The XLair’s URLUteam is back on the radia waves with this 28′ excerpt of
a one hour live improvisation show.
Starring Lukas with his DIY flutes and
Gerald with his loops and effects.

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http://www.urluberlu.be/

A collaboration between borders,
In a Europe that gets more and more closed from inside, the URLUteam decided to make a 6 hand piece with one motto : Far/Etranger/Vreemd.
Exploring the way we look at each other, knowing that it’s so strange to be a stranger.

More info about the collective : www.urluberlu.be

Lonely whales at sunken weddingparties.
Ocean sounds and Céline Dion,
we’re still trying to save ourselves from drowning.

In honour of our precious friend Martine Ketelbuters (1966-2015) – head teacher of the RITCS Radio Department (2002-2015)

“Radio play loves edges, radio play loves Martine…”

Words spoken by Gregory Whitehead, both friend & source of inspiration for Martine: his work is the biggest source of inspiration for this tribute.

Martine Ketelbuters; Gregory Whitehead; Joris Vandamme; Dieter Van Dam : Hertz-eer (met fragmenten uit o.a. ‘In the end’, ‘Nothing but fog’ en ‘The Big Sloppy’ van Gregory Whithead, ‘ik zal het u vertellen’ van Joris Vandamme en werk van Martine Ketelbuters) – een montage van Dieter Van Dam door Martine Ketelbuters; Gregory Whitehead; Joris Vandamme; Dieter Van Dam – Eigen Opname RITCS – [0:19:08]

(Herz-eer in ENG = Herz-honour, but in Dutch also means pain of the heart or sadness)

This show has two parts:

PART 1 (0’00”-11’00”)

Départ, Arrivée

by Amber Meulenijzer, Lukas De Clerck, Lise Bonduelle

PART 2 (11’00-28’00) =

Radiodioter

by Dieter Van Dam, Alma Soderberg and Hendrik Willekens

this piece is an excerpt from a radio remix of the voice performance ‘Idioter’ by choreographer Alma Soderberg & musician Hendrik Willekens. Together they create a concert performance in which Willekens’ music supports Söderberg’s bodily movements and voice. She plays with syllables, intonation, cadence, gestures and dream language – creating a play between intensity and rhythm. The focus is on the flow. In addition the work includes drawings by Willekens: geometric landscapes that disappear into a single vanishing point. He makes these drawings over and over again whereby the expansion of the landscape becomes a theme in the work; each time the viewer is drawn towards the same ‘nothingness’.The audio was recorded in Het Stuk in Leuven on February 19th of this year. The sound recordings were then remixed with both influences for the performance and associated sounds by the artist.

Three master students of RITS radio department (Lucas Derycke Cara Cobaert & Maarten Coosemans) capture a space in the city through audio recordings.  Afterwards they edit these field recordings (without artificial effects) in order to try and grasp the specific sonosphere of that location. The students were assisted by Guy de Bièvre (http://www.guydebievre.org/)

The new XL AIR contribution is a sample based homage to the brilliant work of musician and radio artist Felix Kubin. The piece is build up around various fragments, most of them taken from Kubin radio experiments and music productions, some parts taken from releases on his Gagarin record label and interwoven with some bits and pieces from other artists, regarded as a source of inspiration by the artist himself (Sun Ra, Yuri Gagarin and Gregory Whitehead to name but a few)

LINKS:

http://www.felixkubin.com/

http://www.felixkubin.com/?str=radio

http://gagarinrecords.com/

An interview with Hillel Schwartz by Dieter Van Dam

The re-entry of XL AIR is a show that consists of various excerpts from radio pieces the RITS radio students made in order to document their installations made for the Brussels version of Tuned City, a platform which proposes an examination of the relations between architecture and sound.

The project draws the traditions of critical discussion about urban space within the architecture and urban planning discourse–as well as its strategies and working methods–into the context of sound art. This expanded discussion reenforces the potential of the spatial and communicative properties of sound as a tool and means of urban practice.

At the foundations of this event are artists’ works and theoretical approaches which examine in a critical and sensitive way the given urban and architectural situations alongside their resulting socio-political implications, that re-use existing spaces or that conceive and open new spaces.

A dialogue will be built at the intersection of both disciplines which traces out the complex relations and interactions of space-sound, both presenting and testing new strategies, methods, possibilities and potentials of sound work within the artistic and applied context.

All info: www.tunedcity.net

www.q-o2.be