Visual : Jean Demey
Jean Demey double bass - bass clar. &
Johan Pepi Pepermans alto sax &
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg a été excusé.
SATURDAY JUNE 1st
20:00
Haekem Theatre Brussels
rue de Laeken 66 Lakensestraat 1000 Brussels
In: 10€
Haekem Theatre: Culture, Improvised and Traditional Musics, Improvised Electro. Downtown Brussels. Unique.
Haekem: ‹≈ DJ Sean Morales live ≈› Saturday May 18th from 19:00
Visual: Gerard Daval ai
Sean Morales and Ichi Ni San Shi
DJ + SONG
SATURDAY MAY 18TH
live at Haekem From 19:00
rue de Laeken 66 1000 BXL
Electro Improv + Lights
"If you’ve been privately writing some songs and finally decide to record them with a full band, you’ve got a good chance of making that dream happen in Austin, TX. That’s where Sean Morales ended up, and on his solo debut he enlists folks from OBN IIIs, James Arthur’s Manhunt, The Golden Boys and Faceless Werewolves to fill in on drums, guitars, saxophone, keyboards, hell even a dobro when necessary. I’d say the effort has paid off, as Morales put together a very fine album of studied rock n’ roll, one that can be enjoyed from both seated and standing positions. I’m thinking he located inspiration from various unheralded rock geniuses, folks like Tom Verlaine and Alex Chilton, or even lesser-knowns (but equally greats?) like Brother JT, Andre Ethier and Dan Melchior. You know the type of cult-followed songwriter: scruffy introverts who are never far from a cigarette and don’t speak often, but when they do, it’s worth overhearing. Morales is not just a willing sponge, but a fine purveyor of his own experiences, and if you can’t find something to enjoy on Call It In I frankly have to question your interest in hearing guitars played at all."
rue de Laeken 66 1000 BXL
Electro Improv + Lights
"If you’ve been privately writing some songs and finally decide to record them with a full band, you’ve got a good chance of making that dream happen in Austin, TX. That’s where Sean Morales ended up, and on his solo debut he enlists folks from OBN IIIs, James Arthur’s Manhunt, The Golden Boys and Faceless Werewolves to fill in on drums, guitars, saxophone, keyboards, hell even a dobro when necessary. I’d say the effort has paid off, as Morales put together a very fine album of studied rock n’ roll, one that can be enjoyed from both seated and standing positions. I’m thinking he located inspiration from various unheralded rock geniuses, folks like Tom Verlaine and Alex Chilton, or even lesser-knowns (but equally greats?) like Brother JT, Andre Ethier and Dan Melchior. You know the type of cult-followed songwriter: scruffy introverts who are never far from a cigarette and don’t speak often, but when they do, it’s worth overhearing. Morales is not just a willing sponge, but a fine purveyor of his own experiences, and if you can’t find something to enjoy on Call It In I frankly have to question your interest in hearing guitars played at all."
Haekem: B A T T E R I E F A I B L E & M U S G O N O I R Thursday May 16th From 7PM
VISUAL ALEXIS PFRIMMER
ALTERNATIVE, ELECTRO POST PUNK, FRIENDLY NOISE
B A T T E R I E F A I B L E
&
M U S G O N O I R
THURSDAY MAY 16th From 19:00
Haekem Theatre Brussels
Rue Laeken 66
Lakensestraat 66
1000 Brussels
----------------- B A T T E R I E F A I B L E (FR) ------------------
----------------- B A T T E R I E F A I B L E (FR) ------------------
is a musical project led by Nicolas Despis, a French photographer and artist.
The band is produced by Moïse Turizer and is known for its minimal dance electro post-punk style, reminiscent of artists such as John Mauss, DAF and Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Batterie Faible's sound is energetic and provocative, reflecting the spirit of its founder Nicolas Despis.
The group has released an EP entitled FUCK SHIT!!!! which is available on digital and cassette.
Their EP combines driving electronic rhythms with raw guitars to create a unique aural experience.
With their innovative sound and provocative attitude, Batterie Faible have quickly become an emerging band on the French alternative music scene.
Their music embodies the rebellious spirit and boundless creativity of their creator, Nicolas Despis.
https://obsessions.ffm.to/fuckshit_ep
-------------------- MUSGONOIR (BE) -----------------
Friendly Noise
https://soundcloud.com/franmoser
Organisation: Alexis Pfrimmerhttps://obsessions.ffm.to/fuckshit_ep
-------------------- MUSGONOIR (BE) -----------------
Friendly Noise
https://soundcloud.com/franmoser
pfrimmer.arts@gmail.com
DOORS :
7 pm
8 pm - MUSGONOIR
9 pm - B A T T E R I E F A I B L E
7 pm
8 pm - MUSGONOIR
9 pm - B A T T E R I E F A I B L E
Haekem: ◊◊◊◊◊◊ HUGO COSTA ◊ DIRK SERRIES ◊ FRISO VAN WIJCK ◊◊◊◊◊◊ SATURDAY MAY 4th ◊◊◊◊◊◊ 19:00
Visual Gerard Daval AI
Visual Dirk Serries
IMPROVISED MUSIC, JAZZ
SATURDAY MAY 4th
19:00
The first time HUGO COSTA (Portugal), FRISO VAN WIJCK (Netherlands) and DIRK SERRIES (Belgium) played together was at Music Healing event at the beautiful Noorse Kerk in Rotterdam.
HUGO COSTA ◊ DIRK SERRIES ◊ FRISO VAN WIJCK
Haekem Theatre Brussels Laekensestraat 66 1000 Brussel
Haekem Theatre Brussels Laekensestraat 66 1000 Brussel
The first time HUGO COSTA (Portugal), FRISO VAN WIJCK (Netherlands) and DIRK SERRIES (Belgium) played together was at Music Healing event at the beautiful Noorse Kerk in Rotterdam.
The music evolved easily, with each dialogue leading to something new and interesting.
It took one year till the trio played again, this time live in concert at Oude Klooster Kapel in Brecht, where this album was recorded.
It took one year till the trio played again, this time live in concert at Oude Klooster Kapel in Brecht, where this album was recorded.
As if that gap of a year didn’t happen, the interaction between the saxophonist, the percussionist and guitarist was just as fresh, dynamic and moving.
With the acoustics of the chapel as their companion, this concert took various turns.
Attentively listening to each other, HUGO, FRISO and DIRK performed an intriguing concert full of different dense harmonies and rhythms, effortlessly and spontaneously.
In: All for the Artist
KNOW THEM BETTER!
HUGO COSTA
Hugo Costa is a Rotterdam-based saxophone player working in the field between free improvisation and avant-garde music, exploring melodic abstraction and harmonic tonal shifting using textural material with a wide range of extended techniques. Hugo plays in different projects such as Albatre, Anticlan, Costa/Ernsting Duo, Real Mensh, Garuda Trio, Land Over Water trio , he has toured extensively in Europe and performed in Japan and Thailand.
hugocosta.bandcamp.com
In: All for the Artist
KNOW THEM BETTER!
HUGO COSTA
Hugo Costa is a Rotterdam-based saxophone player working in the field between free improvisation and avant-garde music, exploring melodic abstraction and harmonic tonal shifting using textural material with a wide range of extended techniques. Hugo plays in different projects such as Albatre, Anticlan, Costa/Ernsting Duo, Real Mensh, Garuda Trio, Land Over Water trio , he has toured extensively in Europe and performed in Japan and Thailand.
hugocosta.bandcamp.com
DIRK SERRIES
Dirk Serries is a Belgian-based artist Dirk Serries has experimented with music on the border between avant-garde, industrial, experimental and ambient for close to 40 years now. He released his earliest work (1984) behind the pseudonym vidnaObmana up to 2007 when he closed the book on this project (realizing an extensive discography). Other projects like Fear Falls Burning and his Microphonics series made him collaborate with several key-players like Steven Wilson, Justin K. Broadrick, Cult Of Luna, Steve Roach and toured extensively on the sides of Jesu, MONO, Low, My Bloody Valentine and Cult Of Luna.
dirkserries.com
dirkserries.com
FRISO VAN WIJCK
Friso van Wick is a composer, percussionist and drummer with a remarkably diverse background in metal, jazz, contemporary classical music, and improvisation; his broad knowledge and keen empathy expanding and contracting in real time to seize the moment, now viscerally powerful, then geometrically precise, always playfully timeless. (Johanna Monk)
frisovanwijck.nl
frisovanwijck.nl
HAEKEM: ÷÷÷÷÷÷NicOH LIVE÷÷÷÷÷÷ FRIDAY MAY 3rd FROM 19:00
Visual Gerard Daval AI
NicOH LIVE @ Haekem Theatre
ELECTRO IMPRO VJING
FRIDAY MAY 3rd from 19:00
In 5€ all for the Artist
"Hello, my name is Nicolas De Baere (Franky Raphaelle) and I Produce music as Nic0H.
I use FL Studio to create my music. It's a very known DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) amongst producers around the world.
I first came i contact with the production software amongst a friend who produces under the name of Nesh' music since 2008. From then i was fascinated with what sonical art you can create with a computer.
On of the best synthesizers i bought I think is Serum. Very known amongst electro producers around the world."
I use FL Studio to create my music. It's a very known DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) amongst producers around the world.
I first came i contact with the production software amongst a friend who produces under the name of Nesh' music since 2008. From then i was fascinated with what sonical art you can create with a computer.
On of the best synthesizers i bought I think is Serum. Very known amongst electro producers around the world."
Classical Techno! For the lovers!
And some amazing impros!
HAEKEM: Jacques Foschia I Jean Demey I Pat Riské I SATURDAY APRIL 27th I 19:00
Visual Gerard Daval AI
IMPROVISED MUSIC
Jacques Foschia clarinet & bass clarinet
Jean Demey double bass
Pat Riské percussion
SATURDAY APRIL 27th 19:00
Haekem Theatre Contemporary Improvised Music Series
SATURDAY APRIL 27th 19:00
Haekem Theatre Contemporary Improvised Music Series
Haekem Theatre Brussels
rue de Laeken 66 - 1000 Brussels
Metro De Brouckère or Ste Catherine
rue de Laeken 66 - 1000 Brussels
Metro De Brouckère or Ste Catherine
IN: 10€, All for the Artists
Haekem: >>>>> 1000 murmurs <<<<< Frid April 26th 19:00
Visual:1000Murmurs
Visual Gerard Daval AI
1000Murmurs
Live immersif, rêve, synths, electro, acoustique, voix et poésie.
Haekem Theatre Brussels
Rue de Laeken 66 1000 Brussels
Heïkel Ben Mlouka, Zénoë Benoit, Kaya Freeman, Victor Guezennec-Schmidt.
"Une matière sonore en mouvement
Frid April 26th 19:00
Heïkel Ben Mlouka, Zénoë Benoit, Kaya Freeman, Victor Guezennec-Schmidt.
"Une matière sonore en mouvement
à partir de nappes électroniques
où se mêlent des instruments acoustiques,
des voix, du silence,
des poèmes et des musiques traditionnelles
pour atteindre un état de contemplation
et d’attention qui favorise
l'accès aux fréquences subtiles
et aux sens cachés du son.
Cet espace permet au public de se laisser infuser par la musique, de s'y endormir, d'y rêver, d'en sortir et d'en revenir."
In 7€, all for the Artists
Heïkel Ben Mlouka, Zénoë Benoit, Kaya Freeman, Victor Guezennec-Schmidt.
Sur le LinkTree il y a des liens vers des vidéos !
https://linktr.ee/1000murmurs1
Cet espace permet au public de se laisser infuser par la musique, de s'y endormir, d'y rêver, d'en sortir et d'en revenir."
In 7€, all for the Artists
Heïkel Ben Mlouka, Zénoë Benoit, Kaya Freeman, Victor Guezennec-Schmidt.
Sur le LinkTree il y a des liens vers des vidéos !
https://linktr.ee/1000murmurs1
Welcome, the Family ! Gerard
Haekem: ^^^^^ Bárbara presents: ^^^^^ Wed April 24th 19:00
Visual Gerard Daval AI
Haekem Theatre and Wild Goose Chase collaborate for the first time for the occasion!!
“Wild Goose Chase Records presents:
UPDATE
"Les amis nos morts" c'est mort!
It costs 35 euros for an older van to come to a LEZ(Low Emission Zone) zone, so it gets too expensive for some artists to play in Brussels.
Buuut, the beautiful flower Vallée des Fleurs comes and replaces him!!!
"Vallée des Fleurs est un troubadour chantant des louanges à des évènements et des objets insignifiant. C'est un amour particulier qu'il cultive et enrobe de sons de guitar et de violon, le tout sur son lit de pedals d'effets utilisées avec ou sans parcimonie. Un mélange entre la musique médiévale, la musique du passé proche et du future lointain, VDF propose entrée, plat, et dessert musicale pour tout palet ou palais.
Un projet solo de Jonah Blumenthal, multiinstrumentalist basé à Bruxelles et actif dans divers groupes de musique de style différents.
https://linktr.ee/valleedesfleurs"
Mabàh is sound architecture, where the bricks are slippery as words and the foundations are made of whispers.
Little Musgrave, ah, this one builds moving walls around us, which gently(sometimes less so) gathers us closer together as a public with his beautiful lyrics. A chuckle here, a small gasp of wonder there, and a sad nod of understanding, his compositions are excruciatingly good, and his performances always different.
***Vallée des Fleurs***
"Vallée des Fleurs est un troubadour chantant des louanges à des évènements et des objets insignifiant. C'est un amour particulier qu'il cultive et enrobe de sons de guitar et de violon, le tout sur son lit de pedals d'effets utilisées avec ou sans parcimonie. Un mélange entre la musique médiévale, la musique du passé proche et du future lointain, VDF propose entrée, plat, et dessert musicale pour tout palet ou palais.
Un projet solo de Jonah Blumenthal, multiinstrumentalist basé à Bruxelles et actif dans divers groupes de musique de style différents.
https://linktr.ee/valleedesfleurs"
******Mabàh*******
Mabàh est le projet solo de la musicienne française Sarah Foulquier. Issue d’une formation classique au conservatoire d’Avignon et diplômée des Beaux-Arts, elle a joué en duo avec Monte Isola ( Myriam Pruvot) à Bruxelles avant de créer son propre projet musical en 2019.
C’est une musique d’images, de mots, d’harmonies qui se mêlent et se démêlent, s’agençant en une composition sensible et singulière. Avec son alto et sa voix, des ritournelles et des nappes envoûtantes, Mabàh nous emporte dans l’intimité vers des paysages sonores inspirés du présent, chantant et partageant des émotions à fleur d’actualité.
Son premier album «Ronde» est sorti en 2022.
https://mabah.bandcamp.com/
“Wild Goose Chase Records presents:
UPDATE
"Les amis nos morts" c'est mort!
It costs 35 euros for an older van to come to a LEZ(Low Emission Zone) zone, so it gets too expensive for some artists to play in Brussels.
Buuut, the beautiful flower Vallée des Fleurs comes and replaces him!!!
"Vallée des Fleurs est un troubadour chantant des louanges à des évènements et des objets insignifiant. C'est un amour particulier qu'il cultive et enrobe de sons de guitar et de violon, le tout sur son lit de pedals d'effets utilisées avec ou sans parcimonie. Un mélange entre la musique médiévale, la musique du passé proche et du future lointain, VDF propose entrée, plat, et dessert musicale pour tout palet ou palais.
Un projet solo de Jonah Blumenthal, multiinstrumentalist basé à Bruxelles et actif dans divers groupes de musique de style différents.
https://linktr.ee/valleedesfleurs"
Mabàh is sound architecture, where the bricks are slippery as words and the foundations are made of whispers.
Little Musgrave, ah, this one builds moving walls around us, which gently(sometimes less so) gathers us closer together as a public with his beautiful lyrics. A chuckle here, a small gasp of wonder there, and a sad nod of understanding, his compositions are excruciatingly good, and his performances always different.
***Vallée des Fleurs***
"Vallée des Fleurs est un troubadour chantant des louanges à des évènements et des objets insignifiant. C'est un amour particulier qu'il cultive et enrobe de sons de guitar et de violon, le tout sur son lit de pedals d'effets utilisées avec ou sans parcimonie. Un mélange entre la musique médiévale, la musique du passé proche et du future lointain, VDF propose entrée, plat, et dessert musicale pour tout palet ou palais.
Un projet solo de Jonah Blumenthal, multiinstrumentalist basé à Bruxelles et actif dans divers groupes de musique de style différents.
https://linktr.ee/valleedesfleurs"
******Mabàh*******
Mabàh est le projet solo de la musicienne française Sarah Foulquier. Issue d’une formation classique au conservatoire d’Avignon et diplômée des Beaux-Arts, elle a joué en duo avec Monte Isola ( Myriam Pruvot) à Bruxelles avant de créer son propre projet musical en 2019.
C’est une musique d’images, de mots, d’harmonies qui se mêlent et se démêlent, s’agençant en une composition sensible et singulière. Avec son alto et sa voix, des ritournelles et des nappes envoûtantes, Mabàh nous emporte dans l’intimité vers des paysages sonores inspirés du présent, chantant et partageant des émotions à fleur d’actualité.
Son premier album «Ronde» est sorti en 2022.
https://mabah.bandcamp.com/
****Little Musgrave****
"The music that Joey Wright makes as Little Musgrave pulls at the threads of the ballad tradition until it starts to come apart at the seams. Though the ghosts of a more conventional troubadour style can be discerned here, Wright’s highly original songs take in everything from speaker-blowing industrial electronics to the avant songcraft of artists like Scott Walker, Xiu Xiu and Einstürzende Neubauten. "
by Fred Mikardo-Greaves
https://littlemusgrave.bandcamp.com/album/matches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFG7k4_YsfQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HjPvMdeNvg
Doors open at 18h
7 euros“
"The music that Joey Wright makes as Little Musgrave pulls at the threads of the ballad tradition until it starts to come apart at the seams. Though the ghosts of a more conventional troubadour style can be discerned here, Wright’s highly original songs take in everything from speaker-blowing industrial electronics to the avant songcraft of artists like Scott Walker, Xiu Xiu and Einstürzende Neubauten. "
by Fred Mikardo-Greaves
https://littlemusgrave.bandcamp.com/album/matches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFG7k4_YsfQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HjPvMdeNvg
Doors open at 18h
7 euros“
Welcome the Family!
Gerard Daval
Haekem: Mia Zabelka & Audrey Lauro Friday April 19th 19:00
Visual Gerard Daval AI
IMPROVISED MUSIC
We are proud to invite you to this incredible concert, involving these two Internationally Re(k)nown Improvisers.
VIOLIN AND SAXOPHONE ALTO
Mia Zabelka & Audrey Lauro
Friday April 19th 19:00
Haekem Theatre Brussels
rue de Laeken 66 - 1000 Brussels
Metro De Brouckère or Ste Catherine
Mia Zabelka
https://www.miazabelka.com/
In 2021, Mia Zabelka was awarded the Austrian Art Prize in the category „Music“ by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
Since 2021 Mia Zabelka has been an „ALUMNI honorary member“ of the „MUK – Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien“.
“Mia Zabelka shows that ambience, electronics and improvisation can imposingly co-exist. That is if the music is composed and performed with decisive goals in mind.” Ken Waxman / Jazzword (CA)
“..If someone had asked for an update for the soundtrack to Tarkowski’s »Stalker«, here would be the answer.” Christoph Benkeser/ SKUG Magazine (AT)
“…a virtuoso escape hatch out of our imaginations”; my advice would be, jump right in.” Ed Pinsent/ The Sound Projector (UK)
“…The Quantum Violin is a fascinating, intriguing, dense and vividly detailed soundworld of plucks, scrapes and less identifiable aural phenomena.” Daniel Spicer/ The Wire Magazine (UK)
“…Zabelka proves once more to be a very expressive and self-conscious performer. She likes to keep things a bit rough but is also technically very skilled. So, her improvisations have much to offer, often reaching strongly vibrating and glowing moments. All her ideas and skills are in function of a strong focus and sense of direction. A very solid and convincing work.“ Vital Weekly (NL)
“…If two things are immediately obvious and surprising, then on the one hand the range of the – sometimes dense, sometimes minimal, sometimes repetitive, sometimes unpredictable – repertoire of sounds and patterns, on the other hand the realization that all this can be done with the right touch of a violin.” African Paper (DE)
“…Traditionally the solo violin recital is more commonplace in the so-called classical world than in Jazz. So, it’s no surprise that this high-quality instance of string improvisations arrives from a European whose initial background was in notated music.” Ken Waxman/ JazzWord (CA)
“…Zabelka, Meierkord and Icostech deliberately go deeper and challenge, they form musical arcs of tension that unfold a wonderfully attractive and almost hypnotic effect that you can hardly escape. And it is precisely this aspect that makes the pieces by this trio a real listening experience.” Michael Ternai / Music Austria (AT)
“AFTERSHOCK Vol.1” Best Album 2020/ 2021/ Marlene Schnedl/ ORF Ö1 Zeitton (AT)
“…These complex soundscapes are just phenomenal when listened to in the right mindset. Abstract and touching at once.” Geert Ryssen/ fullcirclemusic (BE)
“If the sounds of Quantum Violin enacted by Mia Zabelka and Glen Hall are remarkable — dense miasma from which undulate denser waves and through which eventually pulses a vibrant heart — so too are the means by which they were accomplished.” Disquiet (USA)
„QUANTUM NOIZE aka Mia Zabelka & Conny Zenk“ Best Live Acts 2019/ SKUG Magazine (AT)
„The excellent experimental Violinist Mia Zabelka“ Shane Woolman/ The Wire Magazine (UK)
“Mia Zabelka improvised violin play comes from the Hitchcockian folds of the brain, making hairs stand up, spinal columns straighten and senses sharpen at the sheer menace of her performance.”
Incubate Festival Tilburg (NL)
“Mighty mistress of the contemporary violin takes you further into the sound with malstrom. Mia Zabelka is a wondrous violinist who takes adventurous journeys into uncharted musical territories.” Pauline Oliveros (USA)
“Mia Zabelka`s work is visceral, cerebral and sensual. A gorgeous, haunting sound which employs classical interpretation and experimental improvisation to transcend musical genres, creating a sonic surround uniquely her own. She inhabits a sonic universe lush with soul cleansing vibrancy”.
Mia Zabelka & Audrey Lauro
Friday April 19th 19:00
Haekem Theatre Brussels
rue de Laeken 66 - 1000 Brussels
Metro De Brouckère or Ste Catherine
Mia Zabelka
https://www.miazabelka.com/
In 2021, Mia Zabelka was awarded the Austrian Art Prize in the category „Music“ by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
Since 2021 Mia Zabelka has been an „ALUMNI honorary member“ of the „MUK – Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien“.
“Mia Zabelka shows that ambience, electronics and improvisation can imposingly co-exist. That is if the music is composed and performed with decisive goals in mind.” Ken Waxman / Jazzword (CA)
“..If someone had asked for an update for the soundtrack to Tarkowski’s »Stalker«, here would be the answer.” Christoph Benkeser/ SKUG Magazine (AT)
“…a virtuoso escape hatch out of our imaginations”; my advice would be, jump right in.” Ed Pinsent/ The Sound Projector (UK)
“…The Quantum Violin is a fascinating, intriguing, dense and vividly detailed soundworld of plucks, scrapes and less identifiable aural phenomena.” Daniel Spicer/ The Wire Magazine (UK)
“…Zabelka proves once more to be a very expressive and self-conscious performer. She likes to keep things a bit rough but is also technically very skilled. So, her improvisations have much to offer, often reaching strongly vibrating and glowing moments. All her ideas and skills are in function of a strong focus and sense of direction. A very solid and convincing work.“ Vital Weekly (NL)
“…If two things are immediately obvious and surprising, then on the one hand the range of the – sometimes dense, sometimes minimal, sometimes repetitive, sometimes unpredictable – repertoire of sounds and patterns, on the other hand the realization that all this can be done with the right touch of a violin.” African Paper (DE)
“…Traditionally the solo violin recital is more commonplace in the so-called classical world than in Jazz. So, it’s no surprise that this high-quality instance of string improvisations arrives from a European whose initial background was in notated music.” Ken Waxman/ JazzWord (CA)
“…Zabelka, Meierkord and Icostech deliberately go deeper and challenge, they form musical arcs of tension that unfold a wonderfully attractive and almost hypnotic effect that you can hardly escape. And it is precisely this aspect that makes the pieces by this trio a real listening experience.” Michael Ternai / Music Austria (AT)
“AFTERSHOCK Vol.1” Best Album 2020/ 2021/ Marlene Schnedl/ ORF Ö1 Zeitton (AT)
“…These complex soundscapes are just phenomenal when listened to in the right mindset. Abstract and touching at once.” Geert Ryssen/ fullcirclemusic (BE)
“If the sounds of Quantum Violin enacted by Mia Zabelka and Glen Hall are remarkable — dense miasma from which undulate denser waves and through which eventually pulses a vibrant heart — so too are the means by which they were accomplished.” Disquiet (USA)
„QUANTUM NOIZE aka Mia Zabelka & Conny Zenk“ Best Live Acts 2019/ SKUG Magazine (AT)
„The excellent experimental Violinist Mia Zabelka“ Shane Woolman/ The Wire Magazine (UK)
“Mia Zabelka improvised violin play comes from the Hitchcockian folds of the brain, making hairs stand up, spinal columns straighten and senses sharpen at the sheer menace of her performance.”
Incubate Festival Tilburg (NL)
“Mighty mistress of the contemporary violin takes you further into the sound with malstrom. Mia Zabelka is a wondrous violinist who takes adventurous journeys into uncharted musical territories.” Pauline Oliveros (USA)
“Mia Zabelka`s work is visceral, cerebral and sensual. A gorgeous, haunting sound which employs classical interpretation and experimental improvisation to transcend musical genres, creating a sonic surround uniquely her own. She inhabits a sonic universe lush with soul cleansing vibrancy”.
Lydia Lunch (USA) “Cellular Resonance is best when firmly maximalist-minded. Check the fractal, resin-scorched havoc ‘Cellular Resonance #5’ brings to bear, or how the industrial-metal loop-de-woooooo ‘Cellular Resonance #2’ threatens to sprain eardrums and peel paint from hubcaps. What life is all about.” Raymond Cummings (USA)
„Highly inventive work from the Austrian violinist Mia Zabelka on her M… Zabelka’s full of variations and ideas on this album“ SoundProjector Magazine (UK)
„Mia knows like no other to tell a story with her instrument(s). Fascinating, beautiful and thrilling stories that will move you. If you can do that, besides all virtuosity, then you are a big one.
The capital M from Masterful, Magical and Mesmerizing …” Caleidoscoop (NL)
“The Austrian violinist Mia Zabelka performs miracles on her instrument. Her solo album Cellular Resonance makes clear how far she can push the limits of her strings.”
Gonzo (NL)
“Viennese violinist Mia Zabelka has, with Cellular Resonance, produced one of her most panoramic soundscapes to date, a miasmic, tactile, kinesthetic, cautiously exuberant voyage to far-off and far-out sonic spaces.” The New York City Jazz Record (USA)
“A plethora of slanting melodic lines, spiraling ravishment in mostly mono-tonal environments, coarse timbres clogging the throat quite a bit, droning components with a punkish edge. In general, engrossing material. When Zabelka raises the gestural franticness of the arco up to higher levels things get even more intense.” Touching Extremes (IT)
“Pressing play on Cellular Resonance is like stumbling upon an ancient tree in the middle of a forest, standing before a structure that has endured years of growth and self-nurturing before I arrived. That profound depth is always there, orchestrating those seemingly haphazard collisions, turning each rabid rasp of static into a sculpture of beautiful angles and deftly pinched edges. Like a storm, the sudden drama of the event is merely the fleeting final consequence of a precise, long-nurtured orchestration of elements.” ATTN:MAGAZINE (UK)
Austrian violinist-vocalist Mia Zabelka is considered to be a leading figure in the international scene of electroacoustic music, known for her innovative and boundary-pushing approach to music, incorporating elements of noise, drone and improvisation into her compositions. Using a unique musical language that she describes as ‘automatic playing’. Zabelka allows the sounds to be generated by her own body and gestures in combination with acoustic and electric violin, her own voice, electronic devices and all kinds of strange sound objects. Using this set up she is given the opportunity to expand the sound range so extensively that the violin itself becomes an interface and/or an electronic sound generator. She has released multiple album
Audrey Lauro
„Highly inventive work from the Austrian violinist Mia Zabelka on her M… Zabelka’s full of variations and ideas on this album“ SoundProjector Magazine (UK)
„Mia knows like no other to tell a story with her instrument(s). Fascinating, beautiful and thrilling stories that will move you. If you can do that, besides all virtuosity, then you are a big one.
The capital M from Masterful, Magical and Mesmerizing …” Caleidoscoop (NL)
“The Austrian violinist Mia Zabelka performs miracles on her instrument. Her solo album Cellular Resonance makes clear how far she can push the limits of her strings.”
Gonzo (NL)
“Viennese violinist Mia Zabelka has, with Cellular Resonance, produced one of her most panoramic soundscapes to date, a miasmic, tactile, kinesthetic, cautiously exuberant voyage to far-off and far-out sonic spaces.” The New York City Jazz Record (USA)
“A plethora of slanting melodic lines, spiraling ravishment in mostly mono-tonal environments, coarse timbres clogging the throat quite a bit, droning components with a punkish edge. In general, engrossing material. When Zabelka raises the gestural franticness of the arco up to higher levels things get even more intense.” Touching Extremes (IT)
“Pressing play on Cellular Resonance is like stumbling upon an ancient tree in the middle of a forest, standing before a structure that has endured years of growth and self-nurturing before I arrived. That profound depth is always there, orchestrating those seemingly haphazard collisions, turning each rabid rasp of static into a sculpture of beautiful angles and deftly pinched edges. Like a storm, the sudden drama of the event is merely the fleeting final consequence of a precise, long-nurtured orchestration of elements.” ATTN:MAGAZINE (UK)
Austrian violinist-vocalist Mia Zabelka is considered to be a leading figure in the international scene of electroacoustic music, known for her innovative and boundary-pushing approach to music, incorporating elements of noise, drone and improvisation into her compositions. Using a unique musical language that she describes as ‘automatic playing’. Zabelka allows the sounds to be generated by her own body and gestures in combination with acoustic and electric violin, her own voice, electronic devices and all kinds of strange sound objects. Using this set up she is given the opportunity to expand the sound range so extensively that the violin itself becomes an interface and/or an electronic sound generator. She has released multiple album
Audrey Lauro
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Brussels-based saxophonist A.L trained in composition, jazz and contemporary music. She then devoted her energies to experimental music and particularly to improvisation, constantly questioning the language of instrument, phrase and sonic event.
«From phrase to sonic event through all kinds of atoms and particles».
A.L started in 2002 a jazz cursus at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels and contemporary composition cursus at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège. Since then she has spent the last decade developing her music on experimental music scenes in Belgium and abroad.
She meets on her artistic path recognized musicians such as Mark Sanders, John Russell, Lawrence Casserley, Alison Blunt, Maggie Nicols, Steve Noble, Bernard Santacruz, Makoto Sato, Alexander Hawkins, Ken Vandermark, Sabu Toyozumi, Marc Ribot, …
Her discography includes more than fifteen releases since 2008, the album solo «Sous un ciel d'écailles» was released in 2022 on the Gent label El Negocito records, retracing a work for saxophone solo started in 2011.
As an alto sax player focusing mostly on free improvised music, she’s also involved in multidisciplinary music projects.
In 2012-2013 A.L curates two editions of the festival Wolves Stories in Brussels. She invites to join the "Wolves" Maggie Nichols, Mia Zabelka, and 8 other improvising musicians to create portraits of women through music, texts, films and experiments. In 2013 she invites Stine Janvin Motland to perform with the collective.
Since 2013 A.L regularly worked with the innovative production platform/ensemble for multidisciplinary music projects ChampdAction performing in several productions of the collective :
- 2013 "Hold Your Horses" Grand Opéra de trash in 27 acts and entr’actes more infos - trailer
- 2014 "P-TRAINS (Astrin Phosphora)" in 20 Nov 2014 at DeSingel, "Ann Eysermans et ChampdAction" more infos - trailer
- 2015 "HRZSCHMRZ" "In the opera HRZSCHMRZ Serge Verstockt and ChampdAction put the spotlight on ‘love’. They ponder the ever advancing digital world that engulfs us in our daily reality." more infos - trailer
In 2016 A.L worked currently with Q02 (workspace for experimental music and sound art based in Brussels), B R O N K S (Theater for a young audience / Brussels) and The National Theater "La Monnaie" for the creation "It's Frankestein Stupid", presented in may 2016 during the European Opera Days. more infos
In 2020, A.L is invited to join the collectif C-IME (Canopée Improvisation Music Ensemble) hosted at Le Brass in Brussels to develop its musical research.
In May 2023, A.L is invited by the Canadian ensemble GGRIL for the creation of her piece "Ritournelle Reverse". " video
Since 2007 A.L conducts musical workshops with teenagers and children and regulary works in secondary education.
«From phrase to sonic event through all kinds of atoms and particles».
A.L started in 2002 a jazz cursus at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels and contemporary composition cursus at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège. Since then she has spent the last decade developing her music on experimental music scenes in Belgium and abroad.
She meets on her artistic path recognized musicians such as Mark Sanders, John Russell, Lawrence Casserley, Alison Blunt, Maggie Nicols, Steve Noble, Bernard Santacruz, Makoto Sato, Alexander Hawkins, Ken Vandermark, Sabu Toyozumi, Marc Ribot, …
Her discography includes more than fifteen releases since 2008, the album solo «Sous un ciel d'écailles» was released in 2022 on the Gent label El Negocito records, retracing a work for saxophone solo started in 2011.
As an alto sax player focusing mostly on free improvised music, she’s also involved in multidisciplinary music projects.
In 2012-2013 A.L curates two editions of the festival Wolves Stories in Brussels. She invites to join the "Wolves" Maggie Nichols, Mia Zabelka, and 8 other improvising musicians to create portraits of women through music, texts, films and experiments. In 2013 she invites Stine Janvin Motland to perform with the collective.
Since 2013 A.L regularly worked with the innovative production platform/ensemble for multidisciplinary music projects ChampdAction performing in several productions of the collective :
- 2013 "Hold Your Horses" Grand Opéra de trash in 27 acts and entr’actes more infos - trailer
- 2014 "P-TRAINS (Astrin Phosphora)" in 20 Nov 2014 at DeSingel, "Ann Eysermans et ChampdAction" more infos - trailer
- 2015 "HRZSCHMRZ" "In the opera HRZSCHMRZ Serge Verstockt and ChampdAction put the spotlight on ‘love’. They ponder the ever advancing digital world that engulfs us in our daily reality." more infos - trailer
In 2016 A.L worked currently with Q02 (workspace for experimental music and sound art based in Brussels), B R O N K S (Theater for a young audience / Brussels) and The National Theater "La Monnaie" for the creation "It's Frankestein Stupid", presented in may 2016 during the European Opera Days. more infos
In 2020, A.L is invited to join the collectif C-IME (Canopée Improvisation Music Ensemble) hosted at Le Brass in Brussels to develop its musical research.
In May 2023, A.L is invited by the Canadian ensemble GGRIL for the creation of her piece "Ritournelle Reverse". " video
Since 2007 A.L conducts musical workshops with teenagers and children and regulary works in secondary education.
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