Composition 2024.12 (Untitled)
Composition 2024.12 (Untitled) is based on a five-note tone-cell of D - E - A - A# - B  - with the tones organised into twenty-seven trichords. Artificial Intelligence was used to determine the order of the chords - and also their duration. 

Composition 2024.13 (Untitled)
Composition 2024.13 (Untitled) is based on the Ionic scale (the white notes on the piano keyboard from C1 to C2). Random number tables generated by AI were used to determine the order and the length of the tones. 

Compositions 2024.14 (Untitled)
Compositions 2024.14 (Untitled) is based on a three-note tone-cell of B1 - C2 - C#2. 

The title - The Story Till Now - refers to the culmination of knowledge - experience - and understanding of the world up to a certain point in time. It can be seen as the narrative of existence - of the choices that have been made - and is a branching point from which new ideas can be developed and progressed.


Composition 2024.12 (Untitled)

Composition 2024.13 (Untitled)

Lagos is a city in constant negotiation with water. The Atlantic presses against its shores, while inland, lagoons weave through its urban fabric. Yet, in this restless dialogue between land and water, power is unevenly distributed. The ongoing land reclamation efforts in Bar Beach, Makoko, Iyana Oworo and Oko Baba epitomize a paradox: the pursuit of progress through the erasure of communities that have long thrived with and on water.

Water No Get Enemy is an immersive sound piece that examines the ongoing land reclamation in waterfront communities in Lagos where water is both a home and a battleground. Borrowing its title from Fela Kuti’s song, the work highlights the paradox of water as an essential force—one that gives life, shapes culture, and sustains livelihoods, yet is being forcefully subdued by urban expansion.

As dredgers pour sand into the lagoon to create new land, entire ways of life are threatened with erasure. The sound piece captures this unfolding transformation through a sonic dialogue between the organic and the mechanical, the rhythmic life of the water and the disruptive force of reclamation. Through layered soundscapes, manipulated field recordings, spoken word from excerpt of One Night at Victoria Beach Poem by Gabriel Okara and word play, this piece creates an auditory map that travels back in time and of a city caught between the forces of capitalism and ecology, between engineered land and an ocean that does not forget.


Water No Get Enemy I

Water No Get Enemy II

Hi folks 2"Stay bright stay shining" is probably the last track I upload on Soundcloud for the reasons I told in my last 2 uploads. Anyway, hope you enjoy.

Stay bright stay shining

Made a remake of VAMPIRE by HOL!. a very respectable artist indeed

HOL! - VAMPIRE (Cirkuz Klown Remake)

izvukla si ciglu (eksperimentalni zvukovi (muzika))

This composition is a musical collage, the equivalent of painting seemingly random pictures on a canvas and composing them until they form one piece of personal art. My effort was to form more or less random sounds and beginnings of melodic and rhythmic structures, so they form a strange challenge to practice listening deep to each and every single one of them. From the beginning, I had no clue how and which sounds or melodies and samples would end up in this piece. I actually only followed my musical instinct and inner ear and nothing else. The only pre-meditated goal was to keep it light and minimal.

War By Accident - Joy

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Third Bus

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 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:

Christine Cornwell is a performer/composer and producer based in Rotterdam with strong links to free improvisation, collective practice, and strives to initiate projects for artists from different disciplines to work together. In her work, she works closely with performers and audience, recently at Screen Dive/Gaudeamus in Utrecht, workshops with Hackers&Designers + Questions Collective in Amsterdam, and a new series Sounding Here at Rotterdam's Batavierhuis. 

Christine has a Masters in Classical Composition from Codarts University of the Arts, and a Bachelor in Music Performance (violin) from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. She currently mentors students at Codarts University of the Arts and is employed as a Creative Producer there.

More info on Christine here: https://christinecornwell.info

Christine Cornwell - invisible poetry, instructions for singing to ghosts (2024)

Open Union is an electric guitar and modular synth duo made up of composer-performers Peter Bell and Patrick Ellis. 

Having been described by 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 and Paolo Griffin, with a new piece by Seán Clancy currently in the works.  

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.

Cover photo by James McIlwrath, November 2022

https://peterokotor.art/
Peterebahiokotor@gmail.com

'War By Accident' is the artistic name for all creative outlets of one man. In these times of turbulence, it's a welcoming but also a self-absorbing, a haunting but also a soothing, relaxing matter of the restless creator inside.

classically trained in music as a child, Cirkuz Klown started producing dubstep in 2018 while also experimenting with techno, minimalism, and vaporwave. Cirkuz Klown is still producing tracks with his goofy sense of humor and food obsession.

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