​What happens when two ensembles driven by curiosity collide? Ensemble Fractales and Sweden’s Curious Chamber Players join forces to explore new sonic landscapes, bending, stretching, and reimagining what music can be. This playful programme features works by Malin Bång and Rei Munakata — CCP regulars — alongside Pierre Slinckx and Jinwook Jung, familiar faces in the Brussels scene.

In this concert, the two ensembles join forces to explore music as something shaped, built, and assembled with the care of a maker. In F#2, Pierre Slinckx sculpts the quirky, rhythmic world of the Casio keyboard with the same hands-on curiosity that has long guided his fusion of electronic and acoustic instruments. Rei Munakata turns to everyday objects, where the scrape of a surface or the tap of a found item becomes part of a finely woven sound-texture, highlighting music as something crafted in the moment. Malin Bång, in structures of molten light, chisels fragments of city noise into intricate instrumental detail, transforming the fleeting grit of urban life into a staged, hand-shaped world. And Jinwook Jung offers a contemporary reimagining of the myth of the Lotus-Eaters from Homer’s Odyssey, where sound and bodily movement intertwine to evoke themes of forgetting, suspended time, and sensory addiction—a work that feels carved out of myth itself, yet shaped in the immediacy of performance.

The event kicks off at 14:00 inside the museum (museum ticket required), where musicians will be scattered among the historic instrument collection, offering short live “sneak previews” of what’s to come. Then, in the concert hall at 15:00 (free!), the two ensembles join forces to perform all four works in full — an open, adventurous evening of shared discovery.

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Programme: 

Jinwook Jung, La petite folie des Lotophages

Rei Munakata, new work

Pierre Slinckx, F#2

Malin Bång, structures of molten light