A Laposte & M Guldentops + Younes Zarhoni + Edgy Palates & Mike McCormick

{VOICE|(f)ACTOR} : Accou Laposte & Marjolein Guldentops + Younes Zarhoni presents Sība + Edgy Palates & Mike McCormick presents Manipulation Charm

Music on a Whim invites you to Voice Factor - an event dedicated to the expressive and experimental potential of the human voice, both embodied and digitised. Through live improvisation and bold performance, the show highlights artists who use voice as an instrument of immediacy, emotion, and invention.

Any resemblance or reference to artists, dead or alive, is entirely coincidental and should be taken in a spirit of tongue-in-cheek play.

Address – MILL , Gabrielle Petitstraat 4, 1080, Bruxelles

Doors – 7 30pm

Tickets – 11 euros pre-sales (plus booking fees); 14 euros on the door

Marjolein Guldentops & Accou Laposte – Poetics / Electronics / Storytelling

Marjolein Guldentops and Accou Laposte collaborate at the intersection of language and sound, weaving soundscapes with embodied performance and urban poetics. Their joint practice explores how systems shape and distort memory, identity, and perception, creating experiences where language dissolves into melody and rhythm becomes a form of storytelling.

https://www.accou.net/

https://www.marjoleinguldentops.com/

Younes Zarhoni presents Sība – Autotune/ Raï and (t)rap / Futuristic

In his latest project, Sība, Younes Zarhoni isolates Auto-Tuned vocals from (Arab)pop, rai, and (t)rap, stripping away all instrumentation and context to reshape them into minimalist, futuristic arrangements. The voices, slowed and severed from their linguistic roots, lose their meaning and become enigmatic sound. He deconstructs chart and dance music, rebuilding it as quadraphonic lento compositions, punctuated by silence and digital instrumental interludes, faintly echoing musique (non)concrete.

Younes Zarhoni, Antwerp-born and Brussels-based, is a sound and visual artist exploring polyphonic vocals, electronics, dance music, and installations. He has released vinyl on labels including KRAAK (2024) and Lexidisque (2016), and his work has been presented recently at venues such as Triennale Design Museum Milano, Ictus, Cave 12, Skissernas Museum, and UH Fest

Edgy Palates & Mike McCormick presents Manipulation Charm Improv/Supercollider/Noise

Edgy Palates is a Lithuanian experimental vocal trio featuring composers Dainora Aleksaitė, Jūra Elena Šedytė, and Ieva Parnarauskaitė. Known for their bold approach to vocal expression, they create and perform original compositions and free improvisation programs. Mike McCormick (he/him) is an artist and programmer working with sound, text, and visual media.

Manipulation Charm is a delicate and meticulous mix of subtle melodies and unexpected vocal sounds that is gently and carefully captured on stage, created here and now by Dainora Aleksaitė, Ieva Parnarauskaitė, and Jūra Elena Šedytė, and transformed by Mike McCormick’s software system written in the SuperCollider programming language. Mike, like a modern alchemist, processes the music created by Edgy Palates by passing it through a matrix of modules.

Artwork by Harsh Agarwal