Diagonal Thoughts

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 22 April 2026 16:00

Jennifer Lucy Allan is a writer, researcher and broadcaster. She has acquired a PhD at CRiSAP (UAL) on the social and cultural history of the foghorn, which became the foundation of her first book, The Foghorn’s Lament (White Rabbit Books, 2021). She is also a presenter of BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, and is a freelance music journalist specialising in underground and experimental music. Previously she was online editor for The Wire, and now freelances for The Wire, The Quietus, The Guardian and others. She co-runs the record labels Arc Light Editions and Good Energy, and is a member of Laura Cannell’s Modern Ritual Collective, and the Cafe OTO Experimental Choir. She has recently published her second book, Clay: A Human History (Pegasus Books, 2024), and has been working on an essay on the soundtracks in the films of Sogo Ishii (forthcoming).

On Thu 23 April Jennifer Lucy Allan will introduce The Crazy Family (1984) by Sogo Ishii and present her brand new publication on the role of sound and music in the work of Sogo Ishii. As part of the research project Echoes of Dissent (Stoffel Debuysere, KASK School of Arts), in collaboration with Courtisane.

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 11 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 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.

+ On 13 February Edward George will present an episode of ‘Strangeness of Jazz’ at Ateliers Claus Brussels, in collaboration with In vitro.