introducing Daniil Pilchen artistic research at LOOS
We are happy to announce new artistic research at LOOS by Daniil Pilchen: “Making Time Together. Collective Experiences of Time in Continuous Ensemble Practice”
about the research
In my research and practice, I explore collective experiences of time in music through my continuous collaboration with Kali Ensemble. During this project, I will investigate and further develop my compositional strategies that encourage creative listening and participation from musicians and audiences.
At the core of this project will be two concerts at Studio LOOS, where the results of two intense workshops with Kali will be presented.The concerts will take place on March 3 and May 12. The workshops, with a period of research and critical reflection between them, will allow me to develop innovative approaches to listening and explore their potential to influence listeners’ time perception. I will explore how the listening experiences of both the musicians and audiences can inform my further research into how we think about and feel time in music.
Time perception is commonly seen as a specifically personal, even introspective experience, set against the clock-time, the time of ‘objective reality’. However, music often creates powerful shared experiences of time and synchrony while playing and listening together. These experiences are intuitively familiar to many musicians, and I will argue that ensemble musicking can offer unique environments for studying them. I hope that analysing ensemble workshops will allow for transferrable knowledge of time that can have implications for fields outside my musical practice, including the economic and political aspects of music-making and, ultimately, transform our everyday understanding of time.
collaborators
Kali is a new music ensemble based in The Hague. It consists of Giuseppe Sapienza (clarinet), İdil Yunkuş (violin), Beste Yıldız (cello), and Nirantar Yakthumba (piano). They explore music that challenges them to have a direct encounter with the dynamic spatiotemporal structures that generate sonic and hence, musical forms. Thus, over the past years, they have developed close and ongoing relations with composers who share their aesthetic vision. I have collaborated with Kali on several projects for over a year. During that time, we twice presented our work at Studio LOOS.
In this project, I will also collaborate with Gregor Connelly, a sound technician, Art of Sound student from the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. He will help us with amplification, sound processing, and recording during the workshops and concerts.
This project is made possible with a subsidy from Makersregeling Gemeente Den Haag.
Picture by Gregor Forbes
about Daniil Pilchen
Daniil Pilchen is a composer based in The Hague. He obtained his Master’s degree in composition from the Royal Conservatoire The Hague in 2020. His thesis, Losing Time, was centred around creating musical interactions based on musicians’ communicating their internal feeling of time rather than relying on external time measures. The human experience of time and the ability of music to shed light on it have since become the core concern of his practice.
Daniil’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.
