<Öö> (2025-2026) for two violins and chamber orchestra
Dedicated to my beloved
@_tristqn_ @hannahtuulas and Nefelibata Sinfonietta
@nefelibata_collective
☁️🕊️🩵
18 May, Willem Hijstek Hall
@conservatoriummaastricht
<Nomads II>, moving music festival
Night arises from a sense of presence, at once comforting and unsettling, like a fleeting apparition in a dream that vanishes the very moment it appears.
Two layers of memory within a single body, sometimes merging into one another, sometimes drifting apart, as if searching for each other across a distant horizon.
Sustained tones form the heart of the it. They are not static sonic surfaces, but fragile states of listening: stretched time, breathing resonance, and slowly emerging traces of sound. Within this slowness, the subtlest movements, friction, and shadows begin to appear. Sound acquires a bodily presence, almost tangible, I wish.
The image of the “der Engel des Schreckens” inspired by Rilke, beauty and terror are inseparable, may it unfold a transience that is both intimate and elusive.
Night moves between dream and memory. Recurrent gestures emerge like fragments of past events. Some moments seem suspended in stillness, while others are cut off abruptly, as if the dream itself were disintegrating. A moment of loss and mourning emerges, not as an explosive outcry, but as a quiet echo of what can no longer be held.
They support, mirror, and lose one another. Between intimacy and distance, a fragile web is woven from breath, resonance, and memory, a nocturnal landscape in which here and there become indistinguishable.
