The 7th edition of the Festival was dedicated to the weather, to changing environments and practices around field recording. For the continuous radio stream Q-O2 members and interns curated playlists, radio emissions focussing on specific projects and artists related to the theme. 

Oscillation ::: The Weather

Performer, composer and vocalist Myriam Van Imschoot speaks about her recent work, and her fascination for the voice in its most pristine forms. She comments on audio excerpts of some of her last performances.

With the support of the Flemish Community (Culturele Activiteiten Premie)

Myriam Van Imschoot ::: Radio Transmission

Daphne Oram (1925−2003) was a com­pos­er and one of the cen­tral fig­ures of ear­ly British elec­troa­coustic music. She was involved in the found­ing of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (1958−1998), devel­oped the pho­to­elec­tric ​“drawn sound” syn­the­siz­er Oramics, and left many impor­tant com­po­si­tions. This talk high­lights her most cre­ative peri­od, from set­ting up her own record­ing stu­dio in Kent in the end of the 1950s, to the con­struc­tion of the Oramics Machine and the pub­lish­ing of her book An Individual Note: Of Music, Sound and Electronics, towards the end of the 1970s.

In the frame of Oscillation Festival 2021 ::: Tuned Circuits
http://www.oscillation-festival.be/2021/

Anna Steiden ::: Tuned Visions: The British Electronic Music Pioneer Daphne Oram

Can we hear the cos­mos in music? Would music be its beat­ing heart? 
This talk is an explo­ration of the sur­pris­ing links between the his­to­ry of Western music and the his­to­ry of astron­o­my, all with­in a broad­er ques­tion about of our human ​“need for the cos­mos”. The talk tracks and sam­ples music from ancient rit­u­als to the pop­u­lar music of the moment, includ­ing jazz, ambi­ent and var­i­ous types of so-called ​“clas­si­cal” music. (Talk in French)

In the frame of Oscillation Festival 2021 ::: Tuned Circuits
http://www.oscillation-festival.be/2021/

Pierre Deruisseau ::: Un Cosmos Musical

A talk about Gruska’s dive into mycol­o­gy — his ear­ly years of for­ag­ing for mush­rooms with his grand­par­ents, cook­ing para­sol mush­rooms in the forests of Bratislava, grow­ing oys­ter mush­rooms on waste, lab­o­ra­to­ry work, med­i­c­i­nal mush­rooms and more.

In the frame of Oscillation Festival 2021 ::: Tuned Circuits
http://www.oscillation-festival.be/2021/

Jonas Gruska ::: Fungal Paths

The project Agripuncture / Sore Spot Songs is inspired by tra­di­tions of post­war vic­to­ry gar­dens, Vedic mantras, and botan­i­cal heal­ing. During per­for­ma­tive ​“Agripuncture” work­shops, Sarah van Lamsweerde, Esther Mugambi and Raoul Carrer invite local guests to feel the sore spots in our city and think how can we col­lec­tive­ly care for them.
Transposing the neigh­bour­hood map on to the rooftop gar­den of Q‑O2, they talk and sing songs old and new about expe­ri­ences of the Canal zone while walk­ing amongst a sen­so­r­i­al array of ground­cov­ers and med­i­c­i­nal plants.

In the frame of Oscillation Festival 2021 ::: Tuned Circuits
http://www.oscillation-festival.be/2021/

Sarah van Lamsweerde, Esther Mugambi & Raoul Carrer ::: Agripuncture / Sore Spot Songs

What are you lis­ten­ing for? to? ​‘Listening Past’ is a performance<>lecture secret­ly serv­ing as an ali­bi tap­ping those always as-yet-unknown lines to sig­nal that the future leaks. Fixed, homoge­nous time assumes a standard(ized) pro­gres­sive flow where what is next always comes after what is before. But, will there not have been count­less moments of achronic­i­ty when signs of antic­i­pa­tion can be (mis)heard in reverse (à la Pierre Menard & Bayard)?
To access the pro­gram note in French, Dutch and English that accom­pa­nied this talk, go to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukDoaZwKfxw&feature=youtu.be

In the frame of Oscillation Festival 2021 ::: Tuned Circuits
http://www.oscillation-festival.be/2021/

Lendl Barcelos ::: Listening Past

"Incendies" is a piece that sings the jolts of a world on battery.
Just as we watch a fire with fascination, its beauty and its destructive force at the same time, one can listen to analog signals enriched with saturations and give birth to the space created inside a stereophony. Or meditate on the carbon footprint of the same action. 

And for your information: the number of megafires will increase by 30% by 2050 (according to a report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) which also denounces noise pollution in cities as a growing danger to public health). 


"Incendies" was first commisonned by Archipel Festival in Geneva in 2024 for its acousmonium concerts. The piece is based on analog signals, recorded over and over through various circuits (filters mostly) in order to create subtles stereo differences, mouvements and depthes. The music breath to its own puslation, always slightly off-the-grid, saturations and hisses act on the the expressive and dramatic level.

The LP version is mostely based on the Archipel concert, and contain a discreet layer of the space and accousmonium acoustic, as in d'incise's “electronic” work, the loudspaker is always considered as the ultimate instument carrying the music. The live version can be deployed from two to any numbers of speakers, expanding the stero field with a focus on asymetries.


d'incise, sound explorer, used to pretend to have no perticular instrument, using whatever can be considered as such, softwares, recordings, objects, percussions, harmonium, etc. However he has lately re-focused on analog electronic sources, carefully sampling and re-assembling them as solo concert proposal for loudspeakers.

He's interested in radicalism, reductionnism, repetitions and conceptual approaches, building specific set-up for each new occasion & context, in solo, groups or thought for others.
He tends to extract the most tiny details of the elements, appreciates slowness and obsessive explorations of simple processes.

With Cyril Bondi and since many years he's behind the Insub.'s activites (label, large orchestra, and more). Tresque is his other alias, when the music turns dancefloor oriented. He's also one of the founding member of the band La Tène. Not many people use his real name, Laurent Peter. He's currently living between Brussels (mostly) and Geneva (still a bit). 

Release : february 2025
LP & digital on : La République des Granges + Insub.records

http://www.dincise.net/

d'incise / Incendies (excerpt)

We once again relayed large chunks of this year's Oscillation Festival live performances occurring in Brussels over the s&S radio stream which took place 1-4 May 2025. In the hours leading up to the Oscillation relay switchover on 2 May, we live-mixed our own 'unofficial' contribution in keeping with this year's theme: 'The Weather', direct from the s&S meteorological monitoring outpost, which we're sharing here for your enjoyment. We were coincidentally experiencing a rather heavy, turbulent storm while we were transmitting from here in Wellington, some of which you hear buried in the mix. Enjoy!

s&S Radio - Aethergrams - 2 May 2025 [live-mix]

Q-O2 team members and interns created playlists of sounds they found interesting, funny or confusing in relation to the theme of the 7th edition of the Festival Oscillation ::: The Weather.
This is the choice of Cis De Gendt:
Youngso No -  JST- Solar Noon, Kyotango- Summer Solstice, Akashi- Winter Solstice _ A
Yan Jun & Yu Ji - A Piece Of Field Recording 
Manfred Werder – 20092 - II
Shots - Private Hate - K&K 
Jeph Jerman - The Second Attention
Gabi Losoncy - HH (A)
Marc Baron - Et nous neigerons sur nos pas - PART 4 C - THE SECRETS OF A ROUTINE, SECOND PASS OF THE MAGNET 
sound from ‘What the Water Said, Nos. 4-6 (2006-2007)’, dir. David Gatten
Éric La Casa/Taku Unami - Parazoan Mapping 6
Phil Durrant/Thomas Lehn/Radu Malfatti - dach 2
Seijiro Murayama & Toshiya Tsunoda – Snared 60 Cuts - Take 4, Take 7, Take 6 and Take 13
Devin DiSanto - Tracing a Boundary
Áine O’Dwyer - Turning in Space - Motorwave - Whorld
Staubitz and Waterhouse and Seamus - Gorgers
Yii Kah-Hoe - Bung Jagoi - In The Forest 0236 
Walter Marchetti – La Caccia (Da «Arpocrate Seduto Sul Loto») - Parte Seconda
Xiang - Dense Set - A1
Anne-F Jacques - l'ampoule et l'insecte - intempérie
Mark Moreland - Selected Tape Works - The Din Side A
T.D. – Violence As Sport: Audile Realizations Of Atrophying Reality - Life Lies
Alison Knowles - Frijoles Canyon - Glide Hall Banisters
Roc Montoriol & cecilie fang - Plants, Magnets, foil, Transducers, Cassette Records, and Bluetooth speakers
John Hudak - The Subterranean Pasture - Side A, recorded in Bloomville, ny, 4 july 95 at 3:00pm. noise reduction added at harvestworks/studio pass, nyc, 7 july 95
Jeph Jerman - Outside / Inside -  4 Track Composite Of Various Mics/Amps Bringing Outside Sounds Into The Studio 
Ami Yoshida - 動 (from Cherry Music's ‘In Drawing’ compilation)
Lionel Marchetti & Vanessa Rossetto - The Tower (l'escalier en spirale) - 1-12 Quatrième (et dernière) nuit – Coda _ Apologie des images ; de la substance…
Walter De Maria - Drums And Nature - Cricket Music (1964)
Takahiro Kawaguchi - Recorded Xenoglossy 2 - 94 water drops per minute

The choice of Cis De Gendt

Q-O2 team members and interns created playlists of sounds they found interesting, funny or confusing in relation to the theme of the 7th edition of the Festival Oscillation ::: The Weather.
This is the choice of Gustave Muhozi:


The choice of Gustave Muhozi

Q-O2 team members and interns created playlists of sounds they found interesting, funny or confusing in relation to the theme of the 7th edition of the Festival Oscillation ::: The Weather.
This is the choice of Maryia Kamarova.
Marek Hlaváč - from an apple tree's point of view
Foresteppe - light black (toro y moi)
Julius Rolf – Lullaby for the fishes 
Kitovi - Manja Ristić
Symposium Musicum - Kavka
Symposium Musicum - Attention 
Hanna Hartman - Inre sprickor uppkommer i den senare delen av torkningsprocessen 
SHRIMP - And sometimes it was foggy fragment
Manja Ristić & Tomáš Šenkyřík - Čudna šuma
Dominik 't Jolle – ruume
Anton Anishchanka ft. Pafnutiy – Broken Tree
Artificial Memory Trace – Ptakodisk
Jonáš Gruska - Žaškovský salaš

The choice of Maryia Kamarova

Q-O2 team members and interns created playlists of sounds they found interesting, funny or confusing in relation to the theme of the 7th edition of the Festival Oscillation ::: The Weather.
This is the choice of Dries Robbe:
Christian Calon & Chantal Dumas - The Princess of the Stars
Jean-Philippe Gross & Jean-Luc Guionnet - Angle 3 (Part 4)
Eva-Maria Houben & John Hudak - Paloma Wind 1
Barn Sour - Soap & Glue
Derek Baron - The Dress of the Century
Vanessa Rossetto - Katie Cruel
Cody Brant - Penguin Commando
Aki Onda - Seoul (2010)
Rory Salter -These Parts
Aaron Dilloway - Bhoot Ghar
Michele Bokanowski - Allegro
Yeonhee - Without Leash
Anne-F Jacques, Bardo Todol, Chemiefaserwerk - 飘浮的磁带
Seijiro Murayama & Éric La Casa - Part 1
Augustė Vickunaitė - i hold myself but as a baby
Henning Christiansen - Side A
audry - Impressionistically Near Midnight in Lahaina

The choice of Dries Robbe

Q-O2 team members and interns created playlists of sounds they found interesting, funny or confusing in relation to the theme of the 7th edition of the Festival Oscillation ::: The Weather.
This is the choice of Ludo Engels:
Marshall Allen – Prologue
Alan Licht – A New York Munite
Annea Lockwood – World Rhythms
Signe Liden – Boreal
Jane Campion – Passionless Moments
Hose – Would you mind being re-animated
Els Viaene – Land Surface
Ivor Cutler - Piranhas (Jungle Tip)
Alessandra Novaga – April 21
Ivor Cutler - Killer Bee (Jungle Tip)
Anal Magic & Rev. Dwight Frizzell - Black Crack and the Soul Survivors
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh – Lux Gratis
Anne Wellmer – Fernwärme
Pascal Comelade & Robert Wyatt – September Song
+ some unpredictables coming along sometimes...


The choice of Ludo Engels

The 'focus on' programs highlight artists or initiatives that are related to the theme of the 7th edition of the Festival Oscillation ::: The Weather.
This radio feature is about the american ethnomusicologist & field recordist Laura Boulton.
She is known for the many field recordings, films and photographs of traditional music and its performances and practitioners from Egypt, the Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika. Boulton also collected traditional musical instruments around the world.

Focus on: Laura Boulton

Vai Doer

Hear / Sound impressions inspired by Haikus

With a mix of live made concrete sounds, archival online sounds, instruments and voice, we trail the haikus through different moods.

What I miss most during this strange period is making music with others, travelling for it and sharing it. My focus is pretty limited these days, and haikus are like little candies. Full of images (and thus sounds), short, but savory.

Travelling to long ago times, real or imagined places, in dreams or short stories. Making sense and non sense, only to create a poetic sound environment that tickles the imagination.

Noise, words, ears.

Join in my escape of our current times and tune in together.

CREDITS:

Concept, music, foley, voice: Pak Yan Lau
Harp, foley, whispering: Vera Cavallin
Foley, voice, Italian haikus: Lucia Palladino
Foley, Voice narrator: Henry Andersen
Presenting: Caroline Profanter
Sound: Ludo Engels

Haikus used in PART I and II, taken from:

– Basho The Complete Haiku / Matsuo Basho / translated by Jane Reichhold / Publisher: Kodansha International
– http://www.graceguts.com/haiku-and-senryu/music-and-sound-haiku
– https://tenthousandhaiku.com/ by Calvin Olsen
- Archival soundsource from BBC Archive: dragonfly, all kind of ringtones phones, Arabic crowd, Hong Kong street market, Rainforest night

Haikus used in Part III written by Lucia Palladino

 
With the support of Flemish Community Activation Fund.

Pak Yan Lau ::: Add wings to a pepper to make a dragonfly

Q-O2 is a Brussels based workspace for experimental contemporary music and sound art. Q-O2 develops projects in collaboration with national and international artists and arts organizations, hosts artists in-residence, and holds performances and concerts. 
http://www.q-o2.be

Focus on: Laura Boulton

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