Edition 63

The amazing video maker Conni Trommlitz dove into the rehearsal studio and talked to composer Meriç Artaç and stage director Sjaron Minailo about the opera The Arrival of Mr. Z. Performance dates The Arrival of Mr. Z 13 November at Festival Dag in de Branding (Nieuwe Kerk Den Haag) Premiere 14 November 8:45 pm November Music Den Bosch 9…

Composer and theatre maker Meriç Artaç takes us on her journey. How does she create her musical characters and why are the streets are her inspiration? Performance dates The Arrival of Mr. Z 13 November at Festival Dag in de Branding (Nieuwe Kerk Den Haag) Premiere 14 November 8:45 pm November…

The landscape in which harpist Doriene Marselje positions herself consists of a sea of lights which dance and react to the sounds she elicits from her instrument. Marselje had this interactive light installation developed by designers who graduated from the Delft University of Technology. She created a poetic setting for…

Sounds for an Abandoned Space II is a multimedia work by Italian composer Timoteo Carbone and Italian artist Federico Zurani. Musical and visual elements form an imaginary space re-created from old warehouses, overgrown country houses, dilapidated apartment buildings and other abandoned places throughout Italy. We asked Timoteo about abandoned buildings,…

No one escapes: the smartphone dominates a huge part of our lives. In the multimedia piece Elevation of self-validation which she wrote for Kluster5, composer Celia Swart shows how a young woman loses herself in this virtual dimension. Lonely violinist Cecí Gold’s world gradually becomes more complex and layered. The…

Composer and visual artist Zeno van den Broek and Slagwerk Den Haag present Ma(n|chine) on September 18 – an audiovisual installation for four percussionists and three robots. Ma(n|chine) explores the tension between the technology of algorithms and the human capacity to create music.The main characteristic of the musicians is the…