Join Daniil Pilchen in exploration his artistic research in Stuio LOOS on May 12th

According to Daniil:

This is the second concert presentation of my artistic research project at LOOS, ‘Making Time Together. Collective Experiences of Time in Continuous Ensemble Practice’, in which I explore collective experiences of time in music through my continuous collaboration with Kali Ensemble.

Building upon the outcomes of our first workshop in February and March, we will continue exploring the temporalities that emerge in the resonances between various spaces and the ways we listen to them. This time, we will pay special attention to introspective modes of listening based on memory and imagination, and investigate how these virtual spaces expand with the physical and how they affect the way we listen to one another.

This concert and the research project are made possible with a subsidy from Makersregeling Gemeente Den Haag.

Danya Pilchen’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 his pieces. To facilitate these interactions, he employs various compositional strategies and listening techniques engaging the materiality of sound. This practice revolves around Songs, an ongoing series of chamber pieces on which he has been working since September 2019.

Kali is an ensemble based in the Hague. Our ensemble consists of Giuseppe Sapienza (clarinet), İdil Yunkuş (violin), Beste Yıldız (cello), and Nirantar Yakthumba (piano). We explore music that challenges us to have a direct encounter with its manifold — i.e., the dynamic spatiotemporal structures that generate sonic, and hence, musical forms — through different modes of listening. Thus, over the past years, we have developed close and ongoing relations with composers who share our aesthetic vision. Their collaboration with our ensemble continues to be crucial to the formation and development of our sound.

Gregor Connelly is a sound artist and composer, currently enrolled as a Bachelor's student in the Art of Sound program at Royal Conservatoire the Hague. He is exploring contemporary and experimental art forms, recognising their imperative role in forming new modes of cultural perception and shaping the way in which we interact with our environment. With this in mind, he aims to uncover the particularities of our time and connect them with more perpetual structures and ideas.