Edition 62

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…

On September 18, Swedish Maria W. Horn will perform Dies Irae in the Lutheran Church, as part of Dag in De Branding x Rewire. The online magazine The Quietus interviewed Maria about her work. Maria W Horn's Dies Irae is about a reckoning, one dragged from its medieval origins into…

Composer and music theatre maker Meriç Artaç is inspired in her work by real people she observes on the street. During her two-year stint as artist-in-residence at Festival Dag in de Branding, she developed five different musical characters based on those encounters. In November Meriç concludes her residency with the…

In June, Maya Fridman and Cello Octet Amsterdam played the piece Severade by composer Maxim Shalygin for an online audience during our festival due to the corona measures. We are pleased to announce that they will be able to do this in front of a live audience in the Nieuwe…