JINWOOK JUNG puts to music the poems of Yi Sang, a significant yet little-known poet from 1930s Korea. Sang’s poems resonate with dark surrealism; each word conjures the oppressive and troubled colonial era. The atmosphere is intimate, shifting, breathless. The exquisite refinement of Jung’s compositions is evident, for example, in his blend of viola da gamba and electric guitar.

MAYA VERLAAK subtly and artfully combines experimental ethics, playfulness and instrumental sensibility. In “Roulette”, a computer listens and then redirects “in real-time” a duo for piano and electric guitar, conveying great harmonic beauty.

Although a craftsman of written music, PIERRE SLINCKX has nevertheless adopted numerous traits from electronic practices: getting down to the core, pondering repetition and length, not being afraid of the sublime moment (the killing sound). Here he works with "floating intonations", using a set for aluminium tubes, tuned in sixths of a tone. This is our first collaboration with Slinckx: i#1 (i as in ictus).

JULIA EMMERY was inspired by Guillaume de Machaut’s ‘Hoquetus David’ and used medieval techniques to emphasize her fascination for hidden melodies. (For example isorhythmic processes: a repeated rhythmic pattern, talea, is applied to a melodic pattern, color, of a different length). A memory came to mind: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, filmed solo, tracing a perfect geometric shape in the sand, yet dancing in an atmosphere of total intimacy. Based on choreographic sensations, the sounds are approached here as “energies in motion”, creating voices that express themselves, sincere and vulnerable.