Anne La Berge, flute
Germaine Sijstermans, clarinet
Seamus Cater, harmonica
Koen Nutters, double bass
Danya Pilchen, piano

April 7, 2022 at Splendor, Amsterdam

two songs. anne, germaine, seamus, koen, danya

Kali Ensemble:
Giuseppe Sapienza – clarinet,
İdil Yunkuş – violin,
Beste Yıldız – cello,
Nirantar Yakthumba – piano

September 29, 2022. Studio LOOS, Den Haag

Six Songs. Kali is a part of Songs, a series of pieces in which I explore possibilities of producing and experiencing time through attentive listening and musicians’ interaction.

Each song is built around a combination of different ways of measuring time, mostly relying on some physical constraint: duration of a decaying sound, breath, bow length, etc. Combining them creates a level of complexity that calls for creative listening as the only reliable way of building musical interaction among the musicians.

This is the third piece I wrote for, and in close collaboration with, Kali Ensemble: Giuseppe, İdil, Beste, and Nirantar. Their personalities and creative input directly shaped the way the piece sounds.

six songs. kali

Kali Ensemble @ Studio LOOS. 03/03/23

This piece was presented at the first concert of my research project at Studio LOOS, Making Time Together. Collective Experiences of Time in Continuous Ensemble Practice, in which I explored collective experiences of time in music through my continuous collaboration with Kali Ensemble.

Showcasing the results of the first of the two workshops with Kali, this instalment focused on different modes of listening and exploring their potential to influence the musicians’ and listeners’ temporal experiences. In preparing the concert, we paid special attention to the dynamic relationship between space and our experiences of time.

This concert and the research project were made possible with a subsidy from Makersregeling Gemeente Den Haag.

Kali is an ensemble based in the Hague. It consists of Giuseppe Sapienza (clarinet), İdil  Yunkuş (violin), Beste Yıldız (cello), and Nirantar Yakthumba (piano), and Gregor Connelly (electronics). They primarily work with young composers with whom they can collaborate and experiment over long periods. They aim to develop an artistic practice unique to their relationship with their collaborators. This way of working is of great importance to the musicians involved and formative to the ensemble’s own sound. Over the past years, they have formed close and active relationships with several young composers based in The Hague and they have become experts at performing their music, realizing many large-scale projects with great attention to detail.

SONGS OF DESPAIR, RAGE, AND HOPE

weather report

Seamus Cater, voice
Orestes Willemen, guitar

December 12, 2018. Korzo, Den Haag

Seven Dickinson Songs

one-minute symphony
Residentie Orkest, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
March 28, 2019, Zuiderstrandtheater Den Haag

highlights

The piece is based on Anne Boyer’s poem ‘Question for poets’. I took the liberty of changing the original text by adding some questions for composers.

Performed by:
Georgi Ognjanov Sztojanov (conductor)
Eva Modic
Gita Rebeka Dirveika
Viktoria Nikolova
Elisa de Toffol
Max Bruins
Juncai Zhang
David Gastelum Rivera
Einar Gudmunsson
Hanqing Zhou

April 4 2019, Arnold Schoenbergzaal, Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag

questions

Moscow contemporary music ensemble:
Ivan Bushuev / flute
Oleg Tantsov / clarinet
Yulia Migunova / cello
Mikhail Dubov / piano
and
Vasilisa Filatova / music box

Tchaikovsky City Music School, 12/09/19
recorded by Colin Frank

Danya Pilchen

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