KANAL Tours | Lisa Matthys + Ictus

The Museum of Innocence
Lisa Matthys

What do children see when they hear the word ‘museum’? What do concepts like art, collection and beauty mean to them? Lisa Matthys put these questions to the pupils of De Droomboom Elementary School in Laeken. The outcome of this participatory project builds towards a collection: not a physical collection, but a collection you can experience through a soundscape of children’s voices. The multi-speaker installation, which was created with sound artist Arno Boey, is an integral part of the tour. It quite literally lets you hear how kids from Brussels envision their future, imaginary museum. The soundscape mingles voices, sounds, noises and wishes as they point towards a chalk floor plan outlining the children’s dream museum.

As Found – Percussion Pieces
Ictus

Musicians from Ictus provide an adventurous confrontation between architecture, music and sound. At an intersection, a street musician plays a duet with his boombox. The sound of aluminium rods blends with his voice, saxophone and accordion. Voices sounding in the distances gradually form harmonies. The melody is construed and amplified by the acoustic potential of the large space, but also by your own hearing.

Credits

Maris Pajuste: voice, aluminium rod
Nele Tiebout: saxophone (with boombox), aluminium rod
Luca Piovesan: accordeon, aluminium rod
Featuring work by Jacob ter Veldhuis and Gert Aertsen
Coproduction: KANAL-Centre Pompidou

First weekend on the occasion of the Brussels Heritage Days