scored for cello and piano

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duration 17 minutes 

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Testimonies of the Unseen forms a series of inner testimonies: feelings, thoughts, and experiences that are difficult to name yet deeply resonant. The work unfolds within a slow, introspective soundscape, where stillness, tension, and emotional layering take center stage.

 

The Way of Melancholy explores a state of quiet wistfulness. The music does not follow a linear trajectory but circles around an inner gravity, as if melancholy were not merely an emotion, but a way of being. In About Agony and the Angel of Acceptance, the tension intensifies. Pain and acceptance coexist here as inseparable forces. The music balances between resistance and surrender, as though suffering becomes bearable only once it is acknowledged. Laments on an Everlasting Loss of Liberty addresses a deeper, more collective loss. Here, mourning takes on a political and existential dimension: the realization that freedom can disappear and may never fully return. The music slows, repeats, laments, and allows time to congeal into a sustained act of lamentation.

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The Way of Melancholy 

About Agony and the Angel of Acceptance 

Laments on an Ever-Lasting Loss of Liberty

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In December 2022 the beloved composer Wim Henderickx suddenly died. The piece is dedicated to him. 

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