
IV25: Echoes of Dissent (Vol. 7): Fred Moten & Brandon López, Zara Joan Miller & Ute Kanngießer + talk
In vitro #25
Echoes of Dissent (Vol. 7)
On Tuesday, April 29, we present our second collaboration with Stoffel Debuysere as part of the research project Echoes of Dissent, exploring the intersection of politics, aesthetics, and sound. This edition focuses on the duality of voices within the organisation of language and sound—its morphology, juxtaposition, and ephemeral relation within improvisational music practices.
Cultural theorist and poet Fred Moten will present a duo performance with renowned bassist and improviser Brandon López. Moten’s words lead—lyrically, timbrally, poetically—while the bass loosens the grammar, creating associative inflections that elevate the raw sound of each player constantly evolving, repeating, stretching, and expanding. Together with drummer Gerald Cleaver, they have released two remarkable albums and their first duo recording is set to be released in April on TAO Forms. Their performance will be preceded by an extended conversation at Pianofabriek.
Zara Joan Miller and Ute Kanngießer take a different approach—a performance that hovers between reading, concert, and mixed media. Highlighting their new live collaboration Year of the Dragon, they explore the edges of motherhood, feeding fire, dousing, and soft loving. Miller’s fragmentary spoken word pieces and sound poetry intersect with Kanngießer’s searching, textural cello. Their previous collaboration, Blue Monday—recorded live at London’s Café Oto—was released as an LP on Reading Group in 2023.
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In the context of the research project Echoes of Dissent (KASK & Conservatory / School of Arts Gent), in collaboration with In vitro.
With the support of the Flemish Government, Flanders State of the Art, KU Leuven Commission for Contemporary Art and The Royal Conservatory of Brussels (EhB).
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20h00 Performance at Les Ateliers Claus
Entrance: €12
Preceded by
14h00 Talk with Fred Moten and Brandon López at Pianofabriek
(*An extended conversation about their thought and practice, music and language, improvisation and politics, jazz and study)
Entrance: Free