| Makers | Students of the Royal Conservatoire |
| Duration | 45 min |
| Part of | Ticket to Utopia |
Musical discoveries that bristle with honesty
It doesn't get more genuine than this. In this eccentric warm-up programme from KC Lab, you'll encounter bold music from young talent. For Ticket to Utopia, three students are invited to translate their visions of the future into sound. In just 45 minutes, this KC Mini-Lab lets you discover the newest work from wilful composers-in-the-making: Mateusz Godlewski, Akiko Mik and Ali Debie.
With KC Lab, the Royal Conservatoire and Korzo clear the floor for young compositional talent. Students programme the evening themselves and present new work alongside instrumentalists from the conservatoire. Expect a musical journey of discovery brimming with raw talent, where the unusual and unexpected feel completely natural.
Akiko Mik is an interdisciplinary composer-performer from the Netherlands. Her work is all about the changing ideas of language, memory and physicality. Akiko creates text-based compositions and intimate vocal pieces, among others. In Carrier, an installation/performance for tam-tams, loudspeakers and performers, she reflects on transfer as a phenomenon: how sound, a thought, or a vibration moves and how this impacts people or objects.
Ali Debie is a Belgian composition student who will start in the Master’s program in The Hague this fall. Her work raises fundamental questions about how we see each other, remember each other, and engage with each other, through the interaction between sound, voice and live video. Canyourewritethisbetterplease? is an absurdist performance for cello, voice, live electronics and camera. The work explores how human connection is changing in a time frame characterized by individualism and images that are continually formed, transformed, and even distorted by media.
A piece for the attentive listener! Because Matheusz composed 60/61 for two electric guitars starting from a simple but unstable rhythmic premise. Each musician keeps a slightly different tempo, creating a subtle shift between two closely related rhythmic pulses. As the two strands progress alongside one another, moments of overlap appear and disappear, resulting in a continually changing sense of synchronization.
Met de line-up van Ticket to Utopia ontsnap je twee weken lang naar werelden die liefdevoller, gelijkwaardiger en vrijer zijn, op weg naar een hoopvolle toekomst.
Korzo Studio