Satellite Sound Art Event
You are invited to Neigbouring Frequencies 2025
May 16, STUK Leuven (Belgium)
Ring the bells: all devotees, makers and students with an interest in sound art, please listen up! After a first successful edition of Neigbouring Frequencies in 2024, we will travel for a second edition to Leuven (Belgium) on Friday May 16. Happening the week before the anniversary edition of the FIBER Festival, we invite everyone to visit the special Hear Here sound art exhibition and meet Dutch, Belgian and French artists as part of an sound art exchange programme.
On Friday 16 May, the day opens with talks & network lunch on archiving and presenting (historical) sound art. In the afternoon you can visit the free exhibition with 15 outstanding sound art installations by a.o. Dick Raaijmakers, Mariska de Groot, Anouk Kellner and Edwin van der Heijden or enjoy one of the concerts of Mark Fell & Limpe Fuchs and Mihalis Shammas.
Professional Programme
11:30 - 14:00 Talks & Networking Lunch: Symposium
14:00 - 15:30 Guided tour Hear Here
15:30 - 19:00 Afternoon performances
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner (OPTION)
20:00 - 22:00 Evening performances
Let us know if you’re coming by filling in our online form, managed by Kunstenpunt. We can’t wait to meet you in Leuven!
About Neighbouring Frequencies
Under the title Neighbouring Frequencies, the sound arts sector came together during last year's FIBER festival at De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam. The 2025 edition takes place in Leuven. With Neighbouring Frequencies, STUK, FIBER, de Brakke Grond, and Kunstenpunt present, support and connect the richness and many manifestations of sound art within both countries. Sometimes collaborations and cross-pollination between the neighbouring countries emerge. Visitors are invited to learn about the history, present and possible future of sound art, from the perspective of Flemish-Dutch collaborations, while also looking at developments in Wallonia.
How did sound art develop in both countries? What are specific and unique traditions or trends? What historical and contemporary overlaps and collaborations are there across the border? How do we safeguard this form of art for future generations?
About Hear Here 2025
Hear Here takes you on a walking tour of sound art in Leuven. Fifteen artworks about sound or silence resound at historic Leuven heritage sites. On the occasion of KU Leuven's 600th anniversary, this edition focuses on the historical university buildings. With a map in hand, you walk from a medieval watergate past an empty school to an imposing baroque chapel. At each place, a sound installation enters into dialogue with acoustics and architecture. Historical works by great sound art pioneers as well as new creations by Belgian creators are featured. So put on your walking shoes and experience Leuven's heritage with different ears and eyes. Free and for all ages.
Made possible by STUK, FIBER, de Brakke Grond, Kunstenpunt, het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. We thank DutchCulture for their support in starting this project in 2024.