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Musical Utopias

Musical Utopias #6 | 11-13 Jan 2024

Losing Control: This year the performances revolve around the theme of losing control. Works in which control has been relaxed or relinquished in order to uncover new and unexpected environments. Which new worlds, atmospheres and structures can you discover if you dare to take a step back, to lean out completely? The works explore the effect of standing still and pressing pause, to discover newly uncovered avenues that open up before us.

Albums in depth

Oscar Bettison’s Presence of Absence

With texts by Aaron Hostetter and a Q&A

Albums in depth

Peter Adriaansz’s Environments

Emile Frankel writes on Peter Adriaansz's Environments, on the occasion of its release on Ensemble Klang Records

Programma

Section of a still from Pavla Beranova's film of Flashback - Maarten Altena

Maarten Altena – On Good Form

Three film works by the visual artists Pavla Beranová and Sasha Svirsky, all setting music by Maarten Altena, written for and performed by Ensemble Klang. And the British writer Ed McKeon dives in to the rich background and history of Altena’s music-making.

Associate Makers

Introducing Associate Makers 2023-2024

Albums in depth

Ivan Vukosavljević’s The Burning

Musical Utopias

Musical Utopias #5 | 12-14 Jan 2023

human-like computer voices, computer-like human voices, text-to-speech-to-song, self-optimisation, modesty and monumentality, the destruction of the self, development and transience, the superiority of nature, performer-less performances and also performer-packed performances overflowing with pure sheer abundance

Ensemble-in-residence at November Music 2021

Musical Utopias

Musical Utopias #4 | Deep Time – CANCELLED

This edition of Musical Utopias was cancelled due to the covid lockdown in place in January 2021.

Associate Makers

Introducing Associate Makers

Associate Artists represents the most significant structural change since our founding. It is a reassessment of what 'ensemble' means as we move towards the middle of the 21st century, and a celebration of what 'ensemble' can be.

Associate Makers

Barbara Ellison on her CyberSongs

Associate Artist Barbara Ellison talks us through her favourite work, CyberSongs, a transhuman song cycle for human-like computer voices

Associate Makers

Oceanic on his duo with Greetje Bijma

Associate Artist Oceanic (Job Oberman) talks us through his favourite work, Swallow a Party, an ongoing project with Greetje Bijma

Associate Makers

Maya Verlaak on Song & Dance

Associate Artist Maya Verlaak talks us through her favourite work, Song & Dance – An excessively elaborate effort to explain or justify

Associate Makers

Pavla Beranová on Paradise Lost

Associate Artist Pavla Beranová talks us through her favourite work, Paradise Lost made with Samir Calixto

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