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- 28/03/2014
Numediart, when research & technology make an interest in cultures by Jacques Urbanska
28/03/2014In this favourable context, a small group of teachers and researchers from the UMONS1 decided, in 2005, to launch a vast research program. Thierry Dutoit, instigator and now project director, explains: “Open to culture, we foresaw the importance of collaboration between…
- 20/03/2014
26-03-2014 – Talk – Philippe Franck : Nomadic connected devices, places and audio streams … listening the drift
20/03/2014MONS > FACULTÉ D’ARCHITECTURE ET D’URBANISME > 12:30 We will comment on ambulatory works (pioneer and contemporary) that re-trace and “increase” the city connected to other (hidden) areas/urban locations and redefine it into a multi audio ever changing deterritorialized/reterritorialized space, by activating our moving listening. Between physical and virtual architectures, places and non-places, sound streaming via the Internet and embedded devices,
- 20/03/2014
27-03-2014 – Talk – Art Zoyd, 44 years of differentiated musical creation
20/03/2014Mons > Arts2 > 11:30 Unclassifiable musical group founded in 1969, Art Zoyd is also since 1987 a recording and creation studio, based in Valenciennes (France). UFO in the French music industry, Art Zoyd encourages young artists through residencies, productions and creations. Transversality plays a major role in the artistic choices of their creative studio. At the Art School of
- 12/03/2014
20>23-03-2014 – Exposition spamm.be – Mobile Awards Art(s) & Network(s) – Festival VIA 2014
12/03/2014Exposition spamm.be + Mobile Awards 2014-Art(s) & Network(s) + présentations/ateliers ouvert découverte du Net Art Launched by Transcultures at the occasion of Transnomades 2013 (Quinzaine Numériques of the Federation Wallonia- Brussels), the Mobile Awards – Art(s) & Network(s) intend to stimulate the online artistic creation giving it greater visibility . The 2014 edition are focused to artworks created to be broadcasted via the
- 11/03/2014
21-03-2014 – Workshop Nomades Numériques – Damien Pairon: introduction to the digital video softwares
11/03/2014As part of Festival VIA, the dance show ‘Hors Champs’ of Michèle Noiret will be premiered in Mons, fon March 21 and 23 at Theatre Le Manège. On this occasion, Damien Pairon (multimedia-video artist) will coordinate a workshop in the framework of Nomades Numériques (series of workshops on creative digital practices launched by the manège.mons as part of the European
- 09/03/2014
19 > 22.03.2014 – Festival Vidéoformes
09/03/2014Clermont Ferrand Pour sa 29ème édition, Vidéoformes, festival international d’art numérique, se met aux couleurs (trans) belges en invitant des artistes et projets soutenus part Transcultures. On y retrouve la performance-installation Fragments #43-44 (également soutenu par numediart et la cellule arts numériques du Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles) de Gauthier Keyaerts en collaboration avec François Zajega (visuels) et Yacine Sebti (programmation),
- 09/03/2014
19-03-2014 – Conférence – Philippe Franck : Other resonances – an introduction to sound art
09/03/2014Louvain-la-Neuve > PointCulture > 18:00 What are the roots of the sound art that cross disciplines? What are the main features of these forms and adventurous sound practices? How does site specific audio creation dialogue with the urban space? How does it develop? What are the possibilities and these pitfalls? These are some questions and issues that Philippe Franck (Transcultures,
- 09/03/2014
19-03-2014 – Conférence – Bobvan : The sound of mythscape
09/03/2014Bobvan (Belgian musician, film director, multimedia artist) revisits, in the framework of “Résonances”, some of the highlights of his adventurous artistic journey by focusing on the sound dimension of his work. It shows how sound, both in its temporal and spatial deployment, contributes to the emergence of a series of “mythological modules” which, by their controlled accumulation, resonate with each
- 04/03/2014
14-03-2014 – Concert micro-tonalités – Jean-Paul Wittek : Tender is the night
04/03/2014Braine-l’Alleud > Académie de Musique > 20:00 Jean-Paul Wittek and Myriam Pierre play, with two pianos, ‘Three quarter-tone piece’ of Charles Ives (leading North American composer, crossing sound research, contrapuntal writing and popular loans) and some extracts of ‘24 preludes quarter-tone (op.22)’ of Ivan Wyschnegradsky (French composer of Russian origin, who worked on the micro-intervals). Astrid Gallez (flute) plays a
- 02/03/2014
12 + 13-03-2014 – Conférence – Sébastien : Biset Usure, bricolage et hacking : usages et détournements dans l’expérience musicale
02/03/201412.03 > Braine-l’Alleud > École des Arts > 19:00 13.03 > Louvain-la-Neuve > PointCulture > 18:00 Sébastien Biset, art historian, musician and leader of the project “Archipel” for Point Culture, proposes this lecture in the framework of the event “Resonances”. What types of knowledge reveals the singular practice of DIY? How do they apply to musical invention and what fun
- 01/03/2014
10-03 > 03-04-2014 – Résonances Visite de l’exposition – Animations kids + Caravane-Son-Média
01/03/2014Braine-l’Alleud > École des Arts While the exhibition “Resonances” (curator : Philippe Franck) can be seen till May 5th at the School of Arts of Braine-L’Alleud, the students can have a guided tour of the exhibition and participate to two workshops to enable them to better understand the works presented in the course and plastic sound proposed by the School
- 01/03/2014
20 > 23-03-2014 – Festival VIA / Mobile Award / NetArt Exhibition
01/03/2014Exposition spamm.be + Mobile Awards Mons > Le Manège/Maison Folie > 12-18:00 City Lights (Digital Video Windows) UMons > Université > 20:00 Launched by Transcultures on the occasion of the Transnomades festival as part of the Quinzaine numérique initiated by the Ministry of Culture of the Federation Wallonia- Brussels in 2013, the Mobile Awards – Art (s) & Network (s)
- 01/03/2014
12-03-2014 – Workshop – Sonic Kids : Nicolas d’Alessandro, Muzzpod
01/03/2014Using an iPod and a synthetic voice software, children will create an original choral without using their vocal cords. Tenor, baritone, soprano or alto chorister…everyone is involved in the composition of a song he can take home after the workshop given by Nicolas d’Alessandro (musician, researcher at numediart /University of Mons and inventor of digital instruments) free 7m3, rue de la
- 23/02/2014
27-02-2014 – Opening of Geosonic – Julien Poidevin + DJ City Sonic – Paradise Now live Transonic Night Gauthier Keyaerts/The Aktivist + Supernova + Ordinaire
23/02/2014LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE> FORUM DES HALL > 18:00 (VERNISSAGE) + 20:00 (CONCERTS) For the opening of Julien Poidevin’ site specific creation ‘Geosonic mi’x, a ballad is proposed with the artist who worked on a geo-locative audio journeyon the site of Louvain-la-Neuve university, while Paradise Now offers “City Sonic dj set ” subtly mixing audio sources works produced by the international sound art
- 18/02/2014
21.02.2014 – Jean-Paul Dessy + Jarek Frankowski “Cellectro” (piece for electronic & cello)
18/02/2014BRAINE-L’ALLEUD > ACADÉMIE DE MUSIQUE > 20:00 Originally this project (created at Sonic Lab # 2 – Festival City Sonic 2013) is inspired by the Polish atmosphere proposed by Jarek Frankowski and a unique encounter between classical and contemporary universes. Jean-Paul Dessy (cello- Musiques Nouvelles) enters the world of electroacoustic created by Jarek Frankowski (composer and sound engineer born in Poland),
