Heleen Van Haegenborgh: ‘Squaring the Circle’ (albumrelease) / support: Elisabeth Klinck

Contemporary classical with electronics

With Squaring the Circle (El Negocito Records) composer Heleen Van Haegenborgh plunges into unpredictability. She was inspired by the artwork 'Pi' by Johan de Wilde, part of the collection of the S.M.A.K. In her composition, she turns the number sequence to her will. This with on stage four percussionists, electronics and no less than 70 instruments, including tubular bells, timpani, bass drums, vibraphone, cymbals, triangles etc.

With this work, the age-old mathematical issue of the "squaring of the circle" resurfaced. This is where Pi in fact throws a spanner in the works, musically causing fighting circles and squares. Thus you hear a canon of circles and in other places harmonic or melodic squares. 

Squaring the Circle
Heleen Van Haegenborgh (composition), Aya Suzuki, Anita Cappuccinelli, Lucas Messler, Diego Sáenz Mateo

support: Elisabeth Klinck
violin solo/ electronics