Elisabeth Klinck & Nils Vermeulen + Qoa + Primeiro

Musical mass at the Meulestedekerk in collaboration with Anker. For this inaugural edition, the Ghent-based Blickwinkel label presents a double bill featuring local heroes Elisabeth Klinck & Nils Vermeulen and the Argentine duo QOA & Primeiro. 

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About QOA & Primeiro 

Nina Corti (QOA) and Segundo Bercetche (Primeiro) are Argentine artists whose collaborative work explores sound, space, and territoriality through immersive audiovisual practices and experimental performance. Their research connects ecological narratives with embodied listening practices, investigating the materiality of sound as a form of vibrant existence.

They have participated in residencies where they developed compositions for specialized audio systems such as EMS (Stockholm), GMEM (Marseille), and 4DSOUND (London). Their work includes immersive performances and installations that link sonic ecologies with expanded collective perception.

They co-direct the festival Feed the River, focused on the sonic relationship with water through community-based collective spatial sound interventions. Their work has been presented at major international festivals including Fusion Festival (Germany), La Nature (France), Each Story (Japan), and Niansa (Slovenia). 

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About Elisabeth Klinck & Nils Vermeulen

Violinist and composer Elisabeth Klinck and double bassist Nils Vermeulen present their new duo album Pioen (blickwinkel) in concert. Their music stems from the act of listening and a physical approach to sound, at the intersection of improvisation, composition and acoustic investigation.

Klinck is based in Brussels and known for her tactile, fragile soundscapes. Her albums Picture a Frame and Chronotopia (selected by The Quietus as one of the best albums of 2025) were released by Hallow Ground. In 2025, she was hailed one of Klara’s De Twintigers (a recognition for promising voices within Belgian classical music).

Vermeulen operates between free improvisation, jazz & contemporary music and has worked with the likes of William Parker and Paul Lytton. As an artistic researcher affiliated with the KASK & Conservatory Ghent, he explores the acoustic possibilities of the double bass, including through homemade gut strings.

Pioen was recorded in a small convent chapel located in the centre of Ghent. The silence and intimacy of the space form the musical fibre, therein sound and silence are woven and the voice appears organically as an extension of violin and double bass.