With RESPIRIA! Valentina Magaletti has created a sound work for Kanal's opening weekend, inspired by the Brabançonne. The composition from 1830 becomes the starting point for a new and collective listening experience. Rather than reproducing the Belgian national anthem, the work deconstructs it and reimagines it through a queer lens.
- As part of
- Protocols for opening the museum
- Date
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- Location
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Place Kanal
- Noise level
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Level 3 ≤ 100 db
- Timing
- The 10-minute sound composition plays every two hours, on the hour, at 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00, 18:00 and 20:00
- Location
- Square Kanal
In the central square of Kanal, a pre-recorded composition plays through a spatial arrangement of four loudspeakers, weaving together contrabass flutes, breath sounds and percussive interventions. Over ten minutes, an immersive sonic landscape unfolds in which breath, rhythm and sound merge into a collective ritual.
Rooted in the ancient connection between breathing and rhythm, RESPIRIA! approaches sound-making as a shared and accessible act. The national anthem is no longer a closed composition but an open, collective experience.
This commission forms part of How to open, the first year of Protocols for opening the museum, a three-year inquiry into what it means for a new museum in Brussels to be truly open, welcoming and public.
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Credits and bios
- Written, composed and performed by
- Produced and ingineered by
- Contrabass Flute by
