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)

Recording of the Second Sundays Listening Session on 12/1/2025 at Q-O2 workspace Brussels with Mona Briko

Playlist:

David Maranha ›› Virgins Visions
/ Marches Of The New World :: 2007 › no label
 
Pali Meursault & Thomas Tilly ›› EXTRAIT Gmea, 2
/ Melt* :: 2023 › Fragment
 
Anton Bruhin (& Etienne Conod) ›› EXTRAIT rotomotor (1978)
/ rotomotor :: 2022 › Alga Marghen
 
Audrey Poujoula ›› EXTRAIT Encrages, live Théâtre de la Lucarne, Bordeaux 2023
 
Sleeparchive ›› MRI Scanner
/ papercup :: 2007 › no label
 
Julien Desailly ›› Cran
/ iiii! :: 2020 › Soleils Bleus
 
Marco Lampis ›› The Gallery 45 Cave Map
/ Soundmaps For The Dreamer (compil) // 2017 › Sono Space
 
Jake Meginsky ›› L'appel du vide
/ L'appel du vide // 2014 › Open Mouth
 
Michaela Turcerová ›› anima void
/ alene et // 2024 › Mappa
 
Diatribes ›› Tell me, what do you see
/ Echoes & Sirens :: 2018 › Aussenraum
 
Zohar ›› Mad Drums
/ ZHR001 :: 2019 › Zohar
 
Alessandro Bosetti ›› EXTRAIT II
/ Plane -Talea :: 2016 › Holiday record
 
Ryoji Ikeda ›› Body Music (For Duo), Op.4
/ Music for Percussion :: 2017 › The Vinyl Factory
 
SHXCXCHCXSH ›› SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs (piste 11)
/ SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs :: 2016 › No label
 
Rébecca Bonté ›› La faute de la Faute
/ Noli Me Tangere :: 2024 › Tanzprocesz
 
Tachycardie ›› 1000 Fois Bonjour Depuis le Vignemale
/ Probables :: 2019 › Un je ne sais quoi
 

Mona (aka Mona Briko) has been a traveling organizer and programmer in Brussels since 2012, specializing in experimental music.


Emerging from the creative depths of Barlok (occupied from 2011 to 2017), Mona sharpened her auditory sensibilities at a KKnul concert at Magasin 4 and during a Bruitisme holiday camp in Nancy in 2015. Nurtured within the walls of La Senne (occupied from 2015 to 2020), she took her first steps as a curator, enjoying genuine freedom for three years. What began as a playful venture into organizing and programming evolved into a deep passion and commitment.  With a perpetually shifting set of keys, Mona now moves fluidly through Brussels’ alternative venues, curating radical and uncompromising lineups.

 

Completely self-taught in musicology, she relies solely on her instincts, often disregarding technicalities and virtuosity. This approach is reflected in her occasionally messed-up but fully unapologetic discourse. Her aesthetic preferences have evolved over time, yet a common thread remains: a focus on intrusion, amplitude, intensity, and tension.

In recent years, she shared a sound system named Dolores with D’incise, joined the team at the TTT label, and been entrusted with programming the Haunted Folklore series at Recyclart.


Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a social setting as a space for discussion. Each session is paired with a cocktail-of-the-month, as decided by the invited guest.

Mona Briko - Second Sundays #56

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]

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

Mona Briko - Second Sundays #56

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