ROTTEN SUN [Mia Zabelka and Lee Adams] Live @ KLANGZEIT Festival, IKLECTIK, London, 18.11.2023.

NYX RITUAL LIII - ROTTEN SUN LIVE

Nenia (2025)

Live opname door Klara tijdens de creatie op het Klarafestival in Flagey, Brussel (23/03/2025)

Met:
Ensemble Revue Blanche: Lore Binon, sopraan; Caroline Peeters, (bas)fluit; Kris Hellemans, altviool; Anouk Sturtewagen, harp
Audio, stem, tekst: Katharina Smets
Video: Lise Bruyneel
Dramaturgie: Katherina Lindekens
Technische ondersteuning: Jannes Dierynck, Brecht Beuselinck
Compositie: Frederik Neyrinck
Kostuums: RE Antwerp
Boventiteling: Liesbet Termont 
Audiomix: Wederik De Backer  
Outside eye: Jurgen Delnaet 

Coproductie:
LOD, Klarafestival, CC De Factorij, Flagey
Met de steun van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap

Meer info: www.revueblanche.be

Met dank aan Klara voor de opname

Nenia Fragment 3 (Act 3)

Nenia Fragment 1 (Act 2)

Nenia Fragment 4 (Act 4)

Nenia Fragment 2 (Act 2)

Composition – Nina Fukuoka


Performed by TILT Brass:

Wayne du Maine - trumpet

Rebecca Steinberg - trumpet

Kyra Sims - horn

Chris McIntyre - tenor trombone

Mark Broschinsky - tuba


David Adamcyk – recording sound engineer

Michał Bereza – mix and mastering engineer


Premiere: March 29th, 2025; Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY

Performed as part of the Columbia Composers Presents TILT Brass / Columbia Composers Season 2024-25


Far Cry (2025)

Seven Pebbles (2025) is a playful exploration of the relationship between two distinct modes of perception: structured counting and attentive listening to a soundscape. These modes intertwine within a contemplative, minimalistic framework, as performers move fluidly between them to create a multi-layered sonic texture. 
At the piece's heart is a mantra-like process of counting to seven in Greek, inspired by Tom 
Johnson’s Counting Languages. This continuous thread unfolds alongside the instrumentally 
reconstructed soundscape of a small beach in Heraklion during the winter—a quiet pocket of 
nature within the urban landscape—offering space for interaction, reflection, and memory.
In memory of Tom Johnson.

Seven Pebbles fragment

Καντάδα Πόντου 1

Written in December 2015-January 2016.

An 'operatic' scene for period instruments after a libretto by Johan van Cauwenberge, interspersed with my selections from Federico García Lorca's "Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías". 
The story-line reproduces the events round the famous photograph by Robert Capa, supposedly taken at the very moment of the soldier's death.
This piece is not about the soldier, however; it's rather about the fall: the fall of poetry; the fall of humanism; the fall of democracy... 

Can we retain these in our lives? THAT'S the question.

Moritz Kellner | 'Robert Capa'
Lucía Caihuela Jimenez | 'Gerda Taro'
Rutger van Oeveren | 'Federico Borrell García'

A collaboration of the Flemish ensemble il fondamento with the Sweelinck Barokorkest of Amsterdam, under the hands of Paul Dombrecht. A wonderful production!
http://www.ilfondamento.be/index.php/eng/news

Live at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels;
February 28th 2016.

You can also watch the video from this performance (in a semi-scenic form under the direction of Mien Bogaert) here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEQddjWq66I

The falling soldier

How shall I put it?

With an affirmation?
I can only write the music I want to write.
Or with a negation?
Nothing's forbidden as soon as I make head or tail of it.

Listen carefully!
nikosioakeim@gmail.com

(Linocut: Lidwien Dister © 2010)

The falling soldier

nikos ioakeim

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