chris van rhyn

COMPOSITIONS

Artefactos 1 for piano, performed by Tinus Botha in the Sala Maria Clara Cullell in San Jose, Costa Rica, 2026 .

Emily Dickinson [public domain image by Av Ukjent / Yale University Manuscripts and Archives (n.d.), edited with Google Gemini].

Because I could not stop for death (electronic composition).

Audiovisual installation at the Instituto Italiano di Cultura di Abu Dhabi, 2026 [photo supplied by Moya Goosen, edited with Google Gemini].

Al Awir plane crash site outside Dubai [photo by Moya Goosen, 2021].

Al Awir: Tourist (electronic composition featuring sounds collected on site).

‘ad Astra’ from Prelude ad Astra for clarinet and piano [studio recording in the NWU Conservatory Hall, Potchefstroom, featuring Jill Richards (piano) and Morné van Heerden (clarinet); entire work performed at the 2023 ISCM World New Music Days by Michael Watt (piano) and Morné van Heerden (clarinet)].

Al Ghuraifa abandoned village near Al Madam, Sharjah, UAE [photo by Moya Goosen, 2021].

Al Ghuraifa: Super/Imposition (electronic composition featuring sounds collected on site).

Al Ghuraifa abandoned village near Al Madam, Sharjah, UAE [photo by Moya Goosen, 2021].

Al Ghuraifa: Windows (electronic composition featuring sounds collected on site).

Helen Martins’ ‘Owl House’ in Nieu-Bethesda, South Africa [photo by Robin Tweedie, 2003 / Wikimedia Commons, edited with Google Gemini].

The Road to Mecca for piano [performed by Juliana M. Pistorius at Harvard University’s Paine Hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2015].