CAST: Premiere Night

I am honoured to have been selected as one of six composers to participate in the inaugural edition of CAST 2026 — a platform for artists working at the intersection of sound, music, and visual media, dedicated to bold experimentation and boundary-pushing interdisciplinary work. Following a global call for submissions, the CAST panel paired six composers with six visual artists to form collaborative teams, spending months developing original works that receive their world premieres at this event. Their work will be presented on the dadaLab immersive video wall, creating a unified environment where sound and image merge into a shared performance space. Presented in partnership with UT Austin's College of Fine Arts, the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies, the Butler School of Music, SoundMap, Line Upon Line Percussion, dadageek, and dadaLab.

More information: https://dadageek.com/cast

Programme

Premiere Night features the world premieres of six new collaborative works:

Stylianos Dimou & Britt Moseley (with SoundMap Ensemble)
Haeun Park & Krista Faist (with SoundMap Ensemble)
Rafael Godoi & David Sydiongco (with SoundMap Ensemble)
Carolina Carrizo & Jonathan Monaghan (with Line Upon Line Percussion)
Mathis Saunier & Shirley Steele (with Line Upon Line Percussion)
Shahrzad Talebi & Eric Theise (with Line Upon Line Percussion)

Programme Note

Entre-Vues (2026)
for amplified sextet, electronics, and real-time visuals
Duration: 15:00

Entre-Vues — between views, between glances — is a work born at the threshold: between sound and image, between performer and machine, between what is heard and what is seen. The title gestures toward a space of encounter; not a dialogue, but a collision of presences that continuously reshape one another.

The music unfolds through accumulation and pressure. Layered materials build upon each other in densities that resist easy resolution — mechanisms set in motion, saturated with energy, reactive to the slightest shift in the ensemble's collective breath. Complexity here is not ornament but architecture: a structural force that determines how tension is generated, sustained, and released.

Entre-Vues marks my first collaboration with a visual artist, and working with Britt Moseley has fundamentally shaped the nature of the piece. His real-time visuals — horizontal in orientation, mirror-like in their logic — do not illustrate the music so much as inhabit the same space of urgency. Presented on dadaLab's immersive video wall, image and sound share a single nervous system, each amplifying what the other cannot say alone.

The work is written for and warmly dedicated to the members of SoundMap Ensemble, whose commitment to new music made this premiere possible.