Haekem: Alternative Guitar Festival - Frid Oct 20th 20:00 & Sat Oct 21th 17:00 & Sat Oct 21th 20:00

Illustration Ivo Perelman

Contemporary Improvised Music Series #13 @ Haekem Theatre Brussels

Rue de Laeken 66 Lakensestraat 1000 Brussels 

Alternative Guitar Festival 

Frid Oct 20th 20:00

Sat Oct 21th 17:00

Sat Oct 21th 20:00

Guitars :

Magali Rischette (classical 6 strings)

Steve Gibbs (classical 8 strings)

Pascal Marzan (microtonal 6 strings sixth of tone)

Dirk Serries (classical 6 strings)

Christian Vasseur (quarter tone 11 strings)

Et :

Jean Demey (double bass)*

Jean-Jacques Maurice Duerinckx (sopranino sax)**

Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg (voice)

*only Sat Oct 21th

** only Fri Oct 20th

They all will play Solos ; Duos ; Trios

THX J-M Van Schouwburg organizing these events

IN: 10€

You are Welcome,

Gerard Daval

Haekem: Duo Genthon & Meier + D'incise - Wed. Oct 25th 19:00

Illustration: Gerard Daval (AI)

Genthon & Meier

+ Laurent D'incise Peter

Wed. Oct 25th 19:00

Improvised Music

Haekem Theatre: Rue de Laeken - 66 Lakensestraat - 1000 Brussels 

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Duo Anouck Genthon (violon) & 

David Meier (percussions)

Le duo Genthon_Meier s’est fondé sur le désir mutuel de combiner des modes de jeu singuliers prédéfinis initialement pour l’un et l’autre. 

Dans cette perspective, David Meier (Zürick) se focalise uniquement sur la grosse caisse de son instrument en tant que résonateur et amplificateur d’objets trouvés, cherchant ainsi de nouvelles libertés dans une limitation consciemment choisie. 

Anouck Genthon approfondit quant à elle au violon une recherche sonore liée au jeu et au timbre spécifique d’une vièle monocorde touarègue dont elle a étudié la musique en tant qu’ethnomusicologue (Université de Montréal) des années plus tôt. 

Le croisement de ces deux approches sonores distinctes donnent à entendre une musique texturelle qui se fond tant dans un flux sonore en continuelle transformation que dans une tension particulière liée aux fortes oppositions de leurs instruments respectifs.

https://wideearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-neuve
https://anouckgenthon.com/david-meier_anouck-genthon/

D'Incise - Laurent Peter (électroniques)

Prix suisse de musique 2019

Laurent Peter est né à Genève en 1983.

Très tôt attiré pas le reggea, le dub et le drum and bass joués pas les sonos dans les squats de la ville, il s’est essayé à ces genres musicaux avec le collectif Audioactivity. 

Adoptant le pseudonyme "d’incise", il s’est orienté alors vers des approches plus expérimentales. 

En solo ou lors de ses fréquentes collaborations avec Cyril Bondi, il explore les liens conceptuels entre le dub, l’électroacoustique, les improvisations et les compositions, les musiques minimalistes et les musiques traditionnelles. 

Ses projets en duo incluent La Tène, Diatribes et Insub Meta Orchestra.

Peter enregistre également de la techno sous le nom de Tresque.

Fréquences-électroniques-et-saturations-de-filtres-en-stéréophonie (sorte-de-suite-logique-mais-tourmentée)
https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/ka-ma

http://www.dincise.net/

THX Genthon & Meier organizing this event

IN: 10€

You welcome

Gerard Daval

Haekem: Grumô invite - Wed. Oct. 18th - 19:00

Illustration Alice

Wed Oct 18th

19:00

Improvised Music and Performances @Haekem

Rue de Laeken 66 Lakensestraat 1000 Brussels 

Grumô invite

Les wasserettes : 

"Amies musiciennes rencontrées au cours d'improvisation de Garrett List au conservatoire de Liège, il y a heu ! 15 ans. Elles se rassemblent pour accomplir ce projet qui devait se dérouler dans une wasserette durant une nuit blanche : Loreline (piano, tuba), Elena (voix), Alice (flûte traversière), seront rejointes par Elisabeth (accordéon) et Elaine (guitare) si elles voient de la lumière."


Photo Cha!
Loreline : 

"Loreline De Cat a commencé le piano au Conservatoire de Tournai. Adolescente, elle s'intéresse également au théâtre et aux arts plastiques puis rencontre Garrett List qui lui donnera le goût de l'improvisation. Plus tard, elle développe l'improvisation libre mêlée à d'autres disciplines artistiques durant des Sessions en Italie et en Autriche, notamment auprès d'Hubert Bergmann. En 2004 elle entre dans la classe d'improvisation de Michel Massot à l'Académie d'Etterbeek et entre au Conservatoire Royal de Liège en 2006 dans les classes d'Etienne Rappe et Garrett List. Elle se perfectionnera en improvisation et en musique contemporaine avec Brigitte Foccroule, François Deppe et Jean-Pierre Peuvion, mais également en accompagnement de chanteurs auprès de Thibaut Lenaerts, Kimiko Nishi et Jean-Pierre Moemaers. En parallèle à sa carrière de professeur et d’accompagnatrice, Loreline se produit notamment en concert au sein du trio de musique contemporaine et d’improvisation Klink’on, le collectif féminin Les Wasserettes et le collectif Les gens qui disent oui."

https://www.sarahwery.be/klink-on


Elena :

"Elena Dunkelman baigne dans la musique et chante depuis toute petite. Elle étudie le chant jazz au Jazz Studio et au Conservatoire de Bruxelles où elle obtient sa licence. En parallèle, elle se passionne pour le chant classique et l’improvisation libre et suit la classe de Garrett List au Conservatoire de Liège. Elle développe différents projets musicaux en Belgique et durant ses voyages à Hawaii, Montréal et au Brésil : improvisation, pop électronique, pop de chambre, 4tet a capella, musique afro cubaine, ... Actuellement, elle a un duo où elle rend hommage à la musique de son père."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MMahiDeGI8&ab_channel=DavidSamuelBaltuch


Alice (Alias Grumô, Petite bulle d'air qui tend à s'épanouir pour s’homogénéiser):

"Faiseuse d'instants poétiques, vibrants au son de la flûte, du violon et des petits objets, Alice allie musique et énergétique."

https://linstantchi.wordpress.com


Grumô Cha ! Sof :

"Amies de création et de performances, Sofia, Cha ! et Alice s'invitent à jouer, à danser, à vibrer. Elles proposent ce soir une performance son et mouvement autour d'une goutte d'eau." 


Sofia : 

"Sofia Kakouri (1986/Crete) She awarded prizes for the contemporary dance category by the National Contest: Terpsixoris Erga 2002+2003. She graduated from the Hellenic State School of Dance -KSOT in Athens 2010. Based in Brussels since 2012, she works as freelance performance artist, improviser and sound maker. She explores and develops her personal approach of performing and composing in combining body movement and sound playing pockettrumpet, vocals and objects. Over the last 10 years she’s (re)searching collective making of experimental performances in an improvised way. She collaborates with several multi-media and international artists among others: Peter Jacquemyn (Be), Lazara R.Albear (Cuba), Audrey Lauro (Fr), Carlo Mascolo (It), Vincent Caers (Be), Klaas Verpoest (Be), Jin Young Park (Korea), Geraldo Si (Br), Gunda Gottschalk (Ge). She performed at festivals and venues such as: KANAL-Brut, WIELS, TicTac Art center (Bxl), SMAK (Gent), FreeFlowFest (It), Seoul Dance center & Nam June Paid art center (Korea), |Κ| & K3 Hamburg, ÖRT Wuppertal, Room service - Rhenania (Ge), International FilmFest.Rotterdam (NL), Summer Bummer (Antwerp), ZCLAM (Fr)"

https://www.sofiakakouri.com


Cha ! : 

"Cha! musicienne aux multifacettes qui joue dans LEM, Refurinn Kitsune et Scraboutcha." 

https://youtu.be/91vhwNZzyZY?si=Ew6ySIgGFIt-RPmx

https://youtu.be/ufFahaqVbgM?si=vid441NHAfpG9YQr

IN: Minimum 5€

You are welcome

Gerard

Haekem: The Professors - Friday Oct 13th - 19:00

Illustration Fre

Improvised electro chaos Music

Rue de Laeken 66 Lakensestraat 1000 Brussels 

The Professors

Rinorrfreyus (chaos music)

UltraTerresTrial (Solo)

DJ NicOH (Solo), Daniel and more!

Friday Oct 13th - 19:00

The Chaos scene in Brussels

You welcome

Gerard 

IN: ALL FOR THE ARTISTS !

Haekem: Ornella & Ferdinand - Thursday October 12th - 19:00

Illustration Ornella & Ferdinand

Improvised Music @haekem

Rue de Laeken 66 Lakensestraat 1000 Brussels 

"After years of experience in bebop, West Coast and modal jazz, French alto and soprano saxophonist Ornella Noulet has devoted herself with great dedication and passion to free improvisation and sound research since 2 years. Having played saxophone since the age of seven and spent over 12 years at French conservatories, she is currently studying at the CRB in Brussels. This year, she consolidated her duo with Belgian drummer Ferdinand Lezaire, playing a double concert with Farida Amadou & Moor Mother. A solo set, quartet with Quentin Stokart and Ferdinand, and with Cole Scmidt and Ferdinand and and a duo set with Ferdinand in Haekem.


Ferdinand Lezaire, also from Brussels, is a musician and DJ (Les Ateliers Claus, Sound In Motion), who studied drums in schools, conservatories and on his own.
For the past 5 years, he has been playing free improvised music.
This year, he is studying improvisation at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège.


Their performances this year at Ancienne Belgique and the Summer Bummer Festival (where they shared the stage with artists such as Han Bennink, Terrie Ex, Susie Ibarra, Tashi Dorji, Oren Ambarch, and Mike Reed's Separatist Party) were apparently one of their first live performances.


They want to play today and for the rest of their future, and are building something that, for now, can only be seen and heard live. They are preparing future albums.After years of experience in bebop, West Coast and modal jazz, French alto and soprano saxophonist Ornella Noulet has devoted herself with great dedication and passion to free improvisation and sound research since 2 years. Having played saxophone since the age of seven and spent over 12 years at French conservatories, she is currently studying at the CRB in Brussels. This year, she consolidated her duo with Belgian drummer Ferdinand Lezaire, playing a double concert with Farida Amadou & Moor Mother. A solo set, quartet with Quentin Stokart and Ferdinand, and with Cole Scmidt and Ferdinand and and a duo set with Ferdinand in Haekem.


Ferdinand Lezaire, also from Brussels, is a musician and DJ (Les Ateliers Claus, Sound In Motion), who studied drums in schools, conservatories and on his own.
For the past 5 years, he has been playing free improvised music.
This year, he is studying improvisation at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège.



Their performances this year at Ancienne Belgique and the Summer Bummer Festival (where they shared the stage with artists such as Han Bennink, Terrie Ex, Susie Ibarra, Tashi Dorji, Oren Ambarch, and Mike Reed's Separatist Party) were apparently one of their first live performances.


They want to play today and for the rest of their future, and are building something that, for now, can only be seen and heard live. They are preparing future albums."

You are welcome!

Gerard Daval

IN: All for the Artists

Haekem: Luís Vicente I Daniele Martini I Giotis Damianidis I Aleksandar Škorić Tuesday Oct 10th - 19:00

Illustration Gerard Daval (AI)

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Tuesday October 10th - 19:00

Part1

Adam Holquist: guitar, piano, field recording...

Part2

Luís Vicente: trumpet
Daniele Martini: sax

Giotis Damianidis: guitar
Aleksandar Škorić: drums

Luís Vicente  I  Daniele Martini   I  Giotis Damianidis  I  Aleksandar Škorić

Everyone knows them! An incredible quartet not to be missed.

Photos Luís Vicente, Daniele Martini, Giotis Damianidis, Aleksandar Škorić

Adam Holquist "Onewayness"

Onewayness is Adam Holquist, a composer, musician, sound designer, and multimedia creator from Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. He uses guitars, pianos, analog and digital synthesis, spoken word and field recordings, and a variety of hardware and software tools to create atmospheric and textural music which draws influence from a variety of sources. These may include: ambient, drone, minimalism, post-rock, and vintage and contemporary electronic 'listening music'. His performance at Haekem will be the last date of his first ever European tour.

Photo Adam Holquist

You are welcome

Gerard Daval

Doors open at 19h00
First Concert at 19h30

In: 10€ ALL FOR THE ARTISTS

Haekem: Kodian trio - Wed Oct 4th -19:30

Improvised Experimental Music

Free Jazz aesthetics

Wednesday Oct 4th, 19:30

Colin Webster: alto sax

Andrew Lisle: drums

Dirk Serries: electric guitar

Kodian Trio

Kodian Trio have only been together since 2015. The trio of Colin Webster on alto sax, Andrew Lisle on drums, and Dirk Serries on electric guitar has been touring extensively ever since their inception. The shared experiences of the road, studio, travel, evinces a group sound which is constantly shifting, solidifying, and disappearing completely - true to the essence of free improvisation. 

Kodian Trio's 3rd studio album - and their second for Trost Records, was recorded in one intense live session at the White Noise studio in The Netherlands during a day-off on a European tour. On this album the trio shows the core strength as a unit gained from their live experiences, and a band in top shape. Yet within the turmoil there is also a sense of joy, and most importantly a perfect dialogue.

KODIAN TRIO is not a power trio per se but a band that combines free jazz aesthetics with modern experimentation.

https://www.youtube.com/live/jeQjuP0uT_Q?si=2c-8kNjMfJFt-ijv

You welcome

Gerard Daval

IN: ALL FOR THE ARTISTS

KODIAN TRIO live at SCHEUNE Dresden 2022

KODIAN TRIO at Het Bos 2018 photo by Jef Vandebroek

KODIAN TRIO

“Kodian Trio … blasts through, mashing free improv clicks and clatters
with free jazz-inspired hoots and hollers, all wrapped up in a waistcoat of gimlet-eyed punk attitude.” – Paul Margree, We Need No Swords Some are building directly on the foundations of pioneers while others are always on the lookout for fresh, contemporary sounds, or try to combine them. 

But they’re all united by a similar curiosity, a search for finding their own voices, and a never-ending reinvention of themselves.

Improvising power unit KODIAN TRIO rose from the ashes of a scorching concert at London’s Café Oto in 2015. Already eight years later and armed with three major studio albums and multiple live appearances later, the trio have become major contenders on the fertile and outwardlooking European scene. The trio is a working band in a constant explorative phase, from the first modest steps to the confident live reputation they have created. KODIAN TRIO is a unique one with 3 strong musicians constantly challenging themselves to move further and  beyond.

This is free music that actually lives up to its ambitions and frequently uses its maximum potential for individual and collective freedom, while at the same time maintaining a coherence that only becomes apparent with repeated and/or intense listening. It requires an effort, but the rewards are an insight into a unique musical language.

“the three confidently navigate their way through real-time improvisations scalding to the touch. Yes, blistering episodes surface—dissonant squeals from Dikeman, prickly shards from Serries, and volatile flourishes by Lisle—but so too do fleeting moments of calm as the trio brings a unified sensibility to the undertaking. With the exception of the surprisingly restrained fifteen-minute closer “III,” I catches the trio breathing communal fire: imagine forty-six minutes of bristling, molten improv and you’re in the right ballpark. I offers compelling exercises in musical democracy.” Textura – Canada “Kodian Trio biedt de luisteraar geen hapklare brokken muziek, maar levert met ‘I’ een ruwe, wringende en stompende plaat af die om veelvoudige beluistering vraagt alvorens het muzikaal gebodene volledig op waarde kan worden geschat. Hoeveel de muzikanten soms ook tegen elkaar in lijken te musiceren, steeds blijft – soms op  onnavolgbare wijze – de controle behouden. In de ontoegankelijke, bij tijd en wijle abstracte muziek ligt een flinke dosis inventivieit en subtiliteit verscholen van drie uitblinkende vrije impro-musici.” Opduvel – The Netherlands

“These musicians are far too talented to simply go hell for leather or indulge in macho noise grandstanding. Instead, their noise-making has an intricacy and control while still sounding spontaneous and raw. Webster tends to avoid the obvious low end raunch of the baritone, using its sheer physicality to lend force to high register squalls and breath effects. His introduction of the alto sax halfway through the third side is an unexpected delight, as he embarks on a bright, Eastern European tinged solo over some of Lisles’s most energetic and inventive drumming. The long drones and deconstructed funk of the final side bring further evidence of this trio’s resourcefulness and imagination.” The Quietus – UK 

London based saxophonist Colin Webster is known for working from extreme sonic palettes – from minimal to maximal, constantly pushing boundaries. Equipped with a razor-sharp, punk spirit, and ferocious technique, Webster has established himself as a unique voice on the European avant-garde scene, regularly collaborating with many of the key figures in improvised and experimental music.

Also based in London, Andrew Lisle’s quick and highly textural playing is making him highly in-demand in the fertile improvisation community. In turns both propulsive and abstract, Lisle has works with many leading voices on the UK and European improvised music scene, including Kit Downes, John Edwards, Ab Baars, Rodrigo Amado and John Dikeman. 

Dirk Serries – curator of the A New Wave of Jazz label – is hardly your average improvising musician. Even though the man has a fondness for the classic free jazz of the sixties and seventies and the current updates, his own talents lie elsewhere. As a master of texture, a skill which he’s been able to forge and refine for more than 30 years (as vidnaObmana, Fear Falls

Burning, Microphonics, with collaborative projects and, more recently, under his own name), he has always been involved in the more abstract, or sound-oriented wing of experimental music. Serries is now less reliant on his trademark effects and loops. A new ‘naked’ language that veers from gentle strumming to scribbling, pointillism, and occasional outbursts of disjointed howls. 

Pulling from his great experience in the worlds of ambient and industrial music, as well as from masters like Derek Bailey, Serries’ approach is improvisation that relies purely on his relationship with his electric guitar, prepared or not.

Haekem: Alternative Guitar Festival - Frid Oct 20th 20:00 & Sat Oct 21th 17:00 & Sat Oct 21th 20:00

 

Haekem: RETINA invites Laura Conant- Sat Sept 30th FROM 17:00 TO 22:00

Laura Conant https://soundcloud.com/laura-conant

Retina start his new season at the HAEKEM theatre.
This time we will seek to create an instant gate out of reality where music, dance and projections will be one.
And for this one we’re glad to invite Laura Conant and to offer an exclusive audioreactive digital visuals, set-up by Agathe (https://instagram.com/olga.corniski) & Kevin K
Laura Conant is one half of the Brussels based label and event series MONTAGE. 

The producer and DJ is known for various mixes and radioshows, exploring different styles and musical scenes. 

Her sets focus on a broad range of genres, always with a hint of experimental sounds. Influenced by everything between ambient, breaks and post-club dance music, she provides both ecstatic as introspective moments in her mixes.
https://soundcloud.com/laura-conant
https://instagram.com/lau_c_n_n_t
Soundsystem NEXO
66 rue de Laeken, 1000 Bruxelles - 5pm to 10pm
Haekem theatre is an old brothel on Laeken street. It’s an intimate place, with live music and performances.

Immersive Chillzone

Haekem: MAMA BISHOP - Thursday Sept 28th - 19:30

Improvised Music

MAMA BISHOP live

Followed by an acoustic jam WITH YOU starting from 21h

Entry fee : Up to you !

PLS: Help MAMA BISHOP finance his first EP to be released on the 14th of November !

C’est en l’an de grâce 14 après MJ que le groupe Mama Bishop émerge de la dimension quantique.
Il s’agit de la rencontre made in Brussels de 7 musicien.ne.s qui ont pour vision de créer une musique qui leur ressemble à travers les valeurs des 70’s : l’amour, l’esprit, la beauté et le vivant.
C’est donc 7 personnalités distinctes avec chacune leurs influences propres dont les savoirs, expériences et sensibilités fusionnent dans un mélange de genres. La soul, le jazz, la funk et la pop s’harmonisent avec un grain d’innocence et l’énergie qui convient pour vous proposer, avec humilité, une musique curieuse et génératrice de plaisir.
Leur musique se caractérise par des beats bien propres, des claviers organiques, une rythmique funky, du bon groove, des percussions, une voix soul et des trompettes de la mort.

You are welcome!

Gerard