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.