Bijuriya and Mercyry have joined forces to produce a dark and dancey queerdo cover of Kate Bush's classic 'Wuthering Heights'.

Original song: Kate Bush
Vocals: Bijuriya
Music and additional vocals: Mercyry

Wuthering Heights (Bijuriya + Mercyry)

In an archipelago is a work for sextet and electronics, or any combination of its constituent parts, from solos, various possible duos and trios, and so on, all the way up to the full band, for a total of 127 possible combinations. The work was composed during the
COVID-19 pandemic, where an uncertain future led to the idea of affording the extracting of solos from the commission of a chamber piece-to-be. Each instrument’s part was composed one-by-one, first as a mockup assembled from recordings of my past pieces, among other sources. I listened to each of these parts in different combinations and fine-tuned them as I went in order to compose in such a way that they could exist on their own or in this variable company. I then transcribed the parts into a notated chamber score.
Each instrument has a phoneme attached to it, drawn from the title, and the title of each performance becomes an assemblage of its parts.
Antonio Benítez-Rojo’s 1985 essay The Repeating Island set out a way of thinking borne of the postcolonial conditions of the Caribbean that challenges the binary ontologies of Analytical and Continental Thinking. An Archipelagic Thinking is one of multiplicity and polyrhythm which conceptualizes through fragmentary interrelations rather than a system or a totality. In composing this piece, I was thinking about
connectivity through isolation, and the idea that repetition brings necessarily a difference and a deferral. The kind of densely modular repetition I experiment with, where every moment is densely recontextualizable, is one that I hope offers an opportunity to collapse
binary listening.

In an archipelago was commissioned by Standing Wave.

Listen to the work as an interactive app, creating your own mix of the different instruments in any combination!
iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/standing-wave/id1601878153
Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ChromaMixedMedia.StandingWave

In an archipelago - Standing Wave (full ensemble)

« La Cartographie des sons» pour kanoun solo et orchestre à cordes

Interprété par l’ensemble de la SMCQ et soloiste Nizar Tabcharani , dirigé par Véronique Lussier au Salle Pierre-Mercure), le 27 septembre 2019
Enregistrement effectué en concert 
Document d'archive

La Cartographie des Sons (extrait)

Minty Tears (Sophie x Julio Bashmore x Jessie Ware) by Cupro + Mercyry

Inspired by Whole Festival Beach Stage, we love you queer babes <3!!!

(album art by Joe Cummins)

Minty Tears (Sophie x Julio Bashmore x Jessie Ware x Cupro x Mercyry)

Gigue - for violin and electronics
Tanya Charles, violin
Performed at FAWN Emergents III

Gigue

Premiere 17/04/2019: Ensemble recherche. Helsinki Music Centre (Finland).

Perpetual Morning (2019) for flute, clarinet, violoncello and piano

A live performance with Rothko's painting was organised by Stedelijk Museum when the quarantine was announced in the Netherlands and it had to be cancelled. However it shouldn't stop creation and a music piece was composed but from a different concept. In solitude while composing I realised that piece should be about feeling longing, but not in a defeated way. More like feeling the pause and delay, what we
actually experience in our everyday life during the quarantine. Even though we are not sharing space with the art it still exists out there, and there is a hope to connect after all.
I still made use of the melody line, which I’d created during my time with the painting in the museum. Also there is another factor which was very important for this project; the legacy of Morton Feldman, the American composer who had already composed pieces for Rothko’s art and I refer to that whit a short segment in the final piece.

Rothko and me in the time of quarantine

Under 1 House

I Felt Love

It might be helpful to give a short introduction: I go by either https://soundcloud.com/christian-s-smith, or in this case ‘himsantichrist' for my DJ & mixing title. It’s a long story and a bit of an inside joke, but basically it’s just an anagram of my name. My main career path is as a percussionist specialising in new experimental composed and improvised music. I also teach music, and I freelance as a landscaper with the time I have left in my week. However, since I was a teenager I’ve been making mixtapes for myself and friends, and as I got older that turned into playing house parties, and in recent years I’ve gotten pretty seriously into club culture and DJ-ing, which brings me here. Thanks to Matthijs Mantel for inviting me to head this exciting project, and to the festival which I’ve been lucky to have a relationship with, either as a performer or as an attendee, since I moved to The Hague in 2016.

The concept: using the extensive physical and digital archives housing recordings made at the festival since its start in 1945, I have produced a series of mixtapes covering the 74 years that the Gaudeamus Muziekweek has occurred. This is the first of several that will celebrate the 75th birthday of a festival that has curated a broad spectrum of the post-war contemporary classical and experimental music.

I went for more of a ‘collage’ style mixing method though there aren’t more than 3-4 tracks at a given time. Single pieces do come to the foreground, or sound alone, but to me as a listener, mixing one track to the next is not very
interesting. I found through the process that pieces that might have completely different aesthetics or vibes, when played together became something new and weird. Also, this mixtape is chronologically arranged according to the year of the Festival, meaning if a piece is written in 2012, but played in the 2015 edition, then it goes between 2014 and 2016, highlighting its context in the history of the Gaudeamus Muziekweeks. You can see exactly when a piece and composer are brought into the mix by following along with my annotated comments.   

My work as a dj is intuitive, I listen and find connections or juxtapositions where I can. I arrange everything in Ableton (this is not a live mix), so I had the opportunity to compose out my weaker decisions, and bring out the stronger ones.  A big big thank you to the wonderful humans that wrote and performed this music, without which this wouldn't be possible. There are some beautiful moments and collisions here, happy listening!

2013
https://soundcloud.com/morgan-krauss - We only Speak of Other Things 00:00 
Martijn Padding - Hop  2:10 & 4:08 
https://soundcloud.com/julianna-barwick - 7 improvisaties  2:55 & 8:14
https://soundcloud.com/esaias - Order Part 1  5:57
https://soundcloud.com/jiyounkang - Machi Nory  10:57

2014 
https://soundcloud.com/bart-de-vrees - Like Boxtrapped Monkeys in a Warehouse 16:22
https://soundcloud.com/jessie-downs - Noticing and Truth Telling 18:59
https://soundcloud.com/emilykoh- Petrichor 21:12
https://soundcloud.com/trevorgrahl - …From Curious Lands and Places 23:06

2015 
https://soundcloud.com/jasontbuchanan - Walkside, Lost 25:39

2016 
https://soundcloud.com/gabrieldharmoo - Avec et sans feinte 27:20 & 30:25
https://soundcloud.com/anthony-vine - Between Blue 30:25
https://soundcloud.com/james-ocallaghan - Indices or: Kosuth Variations 31:53

2017 
Maya Verlaak - Song and Dance  39:11
https://soundcloud.com/genevievemurphy - Squeeze Machine  49:39
https://soundcloud.com/ivan-vukosavljevi- The Atlas Slave  53:14

2018
https://soundcloud.com/lawrencedunn - Disappointment rondeau 53:36
https://soundcloud.com/lise-morrison - Cleared Air and Delicate Dust 57:06
https://soundcloud.com/wkuoex - The Hand Holds No Weapon 61:16

2019
https://soundcloud.com/kelley-sheehan-929055575 - Eyes On 64:10 
https://soundcloud.com/remysiu - New Notations for Multi-Players 67:22

Mixing The Archive - 75 Years of Gaudeamus #1 2013-2019 [himsantichrist worst timeline mix]

Obra hecha en una residencia artística por parte del CMMAS

Aufheben

James O’Callaghan is a composer and multimedia artist based in Berlin. His work has been described as “very personal… with its own colour anchored in the unpredictable,” (Goethe-Institut). It spans chamber, orchestral, live electronic and acousmatic idioms, audio installations, video-music, site-specific performances, electronic dance music, and interdisciplinary collaboration — most recently with choreographer Edouard Lock and artist Lois Brown. In 2016 an album of his acousmatic works, Espaces Tautologiques, was released by empreintes DIGITALes, and his extended collaboration with Ensemble Paramirabo resulted in a portrait album of his works in 2019, entitled Alone and unalone.
	His music has received nearly forty prizes and nominations, including the ISCM Young Composer Award (2017), the Salvatore Martirano Award (2016), and the SOCAN Foundation John Weinzweig Grand Prize (2014). Significant nominations include those for the Gaudeamus Award (2016), Prix Métamorphoses (2018), and two JUNO Awards (2014, 2020). In 2021 he received the Prix Opus for “Composer of the Year.” 
	Active as an arts organiser, he co-founded and co-directed the Montréal Contemporary Music Lab. Originally from British Columbia, he lived in Montréal for 11 years and since 2022 has been based out of Berlin.

In an archipelago - Standing Wave (full ensemble)

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