Terribly Happy (2025): song for soprano & electronics

Audio HERE

Score HERE

Semantic Analysis (2023): duet for soprano and percussion 

Audio HERE

Score HERE

Aftermath (2025): Instrumental composition for opera Eat Me (with B'Rock Orchestra) 

Audio HERE

Score HERE

Artist’s note on the submitted materials

Jonathan Bonny’s recent compositional practice is strongly interdisciplinary and is situated primarily within theatre, dance and music-theatre contexts. As a result, no single score or recording fully represents his work. His compositions frequently combine live performers with electronics, sound processing, visual or theatrical elements, and audience interaction.

His compositional process is also collaborative: musical material is often further developed with performers during rehearsals. Consequently, the written score functions as part of a broader creative process and may differ from the final performance.

Stemmen in Transitie brings together several elements that have developed throughout Bonny’s recent work while also entering new artistic territory. He has extensive experience writing for voices in music-theatre contexts, most recently in an opera created with B’Rock Orchestra combining classical and popular vocal practices. The methodology of using recorded conversations and interviews as source material for an electronic soundscape was previously explored in his performance All About Us.

For Stemmen in Transitie, these strands come together in a new form: recorded voices and personal narratives become compositional material for a work combining electronics with eight professional singers and the recorded and live voices of trans participants. It will be Bonny’s first work specifically conceived for a vocal ensemble of this kind.

The submitted materials should therefore be understood as complementary examples of different aspects of his practice, rather than as direct models for the new composition.