Echonance Concert #3 [full]

Tom Johnson – Hidden Melodies

In Hidden Melodies, American minimalist composer Tom Johnson (1939–2024) explores the beauty of simple numerical processes. Patterns unfold gradually, revealing subtle symmetries and discreet surprises within strictly defined structures. The piece exemplifies Johnson’s minimalist clarity: music that discovers itself through logic, repetition, and attentive listening. Performed by Johan Luijmes – organ.

Nirantar Yakthumba –  बगलामुखी (Bagalāmukhi)

Nirantar Yakthumba is a rising voice in the Dutch new-music scene. His research, awarded the Konrad Boehmer Prize, explored tone production, instrumentality, and information theory in collective music-making. Yakthumba’s work investigates tone, instrument building and shared musical practice through an information-focused lens, examining how structure, redundancy, noise and indeterminacy can shape listening and collaboration. His piece is performed by Kristia Michael – voice, Alex Mastichiadis – clavichord

Peter Ablinger – Instrument and Voice

Ablinger transforms spoken voice into precise musical patterns, which the instrument seeks to mirror. The piece exposes the tiny details of speech—its pitches, noises, and rhythms—turning language itself into music. In the piece, music is treated as if it were a proper sign system analogous to language, and performers coming into dialogue in-between the two systems. Performed by Kristia Michael – voice, Alex Mastichiadis – organ.