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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13dbbe3abefd4bf5c31d5d5044cf367287338331b44f12e3eb0e59da83d027a2/Kopie-van-Nemo_Bert_Portrait_4_Web.jpg" data-mid="203834135" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13dbbe3abefd4bf5c31d5d5044cf367287338331b44f12e3eb0e59da83d027a2/Kopie-van-Nemo_Bert_Portrait_4_Web.jpg" /> Instrument: piano Studies: Royal Conservatory of Ghent (School of Arts, KASK) Other projects: Regularly collaborates with soprano Emma Posman What is your purpose in music? What motivates you? I still have to think about the first question for a long time ... Anyway, I really like working with my hands and playing music opens up rooms in my head that I wouldn’t otherwise know. For me it’s an entrance to an abstract world, sometimes with feelings I can’t describe so well.What are your hobbies and passions besides music? I run a lot. I’m also quite passionate about beautiful or interesting objects, places, situations, ...Which other genres do you play or listen to and how do you incor- porate them in your contemporary music practice? I like all interesting music, but of course that’s a vague answer. Some classical music I listen to quite fanatically, but I also like the high, almost superhuman, intensity level of some electronic music such as house, breakcore, noise or metal. What is your most cherished Nemø anecdote or memory? I can’t choose well. I remember the performance of Rosenhöhe Apollo of Vladimir Gorlinsky in Darmstadt. I remember crawling through the bushes with speakers, scratching my legs on brambles, hiding behind the trees of the Park Rosenhöhe in Darmstadt, trying to invisibly perform a sonic spatial effect for the wandering listeners. I also look back with a smile to one of our first major concerts. We had far too much repertoire on different locations in the hall, it was all very difficult and so many things went wrong logistically. However, I loved the good atmosphere in the group, the ambition and naivety. I hope we’re still a bit naive.Which book are you taking with you on a longer trip? I still have these unfinished books next to my bed: -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah (I recommend!)-Thomas Mann: Der Zauberberg-Michael Pye: Antwerp: the glory years-Cazzie David: No one asked for thisUnfotunately, I read at the pace of a snail.Tell us a secret that nobody knowsMaybe next time https://nemo-ensemble.com/BEN Fri, 02 Feb 2024 22:35:37 +0000 Nemo Ensemble https://nemo-ensemble.com/BEN BEN BERTRAND <img width="1285" height="1920" width_o="1285" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/050438f097664baa347ff918d9c8af97cdd52f967bd5ae52ff7a196384270044/Kopie-van-Nemo_Ben_Portrait_38_Web.jpg" data-mid="203755981" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/050438f097664baa347ff918d9c8af97cdd52f967bd5ae52ff7a196384270044/Kopie-van-Nemo_Ben_Portrait_38_Web.jpg" /> Instrument: I play Bass clarinet and clarinet Studies: I've studied in the Conservatoire Royal de Liège and at KASK. Other projects: I have a solo project (Ben Bertrand) for which one I compose for bass clarinet, clarinet and electronics. Furthermore, I compose too for ensemble. Links:&nbsp; https://benbertrand.bandcamp.com/music What is your purpose in music? What motivates you? My purpose in music, is to show that our lives are more than our daily troubles What are your hobbies and passions besides music? I have no other passion than music Which other genres do you play or listen to and how do you incor- porate them in your contemporary music practice? I play with electronic and I compose music that sits between classical music, contemporary music, experimental music and electronic music What is your most cherished Nemø anecdote or memory? My best remembering with Nemø is the concert we did in Darmstadt for Vladimir Gorlinsky Which book are you taking with you on a longer trip? There are so many books to take for a long trip : a Philip K Dick book, a novel of Umberto Eco, a Zen book, a book that analyses the work of a composer, .... Tell us a secret that nobody knows! I don't have any secrets https://nemo-ensemble.com/ESTHER Fri, 02 Feb 2024 22:32:01 +0000 Nemo Ensemble https://nemo-ensemble.com/ESTHER ESTHER COOREVITS <img width="1285" height="1920" width_o="1285" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9cb17b6ec68832b4e7ffedcbadbd0d7b970cb703ce4547a3417709266e416a0/Kopie-van-Nemo_Esther_Portrait_6_Web.jpg" data-mid="203755902" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9cb17b6ec68832b4e7ffedcbadbd0d7b970cb703ce4547a3417709266e416a0/Kopie-van-Nemo_Esther_Portrait_6_Web.jpg" /> &nbsp; Instrument:&nbsp; Viola, violin, keys, tenor guitar and bass guitar. And I LOVE singing haha. Studies:&nbsp; Ghent University and School of Arts Ghent Other projects:&nbsp; I play in somes bands and projects: Jan Verstraeten, MOMOYO, Galine, Tourist LeMC, Room13Orchestra, ... I have a quartet: Ma'at, and I make my own music under the name BRICOLAAG. What is your purpose in music? What motivates you? It's not so much a matter of having a goal, but an intrinsic drive. Playing music, being on stage or in the studio:&nbsp; there is nothing in my life I would rather be doing and I would give up a lot to do that. &nbsp;What are your hobbies and passions besides music? Reading, bouldering and hiking/biking in nature. Which other genres do you play or listen to and how do you incor- porate them in your contemporary music practice? I am a musical 'omnivore', but I mainly play indie, pop and jazz besides contemporary music. I think it's very interesting and useful to approach contemporary music in terms of groove, song structures, playing together as a band, ... things we associate more with popular than classical contemporary. Anyhow, I don't like to think too much in labels. I think of music as a colurful spectrum and I like to move through it&nbsp; as freely as I can! What is your most cherished Nemø anecdote or memory? That time during the first corona wave, when we submitted a funding application and we submitted it less than a minute before the deadline. We were so far away from each other behind our computer screens but felt so released and happy we made it, cheering and laughing so hard that it felt for a moment that we were all together. (We didn't get the money, though...) Which book are you taking with you on a longer trip? Proust: ‘à la recherche du temps perdu’ And all the other books on my night desk waiting to be read :') Tell us a secret that nobody knows! Last month, it was 7 years since I went to the dentist https://nemo-ensemble.com/ARNO-1 Fri, 02 Feb 2024 22:26:10 +0000 Nemo Ensemble https://nemo-ensemble.com/ARNO-1 ARNO ROESEMS <img width="1285" height="1920" width_o="1285" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9574f6c140daf2ef5dafe5fdbaf3a8258177c1c535695808f77786675c49ec9/Kopie-van-Nemo_Arno_Portrait_7_Web.jpg" data-mid="203755871" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9574f6c140daf2ef5dafe5fdbaf3a8258177c1c535695808f77786675c49ec9/Kopie-van-Nemo_Arno_Portrait_7_Web.jpg" /> Instrument: I play the saxophone, and a bit of piano, bass guitar and guitar. Sometimes I conduct. Studies:&nbsp;Royal conservatory of Ghent (School of Arts, KASK)&nbsp; Other projects:&nbsp; I teach classical saxophone, jazz saxophone, ensemble and bass guitar at different schools and compose music for jazz quartet. Currently I am in the process of composing, recording and producing my first album. Links:&nbsp; www.arnoroesems.be What is your purpose in music? What motivates you? Striving towards beauty and mastering a craft is a nobel feat, which I belief is a good hill to die on. I write and play music for people I love. To give them a gift and I want it to be the best as I possibly can manage. I belief that a world with musical gifts for others is a better world than a world without them, even if it’s a very small gift and for a very small audience. I belief that to be true and it gives me direction. What are your hobbies and passions besides music? As a hobby I take care of my body via calisthenic sports and running. I also take care of my thoughts and language by writing essays to sharpen and structure ideas and my ability to communicate them. This feeds my passion for researching and toying around with different knowledge and how our memory works. I like to do learn and improve, hat is what drives me. Which other genres do you play or listen to and how do you incor- porate them in your contemporary music practice? I tend towards playing jazz music in a very broad way, but actually it is just music in general. Currently I am studying Lester Young, but I listen, study and play everything that captures my interest in an intuitive way. I transcribed: Michael Brecker, Bob Reynolds, Charlie Parker, Hank Mobley, Branford Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Louis Armstrong, Prince, John Mayer, &nbsp;Chris Potter, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Joshua Redman, Dua Lipa, Jack White, The dead weather, Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, Bruno Mars, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, and many more in combinationwith my classical education. I am very open. Music is music, an organisation of sound, of frequencies, yet it is extremely mysterious and interesting. It’s a celebration of what we as a species are capable of. It’s endless possibilities is mesmerising and a gateway to very profound knowledge about our experiences in and of life. When you are writing an essay, you connect different ideas and knowledge you already have, and try to make sense of new knowledge that you came across, or you try to answer a question with your knowledge. To me it is the same with music, although not necessarily with linguistic knowledge. You connect new sounds to knowledge, artists, ideas and experiences you already have. The richer your knowledge is, the more interesting your interpretations can become. That is what I strive to bring to the table. What is your most cherished Nemø anecdote or memory? There are too many memories to decide and I cherish different memories for different things. I cherish the wedding of Freya. I cherish the meeting and working together with Óscar Escudero and Belenish Moreno-Gil in Berlin. I cherish the Nemø-days. Which book are you taking with you on a longer trip? I have a library of books on my phone. I’ll bring my phone and take them all. I read them all at the same time, get ideas out of them and try to translate them in my own words and connect them with other ideas. Tell us a secret that nobody knows. No, if I hold secrets, which I don’t like and are very few, I take them to the grave. I don’t think holding secrets is a good idea. I don’t think sharing secrets is a good idea, especially in public. https://nemo-ensemble.com/ESTHERELISABETH Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:50:17 +0000 Nemo Ensemble https://nemo-ensemble.com/ESTHERELISABETH ESTHER RISPENS <img width="1285" height="1920" width_o="1285" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31676e5d1ef23e994e84cd6987ca144d14b2daaa85ebf7285b599e4c1a47b8c8/Kopie-van-Nemo_EstherElisabeth_Portrait_9_Web.jpg" data-mid="203749381" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31676e5d1ef23e994e84cd6987ca144d14b2daaa85ebf7285b599e4c1a47b8c8/Kopie-van-Nemo_EstherElisabeth_Portrait_9_Web.jpg" /> Instrument: I’m a singer, soprano. I love playing the piano but I am really bad at it. Next to this I have some experience with playing diffe- rent percussion instruments. My goal is to play marimba or vibraphone with four sticks! Studies: Royal Conservatory Ghent, but still studying with different international teachers (Paris &amp; New York)Other projects: I am one of the HYOID-singers: a vocal ensemble for contemporary music. I am the singer of Goggles duo, together with my dear friend, amazing percussionist and Nemø- partner Wim Pelgrims. Furthermore I work as a freelancer for every interesting project that comes my way. Links: https://www.estherelisabethrispens.comGoggles website coming soon! What is your purpose in music? What motivates you? As a singer you get very quickly in touch with the more theatrical side of music. I would say that I am more of a ‘stage- person’ than only a musician. I am motivated by the stories I can tell through music and playing different roles that are sometimes very far from your daily life or your own personality. I love the fact that through singing and music, I can be just every person or object or animal, I want! What are your hobbies and passions besides music? I have been journaling since I was ten years old. I have a whole library filled with my notebooks. Whenever I have the time, I love to go somewhere, have a nice coffee and put my thoughts about the world, my life or really small and stupid things on paper. I also follow an amazing Feldenkrais class and a contemporary dance class. Which other genres do you play or listen to and how do you incorporate them in your contemporary music practice? Maybe this should be a secret but I don’t listen that much to music. I am very fond of the silence at home. And if I do listen to music, it varies from reggaeton in the car in the South of France to female jazz singers like Nina Simone while cooking to horrible Greek pop music when I’m at the beach with my Greek and international friends in Athens to R&amp;B from the nineties during long car rides. Next to this, for inspiration and to improve myself, I listen a lot to classical singers from Barbara Hannigan to Maria Callas to Erin Morley or Angela Brower. I feel that my music making or singing is also influenced by the visual arts so I love to go to art exhibitions and discover new (or old) painters, designers, installation-artists or performance artists. What is your most cherished µNemø anecdote or memory? The trip to Berlin to meet Oscàr Escudero &amp; Belenish Moreno-Gil was very special. We discovered some true allies in them and I cherish both of them as close friends. Performing their Flat Time Trilogy was a lifechanging experience. Next to that, more generally speaking, I am very fond of the happy chaos that Nemø sometimes is. The fact that there are so many big, adventurous and chaotic ideas is one of the biggest strengths of the ensemble. Which book are you taking with you on a longer trip? For the moment I am obsessed with Russian literature. I love the darkness of it, the complexity of the characters, the strange humor, ... . On a long trip, I would for sure take a Dostojevski I haven’t read yet. Tell us a secret that nobody knows! I always (always!) have to cry when I hear the ritornello in the aria of La Musica in Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi. For me this music is the symbol of exquisite beauty. Maybe it’s a genetic thing because my father has exactly the same reaction when he hears this ritornello. But that’s probably his secret to tell, sorry papa! https://nemo-ensemble.com/FREYA-1 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:24:05 +0000 Nemo Ensemble https://nemo-ensemble.com/FREYA-1 FREYA BOVIJN <img width="1285" height="1920" width_o="1285" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb78da8f76b7f252fc8ee3b94c4d4d60c377ba9674c9255781e6432b28eba650/Kopie-van-Nemo_Freya_Portrait_14_Web.jpeg" data-mid="203627243" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb78da8f76b7f252fc8ee3b94c4d4d60c377ba9674c9255781e6432b28eba650/Kopie-van-Nemo_Freya_Portrait_14_Web.jpeg" /> Instruments: clarinet and bass clarinet Studies: Royal conservatory of Ghent Other projects: The Royal Symphonic Band of the Belgian GuidesEbano Clarinet Quartet What is your purpose in music? What motivates you? The process and product. To see and feel the change of a score. The process of an unknown score that grows into a complete control of it. And how everything falls into place as we play it together. What are your hobbies and passions&nbsp; besides music? I like running and gardening Which other genres do you play or listen to and how do you incor- porate them in your contemporary music practice? For me it’s important to maintain technicalbasics such as sound exercises and scales. Also I still regularly play technical studies.We regularly play marches at the Royal Bandof the Guides. The cadence and the correct&nbsp;placement of the rhythms within it are extremely important. Besides the fact that these marches&nbsp;have meaning within the military, for me it is a&nbsp;training for perfecting placement and stability. A technical mastering and control of your instrument will help you to apply the specific techniques required within the contemporary repertoire. Then add a big dose of my favourite band System of a Down...I love that heavy music with its passages, suddenly changing atmospheres and surprising twists.&nbsp; For me, the combination of the two is a metaphor of how I approach and practice contemporary music. What is your most cherished Nemø anecdote or memory? Festival for new music, Darmstadt. Sweating with a box under our arms, misleading people. Which book are you taking with you on a longer trip? I'm not a big reader, but a book that left a big impression is Franny and Zooey from J.D.Salinger. Tell us a secret that nobody knows! Then it wouldn't be a secret anymore ;-) but i really love Tarzan https://nemo-ensemble.com/NILS Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:17:01 +0000 Nemo Ensemble https://nemo-ensemble.com/NILS NILS VERMEULEN <img width="1285" height="1920" width_o="1285" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88b3d397954c114b63533cc58a2627de7eb5814556a0a57216c5e1e3b5ea4902/Copy-of-Nemo_Nils_Portrait_10_Web.jpeg" data-mid="203624796" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88b3d397954c114b63533cc58a2627de7eb5814556a0a57216c5e1e3b5ea4902/Copy-of-Nemo_Nils_Portrait_10_Web.jpeg" /> Instruments: Double bass, electric bass, synth, banjo, … (little bit guitar and violin) Studies: Royal Conservatory of Ghent (KASK School of Arts)&nbsp; Other projects: Nils Vermeulen (solo), Uma Chine, Kabas, Jukwaa, Frame trio, Smolikas, Nils Vermeulen &amp; Elisabeth Klinck... Links: www.nilsvermeulen.be Instagram&nbsp; Solo album&nbsp; Album met Eli&nbsp; What is your purpose in music? What motivates you? Music is no different from life itself, it is life. Becoming a better musician is becoming a better person, which can only help creating a better world. Learning from everyday experiences and letting everything be music/harmony is the key. The purpose of music is understanding life. What are your hobbies and passions besides music? Running! I hope to do my first full marathon in 2024. Which other genres do you play or listen to and how do you incor- porate them in your contemporary music practice? I really don’t think in genres. I would say I mostly listen to adventurous music, that can be adventurous pop music, rock, jazz ,… What is your most cherished Nemø anecdote or memory? I think the very first concert I did with Nemø was in Poland, playing Alexander Schubert, ‘Sugar, Maths and Whips’ and I think a piece of Kuba.. I’ll never forget that trip, being my first concert with Nemø, it was really special. Also hanging around with everyone in Poland was super nice. I remembered Tom Jackson subbed on bass clarinet, it was a really nice group to hang with.Which book are you taking with you on a longer trip? I’m reading Fernando Pessoa, the book of disquiet, right now. It’s perfect for longer trips, you can’t read to much at once because it takes some time to process the deepness of the words he writes.Tell us a secret that nobody knows! Every time I eat French fries, a little tear pops up in my left eye… https://nemo-ensemble.com/MAR-1 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:08:03 +0000 Nemo Ensemble https://nemo-ensemble.com/MAR-1 MAR SALA ROMAGOSA&nbsp; <img width="1285" height="1920" width_o="1285" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74af3e1a14392a6759940c15bad57c4773b4389085df3bff95db191c350f5897/Kopie-van-Nemo_Mar_Portrait_15_Web.jpeg" data-mid="203624625" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74af3e1a14392a6759940c15bad57c4773b4389085df3bff95db191c350f5897/Kopie-van-Nemo_Mar_Portrait_15_Web.jpeg" /> Instrument: Flutes:: flute, alto flute, piccolo, bass flute, paetzold recorder, piano and just for fun some e.bass Studies: My bachelors were in Barcelona and my masters in Ghent and Antwerp Other projects:&nbsp; I am the piccolo solo at the Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland and besides I collaborate with composers in Belgium, The Netherlands, Hungary, Turkey, Poland.. and I have my own solo project d.e.a.f. What is your purpose in music? What motivates you?Music/sonic arts are my meraki. I simply cannot imagine myself without it. What are your hobbies and passions besides music? I love diving, bouldering, sporting, reading and keep learning, specially philosophy and languages. Which other genres do you play or listen to and how do you incorporate them in your contemporary music practice? I like the versatility of playingfrom the classics of symphonic orchestra to performative (post-instrumental) creations. About listening, I must admit.. slow techno and baroque :) What is your most cherished Nemø anecdote?I cherish the family we manage to build and specially our time in Darmstadt. Which book are you taking with you on a longer trip? Malin Kundera: the unbearable lightness of the being and Herman Hesse: The steppenwolf Tell us a secret that nobody knows! Wouldn’t you like that (;