Oscillation ::: from the Mothership w/, Pom Bouvier-b. & Marjolijn Dijkman + Michaela Turcerová + Elijah Maja + Ka Baird + Augustė Vickunaitė + Ikbal Lubys + Lawrence McGuire + MSHR

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Oscillation festival is back and its mothership decided to land at yourschouwburg for two days of sound beyond music, played on instruments beyond technology.
Afterwards the journey continues to Maison de la création Modelwijk, Rosas Performance Space, URSquare, OASIS.bxl, Bodeek, and BUDA BXL until Sunday May 3.
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Friday
@ golden space, seated
20:00 Pom Bouvier-b & Marjolijn Dijkman
21:00 Michaela Turcerová
22:00 Elijah Maja
22:30 Ka Baird
Saturday
@ rooftop, standing
20:00 Augustė Vickunaitė
21:00 Ikbal Lubys
22:00 Lawrence McGuire
22:30 MSHR
artists
Pom Bouvier-b. & Marjolein Dijkman - Electrify Everything
Two multidisciplinary artists bring electricity to life with experimental sound instruments, high-voltage electro-photography, and a poetic text by Jean Katambayi Mukendi, voiced by François Makanga, tracing the history and current realities of energy production through electrical terminology.
https://pombouvierb.blogspot.com/
https://www.instagram.com/marjolijn_dijkman/
Michaela Turcerová - IN FLUX
Michaela Turcerová is a Slovak composer and saxophonist based in Copenhagen, who searches for the hidden and otherwise unheard timbres of musical instruments. In her solo project IN FLUX, she weaves modifications of the alto saxophone, surreal amplification, external sound objects, and sine waves into a hybrid percussive organism.
https://www.instagram.com/michaelaturcerovie/
https://michaelaturcerova.com/
Elijah Maja - Continuum?
Elijah Maja is an artist, writer, and researcher from London, who did a residency at Q-O2 in 2024. Tonight he will deliver a presentation which is sort of a talk but also an assemblage of sound, still and moving image, and speculative musings about space and daily life.
https://store.10k.global/elijah-maja-chariot
https://www.instagram.com/fleecefiles/
Ka Baird - Yomp
Extending far beyond their roots in the psychedelic folk movement of the early 2000s, Ka Baird is known for their raw, boundary pushing solo performances with voice, electronics, flute, and piano, that bridge experimental sound, performance art, and ritual. Yomp loosely plays with the idea of a march that repeatedly falls apart.
https://www.instagram.com/sapropelicpycnic/
Augustė Vickunaitė - Le poids de la journée
Augustė Vickunaitė is a sound experimentalist who employs vintage reel-to-reel tape recorders to play, record, and create collage music, often exploiting analog errors and malfunctions of decaying technology. In Le poids de la journée she creates a closed system of tapes, recorders, and her own body, sonifying a theatrical exchange of energies, and the birth and death of sound.
https://www.instagram.com/auguste.vic/
Ikbal Lubys - The Witness Trees
Ikbal Lubys is an Indonesian artist, instrument builder, and co-founder of Yogyakarta’s creative space Ethnictro, who’s work transforms social issues, images, and forms into sound across diverse formats. In sound performance The Witness Trees he plays an electric guitar whose neck is replaced with a broken tree branch, stripped of strings, allowing the natural textures of the wood to “play” the forest’s memory.
The performance is interactive, inviting audiences to engage alongside him.
https://ikballubys.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ikballubys/
Lawrence Mc Guire
Lawrence McGuire is an artist whose outputs cross the text-sound practices of the sound poets as well as machinic thinking found in computer music and sciences. He'll present a suite of monologues in which synthetic and acoustic voice interpret characters, strings, and speech from the libretto of Gertrude Stein's opera Four Saints in Three Acts, questioning how text, image and symbol finds its path to the mouth.
https://www.instagram.com/hogobogobogo_mcg/
MSHR
Founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper, MSHR is an art collective that builds and explores sculptural electronic systems, using analog circuitry and open-source software to create “hyperobjects that babble with life-like current”.
https://www.instagram.com/liquidtransmitter/
https://www.instagram.com/nestedface/
about
Oscillation festival
Oscillation ::: from the Mothership, by Q-O2 werkplaats, is a ten day festival of concerts, workshops, installations, and a discourse program. The festival explores the relation between technology and diversity, and how this relation can be redefined by diverting tools from their original purpose. Hacking and extending tools and instruments can open fields of possibilities, changing not only what music sounds like, but who it is produced by. That is why Oscillation 2026 was conceived as a mothership, a vessel capable of carrying other vehicles and releasing them out into the world. Welcome aboard!
https://www.oscillation-festival.be/2026/
QO-2
Q-O2 is an arts laboratory for experimental music and sound art. Since 2006, the organisation has had its own space in the Brussels canal zone, where they organise residencies, showcases, concerts, symposia, workshops, and other hybrid formats. Oscillation is their annual festival.
https://www.q-o2.be/
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Le festival Oscillation fait partie de tekhne, un projet mené par Q-O2 et cinq autres partenaires européens. Les activités de recherche et les événements organisés dans le cadre de ce projet ont contribué à façonner le programme du festival.
instagram.com/tekhne_collab/
https://tekhne.website/