Free concerts at The Hague from 12th to 14th April 2023

10 years after the festival Composing Spaces: Spatial Music from Gabrieli to the 21st Century, the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire presents Composing Spaces 2: Space as Music’s Medium of Transformation. Xenakis will be played on 14th April.

Program

2 April 2023, 19:30, Conservatoriumzaal

1. Daryna Mamaisur and Anna Khvyl: 
   A Steppe with Rabbits and Pheasants Running Around, and Where Some Even Saw Foxes (audiovisual fixed media, 8-channel sound)   
2. Hilde Wollenstein: 
   Please Stop Yelling At Me, I Don’t Know What I Want (multichannel fixed media)             
3. Cathy van Eck: 
   Wings (three performers and live electronics)   
   performed by Cathy van Eck, Ioannis Michos and Danya Pilchen
4. Giulia Francavilla: 
   Flow States #3 (16-channel fixed media)          
5. Teresa Carrasco: 
   FLYSCH (violin, baritone sax, accordion, percussion, live electronics)                                 
   performed by Leslee Smucker, Alejandro Fenollosa, Kaat Vanhaverbeke, Rubén Castillo del Pozo and Teresa Carrasco
6. Jonty Harrison: 
   Espaces cachés (16-channel fixed media)        
7. Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble 
   improvised music in a spatial setting                 

13 April 2023, 13:00–14:00, Conservatoriumzaal

PhD presentation by Siamak Anvari: Materialisation of fixed media music

13 April 2023, 20:00, Concertzaal Amare

Orchestra of the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague  conducted by Gregory Charette

1. Charles Ives: 
   The Unanswered Question                                  
2. Luigi Nono: 
   No hay caminos, hay que caminar… Andrei Tarkovskij       
3. Charles Ives: 
   Central Park in the Dark                                     
4. Edgard Varèse: 
   Amériques                                                                                                            

14 April 2023, 13:00–17:00, New Music Lab

1. Lecture by Margherita Brillada: Webcasting: Musing on radio spaces
2. Lecture by Stefan Weinzierl: Binaural synthesis as a tool for computer music and sound art
3. Lecture by Teresa Carrasco: Shaping timbre in space
4. Lecture by Veniero Rizzardi: “Nostalgia for the future”. Form, sound, space in Luigi Nono’s late works

14 April 2023, 19:30, Conservatoriumzaal

1. Iannis Xenakis: 
   Pléïades (percussion ensemble)                          45’
   Mélanges—Claviers—Métaux—Peauxperformed by João Brito, Porter Ellerman, Gonçalo Martins, Boldizsár Szöllősi, Te-Ping Teng and Kalina Vladovska
2. Luigi Nono: 
   La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura 
   (violin, 8-channel tape and 8–10 music stands)  60’
   performed by Leslee Smucker (violin) and Veniero Rizzardi (sound projection)

12–14 April 2023, Club 4 and 6^th Floor in Amare

Sound installation (Re)Sounding the Spui
composed by Danya Pilchen, Otso Aho, Ida Hirsenfelder, Gaia Heichal, Je Min Choi and Nursinem Aslan.

Official website : http://sonology.org/composing-spaces-2-programme-online/