Also at this LUNAR festival the motto is: electronica dissects to the bone. During the Lunar Kinetic Sound Night, sound is movement and movement is sound, but light and algorithms are also sources of vibration. Self-built instruments, recovered tape recorders, Brussels garbage and hundreds of lines of code play the leading role together with the musician. The rhythm of a tapped wax thread, a flash of light on a photodiode, electromagnetic radiations through an antenna, play in harmony with synthesizers and processors. The performers, for whom analog is not a dirty word, have promised us to be very daring!
SCHROOTHOOP: Rik Staelens saxophone & multi instrumentalist | Margo Maex percussion | Timo Vantyghem basguitar & clarinet
WOUTER VAN VELDHOVEN: installation (with Vincent Schoutsen) & live performance
KABOOM KARAVAN: Bram Bosteels gitaar, electronica, objecten | Stefaan Smagghe viool, sarangi, objecten | Liesbeth Marit live visuals, electronica
DAGO SONDERVAN
FULL LINE-UP:
Kaboom Karavan
Wouter Van Veldhoven (installation & live performance)
schroothoop
Dago Sondervan
KABOOM KARAVAN
Kaboom Karavan is the working name of Belgian sound wizard and musician Bram Bosteels. Using a mix of home-made instruments, old acoustic string instruments, and electronics, he creates a universe reminiscent of nighttime carnival, strange vaudeville, or folk forms from an imaginary land.
WOUTER VAN VELDHOVEN
Wouter van Veldhoven (Utrecht, NL) makes home-made musical instruments and recordings from discarded objects, reel-to-reel tape machines, broken radios, toy pianos, old televisions, etc. The sound ranges from dusty, lo-fi experimental electronics to automated organic minimal techno. For this Kinetic Sound Night he will create an interactive installation on which he will give a performance himself.
SCHROOTHOOP
Flutes, clarinets and tubas made of PVC, a drum kit made of water bottles, cans and old iron, and a bass made of a bucket from a construction site and wax wire: the instrumental trio schroothoop plays with recycled materials from the streets of Brussels. Together with percussionist Margo Maex and bassist-clarinetist Timo Vantyghem, Rik Staelens forms schroothoop. The three people from Brussels surprised listeners with their imploring and acclaimed debut album Klein Gevaarlijk Afval (Rebel Up, City Cancer), a delicious mix of jazz, eastern music and Cuban-African rhythms. schroothoop's home made instruments create a unique, ripping yet sultry sound that came into its own on the album thanks to post production by Dijf Sanders.
DAGO SONDERVAN
Dago Sondervan makes music by coding it live. Minimal techno, breakbeats and experimental electronica are generated by lines of code written on the spot. Sondervan is well known in the Belgian music industry, having worked as a DJ, technician, curator, drummer and musician for and with Daan, Fuse Club, Mauro Pawlowski, Sherman, Styrofoam, Think of One, Hormonia and dozens of other artists since the 1980s. Since a few years he is one of the promoters of algoraves in our country, evenings where live coding of music is central.
