The Art of Resonance: Paul Abbott

The research cluster THE ART OF RESONANCE (KASK & Conservatory Gent) is organising a series of informal listening sessions with international artists and researchers, with an eye (and ear) to cultivating a sonic sensibility and relationality.

Herculeslab — KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent
Wed 25 March 2026 16:00

Paul Abbott is a musician and drummer. He plays with the drum kit, synthetic sounds, performance and writing. He explores music as an ecology: in which the interaction of sounds, signs and the physical body grow real and imaginary music. His work is often concerned with creating practical and fictional structures to facilitate improvisation and experimental musical play. Projects include: XT with Seymour Wright; XT+Pat Thomas; Kavain Wayne Space (RP Boo) Trio with XT; XT+Anne Gillis; X Ray Hex Tet; yPLO with Micheal Speers; F.R.David, very good* & Rosmarie with Will Holder; film sound for Keira Greene and The Creaking Breeze Ensemble with Nathaniel Mackey. He was a co-founder and co-editor of Cesura//Acceso journal for music, politics and poetics, and completed Creative Music Practice PhD research at Edinburgh University, titled “Playing no solo imagination: synthesising the rhythmic emergence of sound and sign through embodied drum kit performance and creative writing.”

The Art of Resonance: Edward George

The research cluster THE ART OF RESONANCE (KASK & Conservatory Gent) is organising a series of informal listening sessions with international artists and researchers, with an eye (and ear) to cultivating a sonic sensibility and relationality.

Herculeslab — KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent
Thu 12 February 2026 16:00

Edward George is a writer, broadcaster and photographer. A founding member of Black Audio Film Collective, he wrote and presented, among others, the seminal essay film Last Angel of History (1996), which helped pave the way for contemporary thinking around Afro-futurism. George was part of the multimedia duo Flow Motion and the electronic music project Hallucinator. His ongoing radio series The Strangeness of Dub and The Strangeness of Jazz intertwine a broad musical selection with different geographical musical histories, African/Afro-diasporic knowledge and critical theory from queer and black studies. His recent work includes Dub Housing, a project exploring how dub music articulates a different consciousness of people and place, time and geography, history and architecture, race and metropolis, and Black Atlas, a moving-image essay exploring the Image of the Black archive which was recently exhibited at the Warburg Institute.

Shadows of the Unseen / Stegi Radio 52

52th episode of “Shadows of the Unseen” for stegi.radio Athens. Airing January 2026

1. Excerpts from King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard, 1987)
2. Rupert Hine, My Wife Is Waiting For Me (From The Shout, Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978)
3. Ann Kroeber & Alan Splet, Scenes from Just Beneath & From The Painting (From Sound Mountain Collection, compiled on I Thought I Heard a Stranger, 2025)
4. éric la casa, A Grammar for Listening (From A Grammar for Listening Part 2, Luke Fowler, 2009)
5. Alva Noto, Unwohl (For theatre play Komplizen, Simon Stone, 2021)
6. Misha Panfilov, Mystery Box 2 & Alone on the Dark (For theatre dance play Plan X, Kristjan Rohioja, 2021)
7. Oscar Rocchi & Fabio Fabor, Elettroterapia & Oro Sommerso & Quiet Theme (From library music record Dramatest, 1974)
8. Nino Rota, Ricordo di Henriette (From Il Casanova di Federico Fellini, 1976)
9. Cornish Sound Unit, Mark Jenkin, Dion Star, The Island Vanity & The Abandoned Sea Pools Of Man (From I Saw The Face Of God In The Jet Wash, Mark Jenkin, 2025)
10. Animal Collective, Blast & Sand Pumping (From Jetty, Sam Fleischner, 2024)
11. Lucrecia Dalt, Tape, Edge And Wood & Theme Three (From Rabbit Trap, Bryn Chainey, 2025)
12. Erik K Skodvin, Past Darkness (From From Darkness, Philip W. Da Silva, 2024)
13. Gianfranco Reverberi, Ninna Neve (From library music collection, early 1970s)

Echoes of Dissent (Vol. 8) // أحمد [Ahmed]

14 February 2026, STUK Leuven, in the context of Artefact. In collaboration with STUK, Sound In Motion & In vitro.

Preceding the concert of أحمد [Ahmed] and on the occasion of the publication of a book compiling writings by and about أحمد [Ahmed], STUK is hosting an extensive conversation with the band members. We will discuss improvisation as investigation and making music as a medium of thought; the music and ideas of Ahmed Abdul-Malik and the Arabic and Muslim roots of Jazz and improvised music; the importance of probing in and into ‘jazz’ and the possibilities of new jazz nutation; أحمد [Ahmed] as an accommodating and radical vision of synthesis and open structure(s) and a shared space of (re-)imagination and (re-)interpretation.

19:45: doors
20:00: 1984 (Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, Mariam Rezaei & Sakina Abdou)
21:30: أحمد [ahmed]
22:30: end

+ 16:30 → 18:00: Echoes of Dissent (Vol. 8): Conversation with أحمد [Ahmed] (STEK Workspace)

In the context of the research project Echoes of Dissent (KASK & Conservatory / School of Arts Gent), in collaboration with In vitro.

The أحمد [Ahmed] publication is published by In vitro and KASK School of Arts

Edited by أحمد [ahmed]. Series editors: Stoffel Debuysere, Jef Lambrechts, Will Holder.

Stegi. radio Takeover documentation

Echoes of Dissent: A Lesson in Sonic Radicalism in Cinema
Listening session @ Stegi.Radio Takeover, Athens. 24 January 2025.

“Stegi Radio Takeover presents a listening session on the radical use of sound in cinema. In the session, researcher and curator Stoffel Debuysere will discuss with Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou on various clips from experimental films that exemplify a different understanding of the aural components in cinema, coming from creators that used the audible to subvert and transcend established limits and rules in the cinematic medium. From underground film collectives to the visionary new languages articulated by cinema’s pioneers, the session will show how sound and music has been used as a tool that allowed filmmakers, whether coming from the periphery or oppressed minorities, to express their outsider perspective against the hierarchies of the medium — often as an explicit political statement.”

Pics by Erkin Gargili