Haekem: ANKHOR live - Saturday Nov 25th - 20:00

Illustration : Gerard Daval (Happy Diwali)

ANKHOR live

Gabriel Policardo : Bass
Adrien Copello : Saxophone, Vocals
Alexander Delaporte : Guitar
Antoine Périlleux : Drums

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25th  I  8PM

Funk  I  Rock  I  Prog

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

Ankhor est un groupe de funk / rock progressif né des jams sessions déchaînées de Bruxelles.

Chacun de ses 4 membres en incarne l'essence même et, au travers de leurs instruments, font vivre une épopée musicale onirique et chargée d'émotions.

Photo : Ankhor

A l'instar d'une jam session, la musique d'Ankhor se veut houleuse, et absorbe l'auditeur dans une longue plongée ; des récifs azur jusqu'aux abysses les plus profondes, le groupe entremêle les genres musicaux tel le tumulte des flots, dont le groove et l'imaginaire en sont toujours ses courants majeurs.

Place: Haekem Theatre, rue de Laeken 66, 1000 Bruxelles

Doors open: 7pm
Concert: 8pm
Free entrance !
See you there !

You welcome

Gerard Daval

Haekem: SAITE - Saturday Nov 25th -19:00

Illustration: Syrk Flic en Flac Mauricius (Street Art)

SAITE

Cécile Delzant - Violin 

Ivan Bringas - Guitarra expansiva 

Filippo Gillono - Acoustic Guitar


Improvised Music

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

Musique bruitiste, ambiante, contemporaine, improvisation radicale : concevoir la production sonore comme un espace vibrant et vivant où les sons et les gestes performatifs se mélangent et se confondent.

Un voyage à travers des paysages imaginaires aux yeux bandés, où les métamorphoses du son se produisent comme des manifestations de l'invisible.

Saite marque la rencontre de trois personnalités, sublimées dans une recherche timbrique qui se concentre sur la décontextualisation de l'objet, à la fois comme instrument de musique et comme objet banal de la vie quotidienne, dans l'espace sonore et physique.

https://musicainsolita.bandcamp.com/album/aliento 
Aliento, Saite - 2023 

Musica Insolita

Studio performance 

Bandcamp: https://musicainsolita.bandcamp.com/album/aliento

Youtube, teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My5UrNFGKYM

Les musiciens :
Filippo Gillono (Italia)
Filippo Gillono (Italie, 04.07.1996) est un guitariste et compositeur

. Il a étudié à Turin la guitare jazz (BA) et la composition jazz (MA). Il est membre actif de la scène expérimentale et de l’improvisation musicale de Turin et Berlin. Ces dernières années, il a travaillé dans plusieurs projets internationaux avec le trio Naso 2, le collectif italien Pietra Tonale, Salmoni (Salmoni esc.rec) et avec Imut Adan, auteur-comisteur psych-rock turc. Il a récemment entamé une collaboration avec l’ensemble intercontemporain GAME et suit un master avancé en musique contemporaine dirigé par l’ensemble Ictus au conservatoire KASK entre Gand et Bruxelles.

En 2020, lors la résidence Officin&ideali, Residenze in transito, il créé avec le groupe Zaratan une installation sonore multidisciplinaire intitulée ITER. Il a collaboré à l’échelle internationale avec des artistes comme Uval Avital (« Rivers » au musée GAM de Turin), Hilary Galbreaith, Hansko Visser, Pasquale Calo’, Kamil Pietrovich, Pablo Lienhard, Vincent Laju, Ivan Bringas, entre autres. 

Il a joué parmi différents festivals internationaux tels que le JFT e Jazz is Dead de Turin, Fusion Festival, Duna Jam, Valkhof Festival, Keçi Festival, Salon iKSV (Istanbul).


Ivan Bringas (Mexico)
Ivan Bringas (Mexico, 08.10.1990) est un guitariste, improvisateur et compositeur de formation classique. Tout au long de sa carrière, il a développé ses propres modes de jeu sur l’instrument restant au contact de différents langages musicaux, styles et techniques musicales.
Diplômé en guitare classique au Conservatoire Giuseppe Verdi de Turin, sa formation commence très tôt, après avoir grandi au Café Jazzorca, un centre de recherche musicale et une maison de disques fondée par ses parents dans la ville de Mexico.
Sa formation s’est enrichie au fil des années grâce à ses rencontres avec Leo Brouwer, Victor Villadangos et Fred Frith.
Depuis 2007, il développe le projet Guitarra Expansiva avec lequel il a remporté le prix INBAL en 2010. Il a produit différents travaux discographiques comme Guitarra Expansiva en 2011 pour Jazzorca Records, Que viva s’aninnia pour le label Objet-a en 2015 et Nepantleras pour le label new-yorkais Zoar records en 2022. 

Il a présenté ses projets en Italie, Norvège, Allemagne, Autriche, République tchèque, Portugal, France, Espagne et Mexique.


Cécile Delzant (France)
Cécile Delzant est une violoniste improvisatrice basée dans la ville de Turin originaire de Annemasse. Elle a suivi des études classiques dans différents conservatoires européens (CRR de Paris, CRR de Lille, Royal College of London) et a étudié le violon jazz au conservatoire de Turin. En 2017 , elle est finaliste du concours international de violon jazz «Seifert Competition».
Depuis 2010, elle pratique différentes formes d’improvisations, du free jazz, aux musiques expérimentales à des genres plus classiques.
En 2021, elle présente son concert solo Solo s’ombra au théâtre 2.21 de Lausanne lors du festival « Creative Strings Festival ».
Elle a collaboré avec de nombreux musiciens et est active sur la scène expérimentale de Turin (entre autres avec les collectifs italiens Mediterraneo Radicale e Pietra Tonale ) et est sollicitée pour de nombreux enregistrements.

You welcome

Gerard Daval

Haekem: A PAS PERCÉS I BRauchpoesie - Thursday Nov 23th -19:00

Illustration: Gerard Daval (AI)

A Pas Percés

&

BRauchpoesie

Thursday November 23th

19:00

Improvised Music

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

En première partie de cette soirée jouera le duo A Pas Percés avec Andrea Tonero au synthé modulaire et Sylvain Monchocé au gayageum 25 cordes.

Les nappes dronesques et atmosphériques morpheront et laisseront place au minimalisme pointilliste, les moments calmes et silencieux dialogueront avec des moments de grande densité et énergie sonore, toujours en utilisant un jeu timbral fin et subtil.

Une étrange et merveilleuse rencontre entre un instrument analogique et un instrument traditionnel.

Durant la deuxième partie, se produira le trio de poésie abstraite BRauchpoesie, constitué de Sylvain Monchocé, cette fois-ci au saxophone et à la flute basse, Emiliano Salvatorre à la guitare et Marie-Louise Schneider à la voix et au violon.

Illustration: Monchocé. De Gauche à Droite, de Haut en Bas Andrea Tonero, Sylvain Monchocé, 

Marie-Louise Schneider, Emiliano Salvatorre

A Pas Percés

Tonero Synthé modulaire

Monchocé Gayageum 25 cordes

On TikTok:

0:59Tonero + Monchocé live at Haekem Theatre Brussels ...TikTok · haekem.theatre.brussels59 secondes13 mai 2023

On YouTube:

Monchocé/Tonero - Hard Shadows part 1YouTube · Andrea Tonero9 minutes et 54 secondes17 oct. 2020

Bandcamp:

Tonero/Monchocé - Eau Lourde 

BRauchpoesie 

Monchocé Saxophone & Flute Basse

Salvatorre Guitare

Schneider Voix & Violon

In BRauchpoesie, sometimes a text triggers landscapes that will guide the improvisation, other times the sounds inspires clusters of words that unfold in a text.

Then softly performative and infantile moments arise amidst great tension and, thus, the simultaneous solos, the imitations, the possible responses from one sound to another, occasionally give a polyphonic character to the relationships within the trio. 

However, and despite the great richness of timbre that its members contribute, with a playful and relaxing energy a search for a sound meeting point finds place, an allowing point to be able to take refuge and at the same time regain strength to leave again, what makes the music sound strange and yet, captivating.


IN: 10€ ALL FOR THE ARTISTS

You are welcome

Gerard Daval

Haekem: DIKTAT - Tuesday Oct 31th -20:00

Illustration DIKTAT

“DIKTAT are the true masters of pure sounding ephemerality!

Tuesday Oct 31th -20:00


Electro-Collage-Voice Improvised Music

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

DIKTAT

Shih-wen Lee - double bass

Rinus van Alebeek - dictaphones

Emmanuel Ferrand - dictaphones

Harold Schellinx - dictaphones

"DIKTAT is a Dutch/French/Taiwanese electroacoustic alliance, that combines the idiomatic of EAI (Electro Acoustic Improvisation) with extreme contrapuntal thinking, the asymmetry of free declamation and the spontaneity of associative, surrealist collage.

The playback and manipulation of a multitude of (often voice based) lo-fi cassette tape recordings (either found or custom made) on in several cases badly degraded vintage equipment, and the occasional use of odd home-built electronic contraptions, provide the threads, that, through the double bass's thrust and control, its steer and its stitch, are woven into a tense, coherent & multi-layered sonic fabric of varying narrational density.

There's no sound without story. There are no stories without sound…

Diktat has been active since 2006, originally with Parisian based double bass player Jean Bordé, nowadays with Shih-wen Lee on double bass, who is originally from Taiwan, but currently based in Brussels."

DIKTAT - Tour de Force : https://coherentstates.bandcamp.com/album/tour-de-force

DIKAT in Berlin : https://soundblog.bandcamp.com/album/d-i-k-t-a-t-in-berlin

* lien vidéo 

Album vidéo "4 US Dances" : https://youtu.be/o8aQ3HcTJqs?si=SOl6frqR7wtLKDF2

Read and see more:

http://diktat.soundblog.net

About Diktat on the SoundBlog

In: Gonzo (Circus) magazine, #175, May-June 2023 (in Dutch)



" ... DIKTAT's concerts are recorded in the emergency of a wild energy. A little punks, a little academicians, they play outside, along a river, sometimes in galleries and walls disappear... The more one listens to this fierce album the more comes to one’s mind Moondog, who played in streets and ended his life in Germany. The choice to record this 'DIKTAT in Berlin' makes even stronger the assertion that these 4 are indeed the dignified heritors of the incredibly missed Louis Thomas Hardin..."

Haekem: Sofia, Peter, Jan & Gregoire - Thursday October 26th - 19:00

 ZO! aim at a music with the pictural narrative richness of

authentic Ethnic music, the subtle nuances and virtuosity of

contemporary composed music, the lyrical freedom of Jazz, the

total experiment of Free music and the rough stage energy of early

Punk.

Our sound, instrumental and vocal, from breath to scream, from

almost inaudible to almost unbearable, far over the boarders of

classic western aesthetics.

Sounds have colours
Feelings have weight
Eyes have ears and ears can see clear, even in the dark.

Improvised Sounds, Performances, Musics and much more

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

Thursday October 26th - 19:00

Solos, Duo & Quartet

Organisation: ZO!

Thanx Sofia Kakouri and Peter Jacquemyn organizing this night

Illustration: Peter

https://www.jacquemyn.com

https://www.instagram.com/jan.pillaert/

https://www.metx.be/en/artiesten/gregoire-tirtiaux-3/

https://www.sofiakakouri.com

IN: As you can!

You are welcome!

Gerard

Haekem: Overdriven Dreams & Northern Lighthouse - Friday October 27th - 19:00

Illustrations: Overdriven Dreams & Northern Lighthouse

Improvised Ambiant, lo-fi Electronic & Field Record Music

FRIDAY OCTOBER 27th - 19:00

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

Overdriven Dreams seeks to bring the endless sound fields of phantasmagoric dreams to life.

&

Inspired by voyages, lighthouses and history Northern Lighthouse makes electronic music using samplers, tape, guitar pedals, modular and keyboard synths. 

overdriven dreams

is the moniker of Uroš Kostić, an ambient composer from Niš, Serbia. After many years of studying the potential of his main instrument and various other devices throughout work with several bands and projects, most prominently with the post-rock band There., he started utilizing those sounds in his solo work. 

overdriven dreams seeks to bring the infinite sound fields of phantasmagoric dreams to life. In the process, he relies primarily on experimentation in the field of post-minimalism, drone, and ambient by working with 4-track cassette tape loops, field recordings, and reel-to-reel tape loops. His pieces are characterized by deep ostinato lines and meandering lush textures permeated with string instruments, pianos, and choirs. For his album “symphony // of // murmurings” which was released by the Netherlands label Slow Tone Collages he collaborated with one of the most prolific experimental artists Lawrence English as a mastering engineer. 

In a short time, he established himself as one of the currently most active ambient musicians in the Balkan region, above all at numerous performances around Europe, where he shared the stage with well-known artists such as Pan-American (ex-Labradford), Alison Cotton, and Wojciech Rusin. 

A smooth and long dive into the depths 

of the sounds around us, analog effects 

and tape world, otherworldly noises and 

opaque, barely perceptible vibrations. 10/10 – NoiseMe 

This is a prime 31-minute track, starting 

slow and soft, building gradually. 

Numerous sounds slowly layer themselves in; 

some are voices and others are familiar 

but not quite identifiable – somewhat musical 

and somewhat otherworldly - Tuning to obscure

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvfoMy9gPANkzDAVvGWI32w

Northern Lighthouse

Born in Bologna (IT), based in Brussels (BE), he started releasing tracks in 2014 in the windy and cold northeast of England where he lived for a few years. 

His music combines elements of ambient, lo-fi electronic music and field recordings: soundscapes with a nostalgic and emotive atmosphere paying tribute to distant memories and remoted and isolated places.

https://northernlighthouse.bandcamp.com/album/strada





THX Uroš (overdriven dreams) organizing this event

IN: 10€
You are welcome


Gerard Daval

Haekem: Duerinckx I Wachtelaer I Massolini I Trio - Sat Oct 28th - 19:00

Duerinckx, Wachtelaer, Massolini trio

Improvised Music

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


The Duerinckx, Wachtelaer, Massolini trio is undoubtedly a trio that will prick your heart. 

His uncompromising music will take you on a journey to the confines of a well-assumed freedom...


JJ Duerinckx aka Maurice Charles JJ (B)
Sopranino and baritone saxophones 

Practicing improvisation for over 20 years. Many renowned musicians from the world of free improvised music mark his career, such as Lol Coxhill, John Russell, Michel Doneda, Barre Philips, Jacques Foschia, Tom Jackson, Adrian Northover, Matthieu Safatly, Tatsuya Nakatani, Peter Jacquemyn, Roger Turner, Dan Warburton, Anton Mobin... just to name a few.

Sensitive to the visual arts, he is interested in electro-acoustic music, sound art and more particularly in the notion of "soundscapes", a concept dear to the composer R Murray Schaffer in his book "The Tuning of the world". The idea of confronting sound material and melodies, whether abstract or not, constitutes one of the bases of his musical language as well as a vector of energy to share.

In 2018, he founded “Unreal Brotherface” with the acousmatic composer Stephan Dunkelman, whom he met in 2004 within Zohara, an ensemble created by Zahava Seewald produced by John Zorn (Tzadik 2004) in which he played. Unreal Brotherface participated, among others, in the City Sonic Winter session 2019 and the Belgian Music Days 2020. 

MxSx, his duet with Dimitri Coppe, was created in Flagey during the 2022 Sound Week and is a tribute to the recently deceased composer.
The confrontation of his sound expertise with other modes of artistic expression such as visual arts, performance, contemporary dance, remains essential to his artistic research. 

He participates in CEPI founded by double bassist Barre Philips. 

Collaborations among others with Harold Schellinx, Patricia Kuypers, Frank Beaubois, Pascale Gille, Stéphanie Auberville, Isako Horikawa, Peter M. Friess...

In 2015, he met the multimedia artist Alexandra Dementieva with whom he played in the duo 'Tunnel Hearing' recently joined by the cellist/double bassist José Bedeur.

In March 2020, in the midst of a pandemic, he created Lamaφ (lamaphi), a multidisciplinary protean group, bringing together dancers, musicians and videographers.

It is the basis of the lab'OMFI: a transdisciplinary experimental laboratory which was held at the Halles St Géry in Brussels from 2017 to 2019.

He is founder of the OMFI collective (2011/2019) with cellist Matthieu Safatly and created the group Neptunian Maximalism in 2018 with multi-instrumentalist guitarist Guillaume Cazalet.

astateofmutation.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/mutation-by-mcjj

https://neptunianmaximalism.bandcamp.com/



Dirk Wachtelaer (B)
Drums

Dirk Wachtelaer has been playing drums for more than 30 years. 

He has been active in many genres but his main focus has always been on improvisation and experimentation. 

He has played with Paul Schutze, Toshinori Kondo, Stevie Wishart, Phillip Clemo, and many others.

He recorded 3 solo albums and leads the ensemble Vanishing Pictures, creating music that vanishes when you try to label it.

dirkwachtelaer.bandcamp.com/

https://music.metason.net/artistinfo?name=Dirk%20Wachtelaer



Mattia Massolini (IT),
Double bass

Mattia Massolini was born in 1981 in Pavia (IT), he lived in Florence between 2001 and 2006 where he collaborated with several swing and gypsy jazz groups. 

In 2008, he moved to Brussels where he began studying classical double bass at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. 

In the meantime he has worked with "Too Much and the white nots" and other Belgian songwriters, with the Folk Fusion group "Stingo" and collaborated with several orchestras in Belgium and France (ONB, BPO) .

His interest in improvisation was born during contact dance jams in Brussels, where he met artists who would change his vision and his approach to improvisation: Michel Massot, Ernst Glerum, Jon Rose, Seijiro Murayama, Jean-Luc Guillonet. 

He has collaborated with several free improvisation collectives such as the P.I.L.S collective, Lamaphi, BIC, Bubble Dance. Member of the improvisation trio MA.MA.AND with Andres Navarro and Marcello Giannandrea. 

www.youtube.com/channel/UCBXIrsOu0jBngJx36RmnO-w 


IN: 10€ ALL FOR THE ARTISTS

You are welcome

Gerard Daval

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 

FB: https://fb.me/e/4ZdbXTapG

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