1 NADAR ENSEMBLE

“Fabric of Sorrow” by Golnaz Shariatzadeh, for calrinet, flute, cello, electronics and animation.

“Generation Kill Offspring #2” by Stefan Prins, featuring game controller and live video.

Adventure, interdisciplinarity and above all a strong and critical contact with today’s world through a.o. the use of new technologies. These are some of the main objectives for the Nadar Ensemble and what we hope to share with Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910), whose pseudonym was Nadar. He was not only a well-known photographer, balloonist, caricaturist, spy, art critic and curator, but he also regularly organized informal “salons” to which he invited artists, thinkers, writers and scientists, thus creating a true cross-disciplinary dialogue. 

Since our 21st century is pluriform, multi- and transmedial, and is more and more inhabited by digital natives and a networked generation Nadar Ensemble is not only fascinated by contemporary music, but also by film, visual arts, performance, theatre, installation art and all that is contained – or not – by these categories. The Nadar Ensemble wishes to develop forms of musical presentation that reflect this world, in an attempt to anchor new music more strongly in today’s world.

Katrien Gaelens, flute
Wannes Gonnissen, sound
Robin Goossens, business manager
Pieter Matthynssens, cello artistic director
Dries Tack, clarinet, game controller
Kobe Wens, video Generation Kill Offspring #2
Veerle Vervoort, production manager

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2 REBEL UP SEBCAT

Rebel Up has become a household name in the world of underground global music in Brussels, Amsterdam, allover Belgium & The Netherlands and beyond.

Their sets and party nights are a global and political culture mash of global sounds spiced with contemporary urban & bass sounds with traditional ethnic reflections from all corners of the world. The cultural diaspora does not need to be defined by borders.

For more than 15 years, Rebel Up is a DJ collective of global, groovy, organic and electronic music from all over the world. With concerts & parties in Brussels, the aim of Rebel Up is to spread sounds from the global underground, youth movements, social and political music styles to dancefloors allover. Rebel Up features regularly on numerous Belgian and international festivals. Since 2017 Rebel Up became a record label for contemporary artists from Brussels & allover the globe. The collective and record label is run by busy bee SebCat, who also hosts various radio shows & sessions on Radio Campus Bruxelles, BRUZZ and Kiosk Radio.