Yolk Records

Eric Thielemans’ work is shaped by a sustained investigation of resonance – as an acoustic, spatial, and social phenomenon that connects our experience of sound, body, and environment. In 2022, the Belgian drummer, percussionist, and musical thinker Eric Thielemans published On Resonance: Scores, Notes & Conversations, an artistic research on resonance, perception, and spatial sonic qualities.

In this book and ongoing research he explores the everyday magic that emerges from the interplay of inner experience and the outer world, inviting people to make it perceptible together. His practice operates at the intersections of improvisation, experimental music, and performance.

He is known for resonant solo works such as a Snare Is a Bell, Sprang, Aural Mist, and Bata Baba Loka, as well as for collaborations with influential figures in free and improvised music, including Mika Vainio, Charlemagne Palestine, Oren Ambarchi, Billy Hart, Laurie Anderson, Marshall Allen (Sun Ra), Chantal Acda, Eleni Poulou and Hilary Jeffery (Organza Ray) and many others.

Thielemans connects his artistic practice with research: In projects such as The Color in Shadow, he investigates the subtle resonances that arise in the spaces between things, tones, and people. His work demonstrates how sound, body, and space can become a relational and aesthetic field of experience in which listening, attention, and collective action play central roles. His artistic approach combines a precise instrumental practice with a pronounced interest in perception, energy, atmospheres, and the in-between spaces where sound and attention shape one another.