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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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  • S1 · E6
    October 17 · 47 min

    Yannis Kyriakides: Oneiricon

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Yannis Kyriakides (with Anne La Berge & Wiek Hijmans) Composer and sound artist Yannis Kyriakides born in Limassol, Cyprus, grew up in England, and has been based in Amsterdam since 1992, where he studied composition with Louis Andriessen and Dick Raaijmakers after graduating in musicology at York. He also holds a PhD from Leiden University for his artistic research entitled Imagined Voices. As a composer and sound artist, Kyriakides is drawn to the possibilities of creating new hybrids and intersections between media. His artistic practice is not confined to a single tradition or form but instead searches for ways to generate fresh experiences of listening. Central to his work is the exploration of the relationship between music, words and images. In both his concert compositions and installation pieces, he has repeatedly investigated how language can merge with sound: encoding text into sonic systems, synthesizing voices, or projecting text to shape the perception of music. These experiments extend beyond mere accompaniment, opening up new ways of experiencing meaning in sound. In recent years, his curiosity has turned toward interactive and generative scores, where performers and audiences alike engage with music as a live process that evolves in real time. https://www.kyriakides.com/

  • S1 · E5
    October 10 · 44 min

    Anne La Berge: Pause Then

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Anne La Berge (with Yannis Kyriakides & Dario Calderone) Anne La Berge , a composer, improviser, and flutist who has spent her career pushing at the edges of both written and improvised music, drawing as much from storytelling and sound art as from traditional composition. Her work is rooted in the social and political currents she lives within, music that moves between the poetic and the political. Many of her pieces are built as open, multi-level structures, where performers follow flexible cues and shape the music together in the moment, often via phones, tablets, or laptops that give them genuine real-time agency. She is part of MAZE, as flutist and composer and for the upcoming festival she has created a new work called Pause Then that will find its MAZE premiere on 25 October.

  • S1 · E4
    October 3 · 43 min

    Dario Calderone: Dreamfield

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Dario Calderone (with Anne La Berge & Wiek Hijmans) Dario Calderone is a multidisciplinary artist, composer and musician, born in Rome and currently based in Amsterdam. He has made a significant contribution to the development of the solo double bass repertoire and his work spans composition, sound installation, recording, and community-based practices. He is deeply informed by Deep Listening as a method for artistic research, social engagement, and ecological awareness. In 2025, he co-founded Eco Acoustics, an artist-run platform that fosters listening as a tool to connect human and more-than-human worlds. His ongoing research includes dream yoga, collective dreaming, and listening to dreams as practices for community building and social transformation. His new work Dreamfield will be performed on 25 October in Splendor. https://dariocalderone.com/

  • S1 · E3
    September 26 · 47 min

    Jasna Veličković: Charged Room

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Jasna Veličković (with Anne La Berge & Wiek Hijmans) Jasna Veličković (RS/NL) is the Belgrade-born Dutch composer and performer based in Amsterdam. Her artistic output has been developed through an interaction between a life-long fascination with the sound, an enduring interest in an intricate encounter between music and technology, and an inclination toward experimentation. Since 2008 she has been exploring the musical capacities of the (electro) magnetic field – induction, interference – both as the source of sound and the compositional material. This preoccupation of hers became an ongoing research artistic project that she dubbed The Art of Coil. Her new work Charged Room will be premiered on 24 October by MAZE in Splendor.

  • S1 · E2
    September 19 · 1 hr 3 min

    Claudio F. Baroni: The Body Imitates the Landscape

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! 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

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! 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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