High Carbon, at Closing day Artefact, STUK
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News
The score of A Symphony for One Hundred Citizens and a Traffic Light is now part of an exhibition
De Warande: Thomas Verstraeten “Een onzichtbare stad”. Till 30 August, Turnhout.
Interview Gonzo (circus)
Ending the year with standing ovations for our specific Symphony for One Hundred Citizens and a Traffic Light (grateful, waw!).
With Thomas Verstraeten. Conducted by Tom De Cock at De Singel, Blue Hall #Toneelhuis
Wannes Cré
Symphony for one hundred citizens and a traffic light with Thomas Verstraeten
Selected as one of the best albums of the moment by De Standaard
4 stars for High Carbon in De Standaard
Interview Music Matters about High Carbon
Out today. High Carbon
Kiosk Radio with Adrian Corker, next Sunday at 9 am.
A selection of previous collaborations and my own work. It was a pleasure relistening the music with Esther Venrooy, Christian Mendoza, Frederik Leroux and Musarc.
Published at Donemus
https://donemus.nl/composer/he…Affordances, music for mixed choir and instruments.
Snippet Crystal not Crystal with Benjamin Glorieux
4 dots in NRC Handelsblad, July
Affordances for mixed choir #Musarc #SNVariations
Material Affordance on the Wire’s weekly radio show
Best Classical Music on Bandcamp June 2025
Peter Margasak selects every month the best releases on bandcamp. “Idiosyncracies, personality and a deluge of ideas” are words I like to embrace.
Affordances for choir and instruments, released.
Digitally released on all canals since friday and available on Bandcamp, SN Variation. Musarc and Heleen Van Haegenborgh
Review Dark Music Days, Seismograf
Symphony for one hundred citizens and a traffic light, announced in the brochure of the Singel
Thomas Vertraeten and Heleen Van Haegenborgh
Recording weekend with Musarc.
The most wonderful recording weekend with Musarc choir in Ghent. De Carré Sint Lucas.
Published Score
Squaring the Circle for 4 percussionists and electronics (42′) is published #donemuspublishing
Review Brooklyn Rail
[…] extremely striking set […]
Concert Dark Music Days with Gudrun Oskarsdottir
Souvenir Dark Music Days
With Gudrun Oskarsdottir at Harpa.
Interview with Dennis Tyfus now on Spotify
Virginie Schreyen
Dark Music Days
Today
Spotify and other platforms
Squaring the Circle finally on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album…
Matrix New Music database.
Lilia Roednjeva updated my page in the Flemish composers database. She did very profoundly (but I see the English version is not updated yet)
The pictures
of the Crystal not Crystal Première are here #virginieschreyen #benjaminglorieux #Desingel
Interview at Music Matters, Klara
Yesterday
LP Release date. Oktober 10, 2025
W.E.R.F. Records. Piano and electronics. High Carbon.
In progress, for De Singel, Antwerp
Contract signed with Donemus, music publishing
Musarc Choir
Musarc choir just commissioned a third piece. It becomes a trilogy(!)
Première 22nd June, St Paul’s Bow London
Selected for Dark Music Days with Gudrun Oskarsdottir 2025!
Harpsichord & Piano. Picture taken at Transit 2020, the very last weekend before lockdown.
Musarc’s first look at Hidden Affordance
New score for mixed choir and free melodic instruments.
New plans with Charo Calvo!
Youtube
I have been updating my YouTube. A channel that I have somewhat neglected until now.
Yes! The foghorns will soon sound again on a very interesting roof in Antwerp
Solo Release Piano and Electronics
High Carbon
Release date 18 oktober 2024, W.E.R.F. Records. LP
The Wire, review Squaring the Circle
By Clive Bell, June
[…] denotes a composer whose capacity for intrigue persists […] With a sense of freedom, naturalness and directness […] There is a plenty of variety without rhetoric or hysteria and enough space yo make listening simple and pleasurable […] simply a very strong performance […] A stirring musical journey into the heart of pi-manipulated chaos
ISCM Selection South — Africa
Lamento di Nadima was selected as one of the six Flemish pieces for the World Music days in South- Africa.
Jazzwise
[…] Although innovative, this extended work for her own electronics and four percussionists holds a more direct appeal, descend from the powerful and atmospheric narratives created by Varèse, Xenakis and Stockhausen […].
Bandcamp
Yes! in the list of Best Contemporary Classical on Bandcamp: January 2023, by Peter Margasak
Newest Release
Agenda
High Carbon
Piano and electronics
Kunstencentrum Nona & Lunalia, Mechlin
Solo piece for Harpsichord
by Gudrun Oskarsdottir
Mengi Iceland
High Carbon
Music for inside piano and electronics
Flagey Brussels, Piano days
Kaspar David Friedrich, By Lisaboa Houbrechts
Compositions for K.D.F., a collaboration between Hamburger Kunsthalle, Staatsoper Hamburg and Thalia Theater
Thalia Theater, Hamburg
A Symphony for One Hundred Citizens and a Traffic Light
collaboration with Thomas Verstraeten
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
A Symphony for One Hundred Citizens and a traffic Light
Collaboration with Thomas Verstraeten
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Past
Fluo for harp
Harp and electronics, Stef van Vynckt
Das Haus, Brussel
Affordances for vocal ensemble
Conducted by Peter Dejans, Musa Horti
Begga Festival, Malines
High Carbon
Piano and electronics
Artefact Festival, STUK Leuven
Heleen Van Haegenborgh + Saori Mirako
Symphony play along, revisited
At S.M.A.K. Ghent, Ha x S.M.A.K.
Heleen Van Haegenborgh + Saori Miraku
Symphony play along, revisited
La semaine du son in Het Bos, Antwerp
Symphony for one hundred citizens and a traffic light + Thomas Verstraeten
Toneelhuis/De Singel, conducted by Tom De Cock
Blauwe Zaal, De Singel
Symphony for one hundred citizens and a traffic light + Thomas Verstraeten
Toneelhuis/ De Singel, conducted by Tom De Cock
Blauwe Zaal De Singel, Antwerp
High Carbon, release concert
Piano and electronics
HA Concerts
Symbols for Francis
For three French horns and piano
Private
LP Release, High Carbon W.E.R.F. Records
Piano and electronics
Paul Klinck plays Pieces for Violin
Kathedraal Ieper
Possible Affordance & Implicit Affordance (première), Material Affordance 1,2,3
for Mixed choir, by Musarc
Saint Paul's Bow, London
LP Release Musarc Affordances
Music for mixed choir, recorders, melodic instruments and violin
Label, SN Variations
Recording Affordance I, II and III
for mixed choir by Musarc
Dark Music days with Gudrun Oskarsdottir
Piano and Harpsichord
Dark Music Days, Reykjavik
Punto in Aria
Trio for lute, percussion and mezzo
4’50 is the new 4’33 by Ultra Eczema
Benjamin Glorieux Plays, première
A one hour piece for cello, V.S.L. objects and electronics.
De Singel
LP Release This here empty Room
Music by Frederik Leroux, Films by Helga Fanderl, Piano: Heleen Van Haegenborgh
Otoro, Roborst
Musarc Sings, première
Piece for mixed choir
Saint Paul's Bow, London