Agenda des activités

Dedicated to the diversity of sonic explorations, Transonic was initiated in 2012 by Transcultures (artistic director: Philippe Franck) and has developed a catalog of Belgian and international references as well as discoveries of emerging audio singularities. In addition to publications associated with sound arts in different formats, this “alter label”…

Since 2014, Transcultures has regularly supported events designed by the OMFI collective (One Moment Free Improv) which opens the stage in various places to improvised music, from contemporary jazz to unclassifiable experiments. The complicity between Jean-Jacques Duerinck, who is one of its stubborn pillars, is solid, from his visits…

The Nuits du Beau Tas celebrate open contemporary music and the re-discovery of great composers such as Morton Feldman and Gavin Bryars (The Sinking of the Titanic) interpreted by the Express string 4tet, but also unclassifiable young talents such as Roxane Metayer, musician/visual artist based in Brussels (proposed by…

Transcultures and the Nuits du Beau Tas share this interest in hybrid evenings where different aesthetics and practices intersect, with historical artistic references, which can be reinterpreted through a contemporary reading. This is the case here with the new soundtrack by Pierre-Jean Vranken on “Film” by the writer Samuel…

Transcultures is pleased to renew a partnership with the Databaz structure (led by the French creator, author and researcher Philippe Boisnard) which supports digital arts and emerging creative practices for the launch of its new mini festival “Disjont’son” which like its name indicates gives pride of place to adventurous…

The fourteenth edition of the “Nuits du Beau Tas” festival arrives in mid-April. This intimate and warm experimental festival offers, this year over ten days of alternative and visionary culture, a real prospective cultural offer that will make you discover or find a panel of heterogeneous artists. The programming…

Multimedia artist Fred Chemama (mira) is welcomed as a resident at Transcultures at the Couvent d’Hautrage. During this time of research and creation, he will continue to work, among other things, on one of his latest projects where he has engaged in a physical, carnal, amorous relationship with the…

Tar Zero was born, in 2022, in Tangier, during a meeting between sonic and intermedia creators Philippe Franck (Wallonia) and Tommy Lawson (Corsica) as part of an artistic journey in the white city still haunted by ghosts of the great Beat authors and rebels against conformism (from William Burroughs…

As part of the exhibition, “The future is ours” organized at the Maison du Peuple in Saint-Gilles (Brussels), Karine Marenne presents the performance ‘APRON ROLE’, in the form of a video triptych including 3 videos performative…

Pendant la performance, Fred Chemama 眯腊, (mira) fait naître des récits photographiques sous forme de projections lumineuses sur les murs de la Voirie.

The Belgian artist, based in the Republic of Korea for over 10 years and working between South Korea and Belgium, and in residency at Transcultures Belgium in March 2023, responded to Philippe Franck’s questions regarding the launch of a new series of creative encounters, the Unit Academia, as well…

Central offers, in collaboration with Transcultures, an exhibition of 2 young multidisciplinary artists who each explore a very particular universe and invite us to reflect on the complex relationship between humans and materials, and on the possibilities of creation and interpretation in the contemporary artistic landscape…

Two sculptural researchers have as a common trait, the use of imprint to create a « space of sound » .
On one side , the testimony of a past sound; traces like fossils that reconstruct a score, a tactile path of listening. On the other, couples of elements…

For this 39th edition of their international festival of hybrid and digital arts in Clermont-Ferrand, VIDEOFORMES has designed with Transcultures, a new partnership around the production of the work MATERIA by Belgian sound and visual artist Alain Wergifosse. In residence at Transcultures (at the Hautrage convent) since the end…

The multimedia artist Rafael, working between Liège and Seoul, is hosted in residence at Transcultures to develop his new installation project “Contrepoint”. He developed the basic principle during his participation in the exhibition “Transfer / 갈아타다: Korean and British abstract painting and the digital document”, which took place last…

In partnership with the network of European Pepinieres of Creation and Transcultures, Château Éphémère is launching for the 9th year its call for projects “Digital Arts, Sound Art & New Writings” for the 2024/25 season. Every project involving innovative digital practices and sound art in its creation process is…

Le projet d’exposition initié par le Collectif LA ESPIRAL, l’ACC et l’Institut Cervantes de Fès, qui parcourt les Instituts Cervantes de Larache, Tétouan, Marrakech, Rabat, Fès et Nador depuis un an s’installe à la Galerie Mohamed El Kacimi de Fès. Des disciplines telles que la photographie, la sculpture, la…

For the very first time, Bright Festival invites experts, artists and professionals, from various sectors, to share their experience on different topics related to organizing a festival of lights. The Bright Sessions offer  participants the chance to discuss with leading speakers about light creation, sustainability and the organization of…

For the finishing of the “Musée du diversion” and the opening of Loïc Gaume, the duo GHOSTWRITERS. the duo GHOSTWRITERS (the project of visual artist Claire Ducène and sound artist Christophe Bailleau) invite you to a presentation of their beautiful publication “House27” (book + CD, a limited edition published…

The chimes form concentric spaces in many cities, in the north of France as in Belgium. These spaces, at the same time social, spiritual, musical, community, provided so many subjects of study and sources of inspiration for the young artists of this GMLR session. We explored our cross-border territory…

Alain Wergifosse, sound, visual and intermedia artist  is, hosted at Transcultures in its new spaces at the Hautrage convent (Saint-Ghislain), for a long residence in 2024. He has initially worked on MATERIA, a sound and visual installation project around a journey of poetic and imaginary exploration inside matter in…

After a first successful creative residency in Essaouira (which will result in the spring of 2023 in the release of a mini-album + photos on the Transonic label), Thanas Kas begins a second exploratory project in Morocco, this time in the desert also supported by the European Creation and…

Since its creation in 2019, the Zone Libre sound arts festival has emerged as one of the essential events for sound creation in Corsica. Discovering projects that question, shake up and enrich aesthetics, the festival has established itself for its transversality, with its ability to combine sound and visual…

One after their residency in the Transonic Lab and two and a half years after the release of their first EP “Transonic Delta”, the vocalist-performer Maja Jantar and the sound creator Paradise Now find themselves this time at the convent of Hautrage  newly invested by Transcultures to install its…

Since 2020, the Transonic Second Life events have supported the creation and online dissemination of audio visual projects within the first metaverse. This fourth Transonic Second Life session will bring together musicians Yadleen and A Limb at Studio M this Wednesday January 10 and an exceptional concert by A…

This mini nomadic audio album is the selective phonographic transposition of the geolocalized sound journey “From one world (sONic) to another’ presented, following a Transcultures/Pépinières européennes de Création in La Louvière (Belgium), in June 2023 in as part of the ARTour Biennial of Contemporary Art and Heritage…

To close this year of partnership with Ideas Block – Kompresorinė, Transcultures is pleased to support the Art/CultureTech event, the highlight of the Vilnius 700 program, a proposal at the intersection of sound, music, AI-assisted creation, and blockchain, taking place within a 360° Ambisonic sound sphere.

Transcultures invites the Substra young artists collective for a creative residency in its new Transonic Lab located in the former Couvent d’Hautrage (Saint-Ghislain – Belgium). In the framework of this residency, the collective intends to develop their project “In phase Out of phase”, initially a performance on the theme…

Transcultures recherche des animateur.trices / formateur.trices ayant des compétences pour mener des formations d’initiation à différentes techniques/médiums aux croisements des arts et des cultures numériques et sonores et/ou des artistes sonores ayant des compétences pour mener des ateliers de création sonores (field recording, interviews…) qui donneront lieu à…

Music is nothing other than sounds that we have structured and to which we have defined a scale. There were forbidden harmonies, privileged instruments, codes and censorships and over time, our ear, too, adapted to other sound colors. New instruments and recording tools have been built, and music, now,…

Transcultures is very happy to continue its partnership with Usmaradio for the TACTUS Radio Festival 2023, an international project dedicated to radiophonic art. Within the spaces of the Antico Monastero Santa Chiara, the festival will offer three days of listening art open to the public: soundscapes, storytelling, roundtable discussions,…

Transcultures and its partners support the “Cognitive Itch” project, led by the Ouros association and which aims to highlight sound arts, current noise and experimental music, while remaining particularly attentive to artistic emergence and therefore to young creators in this cross-border territory (Haut-de-France/Wallonia)…

Since childhood, Morocco has always held a special place in Fred Chemama’s heart, where he also pursued a portion of his studies. Following the devastating earthquake that caused havoc, destruction, and the tragic loss of thousands of lives, the artist desired to reconnect with this country he deeply cherishes…

As part of “Spirit of Vilnius”, ArtComTech is offering 2 conference-meetings with Philippe Franck (27.11) and Gabriele V. Souchère (28.11) -respectively director of Transcultures and Videoformes- who will talk about their respective cultural and artistic experiences…

A monument of fluctuating abstraction, Vertical Moon Phase Charm has no known safety measures or possible precautionary principles. A multi-dimensional mutant emulsion, we navigate in turbulent waters, no need to look for a secure anchor. Conceptual chimera, beautifully produced, each track… proceeds through systemic enchantment, it quickly becomes unnecessary…

HyperUrban 9 addresses the issue of the Data Driven City and not limited to it, it remains open to any contribution proposing reflections and/or achievement(s) in the following areas (non-exhaustive list): hybrid land planning, territory Rewriting & Rereading, digital mapping, territorial creativity, innovation and digital governance, AI and multiscalar…

As part of his “Transonic Road Movie” residency, the artist Alain Wergifosse will give a performance at the 11th Morada Sonica Festival. Long based in Barcelona, the Belgian artist composed “Deep Gray Organics” (CD, Geometrik-Microgama, 1999), one of the best experimental electronic albums released in Spain: eleven improvisations, mostly…

In partnership with the European Pepinieres of Creation, Transcultures invites the Belgian sound artist Alain Wergifosse (initiator of the proposal), as well as the Spanish sound and visual artists Javier Hernando Angel Lalinde (reference of the Spanish experimental scene since the 80s), as part of the cross-residency program for…

À l’origine, manifestation d’art sonore conçue pour animer la période estivale dans la ville patrimoniale de Mons (Belgique), le festival a progressivement élargi sa focale et s’est déployé sur de nouveaux horizons. City Sonic a depuis les origines fait la part-belle à une volonté d’interdisciplinarité, inscrite dans les gènes…

The Spirit of Vilnius exhibition is a tribute to Grand Duke Gediminas who in his letters written seven centuries ago invited all people of good faith to come to Vilnius and practice their religion freely. The result was a tolerance which allowed the city to have for a long…

MATERIA is a multiform installation in progress project , a journey of poetic and imaginary exploration, inside matter in all its states and transmutations. Alain Wergifosse presents, here, a first phase of this “in progress” project with, as a link, electronic sound (heard or imagined)…

A circuit bending workshop is an opportunity to discover the art of short-circuiting sound toys, looking for connections on the internal circuit to find hidden sounds and then adding components as they are discovered. Equipped with a soldering iron, wires and buttons, participants create unique and original musical instruments…

Sound, visual and multimedia artist Alain Wergifosse invites young and old to spend a few days of creative experimentation around sound in all its electronic and experimental dimensions. It proposes to amplify the hidden sound of everyday objects, to make musical instruments sound differently, even if the participants do…

After the first concert with the Polish artist Barbara Drazkov Drążkowska, Transcultures supports a second event of the Nuit du Beau Tas in October: the arcana #8 of the Sub Rosa label where we can discover Stephane Ginsburgh (Be) and Thérèse Malengreau (Be)

At the invitation of the Tiny Gallery, as part of the exhibition “Forever (a closeup of love and marriage)”, Isa*Belle and Paradise Now offer an audio-visual performance which takes its source from their visual and sound installation “A Luni Son” created in 2021 during the ARTour biennial of…

Le projet radiophonique et éditorial “les cailloux meurent aussi” de l’artiste pluridisciplinaire Mathilde Schoenauer Sebag a été nominé pour le Prix Europa. L’occasion de revenir sur ce projet au long cours produit par Transcultures (soutenu par le Fond de la Création Radiophonique de la FWB et accompagné par l’ACSR…

It is with great pleasure that Transcultures supports the Nuit du Beau Tas in October 2023 for 2 exceptional concerts. The first will give you the opportunity to discover or rediscover the Polish artist Barbara Drazkov Drążkowska who will offer us personal works for prepared piano and harpsichord in…

As part of his project “Fusional Illuminations” which he begins in December 2023 in Morocco, the artist Fred Chemama offers, at the invitation of the contemporary art space Moukhtab’Art in Rabat, a multimedia performance at the with the help of his protean project “Fōz machine”…

For 6 years, the Center de la Marionnette (Tournai-BE) and Transcultures have joined forces at the annual Lumen event to support and promote digital, intermedia or / and sound projects by students from the Eurometropolis: Arts2 – Visual Arts School of Mons,  ESA – Academy of Fine Arts of…

Two creators join forces to form the duo GHOSTWRITERS. : sound artist Christophe Bailleau and visual artist Claire Ducène. Together they propose the “House 27” project and combine their graphic and sound worlds to create a poetic and photographic edition…

The fourteenth edition of the “Nuits du Beau Tas” festival arrives in mid-April. This intimate and warm experimental festival offers, this year over ten days of alternative and visionary culture, a real prospective cultural offer that will make you discover or find a panel of heterogeneous artists. The programming…

As part of the exhibition, “The future is ours” organized at the Maison du Peuple in Saint-Gilles (Brussels), Karine Marenne presents the performance ‘APRON ROLE’, in the form of a video triptych including 3 videos performative…

Central offers, in collaboration with Transcultures, an exhibition of 2 young multidisciplinary artists who each explore a very particular universe and invite us to reflect on the complex relationship between humans and materials, and on the possibilities of creation and interpretation in the contemporary artistic landscape…

For this 39th edition of their international festival of hybrid and digital arts in Clermont-Ferrand, VIDEOFORMES has designed with Transcultures, a new partnership around the production of the work MATERIA by Belgian sound and visual artist Alain Wergifosse. In residence at Transcultures (at the Hautrage convent) since the end…

Le projet d’exposition initié par le Collectif LA ESPIRAL, l’ACC et l’Institut Cervantes de Fès, qui parcourt les Instituts Cervantes de Larache, Tétouan, Marrakech, Rabat, Fès et Nador depuis un an s’installe à la Galerie Mohamed El Kacimi de Fès. Des disciplines telles que la photographie, la sculpture, la…

The chimes form concentric spaces in many cities, in the north of France as in Belgium. These spaces, at the same time social, spiritual, musical, community, provided so many subjects of study and sources of inspiration for the young artists of this GMLR session. We explored our cross-border territory…

Since its creation in 2019, the Zone Libre sound arts festival has emerged as one of the essential events for sound creation in Corsica. Discovering projects that question, shake up and enrich aesthetics, the festival has established itself for its transversality, with its ability to combine sound and visual…

The Spirit of Vilnius exhibition is a tribute to Grand Duke Gediminas who in his letters written seven centuries ago invited all people of good faith to come to Vilnius and practice their religion freely. The result was a tolerance which allowed the city to have for a long…

After the first concert with the Polish artist Barbara Drazkov Drążkowska, Transcultures supports a second event of the Nuit du Beau Tas in October: the arcana #8 of the Sub Rosa label where we can discover Stephane Ginsburgh (Be) and Thérèse Malengreau (Be)

It is with great pleasure that Transcultures supports the Nuit du Beau Tas in October 2023 for 2 exceptional concerts. The first will give you the opportunity to discover or rediscover the Polish artist Barbara Drazkov Drążkowska who will offer us personal works for prepared piano and harpsichord in…

In his documentary sculptures project, Pierre Larauza questions the sporting gesture through art, linking history, homage and combat. From Mike Powell’s long jump world record to the racist police blunder on Tamir Rice, passing by the forbidden backflip of skater Surya Bonaly: so many historical movements that the visual…

In his documentary sculptures project, Pierre Larauza questions the sporting gesture through art, linking history, homage and combat. Two works from the series (which Transcultures has been supporting for several years), February 20, 1998, Nagano and October 20, 1968, Mexico will be exhibited at the Carreau du Temple as…

With the title “In between Worlds”, this 14th edition invites you to discover works from all disciplines that question the notions of concrete or imaginary territories, intermediate spaces, elusive borders, singular dimensions… So many parallel worlds – real or abstract, secular or expectant – to which contemporary artists, and…

As part of the events of the Music&Art summer season, A Limb will perform the opening concert of the new exhibition “Atlantes” by German artist Ann Von Rhein on Second Life…

L’installation se compose de fûts métalliques disposés en cercle et émettant de la lumière et du son, ils rappellent les bidons de fortune embrasés des chantiers ou de certains quartiers excentrés des métropoles mais dans une version qui emprunte volontairement les formes d’un mobilier urbain. En s’approchant de Braseros…

What remains of the human body in the age of automated AI generation of realistic photographs? If digitization may have appeared as the preservation of traces of our humanity as underlined by French artist/author David Guez’s “Binary Steles”, it was quickly transformed into a possible egotic mirror, to henceforth…

Ben Bertrand created for this occasion a composition for bass clarinet and violin which explores the polyphonic possibilities of these instruments. A concert in keeping with the famous adage taken up and commented on by Erasmus: “Haste slowly” developed in the temporary exhibition currently on display at the Erasmus…

For the uninitiated, Sub Rosa is a Brussels-based record company that emerged in the mid-1990s with the exploration of a new form of electronic music. Since 2001, the label has produced a vast collection of concrete, noise and electronic music: ‘An anthology of noise and electronic music’…

“No (more) pussyfooting” revives the classic experimental studio albums “No Pussyfooting” and “Evening Star” by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp… Belgian virtuoso guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe will also play a work by Italian composer Fausto Romitelli… Lisza (Debauche) will play new intimate songs for voice, piano and guitar…

Quasi Una Fantasia: voice duo (Christina Van P.) and prepared piano (Pierre-jean Vranken). A musical journey in sound and emotion a bit like Meredith Monk… A musical creation based on poems by Michaël Vandebril. From a selection of poems taken from the two collections “L’exil de Maeterlinck” and “New…

Eclectic evening in the chapel of the Grand Hospice with the Express string 4tet which will play the famous Jesus Blood by Gavin Bryars and will create a work by Christophe Heroufosse… The duo Solange Labbé (vocals) and Sylvain Ruffier (cello). And a solo from Neptunian Maximalism saxophonist JJ…

Two exceptional musicians in the spotlight for this NBT at the chapel of the Grand Hospice. The accordionist Emilie Skrijelj who experiments this instrument in an incredible way… And the Polish pianist Barbara Drazkov who will create a work by Szymon Brzoska and Miguel Rozpide for harmonium and electronics…

Opening of the 12th NBT experimental music festival with the guitar solo project of the french Jessica93 and the polyrythmic electro of Bambi OFS… Energy guaranteed to open a festival that once again wants to be experimental and anti-commercial… Will follow the polyrhythmic electro project of Cédric Dambrain aka…

The twelfth edition of the “Nuits du Beau Tas” festival takes place between the end of April and the beginning of May. This intimate and warm experimental festival offers, this year over ten days of alternative and visionary culture, a real prospective cultural offer that will make you discover…

Based on fragments taken from the work of the French philosopher Simone Weil and texts on the sound creation previously sent by the Belgian sound and visual artist Dominique Vermeesch  to Philippe Franck during the writing of the catalogue, Paradise Now offers a sonopoetic performance, mixing voice, electronics &…

(do.space) exposes herself in a nameless elsewhere. “In the background, she lets us hear a performative-vibratory language called “Hearing the never seen”*. The researches of (do.space) teach to perceive by ear and soul what cannot be seen, admitting “the need to be in the dark where everything is born”….

Ouïr le jamais vu (listening to the unseen) is the first monograph devoted to Dominique Vermeesch, a major Belgian plastic and sound artist and performer whose aesthetic and feminist issues are clearly stated. Texts by François Delvoye, Carine Fol, Philippe Franck and Nadine Plateau, biography by Astrid Mattard…

As part of the exhibition “expocollective #20 – For the love of sport”, the artist Pierre Larauza will exhibit his sculpture “February 20, 1998, Nagano” (one of the works that he produced as part of his research “Documentary Sculptures”)…

Kika Nicolela and Raya Lindberg offer a time for discussion in the magnificent heritage site that is the Chapelle de Bondael around the themes addressed by the exhibition: how do families, and women in particular, pass on their experiences from generation to generation, and in what form?

Transcultures, Užiateka, European Pepinieres of Creation and Ideas Block present City Sonic Vilnius Soundcamp, a sound art workshop (6 >11 March 2023) at Kompresoriné/ Ideas Block (Vilnius) featuring 7 participants from Lithuania coordinated by Belgian and French sound/intermedia artists Philippe Franck, Tommy Lawson, Christian Vialard.

The Commune of Ixelles presents a solo exhibition by the Brazilian artist Kika Nicolela in the Chapelle de Boondael in Brussels. It will show an exceptional group of works made in early 2022 during the artist’s residency at the Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain (Brussels). The curator, art critic and…

Audio in a network, Digital sound festival using the INTERNET as a venue for diffusing LIVE experimental, drone, noise, field recordings, sound poetry, electronic, contemporary music. The festival is streamed live online and in a quadraphonic sound system at the venue “La Plateforme Intermédia” in Nantes, France…

The GMLR or twin studio is the cross-border sound studio common to the ARTS2 schools of Mons and the ESÄ Dunkerque-Tourcoing, site of Tourcoing. Like every year, following workshops, the GMLR offers an intermedia exhibition which combines the research and work of a dozen students from both institutions…

For the third time, Transcultures is an important partner of the Zone Libre – sound arts festival organized by the eponymous association in Bastia, which defends creative sound and digital practices both locally and internationally. As for the 2022 edition, Philippe Franck will be the artistic curator of a…

The APO33 association launches, in partnership with the European Pepinieres of Creation and Transcultures, a call for participation for sound pieces and bio-radiophonic transmissions. Each artist proposes a sound piece of approximately 1 hour or more to be played in mono on an AM radio with a short wave…

These study days entitled “Scientific mediation and territorial project: heritage in all its states”: “is part of the research activities in Information and Communication Sciences within the UMR CNRS 6240 LISA and more precisely in axis 2: “Making society in an intercultural framework: ways of modeling in an island…

Through the creations of the Belgian visual  and multidisciplinary artist Marie Bertrand on the theme of bread as well as those of the inhabitants of the commune of Saint Ghislain, Blé d’Art jointly presents works by Marie Bertrand as well as achievements of the inhabitants made during workshops she…

.The artist Rachel M. Cholz presents a first single-band version of his multidisciplinary project “Viens Valeur”, which focuses on the fetishism of objects as sound and poetic possibilities. Interactive project with a particular writing, it is directly inspired by the ASMR process and offers an unprecedented dramaturgy with several…

Alain Wergifosse is invited again at the Saint-Etienne digital arts festival to present, in French premiere, his new exhibition “Spectres & Neons ” with about twenty photographs (12 inches/vinyl record cover format) and a listening of his new eponymous CD which has just been released on the Transonic label…

The Spectres & Neons photographic exhibition brings together around twenty images of moving urban lights taken in long exposure during journeys in the depths of spectral nights of neon subtly modulated by the 50hz of the electrical network…

For the very first time, Bright Festival invites experts, artists and professionals, from various sectors, to share their experience on different topics related to organizing a festival of lights. The Bright Sessions offer  participants the chance to discuss with leading speakers about light creation, sustainability and the organization of…

The chimes form concentric spaces in many cities, in the north of France as in Belgium. These spaces, at the same time social, spiritual, musical, community, provided so many subjects of study and sources of inspiration for the young artists of this GMLR session. We explored our cross-border territory…

Since its creation in 2019, the Zone Libre sound arts festival has emerged as one of the essential events for sound creation in Corsica. Discovering projects that question, shake up and enrich aesthetics, the festival has established itself for its transversality, with its ability to combine sound and visual…

Transcultures recherche des animateur.trices / formateur.trices ayant des compétences pour mener des formations d’initiation à différentes techniques/médiums aux croisements des arts et des cultures numériques et sonores et/ou des artistes sonores ayant des compétences pour mener des ateliers de création sonores (field recording, interviews…) qui donneront lieu à…

As part of “Spirit of Vilnius”, ArtComTech is offering 2 conference-meetings with Philippe Franck (27.11) and Gabriele V. Souchère (28.11) -respectively director of Transcultures and Videoformes- who will talk about their respective cultural and artistic experiences…

MATERIA is a multiform installation in progress project , a journey of poetic and imaginary exploration, inside matter in all its states and transmutations. Alain Wergifosse presents, here, a first phase of this “in progress” project with, as a link, electronic sound (heard or imagined)…

A circuit bending workshop is an opportunity to discover the art of short-circuiting sound toys, looking for connections on the internal circuit to find hidden sounds and then adding components as they are discovered. Equipped with a soldering iron, wires and buttons, participants create unique and original musical instruments…

Sound, visual and multimedia artist Alain Wergifosse invites young and old to spend a few days of creative experimentation around sound in all its electronic and experimental dimensions. It proposes to amplify the hidden sound of everyday objects, to make musical instruments sound differently, even if the participants do…

MuseumLab and Transcultures, Center for Digital and Sound Cultures, offer you a round table that will offer five views of culture professionals on their understanding, their relationship to the plural concept of artificial intelligence as well as their specific uses…

After the fallout of the speculative bubble that surrounded the world of NFT works and the past craze for metaverses, it is time for museum institutions to ask themselves the right questions…

Barbara Cool, musician, dancer, coach in sound expressiveness of socio-emotional skills, offers, in the REPIT (participatory, intergenerational and transcultural summer meetings organized by the Septem Cultural Center during the summer of 2023 in Saint-Ghislain-Belgium), a playful and creative workshop around the relationship between song and movement.

At the invitation of the cultural center Septem, Isa*Belle offers 2 modules on the theme “Body in harmony” proposed autonomous sessions open to all. In the framework of the REPIT 2023, initiated by SEPTEM, a series of workshops on different themes take place throughout the Summer in the 7…

What remains of the human body in the age of automated AI generation of realistic photographs? If digitization may have appeared as the preservation of traces of our humanity as underlined by French artist/author David Guez’s “Binary Steles”, it was quickly transformed into a possible egotic mirror, to henceforth…

On the occasion of the centenary of Pol Bury’s birth, Transcultures, in partnership with the Paragraphe laboratory of the Paris 8 University and CY Cergy-Paris University, is organizing a research/creation seminar on art in the digital and AI era with teacher-researchers and artists related to sound and hypermedia devices…

This workshop, which brings together PHD students and professors from the CiTu-Paragraphe laboratory – University of Paris 8, takes place in the preamble to the symposium around the legacy of the multidisciplinary and indisciplinary artist (from La Louvière), Pol Bury (1922-2005)…

Philippe Franck (directeur de Transcultures) participera aux premières Rencontres sur les arts littéraires qui auront comme thèmatique « Pratique et esthétique à l’ère du numérique », organisées par Rhizome (Qc – partenaires de longue date de Transcultures) et les Midis de la poésie…

Transcultures, Užiateka, European Pepinieres of Creation and Ideas Block present City Sonic Vilnius Soundcamp, a sound art workshop (6 >11 March 2023) at Kompresoriné/ Ideas Block (Vilnius) featuring 7 participants from Lithuania coordinated by Belgian and French sound/intermedia artists Philippe Franck, Tommy Lawson, Christian Vialard.

As part of a joint residency Pépinières Européennes (Fr), Transcultures (Be), Oasis Art, Užiateka, Ideas Block, (Lt), 3 Belgian (Philippe Franck) and French (Tommy Lawson and Christian Vialard) artists are invited to the Kompresorinė – Ideas Block from Vilnius for 10 days sound creation residency. During this period, they…

The GMLR or twin studio is the cross-border sound studio common to the ARTS2 schools of Mons and the ESÄ Dunkerque-Tourcoing, site of Tourcoing. Like every year, following workshops, the GMLR offers an intermedia exhibition which combines the research and work of a dozen students from both institutions…

En association avec les Pépinières Européennes de Création, Transcultures Užiateka et ses partenaires, City Sonic Vilnius lance un appel à participation ouvert aux artistes sonores pour participer à son premier “Sound Camp”, un projet inspiré par la diversité du paysage acoustique de la capitale de la Lituanie…

For the third time, Transcultures is an important partner of the Zone Libre – sound arts festival organized by the eponymous association in Bastia, which defends creative sound and digital practices both locally and internationally. As for the 2022 edition, Philippe Franck will be the artistic curator of a…

These study days entitled “Scientific mediation and territorial project: heritage in all its states”: “is part of the research activities in Information and Communication Sciences within the UMR CNRS 6240 LISA and more precisely in axis 2: “Making society in an intercultural framework: ways of modeling in an island…

For this multi-sound creator who likes to work in a contextual way, it is a question of apprehending the particularities of the territory and the daily surrounding world, by mobilizing and sharpening the sense of listening, in order to generate through a process of sound phenomenology unprecedented representations that…

Transcultures will be present at the 12th International Colloquium on design sciences and technologies, which wants to question the limits of design process models and highlight “Unintentional Design” (DnI) as a “critique of phenomenology intentional” design. It is a desire to rethink the design process, taking into account the…

Since its inception in 2002, the Computer Art Congress has brought together artists and scholars from all over the world to observe and study the manifestations and evolution of this particular art form…

All the everyday objects that surround us hide curious sounds often imperceptible to the naked ear that it is very fun to discover by amplifying them to, perhaps, manage to make new, bizarre and amazing music. With tiny contact microphones placed strategically on any sort of object, using a…

On the occasion of Užupis’ Summer Culture Day, Transcultures offers with its Lithuanian partners Užiateka, a City Sonic Event offering from morning to evening, a workshop, an installation, a performance and a mix of sound art in the interior space (Galera) and exterior (by the Vilnia river) of the…

NFThon Kaunas is one of the regular CultureTech events from the NFThon series in the Baltics and the EU, which draw people’s attention to the potential of modern technologies and solutions (like NFT, Blockchain, Web3, Metaverse, AI, XR) in the fields of culture and sustainable development, involve them in…

In the digital age, the quality of research results in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) increasingly depends on the completeness and relevance of the data processed. The digital divide (like the digital deficiency) greatly influences the question of completeness, which can amplify the phenomenon of relevance…

Philippe Franck will present the approach and action of Transcultures, Centre of digital and sound cultures based in Belgium, a pioneer structure (since 1996) for intermedia and sound arts organizing 2 international festivals (he also founded) – City Sonic /sound arts in the city and Transnumériques / digital emergences)…

During the Night of Ideas places of knowledge and culture around the world are invited to celebrate the free flow of ideas by offering conferences, as well as screenings, and artistic performances. Almost two years have passed, punctuated by the pandemic and its repercussions. The whole planet experienced closing…

Convaincue que la culture nous aide à penser et à agir sur le monde, l’UCLouvain veut inscrire celle-ci au cœur de l’enseignement et de la recherche. L’enseignement comme la recherche gagnent en effet à s’hybrider avec la création artistique. Il s’agit dès lors d’encourager ces rencontres entre arts et…

After two weeks of workshop coordinated by artists/teachers Silvain Vanot and Julien Poidevin, the GMLR (twin studio) which is the sound studio shared by the art school of Tourcoing and the one of Mons ARTS², dedicates an exhibition to an effect rarely studied…

Studio Gémellaire (GMLR) was born from the merger of two sound creation workshops: that of ARTS2, in Mons in Belgium, and that of Esä Dunkerque-Tourcoing, in France. For two weeks, Belgian and French students will work together to prepare a collective exhibition in the form of 2 workshops (one…

The series of  HyperUrban conferences offers reflections on the city in the making, in communicational, artistic, cultural, philosophical, social, economic, political, technological terms… In the continuity of the previous editions of HyperUrban, this sixth conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Urban Environments…

As part of the colloquium on Celtic Myths and Folklores, Gaëtan Le Coarer will first present the script production process of the AN DOMHAN project, and how he adapted the story, the fabula in the project. The concept of the “Other-World” described in the appendix to the translation of…

Gaëtan Le Coarer, effectuant sa résidence Pépinières MAP (Mobility in Art Process) 2021 à Transcultures est invité au prochain colloque des Rencontre d’Angoulême 2021 pour y parler des Spatialités Narratives Du Vêtement Chez Sergio Toppi – en Co écriture avec Carole Brandon.

Transcultures are pleased to be partners of the first edition of Sonic Narratives imagined in the framework of Timisoara, European Capital of Culture, by the dynamic Romanian association Simultan, which is also known for its eponymous annual festival of digital arts and adventurous music…