The Media Centre [i]
9pm

“In music I like the word ‘play’, as when kids play. I don’t know how to put it... It’s fun, ha ha! Even though it’s painful, it’s fun. A musician doing free improvisation is like an extension of what kids do when they play with something, like kids who can play with anything, like a cardboard box. It’s a very low-key thing, just being together and playing with something. It’s very honest and modest at the same time.”

Antoine Verhaverbeke was born in Lille, France and now lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Verhaverbeke studied Architecture, Fine Art and Interaction Design in France. After moving to the peaceful environment of Helsinki he started both organising music events [the Dotcoma Club with Mark Roberts] and evolving his teenage experimental rock skills into diverse music projects embracing different styles, methods and directions. His interests include minimal techno, feedback music, guitar noise, textural composition and free improvisation; he performs both solo and in collaboration with other musicians. Antoine is also a member of the Helsinki Computer Orchestra.

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