Live in the store: françois vanka, Sign Libra & Tristan Arp

Live in the store: françois vanka, Sign Libra & Tristan Arp

August 16, 2026 • 14:00 – 18:00 • Buitenwallepad 4, Ghent
August 16, 2026 • 14:00 – 18:00
Buitenwallepad 4, ghent
Objects and Sounds - Events 2026 - August

We’re turning 6 this August, and we’d love to celebrate together with three special live sets and picnic blankets spread across the grass outside.

Sharing his music live for the first time, françois vanka gives a glimpse of quelques endroits, his forthcoming debut album on our label. He approaches his practice as a form of foraging, following what he finds.

Sign Libra moves through dreamy melodies and ethereal vocals, floating over playful synths that shimmer with whimsy.

Tristan Arp explores sculptural soundscapes, probing the elasticity of modular synthesis and acoustic instrumentation.

Objects and Sounds - Events 2026 - August

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françois vanka

françois vanka is a sound artist and composer based in Liège, Belgium. Through field recordings, improvised loops, and homemade instruments, he collects traces of places and passing moments like entries in a diary. His debut album quelques endroits is guided by this spirit of curiosity, finding wonder in nature and cultivating a closer connection to the world outside.

Sign Libra

Sign Libra is the moniker of Agata Melnikova, an artist from Riga. Having explored her musicality from an early age, she approaches music with a spirit of curiosity, treating sound as a space for exploration and play. Grounded in nature and its innate connection to humanity, her work begins with feeling deeply and allowing intuition to lead. Using vintage VST synths, she crafts airy melodies that cradle her glistening high-register vocals, stretched through layers of reverb. Always rooted in a childlike openness, her work feels effortlessly light-hearted, at times mischievous, yet always deeply sincere.

Tristan Arp

A shapeshifter across strains of biologic environs and sculptural soundscapes, Tristan Arp riffs on the elasticity of rhythm and sound design. He builds intricate, speculative worlds, merging modular synthesis with cello, voice, piano, and other acoustic instrumentation. Warping rhythms into shifting, off-kilter structures, his music swings between aggressive propulsion and slow-blooming, suspended drift. With a sharp sensitivity to texture and timing, his asymmetrical arrangements move fluidly through surrealist sonic landscapes.