scored for string orchestra, solo cello, electronics, live visuals and application

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duration 85 minutes 

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Mineralisations is an interactive concert that unfolds as a slow, continuously evolving process. Just as minerals are formed over millions of years through pressure, time, and chance, this work grows in the moment itself. Music, visuals, and audience together form a living ecosystem. The listener is not a passive observer but an active force: through a smartphone app, the audience influences parameters such as tempo (slow–fast), tessitura (low–high), and dynamics (soft–loud). This input is processed live by the musicians and translated into sound and image; the sounds produced by the smartphones themselves also become part of the musical fabric.

 

Aura functions as a guide throughout this process—a voice that leads us through the different stages of mineral formation and directs the ear toward processes that normally remain unheard. In Micro-Organisms, the focus shifts to the microscopic life at the basis of mineral formation. Ways of Water presents water as a carrier of change: here, time becomes fluid and cyclical. With Magma, the work reaches a stage of tension and energy, centered on the violent forces through which heat and pressure bring about irreversible transformations. The process culminates in About Crystals, Prisms and Light. Here, the mineral has crystallized. Structure, clarity, and reflection converge in a sound world in which light refracts and resonates.

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https://desingel.be/nl/programma/muziek/bryggen-mathias-coppens-minerals

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Concept and Composition: Mathias Coppens 

Visuals: Klaas Verpoest 

App: Menno Buggenhout

Ensemble: BRYGGEN Bruges Strings - Jolente De Maeyer

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Premiered on April 26 at 8pm, deSingel, Antwerp.