Donemus Webwinkel — Pilchen, Danya

Danya Pilchen is a composer based in The Hague. He 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 concerns of his practice.

Danya’s music is closely intertwined with his 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, he employs various compositional strategies and listening techniques engaging the materiality of sound.