Jacob Hieronymus

A video performance merging original music, contemporary dance and cinematic imagery filmed across Israel — from burnt forest and desert to the sea and the cities of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The work explores the nonlinear matter of time within historical circumstances that reveal the fragile continuity of human experience.

The score was first performed in Riga in September 2020, between the first and second waves of the pandemic, at a biennial then preoccupied with imagining possible futures. That recording is the soundtrack of this film, shot in Israel between 2024 and 2026.

A contemporary composition for solo harpsichord that takes a Mozartian model as its point of departure, translating the elegance and balance of the Viennese classical form into a modern study of proportion, texture and temporal sensibility.

Created in cooperation with the Faculty of Historical and Contemporary Performance at the Moscow Conservatory, the project bridges historical authenticity with contemporary perception. Performed by Maria Kurtinina on a two-manual harpsichord after a Couchet original — the work explores the fragile architecture of sound, where repetition and resonance reveal subtle transformations of time and emotion.

A cycle of short, narrative-based instrumental pieces — ‘musical theatre in miniature’. Each fragment suggests a scene, a gesture or an emotional transition, evoking the language of cinema and theatre through music alone.

The cycle exists as a computer realisation: sketches rather than finished recordings, made to carry the musical imagery itself. It was presented in that form at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in Riga.