Pia Meuthen
Album Dance Works
14 December 2025
Over the past two decades, I have composed music for a variety of choreographers—sound worlds that do not stand alone but move, breathe, and respond. Music that follows the breath of a body, a scene, a beam of light, a gesture that cannot be repeated. Much of this work was written for dancers, and is therefore as fleeting as the performances it belonged to.
This album brings together a selection of that music, revisited now without the dance, yet still full of physical resonance. Each piece bears traces of the rehearsal studio, the stage, the tension of a premiere. The electronic textures, pulsing patterns, and whispered field recordings are fragments of worlds that once moved—now transformed into a space for listening.
The works stem from collaborations with choreographers who have shaped how I think about music and space each time: Wubkje Kuindersma, Jana Bitterovà, Pia Meuthen and Club Guy & Roni.
In a way, these compositions form their own choreography—of tone and texture, of memory and motion. They land here, for the first time together, as echoes of what was once performed, danced, and shared.
Available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp.
Each Time We Fall a City Rises
26 September 2019
In Each Time We Fall, A City Rises, Panama Pictures shows a world about to be thrown off balance. Stumbling, falling and flying, the performers look for something to hold on to, if even for a moment. In several tableaux, the performance unravels our desire to create a sense of security as a buffer against all things we are unable to control.
The rhythmic language of acclaimed poet Maria Barnas inspired choreographer Pia Meuthen’s new creation. In a striking setting – sloping surfaces combined with shelters high in the air – the performers succumb to a world that seems utterly unsettled. As they become unbalanced, new perspectives open up.
For Each Time We Fall, A City Rises composer Anthony Fiumara and duo Strijbos & Van Rijswijk enter into a special collaboration: they compose music as in a dialogue. Fiumara’s music which is related to minimal music encounters the electro-acoustic compositions of Strijbos & Van Rijswijk.
The human voice, in all its facets and expressiveness, is central to the joint composition performed live by singer Els Mondelaers. Her vocals provide support, disruption, threat and comfort.