RE:meander

a virtual soundscape for a river

SeCuM

SeCuM, aka the Self-Curating Musician, is a musician who designs their practice based on an artistic and entrepreneurial skill set,…

BOY

A Lyrical Drama for 6 actors, 4 musicians (fl./cl./perc./vcl.) and children’s choir (SSA)Text/Director: Kyoko ScholiersComposition: Joris BlanckaertCreated by HERMESensemble &…

A Covid/Christmas present

Almost 10 years after its creation, my composition Droom-Zappen has been recorded. A nostalgic trip, passionately recreated by SPECTRA ensemble,…

Loopstation

LOOPSTATION, a music theatre show by the Belgian theatre company Ontroerend Goed, is an hommage to routines and habits, the…

Wysiwyh

Sound installation – aluminium and brass plates, transducers and multitrack composition of found sound and field recordings Wysiwyh – what…

OMG! Seven Senses Tour

Not your average city walking tour taking you along the same tired old route, but a true feast for the…

Boy

Boy is a 10-year-old kid who has been removed from parental custody by youth care and child protection authorities. Different…

De Standaard – de mening

I’ve been invited by newspaper De Standaard to post an opinion on news events during 1 week. You can read…

Hear My Voice (!)

(ENG) Thursday Dec. 19, 19h, the Flemish Parliament will debate and vote on the scheduled budget-cuts on culture, arts, care…

City of EAR

Two articles on City of EAR, the 25 choir performance addressing acoustic ecology in the city of Ghent. (De Standaard…

RE:call | City of EAR

RE:call | City of EAR is a large-scale in situ composition for ca. 25 choirs ( 500 to 1000 singers).…

RE:flection

RE:flection addresses the acoustic ecology, the delicate balance between living organisms, including man, and their acoustical environment. Our ears are constantly…

being an artist doesn’t fit into a tv format (in Dutch)

Article in De Standaard newspaper

NOspeech

celebration speech for a new theatre hall for solo soprano, tap dancing & wine glasses duration ca. 12′ commissioned by…

Joris for Governor ! Pt. III

Last episode of an interesting journey.

3 Foreignerprints

for Ney, Accordion and Violin, duration 3′. A new composition as a reply to the Fingerprints 3 project initiated by…

Joris for Governor ! Pt. II

Column in De Standaard newspaper. If you haven’t already, please read the prequel. Stay tuned for the next article, expected…

Joris For Governor !

If you want to know what it’s all about, read my column in De Morgen newspaper (or in the scan…

RE:volution RE:verberations

Performance @De Krook library (Ghent) by GAME ensemble. In RE:volution RE:verberations GAME wants to recall the May events in 1968,…

LOOPSTATION

LOOPSTATION is a new theatre production of Ontroerend Goed, a company whom I’ve collaborated with before (Sirens and Are we…

newsletter (the very first one)

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#-1, momEntS BEForE…

String orchestra (10/8/7/6/4) and solo violin, harp & percussion Created by Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen conducted by Karel Deseure@ deSingel, Antwerp (B)…

art@CMS : Joris in CERN

After a delightful visit to the Large Hadron Collider and its magnificent experiments such as CMS, ideas emerge for a…

Zooropa Revisited

Synthetic Strings/Harp/Vc/Conga – 12′ Created by SPECTRA Ensemble @ SMAK, Aug 25th, 2017, Gent (B) Commissioned by SMAK Western classical…

TGTBT – I hit you because I love you

Sopr/Fl/Harp/Vla Created by Ex Novo Ensemble @ Mittelfest, July 18th, 2017, Cividale del Friuli (I), Commissioned by Klarafestival/MUSMA commission…

Simple as ABC #2: KEEP CALM & VALIDATE

Cl-BCl/Vl/Vla/Perc/Alto/Baritone Simple as ABC #2: Keep Calm & Validate is a documentary musical theatre performance about the digitization of migration management and…

THE DRUIDS, WHO KNOW, SEE AND HEAR NOTHING

THE DRUIDS, WHO KNOW, SEE AND HEAR NOTHING invites you on a +7h train trip, together with three musicians and…

Award

I am happy to announce that my composition of the Romy-opera “Elle est moi” won the provincial prize for contemporary music. A…

3_Search: Sense/Coalescence (Dallas, Texas)

Sense/Coaliscence is 12′ composition for vocals and ensemble (Picc, Cl, Perc, Organ, Synth, Vl1, Vl2, Vla, Vcl, DB) Commissioned by…

are we not drawn onward to new era

Joris has arranged/composed William Basinski’s Disintegration Loop, a short electronic sample that naturally disintegrates gradually while looping on a tape recorder, for acoustic…

Tips & Tricks

70′ – theatre play for actress (spoken) and solo harp — Geachte bezoeker, Van harte welkom in Tips & Tricks,…

Interview on KLARA (national radio channel for classical music)

Joris tells about the composition process of his choral piece GROTESQUES (in Dutch) : link (interview starts at 1:48:16)

Sirens

‘Score’ composed for Sirens, a remarkable theatre production. The composition is a sinfonia concertante of syllables, words and notes written, recited and…

Grotesques

30′ – Memento Mori for mixed choir a cappella (SSAATTBB) words by I. Gurney, R. Nichols & F. Manning part I…

C-Quintet

11′ – for Clarinet (Bb), String Quartet, Male Soprano and Female Narrator created March 14th, 2014 @ VoorwaartsMaart/EnAvantMars festival, Bijloke Ghent (B),…