12th to 27th of September – City Sonic Itinerary | City Sonic 2015

City Sonic 2015 Itinenaries

Four thematic itineraries consisting of fifty creations, imagined by sixty artists, highlight the relationship between contemporary sound creation and different disciplines and practices. Starting from the Salle St. George (Grand Place – where will take place the exhibition Poetic Mechanics from the collective EZ3kiel), sixty artists will be exhibite in this large audio urban Itinarary 2015.

Invented instruments

playful audio sculptures and unusual audio devices…

Salle St-Georges > Auberge de jeunesse > Beffroi de Mons > Médiathèque > Eglise Sainte Elisabeth

Sound & digital

interactive, generative, geolocative installations & devices…

Salle St-Georges > Thanks Galerie > Eglise Sainte Elisabeth > Arsonic > Médiathèque > La Fabrique des singes > Gare de Mons

Plastic Audio

works that play with acoustic and architectural properties of the location with a special visual approach…

Salle St-Geordes > Art-Chétype > Magasin de Papier > Art2 > Café Europa > Pop’Up Galerie

Sonic pirates

shifting, unpredictable poetic locations and radio fragments broadcast in different unusual places, entries and passages…

Smart Mons > Auberge de jeunesse > Mundaneum > 106…

Guided tour by appointment : +32 (0)65 590889 – lucie.transcultures@gmail.com

City Sonic 2015 - MAP

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Alexis Choplain (Be)
Composer of electronic music, he also creates sound installations with considerations of temporality, and audio streams traveling in space. According to him, everything is sublimatable, despite the appearance without substance of the artificial world around us: it suffices to exert strong actions on things, fantasies that inspire us all…
Anton Mobin (Fr)
Anton Mobin : Independant radio producer, improviser, home taping, D.I.Y. “A crack, a fold, a brightness, a jolt in the plan of the sound, a convexity of surface…”
Archives du Lieu (Qc)
Le Lieu has been active in Quebec City since 1982, where it carries out both local activities and others abroad or with international partners. The centre’s interdisciplinary nature brings together installation, performance, manoeuvres, sound art, sound poetry, video and other explorations of the new frontiers of artistic expression.
Baudouin De Jaer (Be)
Baudouin de Jaer : Composer, violinist, Baudouin de Jaer (Be) studied composition with Philippe Boesmans, Henri Pousseur, Frederic Rzewski also with Bruce Mather at Mc Gill University of Montreal. His path connects him permanently to the fire of Earth and cosmos motion. Fascinated by the huge antennas which keeps on…
Chang Yung-Ta (Twn)
Relative Perception est une série d’installations sonores qui tournent autour de la réponse de nos organes sensoriels à la stimulation d’un son, d’une lumière, de la température et de l’espace. L’installation sonore est donc développée sur la perception du corps comme une réponse instinctive et intuitive au système…
Charles Pennequin (Fr)
A video trilogy directed by Philippe Franck in collaboration with Charles Pennequin for City Sonic 2015, about the concept of the show (and also the creator and the public) featuring the energetic French author/performer Charles Pennequin performing the Royal Theatre…
Chloé Guesquier (Fr)
A student at ESAD (School of Art and Design) in Valenciennes in Space Design section, Chloé Ghesquière has become interested in sound while she was working for her degree DNAP (National Diploma of Visual Arts). It deals with the design of micro-architectures and the listening capacity to various sounds in…
Christophe Bailleau (Fr/Be)
Christophe Bailleau is a multidisciplinary artist, who has been developing for over 15 years an unusual musical project. His compositions are based on acoustic sources (guitar, percussion, vocals noises) crushed and mixed with concrete and household sounds. He creates a game based on patience, silence and stormy tension…
Claire Bourguin (Be)
Diving recently in the world of art, curious, Claire Bourguin (student of the School of Visual Arts of Mons Arts2) experiments with photography, video, installation, sculpture and graphics. Among some notions addressed in her work this year: perception, material, light, illusion/reality, materiality/thought, today’s society, individuality/community, identity, passing time …
Collectif Amadeo (Be)
In January 2000, a team of artists and craftsmen decided to combine talent, experience and expertise to design beautiful objects that would invite the public to participate in an art project taking place in the Public Area. The sound is retained as one of the elements that may facilitate an…
Damien Bourniquel (Fr)
Artiste multimédia du son et de l’image, Damien Bourniquel questionne la nature des medias numériques, celle des datas qui les constituent et qui sont les objets d’aujourd’hui. Il s’intéresse particulièrement à l’erreur, au dysfonctionnement, au glitch…qui mettent en évidence la physicalité de ces fichiers numériques…
Dawamesk (Be)
Dawamesk (Thomas Mercier) is a self-educated artist, born in 1978 in Mouscron, Belgium and living in Brussels. As of his childhood he is interested by everything audiovisual.His artistic creations (painting, collage, silkscreen printing, drawings, installation…) personal, spontaneous and free of conventions have him situated into a “art brut”…
Dimitri Pike (Be)
Since the mid 90s electronic freethinker Dimitri Pike has been strolling between Chicago House and Detroit Techno Soul as a wanderer between the worlds, trying to refrain from any needless pedantry of the genres…
Dj Poncho (Be)
His suitcase in his hand will get you through the night from under the shade of his sombrero, here he comes : the very unique D.J. Poncho
Dominique Lawalrée (Be)
Dominique Lawalrée has written more than 450 works, documented over 27 albums. A keyboardist, he has given hundreds of concerts of his music in a dozen countries. A church musician, he is the initiator of Liturgical Music Festival in Rixensart…
Emmanuel Rébus (Fr)
Emmanuel Rébus is a sound artist based in Paris. The centre point of his manifold activities ( the mathematics of music, instrument building, noise actions, circuit bending, found sounds) is to arrive at a new definition of what is music…
ENSA Bourges (Fr)
Students of the Art School of Bourges present pieces that describe, comment on semiology or analyse with sounds or voice, a work of art, under the old, modern, contemporary or current heritage…
EZ3kiel (Fr)
Conceived by Yann Nguema of EZ3kiel group, the Poetic Mechanics gather ten interactive sound modules embodying virtual paintings. Playing on the anachronisms between content and form…
Fleur (Be)
In love with music, passionate, she only expressed through it. She wanders between experimental, classic, acid, techno, idm…
François Cys (Be)
François Cys studies and works in the cabinetmaker trade. He undertakes object fashion design in which he explores through the transformation of everyday objects, relations between body movement, physical energy, mechanical movements and acoustic phenomena…
Fujui Wang (Twn)
Fujui Wang is an artist and curator specialized in sound art and interactive art whose work has played a key role in establishing sound as a new artistic genre in Taiwan.
Gilles Malatray (Fr)
La pièce paysagère proposée par Gilles Malatray joue à tricoter des signatures et identités sonores de Mons, tout en les frottant à celles d’autres pays visités micros en main, de Madagascar à Vienne en passant par Lyon et Lausanne… L’ici et l’ailleurs se confrontent, dialoguent ainsi par les sons, entre…
Harold Schellinx (PB)
Harold Schellinx (Maastricht, the Netherlands) is an artist, writer, improvisor and creator of unusual and original musics. As a member of The Young Lions and several other post-punk bands in the Amsterdam of the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was among the initiating forces of the dutch ‘Ultra’ movement…
Helga Dejaegher (Be)
Helga Dejaeger, Belgian artist, offers a visual and multidisciplinary work. She does performances, sometimes complex videos and installations, but designed with simple materials. Her research revolves around topics such as: the body, nature, reflection of self or life, identity…
Isa Belle + Paradise Now (Fr/Be)
Since 2005, Isa Belle has been working in cooperation with Paradise now (electronic processing and sound design, texts and co-creation) on several projects of installations and performances (presented in many international festivals) involving all the senses and the participation of the spectator invited to engage in new sensory experiences in…
Jacques Foschia (Be)
Belgian improviser, composer, and radio artist Jacques Foschia began his investigation in different fields of improvisation by exploring the relationship dance/music with the American bass player Barre Phillips. Since 2000 he joined the colorful and innovative band “London Improvisers Orchestra”. He has since developed collaborations with experimental groups from the…
Jacques Urbanska (Be)
Jacques Urbanska , actor and director by training, his research has questioned the conventional theater stage as the only possible place of performance, the individual’s relationship to the viewer, the spectator’s perception and the notion of post-dramatic theater. His projects are event-driven, shows in modules, ambulatory…
Janek Schaefer (UK)
Janek Schaefer trained as an architect at the Royal College of Art, where he developed his focus on the relationship between sound, space and place…
Jason Van Gulick (Be)
Since he began to play drums in 1996, Jason Van Gulick has built a diverse musical background. Coming from rock, hardcore, and post-metal scenes, he felt at ease in improvisation and experimentation. His architectural studies and training techniques nourish and develop his artistic work…
Jean Baptiste Barra (Fr)
It is through this that his whole artistic approach revolves today around a predominant concept, repetition. Whether geometric, architeFctural or sound as the medium, Jean-Baptiste can experiment with a serial language through multiple media. In that field, the meeting of multiple media, can be either optical, perceptual or sensory…
Jean D. L. & Sandrine Verstraete (Be)
Jean DL & Sandrine Verstraete (Be) are both filmmakers and musicians; they develop a melancholic and cinematic universe. Through manipulation of audio cassettes and guitar, they accompany their images in both dark and sweet in a no mans land. Their debut album is available from Rockerill Records in September 2015…
Jean Marc Boucher (Fr/Be)
Jean-Marc Boucher started his activities in 1992 with the co-creation of the mini-zine Desperate Remedies. In 1994 a new fanzine New Harmonies. and in 1998 another one : =Ellipse=. In parallel, the Harmonie label was created in 1993 for the release of a compilation tape “Les Pres Fleuris”. Will follow…
Jean-Paul Dessy (Be)
Jean-Paul Dessy is belgian a composer, cellist, conductor and artistic director of the ensemble Musiques Nouvelles. What he calls “acting as a musician” links the sacred and the profane without confusing them, in an intimate journey in search of a common and shared listening experience…
Jonas Luyckx (Be)
Jonas Luyckx developed various projects as a producer and director. Fiction, videos music, educational projects, portraits of artists… he always tries to give a particular shape to his productions…
Magali Schuermans (Be)
Recording words to remember, like a letter to her daughter. A radio documentary about a birth and an absence, intimate, delicate and fragile like the thread of life…
Manu Louis (Be)
Manu Louis is best known as composer/frontman of the Belgium’s foremost post-modern pop band Funk Sinatra, the lyrico-trash duo We are not Flowers and the ‘ensemble champetre’ The Gardening Group.
Margarida Guia (Pt/Be)
Margarida Guia (Brussels) is an actress, performer, and sound designer. She explores words as a partition, voice as an instrument which experiments in different musical worlds ranging from improvisational music to sound poetry…
Martyn Bates (UK)
Martyn Bates is an English singer, an author and a musician all at once! He formed the famous duo Eyeless In Gaza (several discs on Cherry Red label) in 1980 with Peter Becker…
Mathieu Chamagne (Fr)
Trained as a pianist, Mathieu Chamagne has studied music since 1987. After many experiences as a pianist in jazz formations / rock, etc., he gradually migrated to
Matthieu Safatly (Fr/Be)
French cello player, singer, alternative mixer and composer based in Brussels, Matthew Safatly is one of the founders of Quattrofage…
Maurice Charles JJ (Be)
Maurice Charles JJ a.k.a. Jean-Jacques Duerinckx is a musician mostly interested in timbral diversities, unorthodox sounds, sonic pastes and contemporary approaches to music: intuitive by nature, he likes to dwell in a universe crowded with strange sound entities, in which sound becomes matter and matter becomes sound…
Muriel Alliot (Fr/Be)
Subsequently, over image editing experience, attraction to sound creation continues until climax when, stuck on a climbing wall, closing her eyes, she discovered the profound impact of sounds on her own behavior…
Myriam Pruvot (Be)
Myriam Pruvot is a musician and vocalist, having studied art and taught editing. Voice, place and sound design are its main exploration materials…
Natan Karczmar (Fr/Is/Ca)
Natan Karczmar had an early career as a cultural organizer in the field of theater and the diffusion of art, mainly in France, Canada and Israel. He is also a painter, a photographer and an artist in “art of communication”…
Nicolas d’Alessandro (Be)
Nicolas D’Alessandro has been an enthusiast of music and musical instruments, and educated more recently in the intricacies of word processing and voice signals, he will gradually innovate with a new line of research. The latter aims to use gestural control of sound in order to understand new phenomena occurring…
OMFI – One moment free improv (Be)
One Moment Free Improv ‘(OMFI) proposes multi-disciplinary and itinerant encounters with free improvisation as a vector. This artistic variable-geometry collective is ever expanding, without hierarchy or authority principle, for a full cooperation between the participants, an openness without limits to any artistic researching practice…
Ordinaire (Be)
Under the pseudonym Ordinaire, Eric Therer (Liège) accompanied by Stephan Ink, (bass, laptop), borrows sound experimentation from Luc Ferrari and post-Dadaist legacy of Stock, Hausen & Walkman. The approach of the Liège duo is to collect images and sounds in our most immediate everyday environment that embed Must icons [I…
Pascale Tison (Be)
After studying literature and philosophy at the universities of Liege and Paris VII, t Pascale Tison wrote as a journalist her first texts on theatre, art and dance. She is now responsible for the creation of La première radio of the RTBF and producer of the show “Par Ouïe Dire”…
Pastoral (Fr/Be)
Pastoral is the combo createad by Christophe Bailleau and Philippe Franck. Post-folk mix (ballads), post-pop, experimental & hybrid soundscapes, Pastoral music is diverse, inventive with a touch humor. They also perform with their own nomadic dreamy images…
Pierre Beloüin (Fr)
Pierre Beloüin created the Optical Sound label in 1997 after meeting Rainier Lericolais and Olivier Huz. Optical Sound sees itself as a home for both visual artists seeking to explore the possibilities of sound and musicians interested in visual arts. The name itself is a direct reference to cinema and…
Sonic Boutique
The sonic shop is a temporary shop of the Festival located this year at La Fabrique des Singes, where the productions of artists of the festival and associated labels (Sub Rosa, Transonic, Idiosyncratics, Optical Sound,…) are available at reasonable prices.
Stéphane Kozik (Be)
Artist, sound artist, musician graduated from the School of Visual Arts of Mons (Belgium) in ARTS2, Stéphane Kozik mainly works on interactive installations, audio-visual and musical performances, short films. . . His multidisciplinary approach intends to be sensitive, sensory, poetic and playful. Whether in the form of performances, installations or…
Stéphanie Croibien (Be)
Stéphanie Croibien creates a dialogue or confronts her own images to a large corpus of pictures and words – press images and film extracts – collected and archived. Her video work experiments with sound textures, visual associations and materiality of the image, a search that tends to engender a new…
Taös (Be)
Active on the drum’n’bass scene since 2006, Taos has shared the stage with big names such as Evol Intent, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, Aphrodite, DJ Hazard, Skrillex and many more. His mixes like its productions roam all subgenres of drum’n’bass movement, even sometimes going beyond it, to give listeners a…
Tom Jackson (GB)
Tom Jackson is a clarinettist and saxophonist based in London, largely dedicated to the fields of contemporary classical music and free improvisation…
Transonic Expo – Cassette Art
This exhibition pays tribute to the creativity of the alternative ‘tape culture” with a selection of archives from the 80s and Harold Schellinx’s recent visuals works (photos and sounds of his Found tapes), Dawamesk (sculptures from tapes), Julie Moulin (drawings commissionned by City Sonic)…
ValKiri (Fr)
Architect, artist and hacker, Valkiri likes to mix techniques and practices to create special and interactive works, borrowed from the culture of “Do It Yourself”. For him, creating links between the computer code, mechanical and electronic DIY and diversion of everyday objects enables a strong dialogue between the viewer and…
VOID (Be/It)
Collectif de plasticiens sonores créé à Bruxelles en 2013 par les artistes audio-plasticiens italien Mauro Vitturini et belge Arnaud Eeckhout, soutenu par Transcultures…
Wang Chung-Kun (Twn)
Sound of Suitcase invites visitors to interact with four audio suitcase-devices. Sensors detect these interactions and trigger a timer mechanism which will randomly play prewritten compositions…
Werner Moron (BE)
Werner Moron’s artistic approach (Liège) is based on a critical distance of the art market. For this, he chose to stage acts, performances or events that involve the participation of the public, both as a subject and a citizen, requested in a dialog…
Yao-Chung Han (Twn)
Yao Chung-Han graduated with a Masters in Media Arts at the NTUA (National Taiwan University of Arts). He solicits the imagination of the public through their bodily movements, depending on the arrangement of the fluorescent light. A few sounds go with his works…
Zoe Tabourdiot (Fr/Be)
Director of radio and film documentaries, Zoé Tabourdiot is passionate about creating mental images developed by the process of listening sound. She plans sound creation as a soundscape of a painting composed by imagination and loves to juggle words, to make them sound, to grant the beautiful sounds with studied…