TECTONICS FESTIVAL DAY 1 : INTERFERENCE
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JUNE 19
22:00, STUDIO 1
PAK YAN LAU / STRECKER / ICTUS
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL : TECTONICS is a boundary-pushing festival for new and experimental music, launched in 2012 by conductor Ilan Volkov, a true musical omnivore with an insatiable curiosity and wide-ranging taste. Since then, it has grown into one of the world’s most eclectic and highly regarded festivals for those drawn to new sounds, bold experiments, and music that ventures beyond the expected. In June 2026, the Brussels Philharmonic and Ictus bring Tectonics to Brussels for the first time, taking over Flagey for two packed and compelling days.
ABOUT INTERFERENCE : Pak Yan Lau has over the years established a captivating sound universe including prepared pianos, toy pianos, synths, electronics and various sound objects into which she invites percussionist Anita Cappuccinelli (Ictus, TUUM) to bring in her manifold sonic agencies and specialities.
Improvised music is necessarily spontaneous, and at the same time it is built on a background of personal experience, thought, experiment and aesthetic preferences.
With an attitude of careful openness, they collaboratively search for the unpredictable, for whatever is endlessly variable, for a music without history, for the emergence of new atmospheres.
This improvisational moment is framed with two pieces by Leonie Strecker, Interference (with Dirk Descheemaeker on bass clarinet) and chroma accuracy, in which she sounds out notions of presence, absence and the connections of memory and experience. Both pieces work with interference tones and phenomena of sonic displacement, whereby rhythmic elements are at the foreground in chroma accuracy and the space that arises between two or more sounds is central in Interference.
Programme
Leonie Strecker, Interference (2025)
Pak Yan Lau & Anita Cappuccinelli Duet
Leonie Strecker, Chroma Accuracy (2025)
Artists
Pak Yan Lau, prepared piano
Leonie Strecker, electronics
Ictus:
Anita Cappuccinelli, percussion
Dirk Descheemaeker, bass clarinet
Alexandre Fostier, sound
Image ©Candrea Messana
22:00, STUDIO 1
PAK YAN LAU / STRECKER / ICTUS
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL : TECTONICS is a boundary-pushing festival for new and experimental music, launched in 2012 by conductor Ilan Volkov, a true musical omnivore with an insatiable curiosity and wide-ranging taste. Since then, it has grown into one of the world’s most eclectic and highly regarded festivals for those drawn to new sounds, bold experiments, and music that ventures beyond the expected. In June 2026, the Brussels Philharmonic and Ictus bring Tectonics to Brussels for the first time, taking over Flagey for two packed and compelling days.
ABOUT INTERFERENCE : Pak Yan Lau has over the years established a captivating sound universe including prepared pianos, toy pianos, synths, electronics and various sound objects into which she invites percussionist Anita Cappuccinelli (Ictus, TUUM) to bring in her manifold sonic agencies and specialities.
Improvised music is necessarily spontaneous, and at the same time it is built on a background of personal experience, thought, experiment and aesthetic preferences.
With an attitude of careful openness, they collaboratively search for the unpredictable, for whatever is endlessly variable, for a music without history, for the emergence of new atmospheres.
This improvisational moment is framed with two pieces by Leonie Strecker, Interference (with Dirk Descheemaeker on bass clarinet) and chroma accuracy, in which she sounds out notions of presence, absence and the connections of memory and experience. Both pieces work with interference tones and phenomena of sonic displacement, whereby rhythmic elements are at the foreground in chroma accuracy and the space that arises between two or more sounds is central in Interference.
Programme
Leonie Strecker, Interference (2025)
Pak Yan Lau & Anita Cappuccinelli Duet
Leonie Strecker, Chroma Accuracy (2025)
Artists
Pak Yan Lau, prepared piano
Leonie Strecker, electronics
Ictus:
Anita Cappuccinelli, percussion
Dirk Descheemaeker, bass clarinet
Alexandre Fostier, sound
Image ©Candrea Messana
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