With the recent discoveries of exoplanets as a central theme, Benjamin Glorieux created a new piece with the string orchestra Bryggen, Vincent Caers (electronics) and Klaas Verpoest (live video).
Read More »Exoplanets or the quest for life around another SunString theory in its many incarnations provides a theoretical framework to answer some of the deepest questions, often with surprising results. At the same time, it raises some disturbing new questions, making painfully clear how little we understand of our Universe.
Read More »The End of Space and Time
Mister Linh flees his war-ravaged country in search of a better future for his granddaughter. Mister Linh doesn’t feel at home in the foreign land where he finds himself, until one day he meets mister Bark.
Read More »Het kleine meisje van Meneer Linh‘WORP’ is an cross-media improvising collective, combining musicians, visual artists and dancers. Through each performance, they explore the borders of the different media involved.
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Signale zur Invasion (1992) is performed simultaneously with Octophonie (1991), both pieces are part of Dienstag from Stockhausen’s monumental Opera Cycle Licht. The trombonist plays and walks a parcours amongst the audience whilst the video-artist divides it into equal protanganists.
Read More »Octophonie & Signale zur Invasion | Karlheinz StockhausenDebussy has created a new kind of musical drama with Pelléas. The text, by the Belgian Nobel prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck, is incorporated word for word. The play is a high point in symbolism and explores psychology, humankind’s deepest nature and feelings. Read More »Impressions de Pelléas | Claude Debussy
In Morton Feldman’s music, silence plays a prominent role, thanks to the hushed volume and the interval between sounds.
Read More »Crippled Symmetry | Morton FeldmanTom lanoye declameert met verve – in de hem zo eigen stijl – een avondvullende, aangrijpende theatersolo.
‘Niemandsland/Overkant’, Gedichten uit de Groote Oorlog.
Read More »Niemandsland/Overkant | Tom Lanoye
Metres-long piano strings, stretched through the Atrium and amplified by gigantic, polystyrene sound boxes. When struck, the strings get a vibration that travels along them like a wave, swelling in sound as it goes.Read More »Long String(s)
Samen maakten Corrie en Josse van deze Geletterde Mensen één lange, goedgeorganiseerde gitaarimpro met teksten en gitaarmuziek die elkaar sturen, uitdagen, prikkelen en boven zichzelf deden uitstijgen. Read More »Josse De Pauw & Corrie van Binsbergen