Erik Nerinckx captures the immense, turbulent natural force of the sea in an all-encompassing recording made at the coast. Sixteen speakers replay its murmur, rustle and roar as a massive wall of sound.
Artist duo VOID visualise the sounds of the sea. With SARA – inspired by a 19th century technique that recorded sound as visual squiggles – they make its water visible.
Stijn Demeulenaere goes out to sea and brings us a poetic exploration that voices the unseen, polluted and disrupted (sound) landscape beneath the waves.
What is sound? What is this phenomenon we can’t see but that touches us?
These where the starting questions that made sound artist Els Viaene have a deeper look at the visual manifestations of sound.
The artist’s research and experimentation investigates sound at its source, the moment it is shaped. In this project she approaches sound as a physical phenomenon: a vibration, a wave, a variation in air pressure.
Her quest to understand sound brings her to other worlds and other times. The result is a performance and installation in which science, sound and sculpture meet.
Former Overtoon research resident artist Vica Pacheco creates a sonic environment during 3 sound performances at Beursschouwburg.
Animacy or A breath manifest is a series of sound performances consisting in playing and amplifying the sound sculptures, looping and sampling them directly, using granular synthesis and digital sound effects to create an improvised composition, a sonic environment in formation. The importance of emphasising the idea of breathing came naturally when she experimented with it in her home studio. The instruments breathe; they breathe in while swinging to one side and they sing while exhaling while swinging to the other side.
This is the fifth edition of Beyond Music, a laboratory for sound performances. More artists perform this evening: Jessica Ekomane and Mario de Vega who is currently an Overtoon resident within our Oscillations program.
Solo show with 8 works by Yann Leguay
Programme 28/8
12:00 - 12:50 Lukas Anthierens
14:00 - 15:00 Jonathan Frigeri & Eric Desjeux
16:00 - 17:45 Justin Bennett
Programme 29/8
13:00 - 13:50 Yannick Guédon
15:00 - 16:45 Confluences (Franziska Windisch & Giulia Vismara)
17:00 - .... Round-up get-together (location to be confirmed)
As part of the Platform for Audiovisual and Media Arts (PAM), Overtoon will host the next monthly meeting, meant to serve as an informal exchange between peers from the audiovisual, sound and media arts community.
Overtoon will gladly take this opportunity to present the Oscillations.eu network which promotes exchange between artist-run organisations that deal with sound in arts, supported by the Creative EU program. Participants are people from artist-run organisations iii - The Hague Netherlands; bb15 - Linz Austria; Overtoon - Brussels Belgium; Lydgalleriet - Bergen Norway; Werktank - Leuven Belgium. Register here to participate.
The project is part of the Oscillations: Exercises in Resilience project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. 
A group exhibition in collaboration with Imal and Curatorial Studies KASK (Ghent), with a selection of works by Werktank and Overtoon fellow artists.
This is the rescheduled event that was cancelled on December 2 last year. All presentations in this event will now be shown in exhibition format.
Book your free spot here.
Book your free spot here.
Live Radio Broadcast with performances by former and future Overtoon residents Liew Niyomkarn , Lukas De Clerck , Jeroen Uyttendaele, Maria Komarova , Yann Leguay, and Yannick Guédon (thymes.fr)
You need to reserve a time slot on the STUK website. Limited capacity due to COVID measures.