The MAZE Podcast
Season 1
by MAZE (feat. Anne La Berge, Yannis Kyriakides, Wiek Hijmans)
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.
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/
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.
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/
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.