COMPOSERS’

FESTIVAL
AMSTERDAM
1 1 M AY 2 0 1 8
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Room 803

N I K A PA S U R I
. G I V E M E S PAC E

is an interactive installation which researches human intimacy through

sound. Expression of intimacy is a main subject, but it is also closely linked
to both sexuality and any other personal or interpersonally produced
sounds. It tries to research and document human produced sounds and
voice as a trigger to genuine, human-to-human bonding, or as a repellent.
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Bernard Haitinkzaal

SCORE COLLECTIVE
Maria Cristina Gonzalez piccolo, flute
Ludovico Asnaghi oboe
Maija Anttila clarinet
Yuka Sato saxophone
Pit Brosius bassoon
Lucas Jansen horn
Ivo van Gennip trumpet
Joao Mendes Canales trombone
Luc Geraats tuba
Elise Rouchouse percussion
Jorge Alberto González percussion
Bruno Cascone percussion
Nicolae Stiuca accordeon
Lisa de Bruycker harp
Helga Korbar violin
Phoebe Tarleton violin
Sophie Mettefu viola
Giorgos Kotsiolis cello
Jordi Carrasco double bass
Nicolò Foron conductor
Jacob Nieto conductor

Mariell Vain Awakening

Kate Honey Motorway Song
Simon Knighton The Acrobat and the Tightrope
AWAKENING
This work focuses on a particular texture – one which builds gradually,
layer by layer, from the beginning of the piece. As the texture
becomes denser, the instrumental parts become more active. It is as
if the instruments are being awakened by one another. Once most of
the instruments begin to play, their material varies slightly but stays
more or less the same throughout the piece. This high and soft, albeit
very busy texture is the desired state, the stability in the piece. It is
disturbed when a lower, louder and more aggressive force is introduced.
Consequently, everything becomes engulfed in chaos and panic. As the
wave of anxiety passes, the piece ends by returning to a state of calm
after the storm.

—Mariell Vain

M O T O R W AY S O N G
I live in a student housing complex in Diemen Zuid (Amsterdam
Zuidoost). Outside of my window, I can see a cherry blossom tree and
the Gooiseweg, a major road runnning from the centre of town towards
Gaasperdam. This piece is partly inspired by the featureless, busy
stretch of the Gooiseweg which runs past Diemen Zuid. The video is
taken from a bridge over the Gooiseweg (my student housing complex
is visible on the left). The piece also has purely musical inspiration:
slow paced, repeating harmonic progressions with a melancholic feel,
and ostinato-­ridden (or very slow) melody over the top. The resulting
emotions resonate for me with the sight of an endless stream of cars
flowing down a ribbon of concrete as the dusk gathers.

—Kate Honey
T H E A C R O B AT A N D T H E T I G H T R O P E
“Our moods are like tunings on the wireless, picking up truths at different
frequencies, so that if we do not know the gamut of human feelings, neither
can we know the gamut of truth.”
—AC Grayling

Originally inspired by an analogy describing the different dimensions

of string theory, the first movement of the piece uses the idea of a person
maintaining balance, through forward momentum and a singular,
narrow focus on what is straight ahead. In the second movement the
protagonist falls from the tightrope and moves through various ‘moods’
or shades of experience. The third movement sees the protagonist
journey back to the tightrope and the resumption of stability, balance
and momentum.

—Simon Knighton