Commission to Piyawat Louilarpprasert

As part of the Spaceship Ensemble’s new concert series, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation supports a commission to composer Piyawat Louilarpprasert. The program includes premieres by Louilarpprasert, Mari Moko, and Julian Maple-Oliveira.

Louilarpprasert’s piece, Futuristic Octopus, is an installation for eight players using custom-made “tentacle” instruments and kinetic sound objects. Inspired by his earlier work with the Spaceship Ensemble at Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2022, the piece continues Louilarpprasert’s interest in human-machine hybrids and body-based sound production. Performers interact with the tentacle-like instruments and air-driven devices that create underwater-like textures, such as bubbling, gurgling, and air-pressure-based sounds. Futuristic Octopus is completely free of electronics, instead relying on live, immersive performance practices.

The program also includes a kinetic sound sculpture by Mari Moko, which explores tensions between microtonality and Kodály-style pentatonic scales, and The Legendairy Mecha-Cow by Julian Maple-Oliveira—a piece with a fictional narrative around a mechanized cow figure.

Further Information:
spaceshipensemble.com

Dates

October 18, 2025
Korzo Theater, The Hague (NL)

November 9, 2025
November Music, Den Bosch (NL)

February 21, 2026
Dag in de Branding, The Hague (NL)

October 20, 2026
Het Cenakel, Tilburg (NL)