BRDCST has always been about discovery, not just new names, but new ways of listening.
In 2026, that spirit also lives in our brand-new spaces: AB Salon and AB Antenna. And to properly “test drive” those rooms during the festival, we’re welcoming two artists in a more intimate, process-driven way: Fenne Kuppens and Grégoire Gerstmans. Deep focus and time and space for artists to shape something.
Fenne Kuppens: a five-day residency, and the quietest version of her voice yet (AB Salon)
In the podcast KUNST, KUNST en nog eens KUNST, Whispering Sons frontwoman Fenne Kuppens stated: "It's always been a dream of mine to make a solo album. So who knows, maybe one day it will happen. I’d love it. I’m going to work hard for it."
At the end of 2025, she suddenly pulled some try-outs out of her sleeve to share her solo work with the outside world for the first time. She revealed a musical side we hadn’t previously known: tranquil, spare, fragile, introspective.
We immediately offered Kuppens a five-day residency at our brand-new AB Salon. Kuppens, who had already been a guest at the festival in 2019, will be working on new material there, refining songs and expanding her trio (with Whispering Sons’ guitarist Kobe Lijnen and Lili Grace’s cellist Nelle Bogaerts) to a quintet.
The result can be discovered at BRDCST. Intrigued? We sure are!
Grégoire Gerstmans: Headphone Concerts (AB Antenna)
Liège-based pianist Grégoire Gerstmans possesses an extraordinary power: with only a few notes, he seems able to bring a crazy world to a grinding halt. He inherited his musicality from his father, Eric Gerstmans, a viola player who even worked alongside Alain Bashung and Robert Wyatt. Eric passed on to his son a love of the marriage between classical and modern sounds.
Grégoire himself considers Arvo Pärt, Nils Frahm, Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, and Philip Glass, but also Bill Viola and Yves Klein to be his most important artistic references. This is all reflected on his debut Hypnagogie, a title that refers to the period between being awake and falling asleep.
Grégoire Gerstmans will perform every day of BRDCST in our brand-new AB Antenna space. Our advice: headphones on, eyes closed, and back ostentatiously turned to Our Crazy World.
