Step into our Soundlab: an open space to explore, experiment, and play. Each concert in our LAB-SERIES features a new installation waiting to be discovered and tested—by you!
Provided by Logos Foundation, a professional research and production center for experimental music, musical robotics and audio art.
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soundlab #1: palaver
Palaver is an installation with a microphone, a computer and organ robots. Speak, sing or whisper into the mic – and hear your voice transformed into organ sounds.
when & where:
Studio 2 at Flagey, during the Barely Minimal concert night
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electronics & the voice
The microphone picks up your voice, while a computer analyses its spectrum in real time. The techniques behind Palaver – spectrum analysis and timbre manipulation – are well known in contemporary vocal music. This sound lab playfully nods to the concert Barely Minimal: a journey through minimal music, with electronics and the human voice at its core.
Palaver is an installation by Logos Foundation (robot builders: Godfried-Willem Raes; interactive application: Hans Roels & Kristof Lauwers).
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discover Palaver before and after the concert BARELY MINIMAL
∙ 19:00 Soundlab: Palaver - interactive musical installations (Logos Foundation)
∙ 19:00 Score Safari: live music set Ictus presents Parallels (Tristan Perich)
∙ 19:30 introduction (EN)
∙ 20:15 concert (without intermission - end approx. 21:30)
∙ 21:45 BruPhil Café: aftertalk with Ilan Volkov (EN)
Barely Minimal · 04.10.2025 · Brussels Philharmonic LAB @ Flagey
Music stripped to its essence—where sound meets silence, and silence becomes sound. In a world full of noise, minimalism creates space for stillness, and that’s where its power lies.
With this programme, Ilan Volkov questions the idea of ‘minimal’: what do we label as such, and what else—seen from another angle—might also be considered minimal? An experimental evening with electronics and voice as key elements.
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Score Safari: Ictus
musical pop-up with live electronics: Ictus with Tristan Perich’s Parallels before the concert Barely Minimal
