for chamber ensemble, electronics, and lighting

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this piece is inspired by the devastating beauty of nacreous clouds. these clouds are both very rare and hauntingly beautiful, with luminous pastel colors streaking across the sky. 

despite their beauty, these clouds are irrevocably harmful to the atmosphere. while their beauty comes from the diffraction of light as it passes through tiny ice crystals in the air, their appearance acts as a catalyst for the reactions of toxic chemicals that deplete the ozone layer and contribute to the ozone hole in the antarctic. 

this piece is a meditation on the beauty and destruction of the world we’re making. 

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premiered by collective lovemusic at Paine Hall at Harvard University April 28, 2023

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performed by collective lovemusic:
Emiliano Gavito - bass flute
Adam Starkie - bass clarinet
Emily Yabe - viola
Christian Lozano - e-guitar

volatile horizon

volatile horizon (2023) | collective lovemusic

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)

Recorded live at Musiques Démesurées, Clermont-Ferrand, May 2025

Luxa M. Schüttler

Grace Durham l voice
Emiliano Gavito l flute
Adam Starkie l clarinet
Sophie Wahlmüller l viola
Céline Papion l cello
Nina Maghsoodloo l keyboard, sampler
Finbar Hosie l electronics, recording

Ich bin dein boy [live recording]- Luxa M. Schüttler + collective lovemusic

Octet, or, Music for 9+ Musicians (2025)


1) No.1 Triumph Over Tooth Decay
2) Acousmatic Interlude No.1
3) No.2 No Proper Breakfast
4) Acousmatic Interlude No.2
5) No.3 Because It’s More than Just Paper
6) Acousmatic Interlude No.3
7) No.4 Take a Shiny Object
8) Acousmatic Interlude No.4
9) No.5 Attracts Dust and Grime
10) Acousmatic Interlude No.5 
11) Ending 

This composition explore setting up a very simplistic ritual and then subverting it at the end of the composition. 

An Ontological Study of the Paradigms in Advertising Media within Capitalist Societies for string quartet

Premiere at Studio Annette by ensemble SEV, Maayan James (Saxophones), Nadav Lev (Guitars) and Dan Weinstein (Cello)  19-3-2025

In a Place Hard to Reach

This piece comes from the final movement of my larger string quartet An Ontological Study of the Paradigms in Advertising Media within Capitalist Societies for string quartet

The composition presents a strange ritual alternating very quiet music with lyrics scribbled down from half remembered adverts and things heard on the radio. 

The piece ends by dissolving into the either and a held chord slowly undulates. 

An Ending for string quartet

Obsession (2009/10) [MIDI Mockup]

Driven by visions of the jagged Californian coastline and the aquatic fauna intricately depicted in Ernst Haeckel's drawings, "Cove" whips the trio of musicians into a state of sweeping synergy and symbiotism.

Emiliano Gavito - flute
Adam Starkie - clarinet
Sophie Wahlmüller - viola

Cove [live recording]- David Bird + collective lovemusic

Track from my album 'Embodied' 

Re - released for my friend Luke Deane who did production, played the Melodica solo. 

Christine Cornwell on Violin. 

Flower Of My Eye

Lomond (2020): Guildhall Experimental Music Marathon; London; 2025

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.