Sounds Now at Night Air 2024 experimental mini-festivalas part of Festival Kortrijk During the Thesmophoria, a religious festival dedicated to the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone, only women were allowed. The celebration of this festival was always accompanied by the utmost secrecy, and outsiders didn’t know exactly what went on. An equally mysterious atmosphere […]
Wilde Westen organises an annual Curating Lab in January, where young creators and curators engage with speakers and programmers around the theme of diversity and inclusion within music programming. Over 2 days, in panel discussions, workshops and lectures, the topics of inclusion and diversity in the music sector were explored from the perspective of people […]
Kortrijk, Belgium – January 28-29, 2003 Wilde Westen organised Sounds Now’s first Curating Lab of 2023, bringing together young professionals from different musical backgrounds For too long, privileged sectors of society have held the power to define good and bad taste, and to decide what does and doesn’t deserve to be seen or heard. The […]
World premiere at SPOR Festival Eva Reiter and Karin Harrasser’s Eupepsia/Dyspepsia is a sound museum. It depicts the history of 18th century Bolivia, and the violent effects of its colonisation by Spain. Through a large-scale work envisioned as part-conference, part-performance, Reiter documents the Indigenous music of the country, and the way it travelled to Europe […]
