Haekem: P. A.R. Timmermans & K Vanderstraeten, G Piano, J Deville - Frid Sept 22th - 7:30PM

Illustration Gerard Daval AI

Improvised Experimental Music!

Illustration Kris Vanderstraeten

Part I

Paul A. R. Timmermans (P-ART)

"J'extrais les processus sonores de mon (bon) mini accordéon de mon enfance d'une manière inhabituelle – intuitivement et expérimentalement."

"Je vois l'expérimentation d'objets sonores comme un jeu musical plein de fantaisie et de timbre" 

Themes

1. WHITE MUSICAL BODY 

2. LITOPHONIA
Petits morceaux de lime brisés (son percussif du maillet), mini-morceaux de verre antique, le tout noyé dans de la laine de verre (pour une manipulation résonante libre), entourés de matériaux résonants.

3. FINGERFERTIGKEIT 

For paper piano.

4. MUSICAL EXPERIMENT WITH OBJECTS

Plastic bottle, Pebbles, Chinese cymbals, Ocean drum, Blue Antique Glass Plates.

5. ACCORDEON PRIMI

Bio
Paul A.R. Timmermans (P-ART), belgian composer, musician and multimedia artist, is a versatile and talented artist who continues to push the boundaries of traditional music and multimedia.

His work is sure to appeal to anyone with an interest in experimental and innovative music and art. His first self-released Meta LP (1983) is an unique and innovative collector’s item that showcases P-ART’s experimental approach to music. The album features a mix of electronic, classical, and experimental jazz influences, using electronic sounds and sound objects to create unique soundscapes. 

Whether he plays a synthesizer, a balafon, a piano or sound objects, the P-ART approach to musical creation is the same: 

“For me, an intuitive composition is an organic process in which the music is thrown into my lap, as it were. Spontaneously without a written plan. Only then the path will open itself in an authentic way to me, the instant composer. Whether a real composition is developing or not, it cannot be predicted or conducted by myself. It happens. I take the same approach when creating my multitrack recordings track by track, I call it meta polyphony.” 

Since 1999, P-ART launched its artistic paradise online (http://partweb.net/PARADISE/parindex.htm) and its P-ART Family (WEB OF ARTISTS). These artists affiliated to P-ART are engaged in the same wide field of new music and contemporary arts. With personal contributions to the P-ART WEB of ARTISTS.

All selected artists belong to the virtual P-ART family, all together and completely free. Look at: http://p-artweb.net/P-ART/PARTWEB/index.htm P-ART is the curator and pro bono publisher of “The P-ART Projects” (2002, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022) – booklets first with CD, later with DVD - in which selected alternative artists from around the world (like Baudouin Oosterlynck and Mia Zabelka) participate and which also features some of his audio and video tracks. P-ART's CDs and DVDs ("White as Piano", "Musica Povera", "The Intuitive P'ARTy", "Microtona", "The Art of Silence" and "10XOPEN") are available via his website <p-artweb.net>.
P-ART performed solo impro concerts in Leuven, Brussels, Gent, Rixensart, Tielt-Winge, Heerlen (NL), Osnabrück (DE), Svendborg (DK), Vienna (AT).

Illustration P Timmermans

Disco: https://www.discogs.com/release/1233595-Paul-A-R-Timmermans-Meta

Part II
Kris Vanderstraeten (Drums)

Gasper Piano (Guitar) Slovenia

Joachim Neville (Trompet)

Gašper Piano is a Slovenian guitarist, composer, improviser, sound artist and poet. He is active as a freelance artist for performative art (theatre/contemporary dance/performance), visual art (multimedia/film/video) and acoustic/experimental/electronic music groups.

He was recognized in 2006 as a budding artist by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture. He collaborates on various projects with renowned choreographers/directors: Davis Freeman, Meg Stuart, David Zambrano, Mark L. Thompkins, Isabella Soupart and the musicians Bart Maris, Peter Jacquemyn, John Dikeman, Michael Schmidt, Hanne De Baker…

Since 2021, he regularly organizes improvised music sessions (“Adder Klank – Gatherings of spontaneous sound collisions”) and presents them while collaborating with various institutions and cultural places. Heis also active in social anthropology and culturology.

gasperpiano.bandcamp.co

Percussionist Kris Vanderstraeten is one of the best kept secrets of Belgian improvisation. Since the 1970th he has been working with his unique set-up and various collaborations: the trio Sureau, a duo with Timo Van Luijk, performances and/or recordings with young experimentalists.

Vanderstraeten does not play by the rules, he tries to shift them completely. His drum kit is not just any instrument; it is a sound generator to explore the maximum potential of texture, dynamics and space.

discogs.com/artist/617271-Kris-Vanderstraeten

Illustration Kris Vanderstraeten