Q-02 iMAL | Lecture + Listening Session | HIFI to LOFI Continuum | Brussels (BE)

HIFI to LOFI Continuum is an artist talk, conversation and listening session that takes a (metaphorical) dive into an old dumpster to uncover the material politic of Music (and sound) and its predominant role within throw-away culture. The event traces out aspects of music’s material entanglements with humans and ecology by exploring the artist’s archive of experimental ‘how-to’ videos and her media archeological takes on the technology she finds in the garbage.

While eating popcorn and testing out a demo or two we will look into the artistic research findings of High Fidelity Wasteland, the artist’s sound-centric trilogy that experiments with the material waste left over from generations of decomposing sound reproduction technology. HIFI to LOFI Continuum culminates in a field trip to the iMAL exhibition Fin et début / Einde en begin for a listening session within High Fidelity Wasteland II: Protoplastic Groove — is an immersive sound installation consisting of a modified 1950s era record player that devolves the audible timescale of music from the past.