‘EVERYBODY HERTZ’: A SOUND ART FESTIVAL 

XL AIR, the student radio of RITCS School of Arts, invites you to the first edition of the two-day sound art festival, "Everybody Hertz."
Delve into the multifaceted world of sound art with intriguing work by talented alumni of RITCS' Radio program.

What to expect:

- Sound art installations
- Live performances & Experimental music
- Lectures & short films

Airchoir - Anouk Kellner

The Airchoirs are sound installations in which an inflatable choir -made of textile- plays a programmed composition on some organ pipes. The choir is constantly moving up and down, like breathing organs or creatures. The listener is immersed in a soundscape of long, slow organ drones.
Different resonances, and harmonies, notes and chords are played with. Interferences arise between organ pipes. Vibrations and beating waves are created by the way certain frequencies of the organ pipes affect each other. The inflatables thus interact with each other. The sound of the composition changes depending on the position of the visitor in relation to the installation.


Tabling – Ground. Jeroen Uyttendaele

Jeroen Uyttendaele is an artist who works primarily with sound and its relationship with light, space and tangibility. This translates into the development of audiovisual instruments, installations and experimental music. For this installation/ performance, Jeroen plays graphite drawings that electronically drive a series of self-built resonators.

The NeuroRight Arcades- Roel Heremans

Touching is allowed! The art installation is interactive. How does it work? Take a seat at one of the three Arcade game consoles and put on the Brain-Computer Interface headphones. What follows is a guided journey through your own brainwaves. After completing the game, you can download a printout of your brainwaves.

With the NeuroRight Arcades, Roel Heremans aims to make our rights regarding brain technology more tangible and to inspire you to a deeper understanding of its importance.
And right when you become aware of your own rights, you may get the strange feeling that the Arcades may have done exactly what they warned you about.

The NeuroRight Arcades gameplay is available only in English.

2GIRLSNAMEDSERGIO – Amber Meulenijzer & Lukas De Clerck

2GIRLSNAMEDSERGIO is Amber Meulenijzer & Lukas De Clerck. As longtime partners in sound, they meet at a crosspoint between acoustic and synthetic sounds, creating spatialised listening experiences using a modular speaker system. Always radical in their microtonal drone improvisations, they make many chambers sing. A psycho-acoustic voyage for the deep listeners mind.

Murmur – Stijn Demeulenaere & Jan Locus

Broekzele - now Brussels - was built on a swamp. Today, only 1 small official swamp remains in Brussels. It is located in Ganshoren, hidden in the urban fabric. Filmmaker Jan Locus and sound artist Stijn Demeulenaere traveled early in the morning to this hidden piece of nature, capturing how the city and the small reserve awoke. The hum of the city, the hustle and bustle of the street, the chirping of the birds, the crack and the glow of dawn blend together, creating a strange, idiosyncratic atmosphere, - a world that seems to coexist with our own. A slightly different reality into which we seep. Jan and Stijn witness the murmur of the other side.

Liquid Polyphonies - Lotte Nijsten & Gillis Van Der Wee

Liquid Polyphonies is an aural journey through the multilayered soundscape of the North Sea. With sound recordings, Lotte Nijsten and Gillis Van der Wee create an electro-acoustic composition in which marine life, technology, industry and science are interwoven. In this way they try to make the mysterious landscape of the North Sea tangible in sound.
For this work, the makers used underwater recording techniques, and made field recordings on research ships, drilling platforms, wind farms and nature reserves in places like Scotland, Norway and Belgium.
Liquid Polyphonies is part of a residency program at Phonurgia Nova. For this festival, the creators present a preview of their work.