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, … More

Loopstation

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

Wysiwyh

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

OMG! Seven Senses Tour

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

Boy

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

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 … More

Hear My Voice (!)

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

City of EAR

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

RE:call | City of EAR

RE:call | City of EAR is a large-scale in situ composition for 1000 singers or 30 choirs. More accurately it … More

RE:flection

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

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

Joris For Governor !

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

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, … More

LOOPSTATION

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

newsletter (the very first one)

If you weren’t in the mailing list yet interested (please don’t hesitate to subscribe), you can read it here.

#-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) … More

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 … More

Zooropa Revisited

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

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

Award

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

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 … More

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 … More

Tips & Tricks

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

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 … More

Grotesques

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

C-Quintet

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