As a centre for digital and sonic cultures, Transcultures supports formats in which creation is also made through exchange: the sharing of tools, the circulation of practices, and the forging of connections between aesthetics and between generations.
The Worm Club follows this same logic: initiated by artist Philippe Baraduc and the CreaMakers project, it will take the form of a regular gathering designed to strengthen a local scene while remaining porous, open and accessible. For this second session, artist Christophe Bailleau will present his work and lead the event.
Free admission, open to all — please register!
A space for experimentation, without intimidation
Conceived as a sound-arts lab, Worm Club brings together artists, the curious, and listeners around a simple idea: sound is a material. It can be sculpted, captured, rerouted, spatialised, made to converse with images, objects, gestures, machines, environments. Here, music is only one possible outcome: the stakes are broader—at the intersection of visual arts, media, performance, and technologies.
By alternating an invited guest presentation, hands-on tinkering, and an open jam… the format creates a space for horizontal learning, where you come as much to experiment as to develop a culture of listening.
Worm Club positioning
No musical knowledge is required. The project values trying, error, accident, curiosity. This isn’t a stage with a “level” to reach; it’s a space where you learn by doing and by listening. The invited artist’s presentation acts as an “unlock”: showing tools, methods, ways of listening and of making sound.
Worm Club sits naturally between: sound art / installation; experimental music / improvisation; DIY practices (circuit bending, repurposed objects); electronics (modular, synths, effects); visual and plastic arts (image, gesture, scenography); performance and the body (voice, actions, micro-gestures); listening to place (field recording)…
Christophe Bailleau (Fr/Be)
Originally from Normandy, Christophe Bailleau obtained a Master’s degree in visual arts from ERG — École de Recherche Graphique — in 2004. A multidisciplinary artist, he has been developing an atypical musical project since the 1990s. His compositions are based on acoustic sources — guitar, percussion, voice and various sounds — combined with concrete sounds and field recordings. In this way, he creates a play on waiting, silence and storm-laden tension.
Since 2004, his compositions have been released on various European labels, including Stilll, Carte postale, Annexia, Fenêtre, Soundscaping, Optical Sound, Sacred Phrases, Cosmic Winnetou, IRM, Transonic and Mahorka.
He has produced several works for radio and, for several years, has also been practising photography, and more recently drawing and poetry. With the audiovisual duo Pastoral, created with Philippe Franck in 2006, he casts a both surreal and poetic gaze on everyday imaginaries and spaces, with a form of Lynchian strangeness.
Christophe creates intriguing, dreamlike short films that attempt to capture the unsayable. His audio and video work, which has been shown at numerous events in Belgium and internationally, also takes the form of installations.
Philippe Baraduc
Holding a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and in Knowledge Transfer and New Technologies, Philippe Baraduc has been writing and performing science shows for young audiences and families since 2009. He develops projects that make scientific concepts tangible and engaging, and that share the joy of discovery.
Philippe Baraduc’s work is part of the open science movement in the service of the common good, enabling his audiences—especially younger people—to build scientific and cultural confidence in an increasingly technological world.
Since 2011, he has been a regular contributor to major science events such as Printemps des Sciences (Belgium), the Science Festival (Luxembourg), and Fête de la Science (France). His work has also attracted media attention, notably on Belgian and Walloon television and radio news outlets.
Informations
- 26.04.2026 | 14 > 18:00
- Couvent d’Hautrage
- 6, Place d’Hautrage 7334 Saint-Ghislain
- PFree to attend with registration required.
- info & registration : wormclub@transcultures.be
Production
- Transcultures
