Each year Gerliene and Sven commission a composer to write an original work for a new music ensemble.
Jim O’Rourke:
TBA
Performers:
Ensemble MAZE
World premiere:
Projected for March 2027
New commission:
TBA
Performers:
Ensemble Klang
1:
Germaine Sijstermans:
Four in Spaces
Performers:
Ensemble Modelo62
Installation and performances:
Projected for Spring 2026
‘This site-specific durational performative installation work can be visited, the composition will be recorded in the installation and in addition to several acoustic live performances with four musicians, the recording will run continuously in the installation during opening hours via four speakers, in an acoustically realistic representation of the live setting. Four in Spaces captivates subtleties in timbre, microtonality and juxtapositions of textures and melodic materials and offers visitors time and space to explore various modes of subjective perception and experience.’ – Germaine Sijstermans
2:
Giuseppe Chiari:
Intervalli
Performer:
Reinier van Houdt
Recorded for release by Alga Marghen in 2026
‘The piece Intervalli (1951-1958) by the mathematician-trained Fluxus artist Giuseppe Chiari can be seen as the first forgotten, consistently minimal composition. No themes, motifs or pitches: intervals are the only material and all twelve are ingeniously conjugated in twelve processes that astonish with their diversity of timbre and movement.’ – Reinier van Houdt
1:
Eliane Radigue / Carol Robinson:
Occam Delta XXIII
Performers:
Ensemble Klang
A co-commission with the London Contemporary Music Festival and Wigmore Hall
World premiere:
17 January 2025, Wigmore Hall, London
‘Occam Delta XXIII grew from the observation of gently crisscrossing waves, seen with Joey, Erik-Jan and Anton from a North Sea jetty one day in July. Like each piece in Occam Ocean, it demands ultra-sensitive interaction between the musicians as they generate and subtly modulate shifting harmonic fields. The three instruments morph into a single undulating sound mass that evolves ever so gradually through various expressive states. The music is abstract, radical and absolutely essential.’ – Éliane Radigue / Carol Robinson
2:
Karen Willems:
Without Papers
Performers:
Ensemble Klang with Karen Willems
World premiere:
11 January 2025, Korzo, The Hague
‘Without Papers is a collaboration with Ensemble Klang, to explore the boundaries between experimental and contemporary music which resulted in a dynamic fusion. It was intense, rich and the emotive expression could only succeed by not writing out scores. That’s a nice feeling that we must cherish and share together!’ – Karen Willems
Clara de Asís:
Mirage
Performers:
Ensemble Modelo62
World premiere:
2 December 2023, Paleiskerk, The Hague
‘Mirage is based on the premise that the emergence of form results from specific modes of listening. An ensemble composed of multi-tuned chimes creates a perceptual space of subtlety, friction, and density. Between zones of indeterminacy and precise instructions, the score summons all the musicians into the creative process of this sensory experience.’ – Clara de Asís
Fani Konstantinidou:
Time is Not a Revolution
Performers:
Ensemble MAZE
World premiere:
26 November 2022, Splendor, Amsterdam
‘Time is Not a Revolution has undetermined duration, inconsistent substance, and unpredictable outcome. It encapsulates the standpoint of those time-blind in a time-centric society. Unavoidably, it becomes a sarcastic statement towards the notion of time, manifesting the vanity of our most fundamental social construct.’ – Fani Konstantinidou