Sietse van Erve - En de stilstaande tijd voor (elektro-)akoestisch ensemble
On November 20th, “En de stilstaande tijd voor (elektro-)akoestisch ensemble”, the new album by composer and musician Sietse van Erve, performed by Anne La Berge, Dario Calderone, Gareth Davis & Sietse van Erve, will be released. We will be celebrating this with a new live performance of this work.
The foundations for this album were laid during a memorable live performance at the Rewire Festival 2024 in The Hague. There, Van Erve (electronics, synthesisers) presented the composition for the first time with musicians from Ensemble MAZE: Anne La Berge (flute), Gareth Davis (bass clarinet) and Dario Calderone (double bass).
The composition has its origins in a postcard of a Spanish village from the 1960s, which Van Erve bought in 2001 and which also features on the original album cover. The sense of tranquillity and the feeling that time had stood still at that place planted a seed for Van Erve’s artistic development at the time and formed the core of the album ‘En de stilstaande tijd’, a solo work from 2020.
In this new ensemble version, the acoustic instrumentation lends the theme a completely different, organic and more human dimension. The combination of electronic and acoustic instruments creates exciting contrasts as well as a particularly pleasing synthesis.
Anne La Berge – Flute and electronics
Dario Calderone – Double bass
Gareth Davis – Bass clarinet
Sietse van Erve – Synthesizer and organ
Album on Bandcamp
Website Moving Furniture Records
