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10 reasons to compose
1. Stretching time
2. Looking for trouble
3. Number-fetishism
4. Crazyness
5. Promises
6. Neurosis
7. Sex, drinks & well-baked goose-liver
8. Not being good for anything else
9. To have a 'aussergewöhnlich lustig' idea (free after Stockhausen)
10. Not to sleep

 
Berlin
From the summer of 2011 to the summer of 2012 Mayke Nas is a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD (Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst / German Academic Exchange Service)
Article in the DAAD-magazine by Eva Blaskewitz, 27 december 2011
Artikel in Der Tagesspiegel by Frederik Hanssen, 30 november 2011
 
Now in the making
Down the Rabbit-Hole for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
 
Recently finished
New version of La Chocolatière Brûlée (2005/2011) for the Nieuw Ensemble
New version of plons (2009/2011) for the Nieuw Ensemble
New version of Douze Mains (2008/2011) for the Bowling Green New Music Festival, Ohio (USA)
PVC (Petrochemical Vibration Construction) (2011) for Hexnut, with photographs of Oil Refineries by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky
 
Video
      
 
DVD
I Delayed People's Flights By Walking Slowly In Narrow Hallways, written for Percussion Group The Hague in collaboration with Wouter Snoei, is beautifully filmed by Jellie Dekker and available on DVD together with 'Parade' by Guo Wenjing, 'Morphus/Amorphus' by Anthony Pateras and '7 dances for percussion 4-tet' by Peter Adriaansz. more >>
 
CD
No reason to panic, written for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, is available on CD together with works by Michel van der Aa, Otto Ketting, Tristan Keuris en Sofia Gubaidulina. more >>
 
Snackbar!
Especially for composers - and other people - there is a snackbar with YouTube-refreshments, originally designed for The Ear Reader. more >>