Mezzo-soprano Els Mondelaers (B) and composer Dyane Donck (NL) combine their various skills in a performance concept in which modern classical composition meets pop and electronic music. For this concept, the audience wears wireless headphones - a Silent Disco system - to experience the most intimate and subtle yet immersive and overwhelming 'soundscapes & songs'. The added value of hearing the concert via headphones is the use of binaural audio, pre-recorded as well as live: a special technique that causes a 3D-audio experience - a massage for the ears.
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NYX premiered at November Music 2018 their ambitious headphone opera: MYRIAM, a co-production of Transparant (Belgium), Operadagen Rotterdam (NL), Podium Bloos and November Music (NL). In this opera classical singing, psychedelic pop music, beats, live electronics, 3D sound and video art will merge.

 

Currently, Nyx is working on a new project The Corona Drawings together with the Gumboy Orchestra of the Dyane Donck Company. Together with the Dance Company of Jelena Kostic they will premiere the production Your Last trip in July 2022. In 2023 they will present their new unique music theatre production Gender Bender. 

 
Some audience feedback: 
'...I had the feeling the concert was real close and intimate and meant to be especially for me...'
'...it was a very special experience, something I had never seen and heard before...'
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So: grab a headphone and enter the world of NYX!