Friday
September
Doors · 19:00
OVERFLOW Gallery
New work
Transe-Formations
Isa*Belle ; Stéphane Kozik ; Natalia de Mello
The performance emerges from the voice of Philippe Franck, founder of Transcultures and City Sonic, a major figure in the development of sound and digital arts in Belgium, who passed away in 2025. The sound works of Isa*Belle Vrammout and Stéphane Kozik and the visual world of Natalia de Mello gradually coalesce around this recorded presence.
Beginning as a tribute, Transe-Formations gradually unfolds into a dense, immersive world where the hurdy-gurdy’s rough, organic sounds meet the singing bowls’ vibrations—by turns insistent and suspended—alongside electroacoustic material and electronic textures.
This transformation echoes an approach close to Philippe Franck's: bringing practices, artists and sonic material together to open up new spaces for listening. Created and manipulated in real time, the image extends this dialogue between memory, sound and perception.
Biographies
Stéphane Kozik (Be)
An artist, sound artist and musician, Stéphane Kozik has spent more than twenty years developing a multidisciplinary practice combining audiovisual performance, sound installation, video and music. Sensitive, sensory and sometimes tinged with humour, his work places sound at the heart of settings that create narratives, atmospheres and fictions.
Drawing in particular on the role of sound in cinema, he readily reverses its hierarchy to imagine a true "cinema for the ears", in which images and narrative serve the act of listening. To this end, he designs his own sound and musical devices, exploring relationships between matter, vibration, image and sound. Each creation becomes an opportunity to experiment with new forms of composition and offer an altered perspective on reality.
stephanekozik.beIsa*Belle (Fr/Be)
A French multidisciplinary artist based in Belgium, Isa*Belle Vrammout has spent more than thirty years developing a practice at the intersection of sound work, the body and sensory exploration, using singing bowls, gongs, bells and vibrating objects.
Long associated with Transcultures, she began collaborating with Philippe Franck / Paradise Now in 2004 on Massages Sonores and numerous works presented at City Sonic and internationally. Today, she continues her research through transdisciplinary performances and projects centred on listening, vibration and perception.
transcultures.be/isa-belleNatalia de Mello (Pt/Be)
A Belgian-Portuguese multimedia visual artist, Natalia de Mello lives and works in Brussels. A graduate in drawing and graphic stimulation from ENSAV La Cambre, since the early 2000s she has developed a multidisciplinary practice bringing together installation, video, photography, performance and digital technologies. Her work is structured around two recurring themes: the relationship to space and the relationship to others.
Her collaborative approach moves beyond the boundaries of visual art into the performing arts, creating opportunities for experimentation and hybridisation. Through spatial audiovisual arrangements, she examines relationships between art and science, humans and machines, as well as notions of domesticity and domestication. Several of her works have entered the collections of MACS – Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu and the Musée royal de Mariemont.
nataliademello.net
Scratch my back
Raymond Delepierre
SCRATCH MY BACK is a project by Raymond Delepierre centred on a vinyl object whose material is gradually transformed through listening. Placed in a sleeve with abrasive surfaces, the record becomes scratched as it is handled: these alterations create new sonic traces, making wear, gesture and accident integral parts of the work.
The performance developed from the project extends this principle into a live setting. Handling the medium, friction, crackling and electronic processing become sonic material in their own right, in a territory somewhere between ASMR and noise. SCRATCH MY BACK thus shifts the recorded object into a performative form in which sound is made, deteriorates and changes in real time.
Biographies
Raymond Delepierre (Be)
Raymond Delepierre is a sound and visual artist, sound engineer, researcher and lecturer at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels. For many years, he has developed a practice at the intersection of sound work, installation, performance and electroacoustic experimentation.
His work pays particular attention to acoustic phenomena, vibrations, frequencies and sounds produced by the objects and environments around us. Captured, amplified, repurposed or transformed, these materials become the starting point for arrangements that question both the conditions in which sound is produced and those in which it is heard.
Through often minimal forms and a deliberately experimental approach, Raymond Delepierre explores relationships between matter, gesture, technology and perception. His installations and performances invite us to turn our attention towards sounds that are usually imperceptible, overlooked or regarded as noise, and to consider them as visual and musical material in their own right.
raymonddelepierre.com