Discreet Editions en vrienden

Discreet Editions, a record label dedicated to exploring the intersection of experimental contemporary music and earlier traditions, celebrates its fifth anniversary and recent relocation to The Netherlands with a special evening at Splendor. The evening will feature works by Discreet Editions' friends Lucie Nezri and David Ko, as well as label founder and artistic director Clara de Asís. The program includes Lucie Nezri’s ‘for siblings’ (piano), set to be released on the label this year; a yet-to-be-named solo work by Clara de Asís on synthesizer, and a new piece by David Ko for piano and electronics.

Clara de Asís is a composer and performer who explores the correlations of acoustics, spatiality and the praxis of attention. Her work accounts for material and sociopolitical relationality in sound-oriented practices and is grounded in the elasticity of perception. Her compositions, often developed collaboratively, juxtapose structural precision to areas of indeterminacy, drawing from an interest in experimental intonation, timbral research, and the junction of rational and irrational systems.
Along with her solo practice, she has created a wide variety of works in association with other artists, spanning across multidisciplinary collaborations such as film and dance. She has performed extensively across Europe, the United States and South America. She has been an artist-in-residence at Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago), Tsonami (Valparaíso), Q-O2 (Brussels) and EMS (Stockholm), among others. Her music is released on the labels Another Timbre (UK), Elsewhere (US), Erstwhile (US), Marginal Frequency (US), Pilgrim Talk (US), Blank Mind (UK), to name a few.
Clara de Asís is the co-Artistic Director of the Göteborg Art Sounds festival (Sweden) and runs the publishing platform Discreet Editions. She is currently based in Rotterdam.

David Ko (KR/CA/NL) David is fascinated by music's ability to evoke feelings and imagery through associative sounds, which he probes through digital and acoustic means, synthesizing microtonality, instrumental writing, and music production techniques — an approach that is as much indebted to the Western Classical music tradition as it is the Internet. His music has been performed in halls such as Korzo, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ and the Orpheum Annex in Vancouver. He has collaborated with visual artists Monica Mays and Min Oh, and theatre director Rebekka Nilsson, both as a composer and performer. In 2023, his piece, Psalm Song II, received the SOCAN young composer's award for best piece of chamber music. Aside from composing, he is also active in the fields of music production and sound design.
David studied composition with Rodney Sharman in Vancouver, and later at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Joël Bons and Richard Ayres (BMus). He has completed his MMus in composition with Jorrit Tamminga and Richard Ayres. He has previously studied Classical piano with David Kuyken. He has received scholarships from the Langley Community Music School, the British Columbia Arts Council, and the Amsterdam Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. In 2018, his piece Let's Talk About Heritage received the SOCAN Sir Ernest Macmillan award for the Under-21 category.

Lucie Nezri (FR/NL) is a composer, artist, and performer drawn toward abstraction, simplicity, and not-knowing. Her work bridges different contexts and disciplines pertaining to musical composition, tuning theory, musicology, computer science, and, at times, choreography. her pieces combine algorithmic techniques of composition based on probabilities, and a care for harmony. She is especially interested in exploring/making different versions of her own pieces and in reconstructing algorithmic pieces made by others, as a means to understand and view these works from multiple angles. Last but not least, she considers music primarily an experience to be shared, and she composes her pieces as invitations to 'play' and dedicates them to loved ones.
Nezri holds a Bachelor's and a Master's from the Institute of Sonology (Royal Conservatory of the Hague NL). Her works have been performed in a diversity of venues such as OSCII (Amsterdam), GRM (Paris), Orgelpark (Amsterdam), Abbaye de Royaumont (Paris), GMEA (Albi), Studio Loos, (Den Haag), PAS (Berlin). Following her long-standing practice of making experimental music mixtapes ( fascia lata ), she launched the first release of her small independent label dedicated to experimental music dis ce que in February 2022. since September 2022, Nezri has been a research associate at the Institute of Sonology and coordinated the festival Echonance at Orgelpark since 2023.

Clara de Asís: composition, synthesizer
David Ko: composition, electronics, piano
Lucie Nezri: composition, piano