For the sixth edition of its Autumn Waves Festival, the Belgian Federation for Electroacoustic Music invites you to four exciting evenings of sound creation, featuring a rich aesthetic diversity: electroacoustic and acousmatic music, improvisations, video music, new musical interfaces, live electronics and mixed music, with percussion, saxophone and Butoh dance. An immersive experience, performed on a large orchestra of loudspeakers, the acousmonium, which stimulates the senses and gives a prominent place to Belgian composers, see the full programme below.
With a spotlight, not to be missed, on the winners of the Prix CIME 2025, the oldest international competition for electroacoustic music, on China, which hosted the CIME General Assembly in Hangzhou this autumn, and on the duo Mathieu Chamagne & Lê Quan Ninh. The programme will also feature gems from the repertoire, some dating back to the 1950s and 1960s, with György Ligeti, Jean-Claude Risset and Luciano Berio, as well as more recent works by François Bayle, David Berezan, Ambrose Seddon and Christian Zanési.
Most works will be spatialized by their composers, additional spatializations by Roald Baudoux, Sophie Delafontaine, Stéphanie Laforce, Julien Guillamat, Thibault Madeline, Vincent Simionovici & Todor Todoroff.
Finally, sound installations and a Max Meetup, dedicated to the use of Max software, will be offered free of charge.
December 4-7 : Sound Installations
Opening each day one hour before the first concert, free entrance.
- Stéphanie Laforce
PARLOPHONE Ecouter la ville autrement… (interactive, 2025)
- Dirk Veulemans
Loudspeaker Whistles (2025)
Thursday, 4th of December 2025, 20:00 : Concert 1
| Duo Mathieu Chamagne – Lê Quan Ninh | New musical interfaces, live electronics and percussion, free improvisation ** | 2025 | 45’00 |
| I N T E R M I S S I O N | |||
| Julien Guillamat | Altitudes | 2024 | 12’54 |
| Ambrose Seddon (repertoire) | The Nowness of Everything * | 2009 | 13’13 |
| Luciano Berio (repertoire) | Thema – Omaggio a Joyce | 1969 | 06’08 |
| François Bayle (repertoire) | Nuit noire | 1982 | 04’38 |
| Maggie Qi Mengjie (CIME / EMAC, China) | Songs in the Valley * | 2017 | 06’52 |
Friday, 5th of December 2025, 20:00 : Concert 2
| Roald Baudoux | Title to be determined (live, free improvisation) ** | 2025 | 15’00 |
| Simon Lehmans | Pink Hole (WIP) ** | 2025 | 10’00 |
| Jean-Claude Risset (repertoire) | Mutations | 1969 | 10’29 |
| Bihe Wen (CIME / EMAC, Chine) | Atmo- * | 2020 | 09’28 |
| I N T E R M I S S I O N | |||
| Eve Aboulkheir | Vénus Road | ??? | 18’48 |
| Giulia Rae | Flow States #4 | ??? | 10’08 |
| Nikos Stavropoulos (Prix CIME / UK) | Par une belle fin d’après-midi | 2024 | 08’20 |
| David Berezan (repertoire) | Cyclo | 2003 | 10’41 |
Saturday, 6th of December 2025, 19:00 : Concert 3
| Dirk Veulemans | De Zandman (remix 2025) | 2007-2025 | 09’00 |
| Clément Parmentier | Deconstruction | 2025 | 10’17 |
| Antoine Habiyambere | Ikibazo | 2024 | 12’28 |
| I N T E R M I S S I O N | |||
| Elizabeth Anderson | Helios & Selene (part 1) | 2024 | 11’14 |
| Vincent Simionovici | Title to be determined ** | 2025 | 09’00 |
| Daniel Perez Hajdu | Prologue pour une image | 2010 | 12’23 |
Saturday, 6th of December 2025, 21:00 : Concert 4
| Bruno Abt | 3 Visions sereines – Serpent | 2014 | 08’52 |
| György Ligeti (repertoire) | Artikulation (with Rainer Wehinger’s listening score) | 1958 | 03’52 |
| Panayiotis Kokoras (CIME / CEMI, USA) | Useless Box (video) * | 2023 | 13’00 |
| Xiafu Zhang (CIME / EMAC, China) | Visages peints dans les Opéras de Pékin II (video) | 2008-2019 | 13’53 |
| I N T E R M I S S I O N | |||
| Dimitri Coppe | mountain of disbelief (video) | 2024 | 18’00 |
| Stéphanie Laforce | Peyresq – The sound of the wind (video) | 2025 | 10’00 |
| Nahuel Eduardo Litwin (Prix CIME / Argentina) | Cuento de Pulgas (video) * | 2023 | 09’22 |
Sunday, 7th of December 2025, 13:00-17:00 : Max Meetup
The second edition of meetings organized in Brussels around the Max software. Free entrance.
Sunday, 7th of December 2025, 19:00 : Concert 5
| Loïse Bulot (Prix CIME / France) | Blooms | 2025 | 16’33 |
| Joris De Laet | Transcendentia | 2024-25 | 11’00 |
| Todor Todoroff | Title to be determined ** | 2025 | 11’00 |
| Wim Daeleman | Water (rev. 2025) | 2021-2025 | 08’52 |
| I N T E R M I S S I O N | |||
| Jean-Pierre Jonckheere with Frédéric Williaume (saxophone) and Yuri Matsumaru (Butoh dance) | L’homme assis devant sa porte | 2025 | 07’12 |
| Gaza | 2025 | 03’10 | |
| En route vers chez Joseph | 2025 | 03’34 | |
| Congo ** | 2025 | 06’32 | |
| Laryssa Kim | Mfinda | 2025 | 11’06 |
| Christian Zanési (repertoire) | Les mots de Stockhausen | 2021 | 16’33 |
* Belgian premiere
Address : Project(ion) Room, Rue de Praetere 55 – 1180 Uccle
Website : www.projection-room.be
Tickets :
– Each concert on December 4, 5 and 7: 12 € (6 €*)
– Both concerts on December 6 : 18 € (9 €*)
– Festival Pass 30 € (15 €*)
* Reduced price for students, unemployed and BeFEM members.