Quick agenda
Published posts
- 17/09/2014
24-09-2014 – C2M1 performance – Magali Desbazeille + Siegfried Canto
17/09/2014‘C2M1’ is a “media performance” exploring written and coded communication, from the invention of writing to mobile phone texting by way of printing technologies. The question raised by ‘C2M1’ is the following: what is the direct influence of new technologies on language? In order to provide an answer, ‘C2M1’ is conceived around the presence of a screen as well as
- 12/09/2014
18-09-2014 – Pierre Beloüin Partages d’écoute + launch of Optical Sound revue #2
12/09/2014Launched during the previous edition of the City Sonic festival, these shared listening sessions are meetings with professionals from the music world (musicians, critics, artists, curators…) who spend about an hour sharing their passion for music as well as sound art practices and commenting on chosen excerpts. For this first City Sonic 2014 “Partage d’écoute” (“shared listening session”) Pierre Beloüin
- 10/09/2014
17-09-2014 – Sonic Kids Void – Buid your own speaker
10/09/2014La maison haut-parleur (“The speaker house”) is a workshop given by sound and visual artists Arnaud Eeckhout+Mauro Vitturini (under the name of Void) in the context of which children learn to build their own sound speakers with everyday objects: plastic bottles, hairbrushes, cardboard boxes, sheets of paper or tree branches will become vibrating membranes which amplify sounds and modify the
- 07/09/2014
14-09-2014 – Sonic Garden Party – Baudouin de Jaer + Maurice Charles JJ + Quasi una fantasia
07/09/2014Three intimate concerts in private gardens of the Mons Belfry historical district (rue des compagnons). First composer Baudouin De Jaer proposes a solo violin performance based on pieces inspired by Swiss art brut visionary Adolphe Wölfli (1864-1930), upon whom he based his 2011 Sub Rosa a beautiful release ‘The heavenly ladder’.Maurice Charles JJ a.k.a. Jean-Jacques Duerinckx is a musician mostly
- 02/09/2014
11-09-2014 – Opening – City Sonic, International Sound Art Festival 2014
02/09/2014Happy City Sonic & Park in progress@Mons 2014 ! On a peacefull September 11th City Sonic#12 will be lauched with the European Night for Young Creation, which also opens the tenth edition of the European nomadic project Park in progress. Before that great event, we’ll start the guided visit of the City Sonic itinerary on the site of the Arbalestriers
- 11/07/2014
18 > 25-07-2014 – Percées project – Simon Dumas + Thomas Israël + Paradise Now
11/07/2014After initially working in Quebec Productions Rhizome in May, Simon Dumas (artistic director of Rhizome), Thomas Israël (digital artist-filmmaker-artist) and Paradise Now (sound designer) develop interaction between image and sound performance breakthroughs a poetry project (text: Catrine Godin)-dance (choreography: Karine Ledoyen), his video will be premiered in October in ‘Quebec en toute lettre’ then in Mons2015. Production : Productions Rhizome,
- 10/07/2014
16 & 17-07-2014 – “Web Art” an introduction by Jacques Urbanska (workshop)
10/07/2014Since the birth of the Internet, many creators have taken this medium to explore the limits, divert or redefine its purpose. Creating animated images that buzz that mobile applications and multiple online and offline works… Through a playful workshop exploration and experimentation, media artist Jacques Urbanska (arts-numeriques.info) will present a panel of web art works and original tools that provide
- 04/07/2014
07 > 11-07-2014 – Béranger Grimbert + Charlotte Van Kemmel (residency)
04/07/2014Bérenger Grimbert, French electronic musician develops with actress Charlotte Van Kemmel Belgian a new audio-sensory performance. On the site of the former slaughterhouses at the Frigo (Fridge) where Transcultures is located, these young artists to develop their work shifted universe to achieve a multidisciplinary performance that carries us into crazy worlds, somewhere between meditation and a physical experience. spinarsoon.com
- 01/07/2014
03 > 07-2014 – t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e – Chambre(s) d’hôtel – Bruxelles
01/07/2014‘Chambre(s) d’Hôtel’ (Hotel rooms) created by the dance interdisciplinary company t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e (initiated by Pierre Larauza and Emmanuelle Vincent) is an urban installation combining a performance and a radio interview. A single architectural object, a hybrid and technoid caravan, combines a piece of fiction and a reality. This travelling hybrid device is experienced as a transit location loaded with possibilities. Experimental
- 28/06/2014
30-06 > 04-07-2014 – Emergences Sonores
28/06/2014Under the coordination of Stéphane Kozik (sound artist and multimedia), three students (Wilson Rose, Christopher Fernandez, Vivian Barigand) of The Visual Arts School of Mons Arts2 were selected to participate in a workshop “Sonic Emergences ” preparatory to the presentation of their new sound installations in the next edition of the City Sonic festival in September. Production : le manège.mons,
- 15/06/2014
20-06 > 31-08-2014 – Julien Poidevin – Géosonic mix – Charleroi
15/06/2014In this context, the site specific and geolocative project ‘Géosonic mix’ of French artist Julien Poidevin offers an intimate and sonic immersion. From sounds recorded in the city, quotes of authors and sound clips, “Géosoni mix@La Louvière” invites us to a unique experience somewhere else between our presence in the city and an imaginary trip. Equipped with a GPS and
- 08/06/2014
17 + 18-06-2014 – Bains numériques#8 – Professional meetings
08/06/2014Transcultures (Philippe Franck, Jacques Urbanska) with Mons 2015, European Capital of Culture (Mauro Del Borrello, general manager of le manège.mons and Mons2015, Pascal Keiser, artistic director for digital programme and director of TechnocITé) and the City of Mons (Joelle Kakompole, deputy mayor in charge of culture) are invited by the Arts Centre of Enghien-les-Bains to participate to the professional encounters organised in the framework of Festival Bains numériques.
- 01/06/2014
08-06-2014 – A pentacostal evening Aki Onda + Antoine Chessex + films
01/06/2014For another Monday Pentecost night, Eastern Belgium at night in complicity with Transcultures invites Antoine Chessex, a fascinating Swiss saxophonist (who has worked with many adventurous artists such as Maja Ratkje Jerome Noetinger, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Lasse Marhaug …)
- 30/05/2014
01>08-06-2014 – Werner Moron + Philippe Franck : Ours bipolaires @ Saline Royale
30/05/2014Artist in residency at the Saline Royale (Arc-et-Senans/France), “City of utopias”, in the framework of the Odyssey program (an initiative of the association of the Centres des Rencontres), Werner Moron (Beglian multidisciplinary artist, founder of Paracommandarts) has invited Philippe Franck
- 22/05/2014
Call for proposals – MAP artists-in-residence at Transcultures – autumn-winter 2014
22/05/2014In the framework of the MAP programme, Transcultures, Interdisciplinary Center for Digital and Sound Cultures in association with the City of Mons and with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels, launches a call for two artistic and creation residencies…
