Bureau Doove

Bureau Doove is extremely pleased to announce our collaboration with Guy Vandromme as consultant, coordinator and curator of his ongoing and future projects.

We are especially excited about his transdisciplinary collaborative research in music and sound which not only resonates with the setup of our consultancy but also adds a new dimension to our activities.

Guy Vandromme (1968) is a Belgian pianist/conductor, artistic producer and curator, who’s working within the fields of new music, opera and music theatre, dance and contemporary art. His main focus is to review the boundaries of new listening formats, collaborating and going into dialogue with contemporary artists, exploring scores of forgotten music and continuously searching for new transdisciplinary artforms. 

Professionally active in the arts since the 1990’s Guy Vandromme was a co-founder of Q-O2 and the HERMESensembles, led the programming of the Klankfabriek and Klankenstroom festivals, was classical music programmer at deSingel and responsible for the classical music section during Bruges, European Capital of Culture 2002. Since 2019 he directs the Talklang Festival in South Tyrol.

Next to his aim of presenting forgotten music of artists such as the inventor/composer George Antheil, the mathematician Herman Van San, the original setting of Les nuits d’été of Berlioz, the work of Stefan Wolpe and Erich Itor Kahn or the underestimated fabulous works of late renaissance composer Tobias Hume, Vandromme was more recently very much involved in the collaboration with choreographers/dancers such as Raimund Hoghe, Isabella Soupart, Johanna Willig Rosenstein and Emma Ribbing, mostly reviewing the role of the musical dramaturgy in works like Le Sacre, La Valse, Stretch Timemonochromes and Silence. 

• Timemonochrome Tables with Frederik Donche, Fondation Blan, Brussels, September 2023

In addition to contemporary music, Vandromme’s activities focus on the performance of remarkable works for music theatre, on work with vocal and textual settings, on the dialogue between old and new music and on the sonic cartography worldwide.

With his organisation ACT2 he examines the full spectrum of music creation and music presentation through research on musical performance practice. 

• Timemonochromes,

Upcoming are:

• Kleuren met tijd / Colouring with time – a new composition by Eva-Maria Houben and Guy Vandromme forms the starting point for a music session. Anyone can participate in this project. No prior musical knowledge is required. Saturday 21.09.2024 from 10am — 4pm at Sint-Pieterskerk, Dorp 31, Testelt (Scherpenheuvel-Zichem).
• Talklang festival – 3 to 6 October 2024 edition

Bureau Doove looks forward to accompanying Guy Vandromme in the continuation of his practice and the development of new projects and collaborations.

Find more info on his work and ACT2 on his dedicated page here.