in collaboration with Soundcamp Open Spaces are productions that directly engage the audience in the creative process. Local communities new to music work with a curating team to create a musical work that may be presented at a partner’s music festival. Although a quality artistic result is a goal, the priority is to create a […]
Trevor Mathison’s live debut in Norway, a new trans-Atlantic musical partnership, and a rare chance to hear Circuit des Yeux perform solo on September 22 at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival. Extending his exhibition From Signal to Decay: Volume 6 at Atelier Nord into the live arena, British sound artist Trevor Mathison (Black Audio Film […]
Sound artist Claudia Molitor’s new installation Listen to my World tours to 5 Sounds Now partners Launching at Kortrijk-based festival Wilde Westen, Listen to my World will run from Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 March before travelling to SPOR in late April, and on to Finland, Belgium, Greece and the UK. The installation is now explorable through a dedicated website containing […]
Travelling to five European cities within the Sounds Now project, the Sound Art in Public Spaces exhibition challenges us to look at climate change in a new way. For curator Raquel Castro, our cities should not be “concrete jungles”, but rather enormous habitats for diverse fauna and flora. The urban public space must therefore be […]
Postponed from last year due to Covid restrictions, Musica’s curating lab is back on! Musica, Impulse Centre for Music, is hosting its first Curating Lab within the framework of Sounds Now. Developed by London-based French-Cameroonian curator Christine Eyene, the Curating Lab will take Pelt (Belgium) as a point of departure, and its position as border […]
What Does Freedom Sound Like? Curating Diversity, Part 26–7 May 2021, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. CETFree, online (registration required) Continuing and building on the Curating Diversity symposium in September 2020, this 2-day event invites participants to explore the sounds of freedom that are continuously being created in our world – beyond Eurocentric power structures and […]
