FEB 06 - RATAPLAN


The Mad Laboratory of Anti-Matter

Vanheerentals - Lasure - Beeckaert


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FEB 10 - DRESSING CIRCLES


Katharina Schmidt

Jan Boudart's Le Jardin Ultraviolet


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FEB 25 - DRESSING CIRCLES


Maya Bennardo

Bernat Sanjuan Boronat


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MAR 06 - RATAPLAN


Rempis/Håker Flaten/Rosaly+ Warelis

Adilia Yip & AI Musicking


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MAR 11 - DRESSING CIRCLES


Rafaele Andrade


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MAR 25 - DRESSING CIRCLES


Nina Vanhoenacker

Lukas De Clerck


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Thursday February 6th

Co-op w/ Sound In Motion

Thursday February 6th

Rataplan


Wijnegemstraat 27

2140 Antwerpen


Doors: 19u45

Start concerts: 20u30

Together with Sound In Motion and Stad Antwerpen



The Mad Laboratory Of Anti-Matter (CH/LB)


The Swiss-Lebanese duo of clarinetist Paed Conca (Praed Orchestra) and multi-instrumentalist Nadia Daou (Nar) delivered musical fireworks as The Mad Laboratory of Anti-Matter at last years Summer Bummer Festival. Their intense and highly acclaimed set left the audience wanting more.

With a mix of unconventional sounds and intense rhythms, they create a raw, industrial, and unfiltered experiment with a compulsive urge towards danger. Conca and Daou channel the impending end with surprisingly joyful music for angry people. The debut release Study of A Dead End Vol. 1: Annihilation of Denial is planned this spring on the Brussels based label moli del tro.

The eye-catcher here is definitely Daou's own invented 'time machine', a handcrafted instrument composed of old clocks, bells and other metallic objects that adds a mesmerizing energy to her sculpting of sound.

Or put differently: music for the Apocalypse.


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Adia Vanheerentals - Hendrik Lasure - Simon Beeckaert (BE)


The lyrical rebel. Pure and openhearted, quirky and brilliant.

Adia Vanheerentals must have been a painter in some past life, given that she prefers most of all to paint late-romantic stories by means of her emotional playing style on the soprano and tenor sax. She succeeds time after time to interpret the undebatable, universal beauty of the vulnerability of the human soul in any of her many projects. At the same time she doesn't refrain from making her reed instrument bellow, weep and scratch whenever she wants to make her point clear to those who do not listen.

Since the pandemic she has worked on her career wholly on her very own, yet stable tempo, and that dedication has yielded her many fruits. One of the first concerts in Antwerp of her trio Bodem was also the first very first concert in the Klankhaven series, back then during the last phase of the pandemic in 2022. That trio eventually made the big news when she was elected one of the Twintigers of Klara (a yearly selection of the promising artists in their twenties by Klara, the national radio station for classical music and jazz). While that group is taking off, she also leads the more danceable quintet Waarlijk and this impressionist trio featuring Hendrik Lasure on piano and Simon Beeckaert on double bass.

A good band leader is also a good band member. It's no surprise that Adia is high in demand: Femke Gyselinck's dance performance 'Change Of Plans', Klinck Trio (featuring Elisabeth Klinck and Maya Dhondt) and Anaïs Vijgen Quintet, to name a few. She has also started to endeavor the possibilities of her playing fully solo, which has also proven to be successul, as was made possible by Dennis Tyfus' label Ultra Eczema, who released her debut solo album entitled 'Here Are 5 Reasons To Meditate' in the Summer of 2024.

Monday February 10

Monday February 10

Dressing Circles


Blauwmoezelstraat 9

2000 Antwerpen


Deuren: 20u00

Start concerten: 20u30

Katharina Schmidt (DE)


Architect of playing fields for electrified creativity and imaginative time-travel.

In short: Percussionist, composer, researcher and radio host.

Katharina Schmidt is a frequent collaborator of multidisciplinary projects, as her artistic portfolio includes film music, sound art, installations, and radio pieces as well as multichannel compositions. After years of playing drums and piano in various bands, her solo work is influenced by indie, experimental, and improvised music. On her latest cassette release 'One Day' on Midira Records she guides us into her elaborate fabric of warm drones, pleasant crackling and floating undulations.

Notable releases on Elm Records, Midira and Slaapwel Records showcase a combination of electronics, field recordings, and self-built interfaces alongside acoustic instruments that has been called 'profound', 'hyperreal' (Field Notes), and 'bucolic' (Groove Magazine). She has realised projects with WDR, ZKM, and MaerzMusik, and teaches at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

In an interview with online music magazine 15questions.net from 2021, she states the following on her music:

'The social impact I would like my music to have is actually happening on a very small scale: it’s that real, direct, one-on-one connection of the artist and the listener. If my music is socially engaged, then it’s not in the sense that it communicates some political message, but in the sense that it’s about the connection to the listener, the privilege of one’s work being let into someone else’s life and mind and thus counteracting that sense of drifting apart, of withdrawal and isolation that is so ubiquitous and disheartening in this moment we’re living in.'


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Jan Boudart's Le Jardin Ultraviolet (BE)


Inspired by the idea that there is still a secret world behind our senses, guitarist Jan Boudart has composed a soundtrack in five parts for a place just barely invisible to the human eye.

Shortly after graduating from the Brussels Conservatory in 2023, Jan Boudart founded the duo De Vlaamse Primitieven together fellow guitar slinger Freek Vreys, drawing inspiration from the primitive american guitar style, eternalized by pioneers such as John Fahey, Robbie Basho and Jack Rose. Though very active on the field both as a performer and an organizer of DIY concert evenings, Jan Boudart also spends a considerable amount of time - as we speak - working on this solo project entitled Le Jardin Ultraviolet, in which he focuses on a lengthy composition on the decacord, a ten-string classical guitar specifically designed for him by luthier Johan Sarens.

Musically, he puts strong emphasis on the use of harmonics, in such a way that it reminds of the lush waterfalls of the great Lenny Breau, but also renders a surprising, though wonderful ode to Don Cherry by quoting the universally recognizable melody of his composition Brown Rice.There are also seems to be a connecting line between is approach of composing this visual soundtrack and the impressionist compositions of Claude Debussy.

Ultraviolet is a type of electromagnetic radiation which falls just outside of the human scope of the visible spectrum, or said differently: the next color right after violet, which contains the highest frequencies of visible light. It is there we can find/hear/feel Jan Boudart's outerwordly garden of delight.