Dat Wat Ontembaar Is (2024)

For "Dat Wat Ontembaar Is" I collaborated with Melisa Diktas to build the score for her own solo work. For the soundtrack I sampled Melisa's Dahul drum and vocals into a battle anthem. She provided me with a sample that she took while on a ferry which I used as the root note for the composition (pretty well audible in part one presented below).

From some of the vocal improvisations that Melisa did I took the main ostinato of the piece that I doubled with a bowed electric guitar. Additional percussions consist of knick knacks that I had lying around the house and seashells.

Part two of the composition we recorded during her residency at Frascati where she presented a fourty minute piece. For that track we used some music she already had as a guide track. I built on her repetitions with additional drums and a Moog bass played on my Matriarch.