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The MAZE Podcast

MAZE (feat. Anne La Berge, Yannis Kyriakides, Wiek Hijmans)

The MAZE Podcast features members of Amsterdam-based ensemble MAZE interviewing composer-performer guests. Conversations explore each guest's work, inspirations, and the pieces developed for MAZE, reflecting the ensemble's collective approach to open scores.

Interviews by Anne La Berge, Wiek Hijmans, Yannis Kyriakides, Dario Calderone. Produced by MAZE. Recorded at Splendor, Amsterdam, Spring/Summer 2026.

About MAZE:

https://www.maze.nu/

Amsterdam-based ensemble MAZE is dedicated to performing music that challenges the idea of fixed form and fixed listening perspectives. They work with pioneering composers to develop open scores, hybrid notations and unusual performances.

MAZE is formed by Yannis Kyriakides, Anne La Berge, Gareth Davis, Reinier van Houdt, Wiek Hijmans and Dario Calderone. Each member brings a distinct artistic practice to the ensemble, contributing to a collective approach in which roles, materials and modes of attention remain fluid and open to transformation.

They produce local festivals in addition to concerts, lectures, and discussion panels on the future of notation, composition and performance. The exploration of new media for the creation of notation and scores, has been the focus of MAZE in the last years, as seen in the work of members Anne La Berge and Yannis Kyriakides.

MAZE has collaborated with guest composers such as Christian Marclay, Annea Lockwood, Michael Pisaro, Okkyung Lee, Peter Ablinger, Barbara Ellison, Alessandro Bosetti and Alvin Lucier. In recent years, MAZE has presented its work at venues and festivals including Holland Festival, Bimhuis, the Onassis Foundation in Athens, Angelica Festival in Bologna, Riverrun in Albi, Kontraklang in Berlin, and Arnolfini in Bristol, among others.

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    Yesterday · 1 hr 3 min

    Claudio F. Baroni: The Body Imitates the Landscape

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claudio F. Baroni (with Anne La Berge & Yannis Kyriakides) Claudio F. Baroni is a composer whose work is characterized by what he calls “a systematic exploration of sound”, with particular attention to timbre, material, and physical properties. Originally from Rosario, Argentina, he has lived in Amsterdam most of his working life, where he has received commissions and performances from numerous ensembles across Europe, including Maze Ensemble, Slagwerkgroep Den Haag (HIIIT), Champ d’Action, Ensemble Integrales, and several Italian quartets. He has several recordings released on Unsounds and Moving Furniture Records, MOTUM, The Body Imitates the Landscape, Ursae Minoris, and the recent Re-Genetic. All of which we will like to talk about in this interview. https://claudiofbaroni.net/

  • S1 · E1
    September 6 · 50 min

    Alison Isadora: Diffractive Readings

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Alison Isadora (with Anne La Berge & Yannis Kyriakides) https://alisonisadora.org/ Alison Isadora is an Aotearoa / New Zealand-born artist who has made Amsterdam her home since the late 1980s. She is a "composer/performer/educator/curator/host/producer/guide," and her pieces treat musicians, audiences, spaces, and even scores as equal partners in creating music together. Her ongoing Together series, running since 2018, is built on indeterminate scores, community participation and reflects deeper concerns: ecology, decolonial perspectives on Western art music, and what it means to really listen together. In 2024, Alison created the work Diffractive Readings for MAZE, inspired by the extended hermeneutics practice of Jennifer Lacey, and based on different so-called readings of Wind Horse by Pauline Oliveros. She was also a member and composer of The Maarten Altena Ensemble that was the ensemble that MAZE grew out of. The music at the end of the episode is Part 6 by Alison Isadora performed by the Maarten Altena Ensemble.

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