Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

With the arrival of CDs and mp3s, the glory days audio cassettes seem well behind us. However, old, self-made tapes remain a must-have for many a music lover. Pianist Heleen Van Haegenborgh, up-and-coming drummer Lander Gyselicnk, double bass player Kristof Roseeuw and electronica artist Jürgen De Blonde, a.k.a. Köhn still cherish the magic of the audiotape.

For their Cinéma Invisible project, Van Haegenborgh and her colleagues work with old audiotapes from the archive of visual artist Jasper Rigole. His ‘International Institute for The Conservation, Archiving and Distribution of Other people’s Memories’ is a continuously expanding multimedia archive of found private documents.

For Cinéma Invisible, the musicians work with private recordings of, for example, a holiday. They create an audio drama, a film without pictures, where the audio material forms the basis for the musical improvisation. The musicians focus on the relation between text, music and silence as well as on the images that these convey. Visual artist Kelly Schacht takes care of the set design.