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Published posts
- 30/04/2023
13.05.2023 | Sonic Spheres live [Pol Bury tribut] | Daily-Bul & Co (Be)
30/04/2023As part of Louviérois World Day and the launch of the album “Sonic Spheres” on the Transonic label, Transcultures offers several sound art and experimental music performances by artists who participated in this compilation of pieces commissioned in memory of La Louvière based multidisciplinary artist Pol Bury (1922-2005)…
- 29/04/2023
13.05.2023 | Sonic Spheres [Audio tribute to Pol Bury] – Album + CD and booklet | Transonic Label (Be)
29/04/2023As part of the events organized in La Louvière to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Pol Bury, Transcultures commissioned several sound creators from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation to produce a piece freely inspired by the work and the universe of this visionary multi-creator of Louviéroise origin …
- 28/04/2023
12 > 13.05.2023 | The digitized body – Exhibition + Concert + Meetings | Databaz (Fr)
28/04/2023What 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 replace the real human presence…
- 22/04/2023
Album | Akashic Diaries – Biba Sheikh (Lb/USA) + Paradise Now (Fr/Be) | Transonic label (Be)
22/04/2023Based on texts taken from the book “Akashic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and Other Crisis Writings” commissioned to Biba Sheikh at the start of the Covid 19 lockdown in April 2020, Paradise Now (here in close collaboration with the sound architect Didié Nietzsche) asked the author/performer to send him texts read at her home near Detroit, Michigan…
- 20/04/2023
Book | Akashic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and Other Crisis Writings – Biba Sheikh (Lb/USA) | Europia (Fr)
20/04/2023Ces textes brûlants/émouvants sont des fragments poétiques, et des croquis, nourris par les visions et les expériences de Biba Sheikh, performeuse, metteuse en scène et autrice nord- américaine nomade d’origine libanaise, vivant à Detroit. Ce journal akashic (du sanskrit, ‘Akasha’ – l’histoire non écrite, le sens caché, la substance de l’espace) a commencé…
- 18/04/2023
07.05.2023 | Duo Clara Levy & Ben Bertrand – NBT #12 | Maison d’Érasme & Béguinage – Bruxelles
18/04/2023Ben 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 House…
- 16/04/2023
06.05.2023 | Sub Rosa arcane #7 – NBT #12 | Le Lac – Bruxelles
16/04/2023For 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’…
- 14/04/2023
05.05.2023 | Eno/Fripp & Romitelli by Kobe Van Cauwenberghe / Ze Zorgs / Lisza – NBT #12 | Le Lac – Bruxelles
14/04/2023“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…
- 12/04/2023
03.05.2023 | Capdevielle & Delcourt / Quasi Una Fantasia – NBT #12 | Grand Hospice – Bruxelles
12/04/2023Quasi 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 Romantics” a proposal / journey…
- 10/04/2023
02.05.2023 | Express 4tet / Duo Labbé & Ruffier / JJ Duerinckx – NBT #12 | Grand Hospice – Bruxelles
10/04/2023Eclectic 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 Duerinckx…
- 08/04/2023
29.04.2023 | Degree Zero (unknown realities) – Sonopoetic performance – Biba Sheikh (Lb/USA) | Detroit (USA)
08/04/2023This poetic performance is taking place in celebration of the ‘Arab American Heritage Month’, at the International Institute of Metro Detroit hosting the Arab American Awards Gala and dinner. The event highlights 24 Arab Michiganders to be recognized for work which is considered as ‘high achievement’ in the areas of diversity inclusion…
- 07/04/2023
29.04.2023 | Emilie Skrijelj solo/ Barbara Drazkov (Brzoska & Rozpide) – NBT #12 | Grand Hospice – Bruxelles
07/04/2023Two 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…
- 05/04/2023
27.04.2023 | Jessica 93/ Bambi OFS/ Pitoreske – NBT #12 | Le Lac Bruxelles
05/04/2023Opening 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 Bambi OFS…
- 04/04/2023
27.04 > 07.05.2023 | Nuits Beau Tas Festival #12 | Bruxelles
04/04/2023The 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 or find a panel of heterogeneous artists…
- 30/03/2023
27.04 > 14.05.2023 | Augmented reality tour ]P P P[ XR Bury – La Société iMatériel (Fr/Be) | La Louvière (Be)
30/03/2023] P P P [ – XR Bury pays tribute to the inventiveness of Pol Bury, a multidisciplinary and visionary creator (from Surrealism to Kinetic Art), and highlights emblematic works and locations of his presence in the Louvière area. It allows for a playful and poetic connection between several locations in the city center from April 27th to May 14th…
