Composing Spaces 2 programme online

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. From 12 to 14 April 2023 there are three concerts, six lectures and a sound installation in the Conservatoriumzaal, the Concertzaal, and the New Music Lab in Amare, Spuiplein 150, 2511 DG Den Haag. The entrance for concerts and lectures is free. Registration for the concert on 13 April through this link is recommended.

12 April 2023, 15:30–17:30, New Music Lab

Lecture by Raviv Ganchrow: Archeoacoustics: Hearing Spaces from the Past

12 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—Peaux
   performed 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.