Sun 16 Oct 2016 - 6 pm

Matsumoto+Rodz approach attracted our attention, so we want to introduce them.

One of their favorite quote:
"I think musicians rape music...
In spanish they say "tocar: To touch".
Meaning to play.
I think some people touch music without her allowing them."
(Hector Rey)

They use pitches to skim over music. To cross your mind!

Mitsuaki plays an old Japanese electro upgraded lute.
Lauren uses reeds, little percussive or hijacked objects and raw electronic noises.

They create no so-called musical work, but a sensory space.
"Touché", you can be confident you'll be.

KR

Gerard

Mitsuaki Matsumoto

"audio-visualist", visual artist, composer, sound performer, scenographer, part-time lecturer of Tottori University (Japan)

Under the name of Mathieu Martin, he had been developed it his work, which had no particular direction nor visible form, for the goal to give to the spectators a physiological feeling. By this point of view, he creates also scenography.

As a musician, He plays in differents contexts: acoustic improvisation music (bandoneon), prepared sitar (self-made instrument), electronic sound accompaniment for the dance etc. .. He also plays in collaboration with instrumentalists : Pierre Bastien, Jac berrocal, Itaru Oki, Cristian Vogel, Roland Pinsard, Vincent Laubeuf, Hugues Vincent, Cédric Piromalli, Pascal Le Gal, Patrice Grente, Mori-Shige, Ko Ishikawa etc. And choreographers, notably with Jayachandran Palahzy (indian choreographer), he played in Venice Biennale, Bonn Biennale, Monaco Dance Forum, Dance Munich, Julidance(Amsterdam) etc..

His solo work concern about "no-sence". He tries to create "a sensory space", not only musical work. For realise it, he use different means, from acoustic to electric, from analog to digital, from stereo to surround.


Lauren Rodz

Arranged objects and electronics...
A raw grasp over human activities from the sound point of view...
Activity of opening a door and accepting / transforming what you find beyond.
Laurenrodz performs in the field of improvised music, abstract noise... He performs with Elo Masing, Miriam Siebenstadt, Dario Fariello, Mathieu Garrouste, Naoto Yamagishi, Sebastien Lemporte, Alex Riva...

Laurenrodz works with improvised audio-visual performance,
the manipulation of rickety devices and imaginary operations peeking under the veil of daily things...

"Interweaving sound, movement and image in unexpected ways,
Laurent Rodriguez presents the audience with absurd and dada-esque performances, enacted with beauty, humour, and poetic evanescence. With a range of influences going from experimental cinema to fluxus performance, to pull disparate ideas into new forms of interactive media, striking a peculiar balance between deconstructionist abstraction and primordial weirdness." - Cal Lyal


Touché
Sunday 16 October 2016
Doors 5:00 pm
Concert 6:00 pm
By invitation only.
As usual at Haekem, fees (hat) are collected by and exclusively allocated to the Artists.

Haekem
Contemporary, XP & Improv Music. Downtown Brussels. Unique.
Twitter: @haekem
Lakensestraat 66 rue de Laeken
1000 Brussels
Metro: Sainte Catherine / Sint Katelijne

Metro & 4mn walk.
Probably, the best way to Haekem
• Metro Station:
- Sainte Catherine / Sint Katelijne,
- Exit opposite "St Catherine",
- Follow till former de Brouckère Column, by the right of the pond.
• Look on your right and follow:
- Grand Hospice Str,
- Till its end (about 250m).
• There, turn right:
- Laeken Str,
- Follow till 66.
Welcome to Haekem.

Copyright © 2016 Haekem. All rights reserved. Haekem is a registered trademark.
Artworks, Photo: Mitsuaki Matsumoto, Lauren Rodz. Graphics Studio: Haekem.


We are thrilled to welcome a phenomenal band, among the finest Improv Artists of their generation:

Set #1
- Willy Van Buggenhout, synthi
- Kris Vanderstraeten, percussion
- Frans Van Isacker, sax alto
Set #2
- Audrey Lauro, sax alto
- Jean Demey, double bass
- Mike Goyvaerts, percussion
- Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, voice

"Music is Now is a new series of concerts involving International Leading Voices and Belgian Finest Artists in Improvisation, Contemporary Music and Sound Art in Brussels."
There will be plenty of goodies to get your teeth into.

Kind regards,

Gerard

Music is Now
Friday 14 October 2016
Doors: 7:00 pm
Concert: 8:00 pm
As usual at Haekem, fees are collected by and exclusively allocated to the Artists.

Haekem
Contemporary, XP & Improv Music. Downtown Brussels. Unique.
Twitter: @ haekem
Lakensestraat 66 rue de Laeken
1000 Brussels
Metro: Sainte Catherine / Sint Katelijne.
By invitation only.

RESONARE 17 - BIOMAN >< SOLOMAN - Fri Oct 7 - 8:30 pm

It's an honor to welcome Mike Goyvaerts and his RESONARE Experimental & Spontaneous Music Series.
Now 17th!
BIOMAN >< SOLOMAN


- Set #1 BIOMAN saxophone quartet: Sakina AbdouVincent DebaetsLaurent RigautJean-Baptiste Rubin.
All of them play as well altotenor and/or baritone saxophones.

- Set #2 'RANDOMATICS' solo percussion: small & big(ger) percussionobjectstoyswords.

Bioman Quartet
"The Bioman Quartet musician’s play each 3 different saxophones (alto, tenor and baritone).
With the Brian Eno "Discreet Music" project they tackle the thorny issue of the auditor /musician relation.
Through an headphone device the musicians listen to and improvise on the same piece of music, which the audience cannot hear. Also with their headphones the players cannot hear one another and only the link to the music makes that the result stays on the verge of cacophony, but is not totally incoherent (or is it ?...).
Only the audience hears the result, the musicians themselves haven't the slightest idea. 
Conclusion : the audience ignores what the musicians hear and vice versa...
Musicians : Sakina Abdou, Vincent Debaets, Jean-Baptiste Rubin et Laurent Rigaut.
Their musical backgrounds have left traces on the internet... take a look!"

Mike Goyvaerts
"Drummer, percussionist, explorer of sounds and noises, occasional author, involuntary conductor and organizer of improvised and/or experimental music concerts in the Brussels area (series Resonare).
For this solo piece he stages a set built around a horizontal bass drum which he torments with kitchen utensils, other various objects, small percussion, toys and gadgets.
'Randomatics' presents a succession of ideas, movements and sonorities acquired and elaborated during his long career
as a creative musician.
Here the percussionist becomes a poet, the drummer sketches the sounds, the composer tells his story, the improviser invents the unpredictable and the performer walks on a tight rope...
He is somewhere also on the net... good luck!"

RESONARE 17
Friday 7 October 2016
Doors 7:00 pm
Concert 8:30 pm
As usual at Haekem, fees (6€) are collected by and exclusively allocated to the Artists.
Haekem
ContemporaryXP & Improv Music. Downtown Brussels.

Lakensestraat 66 rue de Laeken
1000 Brussels
Metro: Sainte Catherine / Sint Katelijne

By invitation only.

ZALACOVA First - Fri Sep 30 - 8:00 pm

Idea.

Mia Zabelka got the idea.

Violonist, she often plays with Audrey Lauro (alto sax). Improvised contemporary music.
And she wishes to play in quartet.
A quartet of a different kind.

So trombone and gangsa (Claude Colpaert), and guitar (Christian Vasseur) are involved.

ZALACOVA was born. And their first concert is to be held at Haekem.

With so many amazing talents it should be a great time!

Mia Zabelka: violin
Audrey Lauro: sax alto
Claude Colpaert: trombones, gangsa
Christian Vasseur: guitare

Kind regards,

Gerard

ZA.LA.CO.VA.
Friday 30 September 2016
Doors: 7:00 pm
Concert: 8:00 pm



By invitation only.
As usual at Haekem, fees ('hat') are collected by and exclusively allocated to the Artists.



Haekem
Contemporary, XP & Improv Music. Downtown Brussels.

@haekem
haekem.blogspot.be
Lakensestraat 66 rue de Laeken
1000 Brussels
Metro: Sainte Catherine / Sint Katelijne


Copyright © 2016 Haekem. All rights reserved. Haekem is a registered trademark.
Photos: Courtesy of the Artists, Gerard Daval. Graphics Studio: Haekem.

Concours - wedstrijd Toukoul Haekem





Haekem ouvre très bientôt un lieu d’échange culturel et artistique :
Haekem, rue de Laeken 66 B-1000 Bruxelles.
Binnenkort opent Haekem een multicultureel kunstcentrum:
Lakenstraat 66 - B-1000 Brussel.


Naar aanleiding van BRUSSEL-ARTopenKUNST bieden Toukoul en Haekem een lunch voor 2 personen aan.
Voor de duur van de werken werd er een mesh zeildoek tegen de gevel opgehangen, met de afbeelding van het kunstwerk dat in het kader van BRUSSEL-ARTopenKUNST werd tentoongesteld (21-23/02/14).
A l'occasion de Bruxelles-Carte de Visite, Toukoul et Haekem offrent un lunch pour 2 personnes.
Pendant les travaux, un voile mesh est affiché sur la façade. Il s’agit d’une représentation de la toile exposée du 21 au 23 février 2014 dans le cadre de Bruxelles-Carte de Visite.


Hieronder vind je een stuk van het mesh zeildoek:
Un morceau du voile mesh vous est présenté ici.


Waar komt dat stuk in de rooster terecht?
Où ce morceau vient-il dans la grille ?



Om de prijs te winnen, stuur je voor 8 maart een e-mail naar 
haekem@gmail.com
met het/de vaknummers van de puzzle waarin het stuk van het zeildoek voorkomt, alsook het aantal deelnemers die het juiste antwoord voor 8 maart 2014 middernacht zullen hebben verstuurd.
Opgelet: er wordt maar met één deelname per e-mailadres rekening gehouden!

Pour tenter de gagner, il suffit de communiquer avant le 8 mars, exclusivement par mail à haekem@gmail.com
le(s) numéro(s) des cases du puzzle dans lesquelles le morceau de voile mesh apparaît, ainsi que le nombre de participants ayant découvert la bonne réponse,
d’ici le 8 mars 2014 minuit.
Attention : une seule participation par adresse e-mail sera prise en compte.



Waow...

We have spent a couple of months looking for, buying and renovating a new place to be...!

An old house entirely designed to become a meeting point for art people.

Cross confrontation between a mixed culture of art expressions today: plasticians, musicians, paintings, sculptures...
Only contemporary folks. 
With exhibits, performances, café and Belgian beer.

The place :
rue de Laekenstraat, 66
1000 Brussels
Near De Brouckère Station


Back

Spring is time to cleaning up. And to remember good old times.

Two oldtimers:

©GerardAndDaval, 2009

©GerardAndDaval, 2009

©GerardAndDaval, 2010

©haekem 2013
Photo: Marie-Eve Van Linthoudt

Xpo For Friends

A short Xpo, dedicated to friends, has been held on April 13.
A saturday night in Brussels...
Sorry, no face-photo about friends...

Two pics of pieces chatting together.

See U next time ?
(haekem@gmail.com)





© 2013 Haekem
Photos: Marie-Eve Van Lindhout




In-House Xpo (2)


On April 7th 2013, a short in-house expo was helded.
For friends only. Souvenirs...


In-House Xpo (1)


On April 7th 2013, a short in-house expo was helded.
For friends only. Souvenirs...