The ULYSSES Network supports young composers with co-commissions.
In this framework,  Ircam (FR) and Royaumont Foundation (FR) decided to co-commission the Filipino, Austria-based composer Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis to create a new piece for ensemble and electronics with the ULYSSES Ensemble 2021.

In this work, the musicians not only use their instruments but also their voices, creating a new communication language based on an audio archive of Fabio Dalasay singing the epic of Agyu by Agusan Manobo.
On this occasion, Feliz is benefitting from a residency in the Ircam studios in Paris.

Her work premieres in June 2021 during the Festival ManiFeste-21, and then goes on tour to Royaumont Foundation. It is then performed at Gaudeamus in Utrecht, Netherlands, in 2022, and by the Ensemble ULYSSES in Paris, France at Manifeste 2024.

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