‘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.

Looking at the world through sound – Els Viaene

In this lecture, Els Viaene wants to invite you into another part of the world, the aural landscape. In her daily life, she experiences the world through sound. Listening enables her to make the world hers in a very intimate way, to enter a poetic part of reality. This is the starting point of each of her creations. Els Viaene will take you on a journey through her artistic practice, from listening and recording, to composing and sculpting. From hearing sound to seeing sound.

weer te veel koffie gedronken :/ - Ella Jacobs

Ella Jacobs (sound artist/ DJ) loves to combine field recordings and "found sounds," infusing them with intensely processed percussion and synthesizers, to construct soundscapes. She is constantly searching for gentle moments while navigating through raw noise.

Latitudes Set – Stijn Demeulenaere

Stijn Demeulenaere tries to understand places and landscapes by listening to them. Sometimes he makes recordings. In his Latitudes series, Stijn brings together sounds from all over the world and explores how climate, geology, flora, fauna and people sound. Sounds of the tundra and the jungle, The North Sea and the Savannah, the city and the forest. He looks for structures and forms where these very different sounds hook together, how sounds create expectations and how we can play with those expectations. Above all, he searches how he can mash a new ephemeral landscape out of all these bits of world sound, wonder that exists for the length of the composition.

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.