Le Guess Who? - festival

organisatie. Le Guess Who

Carme López

Friday 19:15 - 19:55 Pieterskerk

You don’t often hear ominous droney landscapes coming from traditional instruments. In the specific case of Carme López, Galician bagpipes move through a totally unknown field, disconnected from traditional music to decontextualize it and create a personal approach regarding gender perspective (abandoning the association of prestige between the instrument and the male gender). Influenced by Éliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros and Kali Malone, the performer (and researcher in the field of Galician oral tradition music) explores the rich sound texture of the instrument, taking improvisation and randomness as compositional ideas, and creating slowly modulating sound environments, stretching the sound possibilities of the bagpipe to its absolute limit.

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Raven Chacon

Friday 21:15 - 22:00 Pieterskerk

Across 24 years, sound and multimedia artist Raven Chacon has built an extraordinary body of work, appearing in over eighty solo and collaborative appearances, including with the influential collective Postcommodity. His deep research on noise textures and dissonance bridges contemporary classical music composition and installation art, often serving as sonic testimonies for Navajo resistance and collective resilience. Apart from his several performances in art spaces across the globe, he is also a committed educator with his role as senior composer mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP). At Le Guess Who? 2025, Chacon presents a noise performance, expressing a tapestry of sound through a minimal setup made of tape play, effect pedals and layered field recordings.

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