Kali is a new-music ensemble based in the Hague. Our ensemble consists of Giuseppe Sapienza (clarinet), İdil Yunkuş (violin), Beste Yıldız (cello), and Nirantar Yakthumba (piano).
The name Kali refers to the name of the Hindu goddess of time, and in homage to Kali, we seek to explore new music that engages with time and form in manifold ways. Therefore, it is important to us that we actively and directly work with composers, and that we are able to not just perform their works but also understand the creative thought behind them.
Myrtó Nizami: The branches look the same ~7' (Violin, Cello, Piano)
Daniil Pilchen: 5 Songs.Kali ~35’
Nirantar Yakthumba: श्री महावि द्यातन्त्र - मातङ्गीदर्शन (Shri Mahāvidhyātantra - Mātangidarśana) ~15' (Violin, Cello + Sines Waves)
Myrto Nizami (1994) is a composer and pianist from Greece. She is often inspired by poetry and painting, philosophy, and the politics. In her music she seeks the fluid and airy plasticity of sound and the artistic dialogue between technology and physical sound material. She has composed music for acoustic instruments, voice, and electronics.
Nirantar Yakthumba: I am a composer/pianist from Nepal currently based in the Hague. Having grown up in a Hindu/Buddhist environment, many of my creative ideas derive from my experience and fascination with the numerous and rich philosophical and aesthetic traditions that developed alongside these religions.
My work explores the geometry of sound, the translations from a highly structured imaginary to the real, curvature, singularity and multiplicity, the differential. As a result, the performance of my works often requires musicians to measure out precise proportions, intervals, and gradations that are alien to our usual experience of music. It is therefore of great importance to me to be able to situate the musician in perspectives that allow them to perceive, to hear, to orient themselves around what must sound, so that they may find their own vibrant presence in it.
Daniil Pilchen is a composer based in The Hague. Daniil’s musical practice is closely intertwined with his research into the emergent properties of time in continuous musical practices. An understanding of time as a product of social interaction offers a particular way of organizing interpersonal relationships between musicians and audiences in his pieces, embracing the inherent precariousness of each human and the inescapable uncertainty of the relationship between them. This research revolves around Songs, a series of pieces for various ensembles, on which he has been working since September 2019.