Fractales Composers Residency - concert

Nava Hemyari - world premiere

In this work, repetitive rhythmic patterns become a space for movement, play, and gradual transformation. Against these persistent musical cycles, images of playground animals, like balancing horses and other familiar toys, suggest a world suspended between childhood, motion, and instability.

Between repetition and interruption, innocence and unease, these elements coexist without resolving their tensions. The music and images circle around a fragile sense of balance, where play can become ritual, and the familiar can suddenly appear strange.

Dror Blinder - world premire

I trace the origins of this piece to the birth of my son, an event that shaped not only its emotional world, but its very structure: hours spent caring for a newborn drew me into his blurred, wonder-filled state of consciousness, made of disconnected, gentle sensory events that are briefly processed before dissolving back into a haze. My research with the ensemble explored…