Nadar Ensemble

Adventure, interdisciplinarity and above all a strong and critical contact with today’s world through a.o. the use of new technologies. These are some of the main objectives for the Nadar Ensemble. Since the 21^st century is pluriform, multi- and transmedial, Nadar Ensemble is not only fascinated by contemporary music, but also by film, visual arts, performance, theatre and installation art.

Nina Fukuoka is a Japanese-Polish composer and performer based in New York City. She makes instrumental and computer music. She uses various media and technologies to express extramusical meaning. Her works are focused on the contemporary world through the lens of horror aesthetics, video games, and feminist scholarship. Fukuoka’s works have been performed by ensembles such as Adapter and Talea.

Matthew Grouse is a composer, performer, organiser and teacher originally from Yorkshire, currently living and working in Copenhagen. He enjoys interdisciplinarity and often works at an intersection between music for instruments and voices, electronic sound, text, video and performance. Recent pieces have involved documentary techniques, audience participation, music-theatre and gamification.

Paul Scully is a composer from Dublin, Ireland. His practice is interdisciplinary, borrowing from performance art, theatre, philosophy, literature, and visual art. Speech and language are important features in his music. Much of his work is site-specific, considering the full gamut of an audience’s experience. Scully is the general manager of the experimental music ensemble Kirkos.

Eveline Vervliet (°1997) is a Belgian composer, based in Germany. She completed her composition studies in Tilburg and Stuttgart. In her work, she explores the interplay between musicians and technology, and between humans and non-human animals. Her artistic output encompasses different formats, like concert music, sound walks and installations. She is the founder of WebSoundArt, a platform for web-based sound art.