Eastern Belgium at Night returns with a double bill by artist Matthieu Safatly, for a concert evening exploring two facets of his work: first, the intimate and inhabited poetics of Poésie Fantôme (with artist Séverine Bailleux), then the more solitary density of Estampes, a solo project for voice, cello, and sonic textures. Two sensitive forms, suspended between poetry, materiality, and resonance.
Poésie Fantôme
Two opaline silhouettes come together to shape, through their voices, words, and sonic vibrations, a unique and intimate universe.
What Séverine Bailleux writes and delivers with depth moves through subtle emotions and messages. She speaks of herself, of you, of everyone. She speaks of shadows and light, of doubt and certainty. She speaks in a voice so beautiful it becomes unforgettable.
Matthieu Safatly accompanies her on cello and voice, in perfect complement. He offers his haunting melodies with fullness, hides nothing of his sensitivity, and gently traces the emotions of the texts.
Séverine Bailleux: text and voice.
Matthieu Safatly: cello, samples, and voice.
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Matthieu Safatly (Be)
A sound creator with a wide-ranging artistic path, he has been composing since the 1990s and has long explored the intersections of music, poetry, theatre, photography, silent cinema, and installation. His journey has led him to collaborate with numerous artists, companies, and musicians across fields ranging from improvisation to contemporary rock, as well as electronic forms and cross-disciplinary music.
Matthieu Safatly has developed a solo universe in which cello, voice, looper, and cassette player create a music that is sensitive, deep, and spellbinding, like a series of sonic impressions that linger in the memory. Though alone on stage, he builds a multiplied presence, surrounded by echoes and textures.
Among his collaborations with other musicians are his striking improvised music trio with John Russell and Jean-Jacques Duerinckx, his contemporary rock work with Present (the group born from the renowned Belgian band Univers Zero), his excursion into Indian music with Sandhya Sanjana, his indelible acoustic touch within the electronic projects Wild Shores and Black Sifichi & Negative Stencil, as well as encounters with Profondo Scorpio, Denis Fragerman, Norscq, and Björn Jauss.
Informations
- 28.12.2026 | 20:00
- Chapelle du Mont
- 55 rue de la Charrette à Tilff
- Free entrance
Production
- Eastern Belgium at night, Transcultures
