OFFBEAT Library: 4+4 Listening Sessions
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OFFBEAT Library: 4+4 Listening Sessions
Malmaison Open Doors 12
Offbeat Space, Floor 1, Room 4
14-15.11.2026
16:00-21:00
On October 6, we launched an open call for audio explorers, passionate diggers, and music enthusiasts to dive into the OFFBEAT collection and curate a 45-minute listening session at our library, as part of Malmaison Open Doors 12. Many curious and interesting people visited us, but only ten secured their slots on time by sharing their thoughts and intriguing selections.
This weekend, you’ll finally get to hear those selections come to life! We will be showcasing eight of the ten sessions, with the final two scheduled for a later date. It’s shaping up to be quite a musical marathon, but every single minute will be worth it. We’ll kick things off around 5:00 PM once everyone gathers. Come meet our wonderful participants and join their musical adventures!
Saturday, 14 Nov, 16-21
Laura Tudorică: Inner Landscapes
Teodora Mistodie
Claudiu Revnic: Kuleshov Sound Stich
Anca Tăbleț: Citizen Zero
Sunday, 15 Nov, 16-21
Mircea Laslo: Fractured Time (Timpul Dezarticulat)
Laurențiu-Cătălin Cățoiu
Andrei Bucureci
Giles Eldridge
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Saturday, 17:00
Listening Session: Laura Tudorică
Inner Landscapes
This selection is conceived as a sonic journey through the inner space we inhabit.
It moves from organic sounds and contemplative spaces toward electronic textures and hypnotic intensity.
The contrasts between the tracks reflect the ever-changing and contradictory nature of our inner world.
Art Explorer (b. 1988, Constanța) based in Bucharest since 2015. After studying Graphic Arts at the Bucharest School of Arts (2024), she is currently pursuing Glass Art at UNArte. Drawn to interdisciplinary experimentation, her interests span sound art, field recording, light art, and performance. Through space, light, sound, and texture, she investigates human nature, perception, and the expressive potential of glass.
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Saturday, 18:00
Listening Session: Teodora Mistodie
A mix fit for these cold dark autumn days, where occasional warm whimsy tangles in gloomy rhythms like a mood swing. Including mostly tracks from the 70s and 80s, the mix incorporates smooth blues, post-punk classics and modern reiterations, soundtrack snippets that help create a mood, and a touch of latin and arabic groove. It builds on an imagined narrative of highs and lows (rather than structural similarities or genre) – the mix tells a story of a night out from dusk until dawn, where themes such as mystery, longing, confusion and freedom emerge from all corners like a synthesizer.
Teodora Mistodie is an art and pop-culture enthusiast. She studied psychology and communication, used to organize cultural events as a student, and is a casual film photographer. Working corporate by day and embarking on artistic side-quests by night, she is passionate about cinema, film festivals and live music.
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Saturday, 19:00
Listening Session: Claudiu Revnic
Kuleshov Sound Stich
A cinematic track selection shaped around the idea of the Kuleshov effect. In film editing, the Kuleshov effect is when you pair two different images to create a certain impression or an emotional effect. What if the same effect can be created by sequencing tracks, ripping them from their context in a way that can generate an implied yet ambiguous narrative. A mix which plays like radio theatre, blending soundtracks with experimental music, psychedelic funk with east European synthesizers, going from Warsaw to Chennai.
Comic book writer, film fanatic, collector of random facts, who still enjoys physical media a lot more than the digital one. Got published in the Swedish comic book anthologies C’est Bon Kultur and Alt-Com and currently hosting a bi-weekly radio show on musical journeys on online station modyan.com. Holds an eclectic musical collection that spans from 90s Arabesk tapes to Polish aerobik records.
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Saturday, 20:00
Listening Session: Anca Tăbleț
Citizen Zero
Dwelling beyond time and space, Citizen Zero operates from a place of eternal beginnings and ecstatic returns, where dichotomies transmute into uncanny convergences. Guided by secret kinships and forging unexpected connections across a landscape of shapeshifting sounds, they teleport between Stockhausen and Mamman Sani, Throbbing Gristle and Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla, astrally intersecting, among others, with the sonic realms of Francis Bebey and Sun City Girls, before a temporary landing in Sharjah, where the echoes of the Praed Orchestra! can still be heard. There are no rules but the urge to move freely, no authority but one’s own unbridled joy.
Anca Tăbleț is a filmmaker and music devotee whose artistic practice focuses on the processual nature of cinema, as well as the connections and analogies between the various fields that fascinate her and which she has been exploring tenaciously: film, music & sonic research, language and its limits, in addition to Indian and African spiritual traditions (with a particular focus on possession trance).
..........................................................................................
Sunday, 17:00
Listening Session: Mircea Laslo
Fractured Time (Timpul Dezarticulat)
Music rearranges how we perceive time, shaping our inner hourglass into fantastic forms, accelerating or stretching our perception of being. I have put together a playlist meant to highlight this concrete form of magic. Here are 11 tracks that break down and reassemble seconds using different rules of calculation—works that wrestle with their own raw material, mocking it and glorifying it, until the line becomes a circle, becomes a plane, becomes a point.
Mircea Laslo has been working as a cultural journalist for numerous online and print magazines for over 20 years. He has written about music both on his personal blog (ZaRecords) and for Arctic Drones, among many other publications. Since 2025, he has been organizing monthly immersive vinyl listening sessions as part of the CONACUL events (Club for Feasts, Networking, Listening Sessions, Crafting, and Occasionally, Reading).
..........................................................................................
Sunday, 18:00
Listening Session: Laurențiu-Cătălin Cățoiu
A heavy, foggy night envelops the harbour.
A ship is ready to weigh anchor and head out to the open sea.
The crew is unsure if they will ever see their dear ones again—yet they remain brave and full of hope.
Their ship sets sail towards unexplored lands.
Days and nights through calm seas, seas with winds and waves, violent storms, loss of consciousness and faith.
Until one morning, at the break of dawn, when the horizon greets them with the gleaming line of glaciers.
The soundtrack will be based on strings incorporated into post-rock, electronic and modern classical music.
Cheia Do is a software engineer by day and, sometimes, by night, but at any moment, he has a strong connection with music. This manifests through concert going, collecting vinyls, bass guitar playing, amateur DJ-ing. He likes to explore various musical genres and subgenres that can take you through a wide range of inner states. He started playing public DJ sets almost 9 years ago in several bars and clubs around Bucharest. In 2019 he joined the instrumental electronic rock band Mars and Daemons as a bass player for 4 years. Lately, he likes to research old movies and animations and recreate the soundtrack live with vinyls from his collections, having the chance to put this idea into practice in Zadar Bar.
..........................................................................................
Sunday, 19:00
Listening Session: Andrei Bucureci
Dub music has been haunted from the very beginning. Delay brings back a sound long after its source has vanished. Reverb gives voice to a room that no longer exists, and analog echo forces the present into rebirth. I built this mix to bring light into the dark: 10 records where the past and nostalgia refuse to stay buried, and the future is never on time. The studio becomes an instrument, sound archives turn into séances, and noise lays the foundation—until the signal becomes a ghost, and the ghost becomes a transmission.
Andrei Bucureci, aka OBEAH, is a Transylvania-born artist, producer, and curator drawn to the crossroads of experimental dub, dub poetry, electronic music, Balkan futurism, and hauntology. He founded the music platform Sound of Art to Come, home to albums like Lil Obeah in Dub, Everyday Is Halloween, and JOY, made alongside Marius Costache. His latest release, Ghosts of Our Lives, created with Xqui and Cătălin Lungu, merges heavy-bass dub with memory, folklore, and cinema. Outside the studio, he crafts audiovisual installations and sound stories, such as The New New Twenties for Collage Festival 2025—a blend of century-old archival footage, sounds by Xqui, and his own spoken word, inspired by Mark Fisher, Mark Stewart, and Rodion G.A.
..........................................................................................
Sunday, 20:00
Listening Session: Giles Eldridge
The idea is for an initial minimal / glitch undertow that builds towards an Eastern rhythmic vibe without letting go of the minimal /glitch entirely. This selection therefore contains diversity within a coherent framework. I would propose to use two pickups and present this as one uninterrupted continual piece of music. It is thus not so much about beat matching and more concerned with a continual developing narrative.
Giles Eldridge is a visual artist (b.1965, Sheffield, England) and has been living and working in Bucharest since 2015. He studied Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University (1990–1993, BA Hons) and lived in London from 1995 to 2015.
His practice is concerned with various notions regarding the idea of the image. He has developed a studio-based methodology that generates a range of drawings, paintings, collage and hybrids articulated through differing registers and tropes. Exhibitions take the form of contigent assemblages of these differing images. This methodology forms the basis for activities of a performative nature.
..........................................................................................
Offbeat space is an independent music library dedicated to contemporary music and obscure sounds. Founded by Image and Sound in 2025, within the OFFBEAT program, it features a growing collection of books, films, and non-mainstream releases in analog and digital formats, alongside occasional listening, screening, and public reading sessions.
Visiting hours: Tuesday-Friday, 15-21
Address: Calea Plevnei 137C, Building B, Floor 1, Room 4
..........................................................................................
OFFBEAT is a dynamic framework for sharing experiences of rare, unconventional and underrated records, as well as the stories behind them.
https://www.instagram.com/spatiul.offbeat/
..........................................................................................
Organizer: Image and Sound
Partners: Atelierele Malmaison, SIMULTANorg, Goethe-Institut Bucuresti, MNAC Bucharest, SAC
Media partners: Revista ARTA, IQads, Revista Zeppelin, Radio România Cultural, ISCOADA
Cultural programme co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The programme does not necessarily represent the standpoint of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN cannot be held liable for the content of the programme or the manner in which the outcomes of the programme may be used. These shall devolve entirely on the beneficiary of the financing.
#offbeatlibrary #listeningsessions #imageandsound
#cofundedbyAFCN
Malmaison Open Doors 12
Offbeat Space, Floor 1, Room 4
14-15.11.2026
16:00-21:00
On October 6, we launched an open call for audio explorers, passionate diggers, and music enthusiasts to dive into the OFFBEAT collection and curate a 45-minute listening session at our library, as part of Malmaison Open Doors 12. Many curious and interesting people visited us, but only ten secured their slots on time by sharing their thoughts and intriguing selections.
This weekend, you’ll finally get to hear those selections come to life! We will be showcasing eight of the ten sessions, with the final two scheduled for a later date. It’s shaping up to be quite a musical marathon, but every single minute will be worth it. We’ll kick things off around 5:00 PM once everyone gathers. Come meet our wonderful participants and join their musical adventures!
Saturday, 14 Nov, 16-21
Laura Tudorică: Inner Landscapes
Teodora Mistodie
Claudiu Revnic: Kuleshov Sound Stich
Anca Tăbleț: Citizen Zero
Sunday, 15 Nov, 16-21
Mircea Laslo: Fractured Time (Timpul Dezarticulat)
Laurențiu-Cătălin Cățoiu
Andrei Bucureci
Giles Eldridge
..........................................................................................
Saturday, 17:00
Listening Session: Laura Tudorică
Inner Landscapes
This selection is conceived as a sonic journey through the inner space we inhabit.
It moves from organic sounds and contemplative spaces toward electronic textures and hypnotic intensity.
The contrasts between the tracks reflect the ever-changing and contradictory nature of our inner world.
Art Explorer (b. 1988, Constanța) based in Bucharest since 2015. After studying Graphic Arts at the Bucharest School of Arts (2024), she is currently pursuing Glass Art at UNArte. Drawn to interdisciplinary experimentation, her interests span sound art, field recording, light art, and performance. Through space, light, sound, and texture, she investigates human nature, perception, and the expressive potential of glass.
..........................................................................................
Saturday, 18:00
Listening Session: Teodora Mistodie
A mix fit for these cold dark autumn days, where occasional warm whimsy tangles in gloomy rhythms like a mood swing. Including mostly tracks from the 70s and 80s, the mix incorporates smooth blues, post-punk classics and modern reiterations, soundtrack snippets that help create a mood, and a touch of latin and arabic groove. It builds on an imagined narrative of highs and lows (rather than structural similarities or genre) – the mix tells a story of a night out from dusk until dawn, where themes such as mystery, longing, confusion and freedom emerge from all corners like a synthesizer.
Teodora Mistodie is an art and pop-culture enthusiast. She studied psychology and communication, used to organize cultural events as a student, and is a casual film photographer. Working corporate by day and embarking on artistic side-quests by night, she is passionate about cinema, film festivals and live music.
..........................................................................................
Saturday, 19:00
Listening Session: Claudiu Revnic
Kuleshov Sound Stich
A cinematic track selection shaped around the idea of the Kuleshov effect. In film editing, the Kuleshov effect is when you pair two different images to create a certain impression or an emotional effect. What if the same effect can be created by sequencing tracks, ripping them from their context in a way that can generate an implied yet ambiguous narrative. A mix which plays like radio theatre, blending soundtracks with experimental music, psychedelic funk with east European synthesizers, going from Warsaw to Chennai.
Comic book writer, film fanatic, collector of random facts, who still enjoys physical media a lot more than the digital one. Got published in the Swedish comic book anthologies C’est Bon Kultur and Alt-Com and currently hosting a bi-weekly radio show on musical journeys on online station modyan.com. Holds an eclectic musical collection that spans from 90s Arabesk tapes to Polish aerobik records.
..........................................................................................
Saturday, 20:00
Listening Session: Anca Tăbleț
Citizen Zero
Dwelling beyond time and space, Citizen Zero operates from a place of eternal beginnings and ecstatic returns, where dichotomies transmute into uncanny convergences. Guided by secret kinships and forging unexpected connections across a landscape of shapeshifting sounds, they teleport between Stockhausen and Mamman Sani, Throbbing Gristle and Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla, astrally intersecting, among others, with the sonic realms of Francis Bebey and Sun City Girls, before a temporary landing in Sharjah, where the echoes of the Praed Orchestra! can still be heard. There are no rules but the urge to move freely, no authority but one’s own unbridled joy.
Anca Tăbleț is a filmmaker and music devotee whose artistic practice focuses on the processual nature of cinema, as well as the connections and analogies between the various fields that fascinate her and which she has been exploring tenaciously: film, music & sonic research, language and its limits, in addition to Indian and African spiritual traditions (with a particular focus on possession trance).
..........................................................................................
Sunday, 17:00
Listening Session: Mircea Laslo
Fractured Time (Timpul Dezarticulat)
Music rearranges how we perceive time, shaping our inner hourglass into fantastic forms, accelerating or stretching our perception of being. I have put together a playlist meant to highlight this concrete form of magic. Here are 11 tracks that break down and reassemble seconds using different rules of calculation—works that wrestle with their own raw material, mocking it and glorifying it, until the line becomes a circle, becomes a plane, becomes a point.
Mircea Laslo has been working as a cultural journalist for numerous online and print magazines for over 20 years. He has written about music both on his personal blog (ZaRecords) and for Arctic Drones, among many other publications. Since 2025, he has been organizing monthly immersive vinyl listening sessions as part of the CONACUL events (Club for Feasts, Networking, Listening Sessions, Crafting, and Occasionally, Reading).
..........................................................................................
Sunday, 18:00
Listening Session: Laurențiu-Cătălin Cățoiu
A heavy, foggy night envelops the harbour.
A ship is ready to weigh anchor and head out to the open sea.
The crew is unsure if they will ever see their dear ones again—yet they remain brave and full of hope.
Their ship sets sail towards unexplored lands.
Days and nights through calm seas, seas with winds and waves, violent storms, loss of consciousness and faith.
Until one morning, at the break of dawn, when the horizon greets them with the gleaming line of glaciers.
The soundtrack will be based on strings incorporated into post-rock, electronic and modern classical music.
Cheia Do is a software engineer by day and, sometimes, by night, but at any moment, he has a strong connection with music. This manifests through concert going, collecting vinyls, bass guitar playing, amateur DJ-ing. He likes to explore various musical genres and subgenres that can take you through a wide range of inner states. He started playing public DJ sets almost 9 years ago in several bars and clubs around Bucharest. In 2019 he joined the instrumental electronic rock band Mars and Daemons as a bass player for 4 years. Lately, he likes to research old movies and animations and recreate the soundtrack live with vinyls from his collections, having the chance to put this idea into practice in Zadar Bar.
..........................................................................................
Sunday, 19:00
Listening Session: Andrei Bucureci
Dub music has been haunted from the very beginning. Delay brings back a sound long after its source has vanished. Reverb gives voice to a room that no longer exists, and analog echo forces the present into rebirth. I built this mix to bring light into the dark: 10 records where the past and nostalgia refuse to stay buried, and the future is never on time. The studio becomes an instrument, sound archives turn into séances, and noise lays the foundation—until the signal becomes a ghost, and the ghost becomes a transmission.
Andrei Bucureci, aka OBEAH, is a Transylvania-born artist, producer, and curator drawn to the crossroads of experimental dub, dub poetry, electronic music, Balkan futurism, and hauntology. He founded the music platform Sound of Art to Come, home to albums like Lil Obeah in Dub, Everyday Is Halloween, and JOY, made alongside Marius Costache. His latest release, Ghosts of Our Lives, created with Xqui and Cătălin Lungu, merges heavy-bass dub with memory, folklore, and cinema. Outside the studio, he crafts audiovisual installations and sound stories, such as The New New Twenties for Collage Festival 2025—a blend of century-old archival footage, sounds by Xqui, and his own spoken word, inspired by Mark Fisher, Mark Stewart, and Rodion G.A.
..........................................................................................
Sunday, 20:00
Listening Session: Giles Eldridge
The idea is for an initial minimal / glitch undertow that builds towards an Eastern rhythmic vibe without letting go of the minimal /glitch entirely. This selection therefore contains diversity within a coherent framework. I would propose to use two pickups and present this as one uninterrupted continual piece of music. It is thus not so much about beat matching and more concerned with a continual developing narrative.
Giles Eldridge is a visual artist (b.1965, Sheffield, England) and has been living and working in Bucharest since 2015. He studied Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University (1990–1993, BA Hons) and lived in London from 1995 to 2015.
His practice is concerned with various notions regarding the idea of the image. He has developed a studio-based methodology that generates a range of drawings, paintings, collage and hybrids articulated through differing registers and tropes. Exhibitions take the form of contigent assemblages of these differing images. This methodology forms the basis for activities of a performative nature.
..........................................................................................
Offbeat space is an independent music library dedicated to contemporary music and obscure sounds. Founded by Image and Sound in 2025, within the OFFBEAT program, it features a growing collection of books, films, and non-mainstream releases in analog and digital formats, alongside occasional listening, screening, and public reading sessions.
Visiting hours: Tuesday-Friday, 15-21
Address: Calea Plevnei 137C, Building B, Floor 1, Room 4
..........................................................................................
OFFBEAT is a dynamic framework for sharing experiences of rare, unconventional and underrated records, as well as the stories behind them.
https://www.instagram.com/spatiul.offbeat/
..........................................................................................
Organizer: Image and Sound
Partners: Atelierele Malmaison, SIMULTANorg, Goethe-Institut Bucuresti, MNAC Bucharest, SAC
Media partners: Revista ARTA, IQads, Revista Zeppelin, Radio România Cultural, ISCOADA
Cultural programme co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The programme does not necessarily represent the standpoint of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN cannot be held liable for the content of the programme or the manner in which the outcomes of the programme may be used. These shall devolve entirely on the beneficiary of the financing.
#offbeatlibrary #listeningsessions #imageandsound
#cofundedbyAFCN
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