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

11 October 2026, STUK Leuven. 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.

15:00-16:30: talks (Labozaal)
17:00: concert (Soetezaal)

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.

BLACK CINE-BODY SONICS – racializing the soundtrack

The interrogation of the relationship between cinema and politics is predominantly associated with the visual domain, where the politics of the audio-visual is all too often reduced to the politics of the image. The publication series Echoes of Dissent aims to parry the hegemony of the eye, and subsequent disregard for the ear, by examining the relationship cinema–politics from a sonic perspective.

BLACK CINE-BODY SONICS – racializing the soundtrack by Philip Brophy. Published by Courtisane / KASK School of Arts in June 2026.

The publication series is initiated and edited by Stoffel Debuysere, in the context of the research project with the same title at KASK & Conservatory / School of Arts Ghent.

Black Cine-Body Sonics: Racializing the Soundtrack surveys how Black audiovisuality developed and thrives in films and television through importing and materializing the sonics of Black musical representation — from ‘Blaxploitation’ classics (Shaft and Truck Turner) to cine-auteurs (Melvin Van Peebles, Spike Lee and Jordan Peele) to music video performers (Michael Jackson, Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar) to video artists (Arthur Jafa and Isaac Julien) to contemporary multi-genre explorations of race (Sinners, Lovecraft Country, Atlanta and Swarm). The book views Jazz, Soul, Funk, Disco, Hip Hop, Techno and House not as ‘source music’ but as genetic origins in the transformation of movies and shows, resulting in new cinematic and televisual formations — all of which foreground the body, performance and musicality
— Philip Brophy

Publication soon available via Courtisane bookshop

Shadows of the Unseen / Stegi Radio 57

57th episode of “Shadows of the Unseen” for stegi.radio Athens. Airing June 2026.

1. Demetrio Stratos, Filastrocca & Scena, Fiaba, Pantomima (From Satyricon, Gabriele Salvatores, 1979)
2. Stephen Vitiello, Memory Echo & During Sleep (From films by Andrew Deutsch, year unknown)
3. Ryuichi Sakamoto, The Site & Investigation (From Rage /Ikari, Sang-il Lee, 2016)
4. Excerpt from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ashes, 2012
5. Christina Kubisch, Travel (for On Air installation, 1984)
6. Excerpt from Little Murders (Alan Arkin, 1971) :
7. Dowser, AI No Theme (From √964 Pinocchio, Shozin Fukui, 1991)
8. Cabaret Voltaire, Title Sequence (From Johnny YesNo, Peter Care, 1982)
9. Rhayne Vermette, Bret Parentau, Irene Bindi, Heat of a Hand (from collaborative exhibition, 2020)
10. Mark Jenkin, Pysk & Are We Fast? (From Rose of Nevada, Mark Jenkin, 2025)
11. Eli Keszler, Alone (From Bunnylvr, Katarina Zhu, 2025)
12. Para One, Naissance des pieuvres (From Naissance des Pieuvres, Céline Sciamma, 2007)
13. Ennio Morricone, Immagini Del Passato (From L’Alibi, Luciano Lucignani, Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi, 1969)
14. Franco Bixio, Luigi Malatesta, Sandro Brugnolini, Gungala serenata (From Gungala, la pantera nuda, Ruggero Deodato, 1968)
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Conversation with Rhayne Vermette VIDEO

A conversation between Rhayne Vermette and Stoffel Debuysere about the surreal possibilities within the insipid, the improvisatory force of collective production and the cinematic implications of sound and music. 2 April 2026, Gent. In the context of Courtisane festival 2026 and the research project Echoes of Dissent (KASK & Conservatory / School of Arts Gent).