Category: Conversations

Conversation with Pedro Costa about sound and music

Conversation with Pedro Costa about sound and music from Courtisane on Vimeo.

A conversation between Pedro Costa and Stoffel Debuysere focused on the presence and importance of sound and music in his work, in light of the performance of Daughters of Fire at Courtisane festival 2024. Friday 29 March 2024, as part of the Ciné-sessions at the film departement of KASK & Conservatory / School of Arts Gent and in the context of Courtisane festival 2024 and the research project Echoes of Dissent (KASK & Conservatory / School of Arts Gent)

Urbanmag interviews

In the beginning of the 2000’s a group of friends started what was then one of the first online cultural magazines in Dutch speaking Belgium: Urbanmag. I wrote quite a few pieces on music and cinema for the magazine, and organised a series of associated events entitled “Page 3ree”. The magazine has been offline for a while now, but some of the content can still be found via the Wayback machine — including interviews with musicians and composers I still hold in high esteem, such as Phill Niblock (his recent passing was the reason why I went looking for the pages), Christian Fennesz, Oren Ambarchi, Rafael Toral, David Grubbs, Jim O’Rourke, or Stuart Braithwaite, as well as now disbanded Belgian projects like Géographique, Galacticamendum, Thou, Ovil Bianca, and De Portables.