IT’S ABOUT TIME!!

New series of events where we meet COMPOSERS IN FIRST PERSON. GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, Netherlands 19:00 (doors: 18:30) Donation based

IT’S ABOUT TIME!! proudly presents composers Thanasis Deligiannis and Amba Klapwijk!

Thanasis will share excerpts from some of his recent works and talk about how he makes them. In his practice, he is interested in the creative process more than in composing a predetermined result – working with time, resources, materials and spaces as part of the composition itself, and being attentive to the different relationships that develop with collaborators. This also raises questions about what it means to call oneself a composer when composition expands beyond music, and when working across disciplines becomes transdisciplinary. He would like to bring these questions into the presentation and open them up for discussion.

Thanasis Deligiannis is an artist, composer and director based in Amsterdam. His work moves between sound, performance, visual installation and research, with a particular interest in the tensions and exchanges between rural and urban cultures. He composes experiences in time and space, designing the conditions through which a work can take shape. Alongside his artistic work, he teaches at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

“I will present an ongoing project in which I’m collaborating with pianist Carlota Carvalho and artist Akina Yoshitake Lopez. The project includes a musical composition for solo piano (Teder), a film, and a live performance. We will look at some video fragments of the film in progress, listen to Teder, and I will share my thoughts on this project and how we could continue.”

Amba Klapwijk is a composer and creator based in The Hague. She is inspired by landscapes, experiences in nature, poetry, philosophy and visual arts. Sea foam, seasonal changes, light reflections, long subtle sound changes, and immersiveness fascinate her. Her work includes musical compositions, installations, film, poetry and photography. In 2019, she was artist-in-residence at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory in America, a biological field station and nature preserve. Her work has been performed by the Herz Ensemble, Ensemble Klang, the Residentie Orkest, the Rotterdam Student Orchestra, Kristia Michael and the Kali Ensemble, and Input Duo.

IT’S ABOUT TIME!! is initiated by composers Jasna Veličković and Danya Pilchen. We invite you to GROND to meet, listen and to plant some seeds for future possibilities together.

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