Danya Pilchen is a composer based in The Hague. Danya obtained a Master’s degree in composition from the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in 2020. Danya’s thesis, Losing Time, was centred around creating musical interactions based on musicians’ communicating their internal feelings of time rather than relying on external time measures. The human experience of time and music’s ability to shed light on it have since become the core concern of Danya’s practice.
Danya’s music is closely intertwined with Danya’s research into collective experiences of time in musical practices. Understanding time as an emerging property of consciousness affected by social interactions necessitates increased attention to the relationships between musicians and audiences in Danya’s pieces. To facilitate these interactions, Danya employs various compositional strategies and listening techniques engaging the materiality of sound. This practice revolves around Songs, an ongoing series of chamber pieces on which Danya has been working since September 2019.
New release!
Aaaaand, it’s finally here! You can now purchase both the CD and digital versions of my album ‘two songs. anne, germaine, seamus, koen, danya’! Click here to see more information about the release and all the ways to get your hands on it!
Thank you again to everyone who donated and preordered this album! It is with your support that this release has been brought to life!
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