| Artists | Hilde Wollenstein | Darina Žurková | Danya Pilchen |
| Duration | 120 min |
| Part of | Language no problem |
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HomegrownCreators from The Hague, because we like to showcase the creative talent the Hofstad has to offer.
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Discover the underground sound of the Hague
In Bloom: Resonating Memories will bring together three artists whose three very different approaches to resonance and the expressive capabilities of instruments in solitude will be heard through the night. The three sets tap into ideas that resonate - physically and figuratively. Danya Pilchen’s music is based on musicians’ inner sense of time (breaking free from bar lines and traditional measures of time) and engages the audience to a different way of listening and experiencing sound and musical memory.
Darina Žurková delves into the interior of the piano’s most rich and visceral soundscape, while Hilde Wollenstein’s work combines samples and field recordings into a set that communicates a strong sense of memory and conviction.
Hilde Wollenstein (alias free version) is a musician based in Den Haag and Berlin. In her work, she approaches music’s abstract effect through a socio-cultural dimension, exploring music as metaphor of the real with a focus on music played in public space, field recording composition, and youth culture. She composes with sampled and field recorded sound, formed through narrative, repetition and a transcendental state, creating pieces that linger between music and communication.
Darina Žurková is a composer, performer, sound artist, and artistic researcher based in The Hague.
Her work encompasses electroacoustic compositions, performances, fixed media, live sets, installations and has been presented all over Europe, Indonesia, and the U.S.
At In Bloom she will present a set for prepared piano and electronics, revealing both the most subtle and raw sounds, interweaving with electronic processes, and incorporating rhythmic and minimalist patterns and gestures. Her work often deals with timbre on the edge of acoustic and processed sounds, granular processes and compositional strategies based on gradual changes of internal patterns.
Danya Pilchen is a composer based in The Hague whose work centres around creating musical interactions based on musicians’ internal feelings of time rather than relying on external time measures. The human experience of time and music’s ability to shed light on it is a core concern of Danya’s practice. 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, Danya employs various compositional strategies and listening techniques engaging the materiality of sound.
At In Bloom Danya will present a piece for double bass and resonating glass vessels, performed by double bassist Maria Alejandra Bejarano Salazar and Gregor Connelly on electronics.
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