Echoes of Dissent (Vol. 7): Fred Moten & Brandon López

29 April 2025, Brussels

14h00 Conversation with Fred Moten and Brandon López at Pianofabriek (free entrance)

An extended conversation with Fred Moten and Brandon López about their thought and practice, music and language, improvisation and politics, jazz and study.
Free entrance

20h00 Performances at Les Ateliers Claus (entrance: €12)

Fred Moten and Brandon López have been playing music together since 2018. They have released two remarkable albums with drummer Gerald Cleaver on the Reading Group label. Their first duo recording is due to be released on TAO Forms. “It’s poetry as music and music as poetry. Moten’s words lead, lyrically, timbrally, poetically – but the bass and percussion loosen the grammar. Associative inflections elevate the raw sound of each player, which at root – even if they were stripped of meaning or mood – runs each part in a constantly moving triangulated constellation of sound and meaning, evolving and repeating; stretching, infilling, and expanding.” (Jennifer Lucy Allen)

Fred Moten is a cultural theorist and poet creating new conceptual spaces that accommodate emergent forms of Black cultural production, aesthetics, and social life. Moten’s writing and wording are characterised by a refined opacity and a musicality that is inspired by jazz and goes to the limit of noise: “what it is I want to say is subordinate to the sound, subordinate to a kind of feeling, a content that only that sound can provide”. His books include In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, the trilogy Consent Not To Be A Single Being , The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study and All Incomplete, co-authored with Stefano Harney, as well as numerous poetry collections.

Brandon López is a bassist, composer, and improviser working at the fringes of jazz, free improvisation, noise, and new music. His music has been praised as “brutal” (Chicago Reader) and “relentless” (The New York Times). His exploration of new sonic possibilities on the double bass has led him to work with the luminaries of the contemporary avant garde like John Zorn, Nate Wooley, Tyshawn Sorey, Leila Bordreuil and Cecilia López. He was a featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic and has been the recipient of numerous awards.

https://readinggroupcompany.bandcamp.com/album/moten-l-pez-cleaver
https://readinggroupcompany.bandcamp.com/album/the-blacksmiths-the-flowers
https://taoforms.bandcamp.com/album/revision

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

With the support of Flanders State of the Art, KU Leuven Commission for Contemporary Art & Royal Conservatory of Brussels (EhB).

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Graphic design by Ran De Vos.

Shadows of the Unseen / Movement Radio 45

45th episode of “Shadows of the Unseen” for stegi.radio Athens. Aired February 2025

1. Dean Hurley, Intro Cymbal Wind (From Twin Peaks Season 3, David Lynch & Mark Frost, 2017)
2. Excerpt from Twin Peaks Season 3 (David Lynch & Mark Frost, 2017)
3. Jimmy Scott, David Lynch, Angelo Badalamenti, Sycamore Trees Wind (From Twin Peaks Season 2, David Lynch & Mark Frost, 1991)
4. Trent Reznor, Videodrones; Questions (From Lost Highway, David Lynch, 1997)
6. Angelo Badalamenti, The Pink Room (From Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, David Lynch, 1992)
7. Excerpt from Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)
8. Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch, Slow Speed Orchestra 2 (Unease Motif / The Woods) (From Twin Peaks Season 3, David Lynch & Mark Frost, 2017)
9. Excerpt from Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006) :
10. Alan Splet & David Lynch, Digah’s Stomp (From Eraserhead, David Lynch, 1977)
11. David Lynch, Ghost of Love (From Inland Empire, David Lynch, 2006)
12. Dean Hurley, Interior Home by The Sea (From Twin Peaks Season 3, David Lynch & Mark Frost, 2017)
13. Excerpt from Twin Peaks Season 1 (David Lynch & Mark Frost, 1990) :
14. Angelo Badalamenti, Twin Peaks Theme (Alternate Version) (From Twin Peaks Season 1, David Lynch & Mark Frost, 1990)
15. Alan Splet, David Lynch, Peter Ivers, In Heaven (From Eraserhead, David Lynch, 1977)
16. Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, Rebekah del Rio, Lloranda (From Mulholland Drive, David Lynch, 2001)
17. Angelo Badalamenti, Julee Cruise, Mysteries Of Love (From Blue Velvet, David Lynch, 1986)
18. Angelo Badalamenti, Nostalgia (From The Straight Story, David Lynch, 1999)
19. Angelo Badalamenti, Nightsea Wind / Dark Mood Woods / The Red Room (From Twin Peaks Season 1, David Lynch & Mark Frost, 1990)
20. Excerpt from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, David Lynch, 1992 :

In the Midst of the End of the World: António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro

António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro created one of the most singular bodies of work in the history of Portuguese cinema, deeply influencing its development. Made between 1974 and 1989, their films deal with rural communities, rituals, and landscapes, blending reality, fiction, ethnography and poetry into a lyrical evocation of the northeastern Portuguese region of Trás-os-Montes, known for its cultural, natural, and political specificities.

Following Courtisane’s multiple programs dedicated to the filmmakers’ work, this volume gathers a selection of texts for the most part available in English for the first time. It also includes interviews with Cordeiro and Reis conducted throughout the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, which map the filmmakers’ conception of art, film, and their own practice. This archival record is complemented with more recent sources, which provide a distanced, historical assessment of their work, as well as some newly commissioned critical texts and a smattering of poems and literary fragments that are featured in their films.

Published by Courtisane
In collaboration with Sabzian
Compiled and edited by Raquel Morais and Stoffel Debuysere

Special thanks to DGLAB / Cultura, Camões, IP – Portugal, the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (EHCN), Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual (ICA) and Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema for their support.

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The Art of Resonance: Christina Hazboun

From November 2024 onward, 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
24 April 2025 16:00

Christina Hazboun is a Sonic Agent, surfing soundwaves in search of ear-gasms, exploring music and sound in space, time and society. Her multifarious adventuring through music and sound manifest through an intersectional web of activities aimed at amplifying the voices of the underheard from the SWANA and the global majority via poetic and research based texts, audio/sound collages, workshops, and curation with a focus on music industries, gender diversity and digital connectivity. Her main sphere of activity focuses on increasing the appearance and audibility of new sounds and music from West Asia, North Africa and the global south sharing hybrid, diverse and powerful voices with those who come with an open ear.

In collaboration with the research project Transnational Solidarity (Mohanad Yaqubi, KASK School of Arts).