The festival will end with a gateway to the Northern border of Brussels, releasing us into unknown futures. Hosted at Buda in the industrial canal zone, the afternoon starts with Jennifer Walshe & Neil Luck who will dive into technological occultism using a myriad of means and tools. DJ Sniff will then experiment on turntables, and Adomas Palekas will explore circuits of extended phenotypes. The festival will close with Dubmorphology who extend their performance into the evening. Come enjoy this last day with us with some drinks and food and speculatively a sunset over the Brussels canal.

WACK is Jennifer Walshe and Neil Luck. WACK is a duo of changeable meanings, flexible proportions, unpredictable semiotics, a pile of objects. WACK is an experiment in technological occultism, using arcane and modern sound recording technologies, voices, percussion, dreaming, telepathy, and mounds of texts to divine meanings, messages and narratives from the detritus of everyday informational noise. WACK invites the audience to dredge gnomic readings of real and artificial matter from new and old words, deep audio files and deeply personal belongings.

© Jostijn Ligtvoet

Neil Luck is a musician based in the UK. His work takes a range of forms, from music theatre to concert works, radio, public projects and recordings, and he is the director of the experimental music-theatre group ARCO. Luck works with and writes for individuals, ensembles, and himself internationally.

“The most original compositional voice to emerge from Ireland in the past 20 years” (The Irish Times), composer and performer Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin. Her music has been commissioned, broadcast and performed all over the world, and she has worked extensively with AI. A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1: Ancient to Renaissance, her third solo album, uses AI to rework canonical works from early Western music history and was chosen as an album of the year in The Irish Times, The Wire and The Quietus. Walshe is professor of composition at the University of Oxford and has been profiled in The New Yorker.

dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) is a musician, curator, educator in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised music. His performances merge influences from experimental music, hip hop, and free improvisation, through utilizing self-built instruments. Over the years, he has collaborated on musical projects with Evan Parker, Otomo Yoshihide, Tarek Atoui, Ken Ueno, and Senyawa. His recent work has expanded into conceptual sound pieces and installations that are based on histories and theories of turntablism and audio culture, particularity from WW2 era Japan. He is currently based in both Los Angeles and Tokyo.

© Hsuan Lang

Elemental encounters is a research-based sound performance, following the concept of Circuits of Extended Phenotype: fragile and sensitive, “soft” electronic instruments which entangle both human and non-human influences upon the emergence of sound. In this performance, Adomas Palekas focuses on sounding through liquids – liquids that activate the oscillations and thus invite environment, both biotic and abiotic, to act upon the sonic vitality. Temperature, gravity, humidity, chemical species and even microbial life and its residues act together in the composition of sound.

© Aušra Umbrasaitė

Adomas Palekas is a sound and bio artist, composer, and instrument builder based in Vilnius, exploring the intersection of the non-human and art. His research focuses on Circuits of Extended Phenotype, using self-made instruments and interfaces to let microbial, chemical, and (in)organic processes shape sound. His approach combines instrument design, microbial research, site-specific listening, field recordings, sonification, and electroacoustic composition.

Dubmorphology creates a durational performance that extends over several hours that responds to their interaction with BUDA BXL, where they will be using specific knowledge gained of the site. The composition will have additional sound derived from a geophone mic that picks up the seismic signals of the environment, hydrophone in water and contact mics that respond to the architectural structure that they will be occupying. The layered performance will include these environmental sonics derived from the space, electronic tonal synthesis and archival material of voices that speak to encounters between language, identity and systemic power.

© Aniruddha Das

Artists Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart form Dubmorphology, whose practice responds to specific sites and environments, exploring social and political issues by engaging with sonic and visual materials from historical collections, archives and personal collections. Concerned with epistemological and phenomenological questions, ways of seeing, hearing and sensing our world, their work has been commissioned and presented by museums, galleries, biennials, music and film festivals worldwide.