Composer in first person

GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, Netherlands

19:00 (doors: 18:30) Tickets: pay what you can

Danya Pilchen and Jasna Veličković invite you to GROND to meet, listen, and discuss their work with you, and to plant some seeds for future possibilities together.

COMPOSER IN FIRST PERSON

For this event, Danya will prepare an improvisatory work highlighting the relationship between perceptions of space and time through acoustic feedback, spatialisation, and field recordings, and Jasna will present insights from her long-term project The Art of Coil, in which she explores electromagnetic phenomena as both sound source and compositional material.

Danya Pilchen is a composer based in The Hague. His main interest lies in the human experience of time and music’s ability to shed light on it. He has composed for a wide range of settings, including solo, ensemble, and orchestra, as well as theatre productions. A significant part of his practice involves creating immersive sound installations that incorporate instrumental performances.

Danya’s music is closely intertwined with his research into collective experiences of time in musical practices. Understanding time as an emerging property of consciousness affected by social interactions necessitates increased attention to the relationships between musicians and audiences in Danya’s pieces. To facilitate these interactions, he employs various compositional strategies and listening techniques engaging the materiality of sound.

Jasna Veličković is a composer based in Amsterdam. Since 2008, Jasna has been experimenting with and researching within the sound world of the magnetic field—the omnipresent, yet usually completely silent elements in human life. Her journey into the unknown started with an exploration of the sound produced by manipulating coils as parts of complex sound systems, including classical instruments as sound sources. A purely serendipitous event in 2013 led her to the discovery that magnets can also produce sounds when applied to coils in certain ways. This discovery ultimately resulted in the invention of the Velicon, the instrument which she has been composing for and performing on ever since. The investigations of the musical force of the magnetic field also led to the introduction of other seemingly silent objects as sound sources.