„We are a trio of composers. Our work aims at the process of exploring a new musical aesthetic. Our works move at the intersection between contemporary music, experimental and conceptual avant-garde. Our music is characterised by its energetic intensity, physicality and architectural complexity. Breaking all genre boundaries, our music is characterised by great depth of field and plasticity. Our music derives its tonal and structural richness from the development of innovative compositional processes and conceptions. Our knowledge structure, developed over many years of collaboration, provides a stable basis for forward-looking musical research.
We position ourselves as representatives of what we call „New New Music”. The heroic modernism of serialism, structuralism and musique concrète and their procedures form our reference space. The clear thrust of our trio of composers is to lift up the „unacknowledged” (Ernst Bloch) of New Music in order to make it fruitful for contemporary relevant work. Focusing on the in-between of difference and repetition, our music uses mathematically structured micro-timing, multi-perspectival looping, micro-tonality and complex superimpositions of irrational rhythmic relationships.
Another peculiarity of the compositional process stems from our constitution as a trio. Our aim is to constructively break the autonomy of the individual author subject traditionally assumed in the music business. We no longer believe in the idea of a subject that stands outside the world and intervenes in it from there. We are always part of this world. This is true for us in both a political and an ethical sense. Against this background, the conditions of collaborative composing are guiding us. Accordingly, we have developed a specific form of research that allows us to enter into an intensive situational dialogue with different ensemble constellations. The final form of the composition emerges from this dialogue. In organisational terms, this means: With regard to our ensemble structure, we also understand DLW as an expandable platform. The plug-in construction offers compositional connection points for collaborations that expand our trio of composers situationally and provide it with heterogeneity.”

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Berlin, February 2023
Christopher Dell, Christian Lillinger, Jonas Westergaard

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