A Journey of Artistic Discovery Across Europe
ULYSSES CO-COMMISSION – JAIME BELMONTE
Organised by IRCAM, Time Of Music, France - Finland
The ULYSSES Platform supports emerging composers with commissions.
In 2025, Ircam and Time of Music are commissioning Spanish emerging composer Jaime Belmonte.
Jaime Belmonte is a Spanish-Finnish composer, conductor, singer, and artistic researcher based in Helsinki. He works as a doctoral researcher at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, where his artistic research explores how collaborating across disciplines and cultures challenges dominant artistic ontologies, reshaping his compositional practice and raising questions of creative agency, power, and collective authorship. His work is marked by an openness to transcultural dialogue and the use of space, technology, and extended techniques to create immersive, architecturally informed sound worlds. In parallel to his academic research, Jaime works as an independent composer, engaging in commissioned projects across Europe.
At Manifeste 2025
In his new work Cinq Regards sur 2024 (Five glances at 2024), composed for the Yarn/Wire ensemble, Jaime Belmonte reflects on different perspectives of the year 2024: the climate crisis, war, a society glued to technology, the composer’s own work, and his family. Recordings from news broadcasts, home videos, phone conversations and other recordings build a bridge between each other. The composition is a co-commission by Time of Music, IRCAM, and Radio France.
Programme
Alex Mincek Images of Duration – French Premiere
Lisa Streich Orchestra of Black Butterflies – French Premiere
Jaime Belmonte Cinq Regards sur 2024 – Premiere 2025
Ensemble Yarn/Wire:
Laura Barger, piano
Julia den Boer, piano
Russell Greenberg, percussion
Sae Hashimoto, percussion
Rémi Le Taillandier IRCAM electronics
Serge Lacourt IRCAM sound diffusion
At Time of Music 2025
Programme
Jaime Belmonte: Cinq Regards sur 2024 (2025, Finnish premiere)
Alex Mincek: Images of Duration (2018)
Yarn/Wire:
Laura Barger, piano
Julia den Boer, piano
Russell Greenberg, percussion
Dennis Sullivan, pecussion
Rémi Le Tallandier, electronics
Serge Lacourt , sound diffusion
