem parties. She runs the monthly Heavy Duty show on Radio 80000. Her sets prioritise physical perception of sound and low frequencies.

19H KÜHLRAUM “A” TRIO LB

Al Maslakh Roaratorio

Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui & Raed Yassin

“A” Trio is probably the oldest Lebanese improv group. They recorded the first free jazz album to be produced in the Arab world, later moving away from jazz towards a more textural approach. Kerbaj, Sehnaoui and Yassin have developed a characteristic sound that is creative yet simple, acoustic yet powerful. Their live performances are extremely playful and rely on a strong visual component.

20H HALLE

EMILY JEANNE BE Semantica Voltage Fuse

Joining the dots between high energy techno and caustic, wide-angle atmospherics, Emily Jeanne has developed a unique voice as both a DJ and producer. The Belgian artist, who spent her formative years between Vietnam and Ghent honing her craft as a selector, has carved out a sonic space that exists in equal parts as an homage to the reduced purism of the genre and as a way forward to pastures new.

20H KESSELRAUM

RABIH BEAINI LB/GER

Morphine Honest Jon’s Lebanese-born producer and DJ Rabih Beaini (formerly known as Morphosis) specialises in grainy, imaginative analogue techno. His Morphine label has zoomed in on often overlooked voices in avant-garde electronic and outernational music. Beaini’s genuine musical ability and range of influences seep into his inventive, dark, and emotional productions and immersive DJ-sets. He served as a producer for albums from pioneering American composer Pauline Oliveros, French mechanical-orchestra creator Pierre Bastien and explosive Indonesian duo Senyawa.

20H HEUBODEN BENJAMIN FREENEY UK Foom

Founder and A&R of the Foom label and producer of the Arthur Russell’s Instrumentals European and Australian tours of 2015-16, Benjamin Freeney released Temperature High (Benjamin Freeney Versions) in 2020, a suite of reworks of Tim Burgess & Peter Gordon’s Temperature High featuring Arthur Russell collaborators Mustafa Ahmed and Peter Zummo, on percussion and trombone, respectively. His Foom record label is unique due to its very eclectic nature, releasing minimalist club music next to contemporary classical and Avantgarde music.

20H HINTERHOF FELIX HALL UK TTT NTS

London-based NTS resident and DJ Felix Hall stands for eclecticism within the often purist spheres of dancehall and reggaeton. Hall has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Jamaican sound system culture and a make or break mixing technique. He has released mixtapes on The trilogy Tapes and Promesses.

20H EUPEN PLAZA

ELISA KÜHNL DE

Ana Ott

In collaboration with ReiheM

Elisa Kühnl lives in Cologne and is a musician and sound artist. She is part of the Nasssau music collective, author of the grapefruit fanzine, founder of the experimental choir γλώσσα (Glossa) and performs solo with her voice as her main instrument. She questions and expands the usual rules of singing in order to explore spontaneous manifestations of pure sound and noise.

20H30 EUPEN PLAZA

SPLITTER ORCHESTER GER

Mikroton Gagarin Records

In collaboration with Ostbelgienfestival

Founded in 2010 in Berlin, the Splitter Orchester is comprised of internationally renown composers, interpreters, improvisers and performers, drawing inspiration from a variety of genres, most noticeably contemporary and improvised music. All members and participants of the Splitter Orchester choose not to work within an institutionalised framework. On Saturday evening, they will be world-premiering their Split Tour project, a sonic tour de force for orchestra, score, conductor and composer. Split Tour features 21 individual audio tracks, one for each performer, each with a unique narrative, guiding the musicians through the piece sonically and performatively, each musician hearing only their personalised audio track on headphones. For their Sunday concert, check page 46.

21H KÜHLRAUM ÈLG ET LA CHIMIE FR/BE

Vlek Three:Four

Laurent Gerard, Johann Mazé & Marie Nachury

Laurent Gérard alias Èlg never ceases to draw the sonic equivalent of concentric spirals and labyrinths made of cedars, brambles and guts. By constantly renewing his instrumentarium over the years, he has built improbable bridges between musique concrète and songwriting, diagonal spoken word and wormholes, electronic incantations in crypt and blob choirs. The language is sometimes francophone, sometimes reduced to an alien babble, invoking the old man, the madman, the child, the dusty revenant, the epileptic bard or the messenger of love.

22H HALLE

JAMES K USA

Incienso AD 93

James K is a New York native multi-disciplinary artist. Her sound, equally organic and electronic, is a combination of odd dreams, hybridizing enchanted samples, ripped, broken and morphed rhythms, and vocals, both incomprehensible and appealing. She has released on labels such as AD 93, Psychic Liberation, PAN, Dial and her own She Rocks!, and will release her next LP on Incienso in 2022.

22H KESSELRAUM

CASPRO BE Moon Sounds Dust

Caspro is a music lover and record collector from Ostbelgien. He focuses on content, more than appearances, spinning electro, techno and house and is not afraid to reach beyond, into the outer regions of club music and more.

22H HEUBODEN

FRONT DE CADEAUX BE/IT

Antinote Emet

Front de Cadeaux, referring to the Italian way of pronouncing Front 242, the Belgian EBM legends, started operations in 2013. Very naturally, their decade long DJ and production experience merged into one, amplifying their vision that dance culture urgently needs a revolution. They play 90 bpm in a club at 3AM, showing everyone that the body follows the groove, and not the bpm, a capitalist and macho construct that is making crowds go numb instead of making them dance.

22H SPEICHER

WILD TERRIER ORCHESTRA GRC Haunter Records Jay

Glass Dubs

Wild Terrier Orchestra is a new project by Dimitris Papadatos, aka Jay Glass Dubs, based on interchangeability and open improvisation. Initiated during the first Covid-19 lockdown, it is a flexible ensemble that consists of various collaborators who mostly work together online. Currently, Wild Terrier Orchestra are Foteini Korre on ney, vocals and synthesizer, Ilias Livieratos on drums and percussion and Papadatos on electronics, vocals and almost everything else. Their debut release Even The Chimera was released on Haunter Records in March 2022.

23H HALLE

ANTHONY NAPLES USA Incensio Proibito TTT

Anthony Naples is a New York City-based musician, producer, and DJ, as well as co-owner of the Incienso and Proibito record labels.There are few boundaries between house, techno, italo, disco, miami bass, chill out and other strains of dance music – all of which, in turn, influence Anthony as a DJ. He has released his own work on The Trilogy Tapes, Text, Good Morning Tapes and many more.

23H KÜHLRAUM

HUMBROS FR

Les Ateliers Claus Knotwilg

Les Ateliers Claus & Knotwilg

Showcase

French duo Humbros mixes percussion with multiple effects and synthesizers. In a game of distorting mirrors, wood, skins, metals are all raw materials that merge and undulate. The duo seeks the confusion of acoustic and electronic sounds, oscillating between minimalism and free-rock, between angular patterns and dripping textures, between natural sounds and sci-fi soundscapes.

23H30 KESSELRAUM

AJUKAJA & ATS EST

Porridge Bullet IDA

Ajukaja and Ats are long-serving movers of the Estonian underground, both vital in catering to Tallinn night mutants. Ajukaja has been running his show Vibratsioon on national Raadio 2 for over 20 years, while Ats started on the same channel a decade ago and is now part of the trio who started online station IDA. Add running record labels Porridge Bullet and MIDA to the mix plus DJ’ing together regularly, the duo also produces music together, recording piles of muddy house experiments on old, not functioning and barely functioning apparatus.

00H HEUBODEN

TAPES UK/EST

Jahtari Good Morning Tapes Porridge Bullet Meeuw Muzak

Tapes is the longstanding project of London-based recording artist and cassette DJ Jackson Bailey. Mixing up dub, library music and all sounds psychedelic, Tapes performs solely off two cassette decks, mixer and delay. With releases on Jahtari, Astro:dynamics, Meeuw Muzak and his own label Selah Wadada, he continues to push the sonic bias boundaries. He also works behind the scenes as a producer, lending his talents to the likes of reissue label Music from Memory and the Estonian label Porridge Bullet.

00H SPEICHER

MATHIEU SERRUYS BE B.A.A.D.M.

Experimental musician and graphic designer Mathieu Serruys’s work is characterized by cinematic tape loops and eroded synth riffs. Heavily edited field recordings bring micro worlds, made up by dreamy melodies, to the surface. The murmuring chaos of old tape recorders create a stunning emotional beauty. Serruys co-runs the Belgian B.A.A.D.M. label, its main interest in the exploration of music as a medium to evoke extramusical meanings, references, obsessions or strategies that can lay hidden behind sound.

00H30 KESSELRAUM

VIOLA KLEIN GER

Workshop Meakusma

Viola Klein is the house music ‘auteur’ behind two beautiful and contemplative yet powerful house music records on her own Viola Klein imprint, next to releasing music on Meakusma and Workshop. Her work explores the social forces inherent in house music. She has been hailed as one of the most original voices in house music today. Her DJ-sets are eclectic celebrations of house music spirit.

01H30 HALLE

OSSIA UK

Berceuse

Heroique Blackest Ever Black

Ossia’s sound world is an amalgamation of heavy-weather, beyond-good-andevil soundsystem poetics, channelling raw and rootical techno, isolationist abstraction and dub at its most turbulent and raw-nerved. Through running a range of record labels and being a member of Bristol’s Young Echo Sound, he has amassed a wide knowledge and in-depth understanding of music that informs his own skewed, futuristic drenched-in-dread aesthetic and his unhinged take on soundsystem and club music.

01H30 HEUBODEN

MANA DJ’S UK Mana Mana Showcase

Mana is a record label established in 2017 by Andrea Zarza and Matthew Kent. They present works with an archival and contemporary sound, redrawing perspectives in narrative through a playful, radical and unexpected approach. The exchange of new and old avant-garde, traditional and electronic music shapes Mana’s language and landscape; a platform to which Andrea Zarza and Matthew Kent bring their diverse and complementary backgrounds. Zarza is a curator at the British Library Sound Archive, Kent ran the online platform Blowing Up The Workshop for a decade.

02H KESSELRAUM

JULION DE’ANGELO USA

Sound Signature Freedom School Meakusma

Julion De’Angelo is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and DJ based in Detroit who brings an experimental sensibility and familiarity with the avant-garde to his music, with acute attention to the impact of vibrations on bodies. He released a debut split-EP called Roots That Talk with Thomas Xu, on Sound Signature and collaborated with Viola Klein on the acclaimed We 12inch, released jointly by Meakusma, Ominira and Viola Klein.

02H SPEICHER

ADRIAAN DE ROOVER & PIETER DUDAL BE Dauw Consouling Sounds

Adriaan de Roover and Pieter Dudal are two musicians from Belgium. After a residency in the spring of 2021, where they created a tape loop sound installation, they decided to explore the possibilities of their collaboration further in a live context. They build their world around tape loops, recording everything on the spot, processing and mixing these loops live into a sound collage.

02H30 HALLE

SHED PRESENTS THE HIGHER GER

XL Ostgut Ton 50 Weapons

Shed is still one of the most vital voices in contemporary techno music, running his own Soloaction Records label and releasing instant techno classics on Ostgut Ton, 50Weapons, Monkeytown and many others. His evocative live sets have an unsurpassed raw power, merging rough dance floor skeletons with detailed melodies, harmonic structures and airy arrangements. He will be presenting his new The Higher project live.

03H SPEICHER

ML GER

Radio Cómeme NTS Radio

ML is from Cologne and loves sound and vision. He is a journalist and night owl and runs the 150 Session radio show, first for Radio Cómeme, now for NTS Radio. ML’s shows are an eclectic genre meltdown that marries avant-techno with rural chants from the past, odd house emotions with detailed minimal music, psychedelic fuzz with big city jazz and beyond. No country, no flag, ML is outernational without a cause. He released the Looted Lagoons album on Kashual Plastik in 2021.

03H30 HALLE

PHILLIP JONDO GER SPA Dekmantel

Phillip Jondo is a longtime resident of Salon des Amateurs in Düsseldorf and London’s NTS Radio, breaking down the essence of dancehall, R&B, jungle, rap and bass-heavy techno into challenging, yet highly impactful sets. He co-runs the Spa Recordings label and has recently shifted his focus towards the studio, crafting grimy club meditations alongside Melbourne’s DJ Plead and composer/ double-bass player Maxwell Sterling.

03H30 KESSELRAUM

THOMAS MEINECKE GER F.S.K. Workshop

Thomas Meinecke is a writer of numerous novels and stories since 1986, published by Suhrkamp Verlag. His most recent novel Selbst came out in 2016. As a musician, he is a member of the legendary German experimental band F.S.K. which was founded in 1980, next to collaborating on many electronic music projects with Move D since 1998. He is also an active DJ.

03H30 HEUBODEN

MADALYN MERKEY

Mana Mana Showcase

USA

Madalyn Merkey is a composer and performer of live computer music based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Merkey creates sound events with elemental sonic material—voice, sine waves, and pulses—to generate lush synthetic environments with the aid of acoustic readings from microphones and sensors. Her recent work observes the principles of acoustic instruments and material spaces to design real-time sound synthesis programs.

04H30 HEUBODEN

HADJ SAMEER FR

TTT Future Times Ominira

Half scientist, half rare records collector and selector, Hadj Sameer, born and raised in the Parisian suburbs, is an eclectic DJ affiliated to labels such as TTT, Future Times and Ominira for which he expresses different facets of his broad musical spectrum through his mixtapes with a very particular identity to each of them. Sameer is currently setting up his own musical imprint.

11H HEUBODEN

INFUSO GIALLO & FOG PUMA GER

Kame House Cashmere

Infuso Giallo is a DJ and producer from Cologne, currently living in Berlin. Together with uomo di carne he runs Kame House Records. Fog Puma explores the outer edges of dance music, especially those of leftfield and cosmic disco. His DJ-sets are percussive, tribal, dubby, psychedelic and minimalist, always on slower terrain.

11H STUDIO NÉAU

SOFT LANDING GER

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Soft Landing is a morning radio show, easing you into the festival from Friday to Sunday, run by Amelie and Jonas from the Seanaps Festival in Leipzig. Live improvisations, interviews, music and conversations will guide you through this year’s massive program with special guests for each show.

12H30 HINTERHOF

RICHARD AKINGBEHIN GER Kynant Refuge Worldwide

Richard Akingbehin is the founder of techno, dub and experimental label Kynant Records and the co-founder of Berlin-based community radio station Refuge Worldwide.

13H HEUBODEN

MICAMAT IT

Volume

Micamat, real name Michele Giovannini, joined Homework in Bologna, a collective promoting DIY culture through a festival and a netlabel. Based in Brussels, he partakes in different sound projects combining guitar and electronics. He hosts VOLUME on Kiosk Radio, moving freely from ambient and experimental sounds to ethno music. He also experiments with new forms of self-organisation for activism, art and culture.

13H

STUDIO NÉAU

LIVE RADIO SHOW BY NICO BOGAERTS BE Radio Panik

Nico Bogaerts will be hosting his live radio broadcast in the Heuboden room, featuring interviews and short, spontaneous live performances with and by artists performing at the festival. The shows will be broadcast on Studio Néau and Radio Panik. In 1992, Nico Bogaerts became part of the Moacrealsloa radio show on Radio Panik. Moacrealsloa aims to uncover unknown and undiscovered sounds beyond the usual definition of what is underground in music. The show has been host to performances and interviews with artists from the entire spectrum of avant-garde music, boasting eclecticism and an ear for musicological detail.

13H30 FRIEDENSKIRCHE

LILLY JOEL PLAYS THE ORGAN BE Sub Rosa

Lilly Joel Plays the Organ is the most recent project of Brussels-Paris based improv duo Lilly Joel. They have meanwhile traded their electronic set-up for a semi-acoustic one, replacing the fender rhodes with a church organ and shifting their repertoire from improvised music towards a repertoire inspired by medieval composer Hildegard Von Bingen. Ever loyal to their oneiric universe, they effortlessly blend a passion for sound exploration with a highly personal approach to compositions from various styles and eras.

14H HEUBODEN

LOW BAT FR

Mutant Radio

Former booker of Arkaoda Berlin and now scheduler at the Tbilissi-based Mutant Radio, Low Bat sees life in mauve. Now located in the French Pays Noir (Valenciennes, northern France) he also contributes to his voice band Jean-Luc.

14H30

HINTERHOF FROID DUB FR

Delodio

Froid Dub boasts a unique concoction of modern digi-dub, a crossover between wave and dub, both hot and cold, organic and digital. An equation already sketched out by post-punk at the end of the 70s, updated here with a touch of club culture and a more personal vibe. Run by F.M. (François Marché) & Fafane (Stéphane Bodin), who together run the Delodio label.

14H30

FRIEDENSKIRCHE ROBYN SCHULKOWSKY & GEBRÜDER TEICHMANN USA/GER

Noland

Born and raised in South Dakota, Robyn Schulkowsky has been an innovator and collaborator all of her life, dedicating herself to revealing the wonders of percussion to people around the world. Her continuous exploration of new sound dimensions has led to the development of new and unusual musical instruments. The Berlin-based Gebrüder Teichmann work as musicians, DJs, producers and cultural activists. Their work is not limited by style or genre borders. Schulkowsky and the Teichmann brothers together transfer rhythm and sound to a free realm, discarding false opposites.

14H30 EUPEN PLAZA

PAUL PANKERT BE Kl-EX

In collaboration with Ostbelgienfestival

Violinist Paul Pankert focuses primarily on the performance of contemporary and baroque music. He is also a composer and plays solo violin in and serves as artistic director of the Dutch contemporary music group Ensemble 88. He is a co-founder of the KL-EX association, an organisation based in Eastern Belgium that focuses on the development, production and performance of new works in the field of experimental, contemporary and improvised music.

15H KÜHLRAUM

TIM BERRESHEIM GER LA GROTTA DELLA FENICE New Amerika Alarm

In the summer of 2022, Aachen-based contemporary artist Tim Berresheim will start his new exhibition series La grotta della fenice in galleries and museums in Aachen and Cologne. A new soundtrack has been created to tie all the exhibitions together and will premiere at the Meakusma Festival. After the show, his band and Studios New Amerika team members will take over Studio Néau and broadcast a special festival show of Beyond Folklore (Öhrchen & Welt) featuring phire and phlames, phriends and picon.

15H30

HEUBODEN

LEILA HASSAN AUT/GER Sea Urchin

Leila Hassan is an audio visual artist. She uses voice as a key element for her music, with a unique bifocal touch. On the one hand, she produces textile pieces and ceramic objects, mixing new media like video and audio recordings into her sonic projects, combined with live screenings with light, lenses, glass and other raw materials. On the other hand, she performs in a band, dubs characters in readings and sound pieces like radio plays and experimental movies, does poetry and interprets popular music like RAI 80s lo fi pop and dub music.

15H30

HINTERHOF

DJ PLEAD AUS

Boomkat Editions Nervous Horizon

DJ Plead is a Melbourne/Naarm producer, who is based in Berlin and makes percussive, frenetic yet emotive club music. Drawing on his Lebanese background, he makes tough, functional, and percussive tracks, referencing the rhythms, scales and timbres of Lebanese pop and traditional Lebanese wedding music, blending them with contemporary RnB, Club and other dance styles. He is the founder of the SUMAC label.

16H15 HEUBODEN MORTHEN KIANG BE

9300 Meakusma

Morthen Kiang’s music takes inspiration from the many Detroit techno, Chicago house, acid and early trance records he has been collecting since the start of this century. He is a real connaisseur of the classic house and techno sound and is renowned for his energetic and highly danceable DJ-sets. His own music first appeared on the Rüts compilation on Meakusma in 2008. His first solo 12inch will be out on 9300 Records this year.

16H EUPEN PLAZA

SPLITTER ORCHESTER GER SPLIT TOUR Mikroton Gagarin Records

In collaboration with Ostbelgienfestival

Founded in 2010 in Berlin, the Splitter Orchester is comprised of internationally renown composers, interpreters, improvisers and performers, drawing inspiration from a variety of genres, most noticeably contemporary and improvised music. Their palette is broad, using traditional, electronic and tailor-made instruments. The Splitter Orchester will play twice. On Saturday evening they will perform a collective, improvised session and on Sunday, they will be world-premiering their Split Tour project. Split Tour features 21 individual audio tracks, one for each performer, each with a unique narrative, guiding the musicians through the piece sonically and performatively. The 21 audio tracks are played via separate playback devices with each musician hearing only their personalised audio track on headphones, and not those of the other performers. Each 40-minute individual and subversive track provides specific instructions and guide lines for musical perfomance through narration. Split Tour is thus a sonic tour for orchestra, score, conductor and composer all in one. Staging the Split Tour project is easily the biggest production Meakusma has ever done.

Tour

17H KÜHLRAUM

MAURICE LOUCA EGY

Northern Spy Sub Rosa Nawa

Maurice Louca, an Egyptian musician and composer born in Cairo, is one of the most gifted, prolific and adventurous figures on Egypt’s thriving experimental arts scene today. He has in recent years garnered a global reputation through his solo albums and an expanding, evolving slab of genre-defying collaborations. He is the co-founder of the bands Bikya, Alif and Dwarves of East Agouza.

17H KESSELRAUM

JULIEN DESPREZ FR AGORA

Morphine Dark Tree

Performing solo with only his guitar, using effect pedals as instruments, Julien Desprez is a performer that engages all the senses. The body as a theme runs though all of his work. His Agora piece for electronics, impedance games, electric guitar and Podorythmie, was created during the autumn 2020 confinement. It is a soft and explosive piece that ruptures and reconciles its elements. Playful and frantic, it creates a multiple world that depends on the perfection of its audience.

17H30 HEUBODEN

NONLOCAL RESEARCH CHL

LYL

Nonlocal Research is a carrier for adventurous music, steered by three: Embassador Dulgoon, Rev 23 and Siet Phorae. Born from sci-fi feelings and a love for sonic fictions, they support like-minded artists and xenophiles. NLR’s catalogue explores and bridges experimental music of genre-bending hybrids from all over the globe in ever humble ways. Releases can take up the shape of cassettes, CDs, live events and unusual formats. Always allowing the manifestation of audio-visual and conceptual aspects, with a strong preference for the weird and wondrous.

Nawa

17H30 HINTERHOF 54 SOUND BE

54 Kolaktiv

54 Sound is a completely handcrafted soundsystem, built by 54 Kolaktiv and friends. They will play a DJ Set on their soundsystem. Noticing a strong lack of mobile and quality soundsystems in Brussels and inspired by Jamaican soundsystem culture and free party culture, they decided to build their own. The system was developed during a workshop in September 2014, under the guidance of the Belgian reggae crews Jahmbassador Hi-Fi and Ionyouth Sound. 54Kolaktiv now organises parties using their own soundsystem, but the system is also available to other organisations and for other events.

18H HALLE MAYA SHENFELD ISR

Thrill Jockey

Maya Shenfeld is a Jerusalem-born Berlin-based composer and musician. She explores the intersection between modes of musical production used in popular, electronic, and experimental music. Her work encompasses electro-acoustic compositions, site-specific sound installations, ensemble performances, music for film and TV, as well as solo live electronic sets. Her sweeping, transportive debut solo album In Free Fall, encompasses a series of electroacoustic pieces for analogue synths, brass, electric guitar and a youth choir.

19H KÜHLRAUM

ANIL ERASLAN & TOM MALMENDIER & IGNAZ SCHICK TUR/BE/DE

eux saem

The accumulated experiences of cellist, composer and improviser Anil Eraslan, experimental musician, sound & visual artist, performer and composer Ignaz Schick and drummer and improviser Tom Malmendier cover a lot of ground, from prog-rock to punk, contemporary music, electronic, ambient and post-rock. These idiosyncratic musicians offer a challenging musical voice, drawing from a sense of urgency and chaos, rich with ironic gestures and musical games.

19H KESSELRAUM GUIDO MÖBIUS GER

Karaoke

Kalk Dekorder

Guido Möbius makes no attempt whatsoever to translate his album tracks into a live performance. With the help of no more than his guitar, his voice, a trumpet and loads of effect pedals, he creates highly energetic music in between humour and hypnosis. In his live sets Möbius creates delicate links between experimentation, handmade techno, funk, polyrhythmic patterns, acid, weird noises and gospel music.

19H HEUBODEN

G E K & FARIDA AMADOU BE/GER

Takuroku

Golden Pudel VIS

Farida Amadou is a musician and performer based in Brussels. The electric bass is her main instrument. She plays a wide array of musical genres including blues, jazz and hip-hop and is one of the up-and-coming Belgian artists on the international free and improv scenes. Musician and DJ G E K, also known as F#X, has been active in the electronic and experimental music scene around Hamburg’s Golden Pudel Club for more than a decade. His musical work sets its core in the correspondence of machines, shaped by tapes and tubes, fed by algorithmic sequences.

20H HEUBODEN GAZZA GER

Osterinsel

Gazza is a Berlin-based classified archivist for scientific literature and reporter at the Archive of Youth Cultures, empowering librarians’ cultural accuracy when it comes to music and records. He unearths mostly private records on his YouTube channel Osterinsel which he runs together with Camp Cosmic veteran Bærnd Anders. In his DJ-sets, he combines dubby, industrial reggae or disco and wave-influenced dance tunes with deep cuts of the German-speaking world in his DJ-sets, including echoes of instrumental folk and early electronics up to unexpected clubby spheres.

20H30 HALLE

MICHIEL DE MALSCHE & HIS ORCHESTRA BE THE DISCOMFORT OF EVENING

Michiel De Malsche is a Belgian composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound designer. He studied classical composition at the conservatories of Rotterdam and Ghent. His contemporary music has been performed all over the world and he has composed and produced dozens of soundtracks for contemporary dance, theatre, movies and documentaries. Besides his work as a contemporary classical composer, he is active as a studio musician and producer in the world of electronic music. The Discomfort of Evening will get its world premiere at the festival and was developed with the support of Ostbelgien.

21H30

KÜHLRAUM

ASHER GAMEDZE & XRISTIAN ESPINOZA ZA/USA

On The Corner Intl Anthem Rec

Gamedze (drums) and Espinoza (saxophone and percussion) play together in an exploratory duo format. Espinoza is based in Chicago and works as an anti-disciplinary artist, making multidimensional visual and sculptural pieces and expresses himself on multiple instruments. Gamedze is based in Cape Town and works as a musician, an organiser, a writer and a historian. They first started playing together in Angel Bat Dawid’s band Tha Brothahood in 2019. Gamedze’s debut Dialectic Soul came out in 2020.

21H30

KESSELRAUM

LAURINE FROST HU

Lyka

Laurine Frost released his debut album Lena in 2020, an engaging collage of jazz and dub influences through wonky polyrhythmic patterns and organic and abstracted bass-heavy drums, breaks and percussion. Frost works beyond musical fashions and trends, aiming for a musical point of view against cliché and repetition.

22H HEUBODEN

SAGAT BE

Vlek Lexi Disques

Sagat moves the listener into forever unexpected syncopations and melodic elements that seem to tell the story of human flesh being fused with fiberoptics. He has released on labels such as Vlek, BXL Records, Bepotel and Meakusma. His dancefloor-focused cuts show an incredible attention to detail and an openness to experimental influences.

22H30 HALLE

TANIA CHEN & LÊ QUAN NINH

Fractal Split Rock Eux Saem

USA/FR

Tania Caroline Chen is based in New York and London. She has made a name for herself as a compelling and unpredictable sound artist in the realm of piano, astro-electronics and audible entities with electroacoustic, electro-pop and ambient elements. Classically-trained percussionist Lê Quan Ninh has worked in the interpretation of contemporary music as well as in free improvisation since the early 1980s.

23H HEUBODEN

PRETTY SNEAKY DE

Mana Pretty Sneaky Meakusma

Mana Showcase

Pretty Sneaky is one of the most exciting producers to have popped up in the past couple of years, proof of a very modern view on how to treat musical and artistic influences with ease and without fuss. He runs his own Pretty Sneaky label, next to releasing on Mana and Meakusma. He is a master of the nonlinear, polyrhythmic groove.

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GALERIE VORN UND OBEN

MIKA OKI FR PARHELION

Co-production with STUK FRIDAY 13H-19H

SATURDAY/SUNDAY 11H-19H

The Parhelion phenomenon (Sun Dog in English) is an optical effect due to the reflection of light on the ice crystals creating iridescent luminous spots in clouds and an impression of the sun’s demultiplication. Like a “trip” above a sea of clouds, Parhelion is an immersive experience seeking to disturb our senses and recreate imagery drawn from our unconscious. The installation recreate artificial landscapes oscillating between the imaginary and the artificial character of technological tools. Parhelion plays with the loss of gravity in an unlimited space that transports us to the shores of dream and wonder. With a background in sculpture and electro-acoustic music, Mika Oki explores the notion of intangible spaces and emotional landscapes through AV installations, music and mixes.

GALERIE VORN UND OBEN

DANIEL JODOCY BE/USA SOUNDBOXGARDEN

FRIDAY 13H-19H

SATURDAY/SUNDAY 11H-19H

Scientist, musician and instrument builder Daniel Jodocy hails from Eastern Belgium, but moved to New York in 1997. He has recorded with musicians, artists and bands such as Jonas Mekas, Bill Frisell, Q Tip, John Zorn, Art Baron and many more. He is a member of the Dizzy Ventilators project and also works for David Byrne’s American Utopia show on Broadway. Jodocy will be artist-in-residence for the Meakusma Festival and will present his Soundboxgarden project in which instruments play themselves, revealing their sensual nature and conjuring up a sonic massage that is contemplative and engaging. The tactile, mechanical processes are limited to the parts of the instruments interacting with each other, allowing the visitor to passively admire them, like watching a bird warble in the park. Soundboxgarden is uncrowded in every sense of the term, allowing the visitor to immerse themselves without overwhelming themselves.

Utopia show which that the uncrowded sense

SPECIALS SPECIALS

SPEICHER / TURM

TIM

COLLINS, REIKO GOTO, CHRIS MALCOLM USA/JP/UK PLEIN

AIR

THURSDAY 18H-21H

FRIDAY-SUNDAY 11H-21H

11H-21H

The plant-driven synthesizer Plein Air will be on show during the full weekend of the festival, providing a concert of long duration. It is a custom-built instrument that uses sensors and software programming to generate real time tree leaf data. Light, photosynthesis and transpiration modify sound and rhythm, melody, texture, tempo and harmony shift with atmospheric conditions and tree response, all electronically.

BORNGASSE AMBER MEULENIJZER BE SAAB SCULPTURE VII

FRIDAY-SUNDAY 14H-17H

This installation is part of the Saab Sculptures, a series of works placing the Saab 900 car in different contexts, thus questioning, transforming, pimping public and private space. Different sound pieces explore the possibilities of the 12 Toa intercom-loudspeakers mounted on top of its roof, always tailored to the acoustics of the place. This piece was made during a residency in august 2022. Sculpting voyages, resonating with the space, focusing on the physicality of the sound.

IKOB

NIKA SCHMITT LUX SWEET ZENITH

THURSDAY-SUNDAY 13H-18H

Mirrored in the room, two pendant lights encircle solar panels mounted on poles. Powered by their own luminosity, the pendulums never rest. The sound installation “sweet zenith” presents elementary forces that are transformed from one to the next and repeatedly meet in chaotic movement. Sound becomes light, light becomes movement and movement again becomes sound, as feedback happens. Sweet Zenith will be shown at IKOB during all days of the festival.

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GALERIE VORN UND OBEN BEGÜM ERCIYAS TUR FOREST SILENT GATHERING

Limited places. FRIDAY 18H30

For Forest Silent Gathering, a group of audience members meets inside a forest at sunset and follows a soundtrack through headphones. An audio-social architecture is created, in which one can possibly be alone together. Changing distances invite to find new proximities. Absent figures become protagonists. As the communal space takes shape and transforms, Forest Silent Gathering makes us reflect on the bonds between people, forests and histories. Begüm Erciyas hails from Turkey and studied molecular biology and genetics. Her performances dig into fundamental questions with overpowering depth.

YOUTH HOSTEL

GEORG DIETZLER DE SONIC CHAIR

THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-20H

The Sonic Chair sound pieces concept was developed for the “soundwaves” series on sound art which ran in Cologne in 2017 and 2018 and was conceived and developed by curator Georg Dietzler. Artists from the noise music scene have composed pieces for the SONIC CHAIR sc01, a piece of loudspeaker designer furniture that can be rotated 350 degrees. The first series of SONIC CHAIRS was built in 2008. Similar to a musical instrument, the shape of the SONIC CHAIR is determined by the acoustics. Sitting in the sound center of the chair supports the spatiality of the recordings. With loudspeakers in the armchair canopy, low bass frequencies are transmitted to the user’s back via a structure-borne sound membrane. The presented sound pieces move between abstract, herbaceous, electronic ambience, puristic field recordings, layered guitar drones, manipulated everyday objects and generated noise narratives, as well as sound art, jazz and experimental pop. The 16 sound pieces can be selected individually using a sixteen-part push-button selection menu.

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SCHEIBLERPLATZ

FRANÇOIS WINANTS BE VERTICAL ENVIRONNEMENT

THURSDAY-SUNDAY ALL DAY

Vertical environment is a project integrating prototype stations in the variations between the forest and the atmosphere. The stations focus on evapotranspiration, aerodynamics, air variations and the forest as a wetland, with artworks such as Dessins des cimes, Mobiles solaires and Aérographie.

The project explores the invisible and imperceptible movements of the environment. It brings a visualization of variations as a contact to silence. For over 15 years, the Belgian artist François Winants has been blending mixing art, science and nature to produce works that challenge our perceptions, question the notion of environment and involve climate variations. Inspired by field recording and science, François Winants has developed visualization projects focused on Hrz waves, seismic waves and the atmosphere. The artworks use the data, the physical and the chemical. This installation is accessible on all days during the festival here : 50°37’15.2″N 6°02’23.4″E.

ETTERSTEN / CHRISTMAS HOUSES

JERRY STEVENS BE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

SATURDAY 13H 15H 19H

Vibraphonist/Alleinunterhalter Jerry Stevens loved Christmas music ever since he was born on December 25th, 1984 to the sounds of Silent Night playing in the delivery room. Thirty-seven years later his My First Christmas Album was finally released through Animal Lovers Only Records. Jerry strongly believes in the “Christmas all day every day” adage and therefore insists to play his wonderful Christmas medleys during all seasons, come flakes or shine. Especially for this year’s Meakusma festival, Jerry Stevens will take over one of the Christmas accommodation houses to share his everlasting Christmas spirit with everyone attending.

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ETTERSTEN

DAVID HELBICH GER HEAD AND PHONES, LAND AND SCAPE, NIGHT OR DAY, ALL ONE SHAPE HEADPHONE Sound walk. Headphones, MP3-players and information available at IKOB during their opening hours during the festival.

THURSDAY-SUNDAY 13H 18H

Brussels-based artist David Helbich moves in his work between conceptual art and active participation. The compositions for the specially conceived “Audio Guide” invite you to take a 55-minute hike through the natural surroundings of the Alter Schlachthof. The pieces mix field recordings recorded on-site and in Eupen with instruments, beats and linguistic instructions that gradually lure the individual audience from a passive listener position to an active, co-performing role.

STUDIO NÉAU / BASKETBALL COURT

FRANZISKA WINDISCH GER ORIENTATION/DANCE #07

SATURDAY-SUNDAY 10H30-12H30 EVERY 15

MINUTES

Orientation/dance as performative sound installation invites participants to pay close attention to their own way of listening, but also to the acoustic properties and dynamics of the space the performance takes place. As a sequence of choreographed movements the performance setup oscillates between modes of isolation and opening towards the outside, of individual and collective action. The participants carry custom-made listening modules built out of lightweight, flexible wooden boards on their shoulders. The inside of each module is covered with acoustic foam: when closed around the head, the noises from the outside are diminished. Spoken instructions are transmitted though built-in fm-receivers.

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ALTER SCHLACHTHOF a-MUSIK RECORD SHOP

THURSDAY 18H-22H

FRIDAY 18H-22H

SATURDAY 16H-23H

SUNDAY 16H-20H

The legendary a-Musik record store has been at the heart of Cologne’s left of center and experimental music scene ever since it was founded in 1995 by Georg Odijk and is run by Frank Dommert, Wolfgang Brauneis and Odijk himself. A-Musik also operates as a record distributor and label.

ALTER SCHLACHTHOF ZABRISKIE BOOK SHOP

FRIDAY 15H-19H

SATURDAY 15H-19H

SUNDAY 13H-16H

SUNDAY

Zabriskie is a specialized bookshop based in Berlin with a focus on sub/ cultural and natural phenomena. You can find extraordinary things from the fields of music and film; utopian ideas and alternative ways of living; idleness and slowness; natural history, nature writing, ...

04.06.22 – 15.01.23

Für viele Belgierinnen und Belgier erfolgt der erste Kontakt mit Österreich über die Kultur. Um diese kulturellen Begegnungen und Erfahrungen zu stärken , ist es das Ziel des Österreichischen Kulturforums Brüssel Aktivitäten zu fördern und das Ansehen Österreichs als eine moderne, weltoffene und pulsierende Kulturnation in Belgien zu festigen und zum kulturellen und wissenschaftlichen Austausch zwischen den beiden Ländern beizutragen. Jährlich organisiert das ÖKF Brüssel Kulturveranstaltungen mit Österreichbezug in ganz Belgien. Eine der heurigen Veranstaltung ist die Ausstellung des österreichischen Fotografen Alfred Seiland im Gallo- Römisches-Museum (Kielenstraat 15, 3700 Tongeren).

Für sein Langzeit projekt Imperium Romanum besucht er seit 2006 Städte, Ruinen und Landschaften in Europa, den Mittelmeerstaaten und Vorderasien zentrale Orte des ehemaligen Römischen Reiches. Die Bilder thematisieren den Konflikt der Antike mit der Moderne, den Kampf um die Bewahrung antiker Denkmäler und Kulturgüter vor den Gefahren durch unkontrollierte wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, Tourismus, politische Konflikte und Kriege .

ViVo! Orchestra - Music for trees Orchester Alter Schlachthof | Eupen 20.00 Uhr Trio Foccroulle-Fernandez-Kim Kammermusik Kirche | Kettenis 15.00 Uhr

Manu Hermia & Orchestra Nationale della Luna Kammermusik & Jazz Villa Peters | Eupen 11.00 Uhr Dresdner Kreuzchor Vokalensemble Nikolauskirche | Eupen 20.00 Uhr