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

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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

HAEKEM: Akira Sakata/Giotis Damianidis duo - Sunday Sept 17th - 19:30PM

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Improvised Music 

Sunday September 17th 7:30PM

Haekem Theatre
Rue de Laeken 66 Lakensestraat 
1000 Brussels 

presents

Akira Sakata/Giotis Damianidis duo



Akira Sakata
Akira Sakata (坂⽥明) was born in Kure-city, Hiroshima in 1945. Studied marine biology at
Hiroshima university. Formed a group Saibo-bunretsu (Cell fission) in Tokyo in 1969, and was
also performing with various free-jazz musicians during this time. Since the late 1960s, Sakata
has been a constant figure in jazz and creative music scenes as an ever evolving and adventurous, multi-instrumentalist, and member of classic groups such as Yamashita Yosuke Trio, from 1972 till 1979, and Wha-ha-ha plus many of his own, like the Sakata Akira mii.

He has recorded with Chris Cosey, Peter Brotzmann in Last Exit, DJ Krush, Yoshimio, and others.! !
In 2005 he began peforming with guitarist Jim O'Rourke, drummer Chris Corsano and acoustic bassist Darin Gray. They've since released three albums together. Friendly Pants is the first 
American release by Sakata in more than 20 years. It pairs the 65-year-old traveler alongside bombast Chikamorachi (Corsano/Gray) and O'Rourke as the producer.


Giotis Damianidis
Giotis Damianidis (b. 1981) is a Greek guitarist, bassist, improviser, composer.
He grew up in Thessaloniki and lives in Brussels since 2006 where he started exploring music, guitar and bass playing intensively until today. He has performed all over Europe and Africa playing different styles of music such as free jazz, free improvisation, Afro beat, funk, psychedelic rock with the research and exploration of improvisation being his main occupation and tool of expression the last few years. 

He had the chance to share the stage with musicians such as Akira Sakata, Sakis Papadimitriou, Oghene Kologbo, Tony Allen, Baba Ani, Balasz Pandi, Christos Yermenoglou, to name a few. 
He is leading the chameleon Quintet Punk Kong since 2015, he is co-founder of Act up trio, Don Kapot, Tape is rolling and side man in bands such as Man on Fire, World Squad, Giovanni Di Domenico’s Abschattungen and Aufheben & Ruth Tafebe’s Afrosoulmessengerz. In 2013 he founded his own label, Mr. Nakayasi, home of distinct and diverse music.


IN: 15€, ONLY FOR THE ARTISTS

You are welcome

Gerard Daval







Haekem: BroCoMi - Frid Sept 15th - 7:30PM

#resonare,#haekem #improvisedmusic #cecilebroche #claudecolpaert #mikegovaerts #haekemtheatre #livemusic #brussels #bruxelles #improvisation #gerarddaval,#AI,#aiartist,





RESONARE 39
“Experimental & Spontaneous Music Series ”

Friday September 15th 7:30PM


Haekem Theatre
Rue de Laeken 66 Lakensestraat
1000 Brussels

presents

BroCoMi

Cécile BROCHÉ violin

Claude COLPAERT trombones, etc ..

Mike GOYVAERTS “extended” basdrum



French-Belgium trio shares their own musical experiences on sound, ethnical music,

blues, jazz influences and other

bizarre nerve impulses !


Free participation

You welcome

Gerard Daval




“De l’idée qu’a eue il y a quelques années le percussionniste

Mike Goyvaerts de s’adjoindre pour un concert à Bruxelles

la violoniste Cécile Broché et le tromboniste (entre autres)

Claude Colpaert est née l’envie de ce trio, qui prend plaisir

à se retrouver à chaque fois, que ce soit en Belgique ou en

France, pour prolonger alliages sonores peu usités et plaisir

de l’improvisation, au fil d’une écoute réciproque qui construit l’instant sonore en architectures inédites.

Haekem: MNPL - Frid Sept 8th - 8PM

Improvised Electronic music

MNPL is a Belgian electronic music duo based on performance and improvisation

Their music ranges from huge wall of sound made of noise drones to powerful experimental techno, by way of smooth ambient music.

Friday, September 8th - 8PM


Photo Marie Harsh


noise EP : https://mnpl.bandcamp.com/album/m-ditation-interdite

drone track : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB_VGVonTRg



instagram : https://www.instagram.com/mnpl_music/

facebook : https://www.facebook.com/MNPL.music



In: Pay as you can


You are welcome


Gerard Daval

Haekem: Free Jazz - Ornella-Ferdinand feat Luke Stewart - 7:30PM

#saxophone #sax,#ferdinandlezaire,#haekem #haekemtheatre #Brussels #gerarddaval,#AI,#aiart,#aiartist,#livemusic,#ornellanoulet,#lukestewart,#improvisedmusic #freejazz #drums,

Improvised Free Jazz /***TONIGHT SPECIAL***/

Wed. August 23th - 7:30PM, tonight

Amazing US bass player Luke Stewart after recording sessions in Brussels will have gigs with  promising young Brusselaers Artists he met at Haekem. Future is already here!

You are welcome!

Gerard Daval

In: As you can… all for the Artists.


Ornella Noulet: Sax

Ferdinand Lezaire: Drums

ft

Luke Stewart: E-bass

Photos: Jean-Philippe Burg / Gerard Daval

THX Jean-Philippe Burg / Luke Stewart organizing this event.

Luke Stewart
Une figure emblématique et proéminente de Washington DC, improvisateur solo, multi-instrumentaliste. 
Il a notamment sorti un disque récemment sur Impulse avec Moor Mother, dans le groupe: Irreverisble Entanglements. Il a joué avec Trevor Dunn, Chris Pitsiokis, Chad Taylor
C'est aussi un organisateur de concert important.

Haekem: MOFAYA Free Jazz - Tuesday, August 22th - 7:30 PM

 

Improvised Free Jazz

MOFAYA! free jazz duo of John Dikeman on sax and Aleksandar Skoric on drums, featuring great Peter Jacquemyn on double bass!

Tuesday, August 22th
 7:30PM

Entry: As you can... All for the Artists!

https://www.doek.org/project/mofaya/
https://www.jacquemyn.com/music.php

Aleksandar and John
Photo Filip Filipovic


Peter
Photo Jacquemyn.com

Haekem: ALLIANCE OF THE BILLING - Friday August 25th 2023 - 7:30PM




Improvised Post Rock Music from Belgium

Friday August 25th 6:00 PM

Haekem Theatre Lakensestraat, 66 ¬ rue de Laeken, 66 ¬ 1000 Brussels



S’appuyant fortement sur la guitare disto et d’autres effets sonores, Alliance of the Billing explore les limites du post-rock viscéral, tout en enrichissant sa palette musicale de différentes vibrations complexes au clavier et de mouvements de batterie finement associés. 

La formation cosmopolite de cinq musiciens originaires de Bruxelles embarque l’auditeur dans une montée volontairement brumeuse, un paysage sonore multicouche nébuleux et cinématographique.

Haekem: RETINA INVITES PROXY_404 | Friday July 7th | From 5:00PM


FRIDAY JULY 7TH  > 5:00PM 

RETINA INVITES PROXY_404

AFTERWORK DJing

Several well known Brussels DJs, RETINA, welcomes PROXY_404, Berlin, playing afterwork from 17:00 to ...

Improvised Electro.

YOU WELCOME !

Gerard Daval



PROXY_404 | BERLIN  | GERMANY
https://soundcloud.com/proximaultra

RETINA | BRUSSELS | BELGIUM
https://soundcloud.com/retina_retina_retina

Retina #1 @haekem

Haekem: TONERO X SANCHEZ | Wed Jun 28th | 8PM



Improvised Experimental Music

TONERO X SANCHEZ

Wednesday June 28th | 8PM

TOMORROW

Situated at the intersections of experimental music, free improvisation and performance art, Paula Sanchez’ work is focused on the composition/decomposition and destruction/re-construction of a mutable sound space. With a markedly interdisciplinary profile, she first found her voice as a performer, interpreter and composer in the fields of theater and performance. She stands out for her use of extended techniques and unconventional ways of playing, working with materials like plastic, glass and elements from nature combined with voice and electronics. Hers is the pure presence of an embodied sound which invents its relationships as it makes its way into nothingness. 

She will be share the stage by Andrea Tonero, pianist, composer by training (Arts2 - Mons) and electronic autodidact. Passionate about the relationships between musicians during the intimate moment that is the concert, he is in search of the tacit understanding that unites sound universes.  

Accustomed to the prepared piano, it is here with his modular synthesizer that he will bring sound to life, either it be tender and meditative, or sharp and ferocious.








































Haekem: XAXI & MULTIPOLAR | Tuesday June 27th | 7:30PM

Improvised Electronic Music

XAXI (Ernestoh Gonzaluz & Clarice Calvo-Pinsole)

E. Piano Electro and more

MULTIPOLAR (Teddy Larue & Marie Kollek)

Electro Experimental Noise


Tuesday June 27th 7:30 PM

Haekem Theatre Lakensestraat, 66 ¬ rue de Laeken, 66 ¬ 1000 Brussels


"We are delighted to invite you to an immersive electronic music journey featuring extraordinary duo. Brace yourself for a captivating evening of experimental sounds, including mesmerizing hardware collages, dynamic live looping, and powerful noise with deep basslines. Join us as we explore the boundaries of sonic exploration and embark on a thrilling musical adventure. Marie Kollec. MULTIPOLAR"


Entrance: 5€-10€ ALL FOR THE ARTISTS


FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1381350759376196/?notif_id=1686858806136116&notif_t=plan_edited&ref=notif


XAXI (BE)

"Xaxi is Ernesto Gonzaluz and Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle


Through sample-based, improvised sound collages they cultivate a textured and musical expression of their shared visions.


Weaving melodies mesh with manipulated recorded sounds through miniature scenes that flow into one another organically like a dream sequence."

https://xaxi.bandcamp.com/



Multipolar (DE)

"Multipolar is a experimental noise duo based in Leipzig.


Teddy Larue and Marie Kollek improvised betewn, distorted, slow sounds and an impulse of a deep bassline. 


The two artists create a live dialogue between their compositions and in contact with the audience. The duo drags the audience into a tunnel of sounds, hypnotic, sometimes tender sometimes loud. Their noises are created through the hyper-materialisation of sound, of overdrives of everyday sounds, the human voice, breathing, machines and effects.


The latest released of multipolar is on UNSE label from Paris.

https://unse.bandcamp.com/album/multipolar-ghost-of-my-life

All best,
Marie Kollec"


YOUE ARE WELCOME


LOVE


GERARD


THX: Multipolar | Haekem Theatre organizing this event

Artwork: Multipolar | Gerard Daval
Graphisme: Haekem
Management: Gerard Daval