It’s About Time!!

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

Danya Pilchen and Jasna Veličković invite you to the first edition of their new concert series

IT’S ABOUT TIME!!

The series centres on research-based practices that evade definition and do not fit within

traditional new music concert situations and genres. It focuses especially on artists that work in

the boundaries between media and that have imaginative approaches to time and space.

Every edition of IT’S ABOUT TIME!! will feature composers, performers, and interdisciplinary

artists, inviting them to showcase their practices through lectures and Q&As followed by

performances or fixed-media demonstrations.

For the first edition, 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.