Musical Utopias Thursday with Alison Isadora, Luna Quartet, Pauline Oliveros, Dario Calderone, & Ensemble Klang

20.15-20.45 Grote Zaal – Luna Quartet, Alison Isadora
20.45-21.15 Grote Zaal – Pauline Oliveros, Dario Calderone & Ensemble Klang

A scene-setting opening evening for Musical Utopias 2026, with a brand new string quartet from Alison Isadora exploring our relationship with the natural world, followed by sonic meditations of Pauline Oliveros led by Dario Calderone.

Isadora’s Sharing Space (with a river) is based on field recordings made in the floodplains of Meinerswijk. During the piece the quartet traverses through the seasons, sometimes in dialogue with recordings or projected collages of photos from the area. Composer and sound artist Alison Isadora hears our human activities as being part of nature: the construction site, the motorbike and chainsaw existing in the same space as the shag, the willow tree and the duck.

Ensemble Klang will also perform a work by Pauline Oliveros this evening, which is about deep listening and experiencing the subtle sounds around us.