Category: composition
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Winternights 2025
Preview of an as-yet untitled work that will be premiered in September 2026 in Maastricht, performed as part of the Winternights festival. Blurb In my current research, I focus on the fundamental relationship between movement, time, and life: to move is to be alive, to be still is to be dead. I ask the following…
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Watan @ Making Noise for Gaza 28.11.25
About Making Noise Hosted by Intro in Situ, several organisations in Maastricht came together on the 28th of November for music, a bakesale, and community. More info. Andrés Ravelo kindly stepped in to replace Nader, who originally played in Watan, bringing with his background in jazz and film scoring a different energy to the project.…
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Video: REMOTE POSTING @ AINSI Maastricht
This video is from our recent Limited Preview performance. Thanks to Naderad Studio for the edit. Our next performance will be at Cultura Nova in Heerlen. See you there!
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REMOTE POSTING Limited Preview @ AINSI 28.06.24
Updates: watch the full performance on YouTube here! Also — we are performing at Cultura Nova in Heerlen — more details via this link. After a year’s worth of hard work, we’re finally ready to play a limited preview of my new music theatre piece, REMOTE POSTING! This time I’ve gone deeper into theatre than…
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SIREN at Dag van de Componist 2023
A long five months in the making, SIREN officially premiered at Dag van de Componist at AINSI Maastricht on 17 June 2023. It was my biggest project during my Startende Makers residency with Intro in Situ. Programme note below. “SIREN” is a music theatre piece written by Sachit Ajmani featuring choreography by Cilia Hermann. The…
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OWRSI: T__hr__n, premiere
Nader and I frequently use OWRSI as a sandbox in two senses. The obvious is the compositional sandbox, where we try to question and experiment with musical form in a reactive, in-the-moment manner that is not always possible within formal, academic composition practices. The second sense is the social one. T__hr__n is a spiritual successor…
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Street Scene at Bureau Europa, Maastricht
Curator Remco Beckers gave me the opportunity to premiere my piece Street Scene as part of the finnisage weekend for Frozen Music/Bevroren Muziek at Bureau Europa. With the help of Nader Adabnejad, a workshop was organised and the participants formed the performing ensemble. Street Scene is a kind of improvisatory game/exercise comprising of a set…
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‘Queer Desire is Wild; I am a Deer’ by Nilbar Güreş
No 1 from the Impressions series commissioned by the Van Abbemuseum. View the original painting here. How can music and art represent the drama of sexual repression? Nilbar Güreş explores this important topic in a theatrical, symbolic, and playful way. Her painting features a few vivid and meaningful symbols: A deer having sex with a…
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Self-Contemporary by Evi Vingerling
No 4 from the Impressions series commissioned by the Van Abbemuseum. View the original painting here. Between two worlds. What music exists at the boundary of abstraction and imagery? Evi Vingerling has chosen a challenging stylistic approach. Her art works are neither total abstractions, nor realistic landscapes with fully recognizable objects and shapes. Her style…