Niets Dan IJsbergen

opera for soloist, electronics, and electric guitar

Libretto: Boris Bezemer

Duration: 21 minutes

With words from the surviving diary of Hidde Dirks Kat, a Dutch whaler whose ship was wrecked in the Arctic Ocean, when he set out for Greenland in 1777. His boat became trapped and got crushed in the ice.

Presented with:
Boris Bezemer – Electric Guitar
Jasper Leever – Hidde Dirks Kat
Anthony Heidweiller – Hidde Dirks Kat
Job Hubatka – Hidde Dirks Kat
Siying Li – Electronics
Mathijs de Valk – Electronics
Fedde ten Berge – Sound sculptures
Marcel Sijm – Stage Director

Presented at:
Perdu, Amsterdam (NL)
Sexyland, Amsterdam (NL)
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam (NL)
Hervormde Kerk, Hollum (NL)

Commissioned by Dolph Kessler and Egbarta Veenhuizen

Photos by Mo Verlaan