Our festival program

These are imaginary pieces of music. The imaginary can reflect the impossible back on itself and make it possible, imaginable. Music may also imply light, thought, premise - and encourages an active participation of the imagination and an extension of a mode of hearing. From this space we trace new extensions of a periphery of listening - noticing the boundaries separating the outside and inside of habit. Hearing and Feeling become one. In these three excerpts, we create different scenarios for your imagination to perform. A public audience is not necessary. Simply find a space where your imagination can wander, and use this music to begin a new path in your cognitive landscape.

Type: Public participative exhibition and private imaginary mind performances

Performers: Everyone

Download "Imaginary music zine" score - YES#10

Nom! Nom! We think you need some food before we get started with all the workshops: Mushroom salty pie, Moroccan style pie, vegan lasagna, a fresh salad with Thina sauce and for the sweet: carrot cake - all made for you by Gil from BISS brunch!

Type: Food

Performers: You and me and Gil

A nap is form of polyphasic sleep: during the nap state, the mind is “fluid and hyper-associative”, giving rise to images that can express layers of memories and sensations. This experimental participatory intervention is inspired by the interest in unconsciousness processes: whats going on in the brain while we sleep, why naps are so powerful, how sleep improves our memory but perhaps including things we would rather forget and how we benefit from napping. Special Nap sceneries will be provided in Agora and different scores will take place including a nap protocol: nano-, micro,- coffee, extended, Dali, TV, Lucid Dream or Disco nap.

Type: Performance with audience

Performers: Everyone

Download "Coffee nap" score - YES#9

This is a workshop for everyone where we build a sound installation for the mushroom tunnel together.

Type: Workshop

Performers: Everyone

This is a public workshop for performing Human windchimes by Carolyn Chen. Together we will prepare human windchime costumes made out of trash. Human windchimes are nature sprites, of a nature that includes what we usually overlook and discard. Trash, in reconstituted form, returns to haunt its past homes. The feeling is of an alien world overlaying the everyday environment. The alien world is composed of mundane objects, but maintains a separate sensibility and internal discipline. Human windchimes neither avoid public contact, nor court an audience reaction like a ball team mascot. They are on an epic journey to seek out the sounding potential of the space they are in. They inhabit the space and resonate its hidden music – conversing with, but not bound by, its everyday use.

Type: Workshop

Performers: Everyone

In this workshop you will learn how to perform Ear action yourself! Ear action is an exploration of the space between listening and feeling. In the one-on-one performance a composition is played on ear-protection headphones worn by the listener. These headphones, which are normally used to attenuate environmental noises, function here as a sound box directly on the listener’s ears. The headphones are played with various objects and the physical potential of sounds is made perceptible. Inspired by the sensory phenomenon “ASMR” (autonomous sensory meridian response), where soft sounds stimulate a pleasant tingling sensation on the skin, the two composer-performers Stellan Veloce and Neo Hülcker have developed their own practice of intimate ear play.

Type: Workshop

Performers: Everyone

Download "Ear Action" score - YES#1

Ear action is an exploration of the space between listening and feeling. In the one-on-one performance a composition is played on ear-protection headphones worn by the listener. These headphones, which are normally used to attenuate environmental noises, function here as a sound box directly on the listener’s ears. The headphones are played with various objects and the physical potential of sounds is made perceptible. Inspired by the sensory phenomenon “ASMR” (autonomous sensory meridian response), where soft sounds stimulate a pleasant tingling sensation on the skin, the two composer-performers Stellan Veloce and Neo Hülcker have developed their own practice of intimate ear play.

Type: Workshop performance

Performers: Everyone

Download "Ear action" score - YES#1

Chiara is a great listener, in fact I think she is the best listener I know. One summer day we engaged in a conversation about music and her relationship with it. Sparking from that conversation, this piece is a personal commission based on Chiara’s favorite sounds and wishes. It is a unique opportunity to be in contact with a truly committed listener. Anybody is very welcome to interpret the piece and either record it or perform live for Chiara, in return they will get listened to devotedly. Chiara is already looking forward to listening to your interpretation!

Type: Performance with you and Chiara

Performers: Chiara, Stellan and you

Download "Chiara's dream piece" score - YES#6

In this workshop the resting/sleeping/lying body will be explored. People will enjoy a guided constructive rest experience with performative elements and are invited to explore the effect of resting body, collective napping and creativity. Please bring any kind of small object to the workshop!

Type: Workshop

Performers: Everyone

Chiara is a great listener, in fact I think she is the best listener I know. One summer day we engaged in a conversation about music and her relationship with it. Sparking from that conversation, this piece is a personal commission based on Chiara’s favorite sounds and wishes. It is a unique opportunity to be in contact with a truly committed listener. Anybody is very welcome to interpret the piece and either record it or perform live for Chiara, in return they will get listened to devotedly. Chiara is already looking forward to listening to your interpretation!

Type: Performance with you and Chiara

Performers: Chiara, Stellan and you

Download "Chiara's dream piece" score - YES#6

Human windchimes are nature sprites, of a nature that includes what we usually overlook and discard. Trash, in reconstituted form, returns to haunt its past homes. The feeling is of an alien world overlaying the everyday environment. The alien world is composed of mundane objects, but maintains a separate sensibility and internal discipline. Human windchimes neither avoid public contact, nor court an audience reaction like a ball team mascot. They are on an epic journey to seek out the sounding potential of the space they are in. They inhabit the space and resonate its hidden music – conversing with, but not bound by, its everyday use.

Type: Performance

Performers: Jessie Marino, Yiran Zhao, Neo Hülcker

Mjam Mjam. On the menu: Budha plate with bulgur, tomato sauce, pumpkin and many other veggies. All made by Gil from BISS Brunch!

Type: Food

Performers: You and Gil

“23 stories on losing my breath” is a performance for voices, double bass and electronics. Using both pre-composed and improvised material, the performers interact with each other in different formations, presenting a succession of short moments that shape volatile ideas of narration through sound and image, like expanded shots from a stopmotion film.

Type: Concert

Performers: Marcela Lucatelli

Download "23 stories on losing my breath" score - YES#8

“Es scheint recht einfach eine klangliche Form – sogar eine Vision – zu evozieren, unter welchen Bedingungen aber könnte man von einem visuellen Geräusch sprechen?” (Jean-Luc Nancy in: Zum Gehör, diaphanes 2010). crackles is a piece with movements, lights and sounds, composed in 2016 for MOCREP. It was premiered on Aug 11th 2016 at Darmstädter Ferienkurse für neue Musik. A trio version of crackles was first performed by Bastard Assignments on Nov 4th 2016. This publication contains both versions.

Type: Concert

Performers: Neo Hülcker, Stellan Veloce, Kaj Duncan David, Sam Yulsman, Andreas Dzialocha

Download "Crackles" score - YES#5

The human body can easily bend its various limbs into 90-degree angles. Taking this as a basic premise, I wrote a “visual composition”, exploring the musicality of these movements as a live performance, combined together with different types of video as well as performance and voice.

Type: Concert

Performers: Yiran Zhao

Chiara is a great listener, in fact I think she is the best listener I know. One summer day we engaged in a conversation about music and her relationship with it. Sparking from that conversation, this piece is a personal commission based on Chiara’s favorite sounds and wishes. It is a unique opportunity to be in contact with a truly committed listener. Anybody is very welcome to interpret the piece and either record it or perform live for Chiara, in return they will get listened to devotedly. Chiara is already looking forward to listening to your interpretation!

Type: Performance with you and Chiara

Performers: Chiara, Stellan and you

Download "Chiara's dream piece" score - YES#6

The Cybernetic Gamelan Future Automaton is a network-based browser game for human laptop performers. Each performer controls its own future-gamelan instrument using text symbols while travelling inside a 3D universe of parametric architectures, visualizing how algorithms generate and represent knowledge. Based on a network which is prone to latency, and noisy gamelan- inspired synthesizer textures, the Automaton reflects the culture of computing which appears both alien in its clean and infinite shapes and rich of error, latency and noise of human input at the same time.

Type: Concert

Performers: Laura Weber, Kaj Duncan David, Andreas Dzialocha, Marta Forsberg

Download "Cybernetic Gamelan Future Automaton" score - YES#3

still arriving is a performance installation for one pianist and electronics. Its open notation invites the performers to make — speaking with Donna Haraway — string figures with the compositional idea, the software framework and the context of the live performance. The heart of the piano part is a simple live­electronic circuit: four delay lines à five seconds turn musical scales of different speed, range and direction into slowly changing chords — into the chamber­musical simultaneity of different pasts.

Type: Concert

Performers: Sam Yulsman

Download "still|arriving" score - YES#2

A nap is form of polyphasic sleep: during the nap state, the mind is “fluid and hyper-associative”, giving rise to images that can express layers of memories and sensations. This experimental participatory intervention is inspired by the interest in unconsciousness processes: whats going on in the brain while we sleep, why naps are so powerful, how sleep improves our memory but perhaps including things we would rather forget and how we benefit from napping. Special Nap sceneries will be provided in Agora and different scores will take place including a nap protocol: nano-, micro,- coffee, extended, Dali, TV, Lucid Dream or Disco nap.

Type: Performance with audience

Performers: Everyone

Download "Disco nap" score - YES#9

Chiara is a great listener, in fact I think she is the best listener I know. One summer day we engaged in a conversation about music and her relationship with it. Sparking from that conversation, this piece is a personal commission based on Chiara’s favorite sounds and wishes. It is a unique opportunity to be in contact with a truly committed listener. Anybody is very welcome to interpret the piece and either record it or perform live for Chiara, in return they will get listened to devotedly. Chiara is already looking forward to listening to your interpretation!

Type: Performance with you and Chiara

Performers: Chiara, Stellan and you

Download "Chiara's dream piece" score - YES#6

MMmmmmmmm… Hummus plate, Green Thina plate and tabbouleh Salad. Gil also has a surprise for the sweet-tooths ready! Have a long brunch with everyone before we get into the workshop mode!

Type: Food

Performers: You and me and Gil

These are imaginary pieces of music. The imaginary can reflect the impossible back on itself and make it possible, imaginable. Music may also imply light, thought, premise - and encourages an active participation of the imagination and an extension of a mode of hearing. From this space we trace new extensions of a periphery of listening - noticing the boundaries separating the outside and inside of habit. Hearing and Feeling become one. In these three excerpts, we create different scenarios for your imagination to perform. A public audience is not necessary. Simply find a space where your imagination can wander, and use this music to begin a new path in your cognitive landscape.

Type: Public participative exhibition and private imaginary mind performances

Performers: Everyone

Download "Imaginary music zine" score - YES#10

Together we will learn how to play the Cybernetic Gamelan Future Automaton, this will lead to a performance later in the day. The Cybernetic Gamelan Future Automaton is a network-based browser game for human laptop performers. Each performer controls its own future-gamelan instrument using text symbols while travelling inside a 3D universe of parametric architectures, visualizing how algorithms generate and represent knowledge. Based on a network which is prone to latency, and noisy gamelan- inspired synthesizer textures, the Automaton reflects the culture of computing which appears both alien in its clean and infinite shapes and rich of error, latency and noise of human input at the same time.

Type: Workshop

Performers: Everyone

Download "Cybernetic Gamelan Future Automaton" score - YES#3

A nap is form of polyphasic sleep: during the nap state, the mind is “fluid and hyper-associative”, giving rise to images that can express layers of memories and sensations. This experimental participatory intervention is inspired by the interest in unconsciousness processes: whats going on in the brain while we sleep, why naps are so powerful, how sleep improves our memory but perhaps including things we would rather forget and how we benefit from napping. Special Nap sceneries will be provided in Agora and different scores will take place including a nap protocol: nano-, micro,- coffee, extended, Dali, TV, Lucid Dream or Disco nap.

Type: Performance with audience

Performers: Everyone

Download "Coffee nap" score - YES#9

This is the public performance of the workshop which takes place before. The Cybernetic Gamelan Future Automaton is a network-based browser game for human laptop performers. Each performer controls its own future-gamelan instrument using text symbols while travelling inside a 3D universe of parametric architectures, visualizing how algorithms generate and represent knowledge. Based on a network which is prone to latency, and noisy gamelan- inspired synthesizer textures, the Automaton reflects the culture of computing which appears both alien in its clean and infinite shapes and rich of error, latency and noise of human input at the same time.

Type: Workshop performance

Performers: Workshop participants

Download "Cybernetic Gamelan Future Automaton" score - YES#3

Learn how to perform Ear action yourself in this workshop! Ear action is an exploration of the space between listening and feeling. In the one-on-one performance a composition is played on ear-protection headphones worn by the listener. These headphones, which are normally used to attenuate environmental noises, function here as a sound box directly on the listener’s ears. The headphones are played with various objects and the physical potential of sounds is made perceptible. Inspired by the sensory phenomenon “ASMR” (autonomous sensory meridian response), where soft sounds stimulate a pleasant tingling sensation on the skin, the two composer-performers Stellan Veloce and Neo Hülcker have developed their own practice of intimate ear play.

Type: Workshop

Performers: Everyone

Download "Ear action" score - YES#1

This is the public performance of the workshop which takes place before. Ear action is an exploration of the space between listening and feeling. In the one-on-one performance a composition is played on ear-protection headphones worn by the listener. These headphones, which are normally used to attenuate environmental noises, function here as a sound box directly on the listener’s ears. The headphones are played with various objects and the physical potential of sounds is made perceptible. Inspired by the sensory phenomenon “ASMR” (autonomous sensory meridian response), where soft sounds stimulate a pleasant tingling sensation on the skin, the two composer-performers Stellan Veloce and Neo Hülcker have developed their own practice of intimate ear play.

Type: Workshop performance

Performers: Workshop participants

Download "Ear Action" score - YES#1

Chiara is a great listener, in fact I think she is the best listener I know. One summer day we engaged in a conversation about music and her relationship with it. Sparking from that conversation, this piece is a personal commission based on Chiara’s favorite sounds and wishes. It is a unique opportunity to be in contact with a truly committed listener. Anybody is very welcome to interpret the piece and either record it or perform live for Chiara, in return they will get listened to devotedly. Chiara is already looking forward to listening to your interpretation!

Type: Performance with you and Chiara

Performers: Chiara, Stellan and you

Download "Chiara's dream piece" score - YES#6

“Es scheint recht einfach eine klangliche Form – sogar eine Vision – zu evozieren, unter welchen Bedingungen aber könnte man von einem visuellen Geräusch sprechen?” (Jean-Luc Nancy in: Zum Gehör, diaphanes 2010). crackles is a piece with movements, lights and sounds, composed in 2016 for MOCREP. It was premiered on Aug 11th 2016 at Darmstädter Ferienkurse für neue Musik. A trio version of crackles was first performed by Bastard Assignments on Nov 4th 2016. This publication contains both versions.

Type: Concert

Performers: Neo Hülcker, Stellan Veloce, Kaj Duncan David, Sam Yulsman, Andreas Dzialocha

Download "Crackles" score - YES#5

451 proposes, among other things, an intuitive approach to music making, humbly inspired by the energy and approach to the guitar of improvisers such as Julia Reidy, Derek Bailey and Fred Frith. The notation aims to give the performer a certain rhythmic freedom, in search of an immediate and spontaneous flow, as opposed to being bound to a strict and unwavering timecode. As such - and furthermore - any one wishing to play the piece is encouraged to be creative with their interpretation.

Type: Concert

Performers: Andreas Dzialocha

Download "451" score - YES#4

Marcela and Sam meet and play!

Type: Concert

Performers: Sam Yulsman, Marcela Lucatelli

A nap is form of polyphasic sleep: during the nap state, the mind is “fluid and hyper-associative”, giving rise to images that can express layers of memories and sensations. This experimental participatory intervention is inspired by the interest in unconsciousness processes: whats going on in the brain while we sleep, why naps are so powerful, how sleep improves our memory but perhaps including things we would rather forget and how we benefit from napping. Special Nap sceneries will be provided in Agora and different scores will take place including a nap protocol: nano-, micro,- coffee, extended, Dali, TV, Lucid Dream or Disco nap.

Type: Performance with audience

Performers: Everyone

Download "Disco nap" score - YES#9

microphase is an investigation into the phasing of samplers on a micro-level. 3 piano samples of 100, 100.5 and 101 milliseconds, panned center, left and right, are continuously looped, while the read-point of the samplers is incrementally changing and wrapped around the sampling window, so that each sampler returns to read-point 0 after 900 iterations. One cycle of the 3 samples without the read-point interpolation is 33 minutes and 50.1 seconds. The phasing of all processes involved results in a cycle of 21 days, 3 hours, 31 minutes and 30 seconds until the texture starts repeating itself.

Type: Concert

Yummy! Vegan Gulash with a rich mash potatoes and fresh greens! Made by Gil from BISS brunch!

Type: Food

Performers: Gil and everyone else

We perform with our selfmade human windchime costumes. Human windchimes are nature sprites, of a nature that includes what we usually overlook and discard. Trash, in reconstituted form, returns to haunt its past homes. The feeling is of an alien world overlaying the everyday environment. The alien world is composed of mundane objects, but maintains a separate sensibility and internal discipline. Human windchimes neither avoid public contact, nor court an audience reaction like a ball team mascot. They are on an epic journey to seek out the sounding potential of the space they are in. They inhabit the space and resonate its hidden music – conversing with, but not bound by, its everyday use.

Type: Workshop performance

Performers: Workshop participants