Performed by Open Union on the 27th of September 2024 at Centrala, Space

Performed by Open Union
Modular Synth: Peter Bell
Electric Guitar: Patrick Ellis

Live sound by Joseph Ockford
Audio taken from 'Open Union: Live at Centrala, Birmingham' filmed by Alexander Henshaw 

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Bio:

Wilson Leywantono is a composer currently based in Indonesia. His music has been performed in the UK, the Netherlands, Ireland, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia by many professional ensembles and performers such as Orkest de Ereprijs, New European Ensemble, Rosetta Contemporary Ensemble, Open Union, the Azalais Quartet, Hordienal Quartet, Decibel, Le Page Ensemble, the Schubert Ensemble, Thallein Plus Ensemble, Fumiko Miyachi, Mary Wiegold, Rowland Sutherland, Miriam Kitchener, etc.

More info on Wilson here: wilsonleywantono.wordpress.com

Wilson Leywantono - open con (2024)

performed by Maulwerker
Ariane Jeßulat, Henrik Kairies, Christian Kesten, Katarina Rasinski, Tilmann Walzer, Steffi Weismann - voices

July 6, 2025
Großer Wasserspeicher, Berlin

madrigali guerrieri. libro II (2025) for six voices

Using MuBu, I chopped up I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For into a dense collage of tiny fragments which I improvised with in Max/Spat/MuBu and then pieced together in Reaper.

I made this for the Chaire Supersonique project i did in collaboration with IRCAM and the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Big nod to Negativland here!

I STILL haven't found what I'm looking for (BINAURAL)

And I Wondered Why .... is a series of pieces for piano and electronics. 

I wanted this composition to feel like a series of strange windows in bizarre unexplained musical happenings. The electronic interludes were intended to have a retro quality. 

The piano pieces maintain consonant harmonies and occasionally naive melodies. 

And I wondered Why....Musisings for Piano and Electronics

Latvian Radio Choir Chamber Singers, cond. Kaspars Putniņš

Words: 'Square Poem' by Lewis Carroll

Art: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Plane Chants (2025)

piano piece 2022

Free guitar improvisation responding to Yousif Alzayed’s live improvised video.

IMPROV WITH YOUSIF

A slice of ACTION VIBRATION (2025), the recorded version of an hourlong big band work of the same name from 2021, written, developed and performed by Joe Snape with Northumberland Radical Fun Group as artist-in-residence at Gateshead's Glasshouse International Centre for Music. Record releases September 14th, visit http://joesna.pe for more details. The follow-up to 2019's Joyrobix. 

Music written and recorded by Joe Snape, mastered by Hannes Fritsch.

Fuzzy Rush

Open Union is an experimental music duo made up of composer-performers Peter Bell (modular synthesiser) and Patrick Ellis (electric guitar) based in Birmingham and London.

Described by the treasured composer Howard Skempton as being, ‘sometimes subtle and unstable; sometimes rich and dense’, the duo aims to build up strong collaborative relationships to create new verbal and text based works. Their current collaborators are Christine Cornwell, Wilson Leywantono, May Chi, Paolo Griffin and Seán Clancy.  

The duo have performed across the UK at events such as Ealing Extranormal, AMOK, Don't Mind Control, Birmingham Modular Organisation and CODA Festival. In 2025, they supported Passepartout Duo at Centrala Space, Birmingham as part of their UK Tour, and in 2023, undertook a mini tour of The Netherlands as part of the Sounding Here concert series, where they performed at Splendor in Amsterdam and Batavierhuis in Rotterdam.

In July 2025, they co-hosted a portrait concert with saxophonist David Zucchi featuring music by Paolo Griffin at the Hundred Years Gallery.