For this conference, we ask artist-researchers to consider: what was/were the motivation(s) to pursue a PhD in the arts? How has the actual experience of doing doctoral studies affected or influenced their practice? Have specific academic requirements and protocols modified their work process and, if so, in what ways? What obstacles, opportunities, and/or unexpected turns have been generated by working at the conjunction of two domains: the professional worlds of arts practice and the...

Every year, the Polyphonic Performance Spaces research festival brings the best of artistic research to Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel.  This edition explores The Sound of Brussels: the city’s exceptionally rich sonic heritage, -past, present, and future.

Shifting Cities is the name of the new album of Promenade Sauvage. The music on this album was inspired by countless small and large displacements that end on our cities’ ever moving shores, and by the dance of a place that we enter and make up as we go along. Most of all it is an ode to the beloved Brussels, whose friendly anarchy offers a warm embrace for souls off kilter, and where this album was recorded in a hot Covid summer on Luca’s little attic kingdom.

The PhD guide collects all kinds of practical info for doctoral students in the arts at KCB/RITCS/VUB. 

This screening is organized by Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel and is only open for musicians. If you want to apply for a Phd in the Arts through the Conservatory, you need to go through 3 stages: start with sending your Curriculum Vitae, an overview of concerts, CD`s, awards and two to three audiofiles. Composers should also send in two to three compositions. You should send an e-mail to Inge Pieters and Kristin Van den Buys.