Written for Ensemble Klang in 2008 "music for people who lose people" is in two parts. Both parts are concerned with questioning the difference between exact repetition and music that is always being slightly varied. The first part is unashamed in its harmonic stasis while the second part tries to pretend that the harmony is going somewhere but can't really find a good destination. This work was commissioned with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland.
Live performance at De Gigant (Apeldoorn) on February 16 2008 as part of the YCM Festival organised by Orkest de Ereprijs.

Music for people who lose people - Andrew Hamilton

This Piece was a commission of Centre HENRI POUSSEUR for Séverine Ballon for Transit Festival Leuven and Huddersfield Festival.
The electronics were programmed by Gilles Doneux.
Live recorded at Transit Festival Leuven.

Severine Ballon - Shades Of Light Live At Transit Festival Leuven 2022

Der König in Thule (2023)
Words by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Soprano: Anna Jussen
Piano: Vincent Ng Yao De

Der König in Thule (2023)

"Mesh" (2022-2023) for ensemble and live-electronics, here live-performed by the Nadar Ensemble at the Concertgebouw Brugge on 26.3.2023 (Yves Goemaere, perc & live-electronics; Dries Tack, bass clarinet and live-electronics; Thomas Moore, trombone & euphonium; Nico Couck, e-guitar+FX; Pieter Matthynssens, cello; Stefan Prins, live-electronics, Wannes Gonnissen, sound engineer).

Additional samples from Rainforests in Borneo and the Amazon recorded by David Monacchi for "Fragments of Extinction".

Commissioned by Nadar Ensemble & Concertgebouw Brugge. Supported by the Flemish Community.

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Even though "Mesh" can be performed as a stand-alone composition, it was premiered as part of the evening-length project "Der Wanderer 2.0" which I developed together with the Nadar Ensemble in 2023. In the version presented in the context of this project, the audience is wearing headphones on which part of the soundtrack and amplification is played back, while other parts of the soundtrack and amplification are heard through the loud speakers on stage. This splitting allowed for an extensive manipulation of sonic depth, nearness, distance, foreground, background, blanketing and uncovering. The audience was encouraged to play with the headphones, taking them on and off freely, listening to only one ear, etc., creating their own listening experience.
Of course none of this can be replicatd on this live-recording, in which the soundtrack is rendered to stereo.

Mesh (Stefan Prins, 2022-2023)

Ode aan Edith

‘Les cinq Motets d’Mirages’ is a composition for woodwind quintet, based on a so called ‘Motet d’Image’ from the Harelbeke-born composer Andreas Pevernage (1542/34 – 1591).  ‘Osculetur me osculo oris sui…’ ; these are the first words of the shortest book in the Old Testament: the Song of Songs from King Salomon.  They are also the opening lyrics of Pevernage’s Motet ‘Osculetur me’.  The text of the Song of Songs consists out of a number of poems depicting the love of a (wedding) couple.  From a religious point of view the love of the bride for her future husband is compared to the relationship between a christian and God.  A secular view on these texts would consider them just as a collection of love poems.  This composition consists out of five ‘Motets’ for woodwind quintet, each of them based on a specific fragment of the Song of Songs.  I called them ‘Motets d’Mirages’.  They are an impressionistic mirage of the feelings depicted in these ancient words.

Album onbekend (13/11/2017 20:34:56)

Les cinq Motets d'Mirages - Sive de caprea

Fragment from the aria of the local priest, Peiper, from Brodeck (2021/2023), opera after "Le rapport de Brodeck" by Philippe Claudel.

Thomas Blondelle (tenor)
Orchestra of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen conducted by Marit Strindlund
Recorded live at Opera Antwerp, 20/02/2024

Recording by VRT (Klara)

Text:

Mais il n’y a qu’un principe que je n’ai pas renié.
C’est celui du secret.
Le secret de la confession.

Je sais tout, Brodeck. Tout.
Et ce que ce « Tout » veut dire tu ne peux pas te l’imaginer...

Les hommes sont bizarres:
sans se poser de questions, ils commettent le pire puis ils viennent me voir
car il ne peuvent plus vivre avec le souvenir.
Je suis l’égout, Brodeck.
Dans mon cerveau, ils déversent toutes leurs sanies, toutes leurs ordures.
Puis repartent tout neufs et bien propres.
C’est parce qu'ils ont peur, Brodeck
qu’ils tolèrent mes sermons incohérents. C’est parce qu’ils ont peur de moi,
qu’ils tolèrent mes messes trouées de délires.

Vois-tu ce vin?
Avant la guerre, je ne buvais que de l’eau. et aujourd’hui ce vin est mon seul ami.
La guerre...
Un jour il m’a rendu visite.
Ca ne pouvait se terminer que comme cela, Brodeck.
L’Anderer était un miroir:
sans prononcer le moindre mot, il renvoyait à chacun son image.
Mais un miroir, Brodeck, ne peut que se briser!

English translation:

But there is only one principle that I have not renounced. 
It is that of secrecy. 
The secret of confession. 

I know everything, Brodeck. 
Everything. 
And what this 'Everything' means, you cannot imagine...

Men are strange: without asking questions, they commit the worst, and then they come to see me because they can no longer live with the memory. 
I am the sewer, Brodeck. In my mind, they pour all their filth, all their garbage. 
Then they leave, all fresh and clean again. 
It's because they are afraid, Brodeck, that they tolerate my incoherent sermons. 
It's because they are afraid of me that they tolerate my masses full of delusions.

Do you see this wine? 
Before the war, I only drank water. And today, this wine is my only friend. 
The war... 
One day, it visited me. It could only end like this, Brodeck. The Anderer was a mirror: without uttering a single word, he reflected each one's image. 
But a mirror, Brodeck, can only shatter!

Photo: Annemie Augustijns (OBV)

"Je sais Tout, Brodeck." Fragment from Brodeck (2021/2023) - T. Blondelle, M. Strindlund

Cinq jours de Paul Klee
pour soprano, alto et harpe 
Shigeko Hata et l'Instant donné (Elsa Balas et Ester Davoust)
Commande de Radio France

Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber | Cinq jours de Paul Klee (2013)

Concerto for Orchestra

Ellen Jacobs - Fragment Uit Workshop Met Plus - Minus Ensemble

...B.S. unfolded... [Kandinsky-Etüde 9]

musical construction for saxophone quartet
with baritone saxophone as quasi-soloist

performed by Collectif Arsys (Paul-Hugo Chartier, soprano sax; Gema Fernández Arévalo, alto sax; Kristof Kerremans, tenor sax; Jérémie David, baritone sax & quasi soloist) during "Arsys Unfolded - Belgian creations on air" (online concert)

commissioned by Hörsturm Festival, with the support of "BKA Kompositionsförderung 2020", first performance by mobilis quartet (Michael Krenn, soprano sax; Georg Palmanshofer, alto sax; Yukiko Krenn Iwata, tenor sax; Goran Jurkovic, baritone sax) during Hörsturm Festival (11/09/2020, Ried im Innkreis)

...B.S. unfolded... [Kandinsky-Etüde 9] (saxophone quartet)

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...B.S. unfolded... [Kandinsky-Etüde 9] (saxophone quartet)

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