The adventurous string quartet Quatuor Bozzini celebrates its 25th anniversary at Gaudeamus Festival 2025 with three concerts. On the Saturday Night they are joined by Andy Moor (guitarist for legendary Dutch punk band The Ex) and Gaudeamus Award jury member Yannis Kyriakides (who won the Award himself in 2000), for the latter’s piece Hypnokaséta.
Hypnokaséta is a continuous set of 16 pieces for string quartet, improviser and live electronics. The title of the piece (Greek for ‘sleep-cassette’) refers to a theory of dreams proposed by philosopher Daniel Dennett, that says that dreams are loaded into consciousness like a cassette tape during the night and played just before waking. Accounts of Kyriakides’ dreams during the first few months of the lockdown are encoded in the score for the string instruments and encrypted in the electronic sound textures.