Everybody Lives Here is a performance by sound artist Stijn Demeulenaere and The Third Guy (percussionist Ruben Orio and guitarist Primož Sukič). In the performance, the trio searches for the aural identity of the places in which they perform: they explore the sound of spaces and places by adding their own sound to it. Field recordings and musical instruments interact with the natural sound environment of the place. Through real-time interaction, the performers create layers of sound, which inter-act with each other: a multiple discourse of sound emerges, bound in time and space. In the interaction between the three performers and the audience, a sound environment is created that explores the sonic essence of places: their acoustics, their soundscape and listening, by the audience and by the artists.
Musica invites the trio to create a special version of Everybody Lives Here during OORtreders 2024: a performance for and with Het Klankenbos. Facing the screen of a slowly changing landscape; the audience, seated at its edge, is invited to actively listen to the change of forest and city, and observe how we as humans move through this auditory interval.
Everybody Lives Here is a production by Kunstenwerkplaats, in co-production with Musica Impulscentrum, Wilde Westen and C-TAKT, in collaboration with De Grote Post, KONTEJNER (HR), Zavod Sploh (SI), SMOG and GMEA (FR), supported by the Flemish Community and the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region.
With the help of Karlien Vanhoonacker, Eva Welkenhuyzen, Lieve Demin, Tom De Cock, Viktor De Greef, Stijn Boeve, Davorka Begović, Daniel Demoustier, Ioana Mandrescu, Hugo Bergs, Frédéric Van de Velde, Sam Serruys, Tomaž Grom, Clara Levy, Lore Sommereyns, Roosje Mestdagh, and the various teams from Kunstenwerkplaats, C-TAKT, Musica, De Grote Post, Wilde Westen, Zavod Sploh, SMOG and GMEA.
