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Sound Installation: Fabio Machiavelli

“First we shape our tools and then they shape us.” (John M. Culkin) In Machiavelli’s work, (re)shaping is key. For several years now, the core of his artistic practice has been rooted in new lutherie, DIY practices as compositional processes, and the development of new instruments as alternative sound surfaces — ...

Sonic Harvest: David Dubois, Alice Van Biesen, Livia Slegers

The Brussels Philharmonic invited young sound artists David Dubois, Alice Van Biesen and Livia Slegers to create new sound works for the Tectonics festival, inspired by the concerts from the LAB-SERIES.  Before, during, and after these concerts, they embarked on a wild foraging for sound — harvesting noises, voices, textures, with ...

Expo Baudouin Oosterlynck

Baudouin Oosterlynck (Kortrijk, 1946) has been developing a singular artistic practice around sound, silence, and listening since the 70s. For the very first edition of Tectonics in Brussels, he brings together a selection of his remarkable listening instruments in Foyer 3. These are not conventional sound-producing instruments, but objects that ...

Ictus & Tarek Halaby: Frederic Rzewski, Coming Together / Attica

Frederic Rzewski (1938–2021) created with this 1975 diptych one of the most striking works with narrator in modern music. The piece draws on the Attica prison uprising (New York, 1971), where inmates demanded to be treated as human beings. The crackdown left more than forty people dead. Rzewski builds on a ...

Farida Amadou + Heather Leigh

The duo of Farida Amadou and Heather Leigh brings together two singular voices in contemporary experimental music. Working in the realm of free improvisation, they weave dense, visceral soundscapes where Amadou’s heavily processed electric bass collides with Leigh’s expansive, emotionally charged pedal steel guitar. Their music unfolds as a raw ...

Ictus: Leonie Strecker / Pak Yan Lau / Anita Cappuccinelli

Improvised music is necessarily spontaneous — yet it is shaped by personal experience, reflection, experiment, and aesthetic choices. Over the years, Pak Yan Lau has built a distinct sound world with prepared pianos, toy pianos, synths, and electronics. Together with percussionist Anita Cappuccinelli (Ictus, TUUM), she explores how these sounds meet, ...

Brussels Philharmonic: Øyvind Torvund, Symphony for Kunstnernes Hus

Symphony for Kunstnernes Hus by Norwegian composer Øyvind Torvund is a symphony that presents itself as a work of art – and a work of art that takes the form of a symphonic concert. It’s an immersive musical experience, with simultaneous concert moments unfolding throughout the building, inviting and challenging ...

Shape of absence

The Boghossian Foundation presents 'Shape of absence', an exhibition initiated at the invitation of Louma Salamé, which bears witness to the ongoing heritage tragedy unfolding in Syria since 2011. The exhibition is centered on Hrair Sarkissian’s monumental installation 'Stolen Past', presented in dialogue with Iconem’s immersive images of the site ...

The President’s Cake

In 1990s Iraq, 9-year-old Lamia must bake the President's birthday cake. She scrambles to find ingredients for this compulsory task while facing potential punishment if she fails. Caméra d'Or, Cannes Festival 2025
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