As a centre for digital and sound cultures, Transcultures supports formats in which creation also emerges through exchange: sharing tools, circulating practices and bringing different aesthetics and generations into dialogue.
The “Worm Club” follows this approach. Initiated by artist Philippe Baraduc and the CreaMakers project, it offers a regular gathering designed to strengthen the local scene while remaining porous, open and accessible. For this edition, Philippe Baraduc and artist Schreï Lilith (Viviane Vancoppenolle) will present their PRURIT project at the end of their residency at the Couvent.
Free admission and open to all. Registration required!
A welcoming space for experimentation
Conceived as a sound art laboratory, Worm Club brings together artists, curious minds and listeners around a simple idea: sound is a material. It can be sculpted, captured, diverted and spatialised, or brought into dialogue with images, objects, gestures, machines and environments.
Here, music is only one of many possible outcomes. The scope is broader, at the crossroads of visual art, media art, performance and technology. Alternating between a presentation by a guest artist, hands-on experimentation and an open jam, the format creates a horizontal learning environment where people come both to experiment and to develop a culture of listening.
Worm Club’s approach
No musical knowledge is required. The project embraces trial and error, accidents and curiosity. This is not a stage where participants are expected to reach a particular “level”, but a space for learning through making and listening. The guest artist’s presentation helps break down barriers by introducing tools, methods and different ways of listening to and creating sound.
Worm Club naturally occupies a space between: sound art / installation; experimental music / improvisation; DIY practices (circuit bending, repurposed objects); electronics (modular systems, synthesisers, effects); visual arts (images, gestures, scenography); performance and the body (voice, actions, micro-gestures); listening to place (field recording)…
Philippe Baraduc
Holding master’s degrees in Artificial Intelligence and in Knowledge Transfer and New Technologies, Philippe Baraduc has been writing and performing science-based shows for young and family audiences since 2009. He develops projects that make scientific concepts tangible and engaging while sharing the pleasure of discovery.
Philippe Baraduc’s work is part of the open science movement and its commitment to the common good. It encourages audiences, particularly younger participants, to develop confidence in their scientific and cultural understanding of an increasingly technological world.
Since 2011, the artist has regularly taken part in major science events, including Printemps des Sciences in Belgium, the Science Festival in Luxembourg and Fête de la Science in France. His work has also received significant media coverage, particularly on Belgian and Walloon television and radio.
Schreï Lilith (Viviane Vancoppenolle - Be)
Schreï Lilith has developed a performance universe at the crossroads of punk, noise and contemporary feminist expression. Her work draws on the energy of groups such as Pussy Riot and Les Vaginites, as well as on the international noise scene highlighted by platforms such as Women of Noise, while maintaining a strong connection with French-language creation and its activist forms of expression.
Her visual identity is an integral part of this approach. The balaclava she wears refers in particular to the imagery developed by Pussy Riot and is gradually being adorned with embroidered floral motifs paying tribute to the graphic and activist universe of Oksana Shachko, co-founder of Femen. The costume thus becomes an integral part of the performance, questioning norms surrounding the body, appearance and the ways in which women may choose to represent themselves, regardless of their age, body type, origin or culture.
The name Lilith refers to a figure found in medieval Jewish traditions and narratives, where she appears as Adam’s first companion, created from the earth as he was and refusing a relationship based on submission. Gradually transformed into a demonic figure across different traditions, Lilith has been reinterpreted in the contemporary era as a symbol of emancipation and resistance to patriarchal domination.
Schreï Lilith draws on this symbolic dimension through a practice combining vocal performance, punk aesthetics, DIY culture and a critical exploration of representations of women.
PRURIT project - sound improvisations using low-tech, low-cost DIY instruments
At a time when creative practices are largely centred on computers, this project adopts a retro-technological perspective by creating inexpensive sound objects built with low-tech processes and recycled electronics.
PRURIT uses its DIY instruments in configurations where the arrangement of the devices is never fixed. The resulting signals and sounds are therefore always unique. A chaotic interplay of textures, feedback and random patterns is created live to explore and experiment with the sensory dimensions of noise.
In performance, the setup consists exclusively of toys altered through circuit-bending techniques, modified cassette players, contact microphones, an Arduino signal generator, audio cassettes, distortion units and filters, deliberately incorporating electronic errors and aberrations.
Information
- 25.10.2026 | 14:00 > 18:00
- Couvent d’Hautrage
- 6, Place d’Hautrage 7334 Saint-Ghislain
- Free admission, booking required
- Information & booking: wormclub@transcultures.be
Production
- Transcultures
