Musical Utopias #7 - YOU CHOOSE YOU LOSE

Amba Klapwijk is a composer who takes inspiration from landscapes, experiences in nature, poetry and the visual arts. In 2019, she was artist-in-residence at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory in America, a biological field station and nature preserve.  

Gijs van der Heijden's style is often strongly melodic, rhythmic and dynamic, but can also reach a timeless, unrelenting, meditative intensity. His work achieves a personal sound-world that embraces alternative tuning systems alongside diverse influences from experimental rock, to film and game soundtracks. 

In YOU CHOOSE YOU LOSE, Jonathan weighs the weight of choices. From mundane to life-defining: why on earth can choices be so hard anyway? In this overstimulated performance, he chooses to choose as little as possible and thus unleashes a multitude of options (ideas, instruments, musical genres) on the audience.  Don't miss this short but powerful solo! Or do. It’s your choice!

Jonathan Bonny (he/they) is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. He trained as a classical percussionist at the conservatories of Ghent, Helsinki and The Hague. Today, Jonathan feels particularly at home in the interdisciplinary performing arts, where his love for pop and electronic (club) music is also given space. As a music and context maker, Jonathan uses queer activism in compositions with influences from the classical music tradition, pop and electronic music. Jonathan strives for a more socially just world; therefore, marginalised voices receive the most amplification in his work.