Billy Bultheel

Billy Bultheel is a composer who’s work lies at the intersection of performance art and music. He often composes for site-specific projects that bring together spatial speaker installations , performance art and live music. His music is routed in the electronic tradition, but deeply inspired by renaissance music, early baroque and medieval polyphony. His compositions are dark and melancholic and translate through noise, ambient metal and experimental orchestration. Bultheel studied composition at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, Holland and performance and choreography at the Institute for applied theatre science, Gießen, Germany. Amongst his solo work 'When Doves Cry' at the Schinkel Pavillon (Berlin, 2019), 'Spat from My Mouth, a piano concerto' at KW (Berlin, 2019), ‘The Minutes of Olomouc’ (PAF 2021), Songs for the Contract (folia.app 2021), Songs I-IV at the 7th Athens Biennial amongst others. In 2012 he started his collaboration with the German performance artist Anne Imhof, working as a performer and composer in Imhof's early performances, movies and installation. He composed music for Imhof's exhibition-as-opera Angst (2016), Faust (2017) and Sex (2019) alongside with Eliza Douglas and Imhof herself and received major acclaim. Furthermore Bultheel composes music for the choreographer Michele Rizzo and has recently written for the Satire ΙΧΝΕΘΑΙ/TRACKERS (2021) by Sophocles which was presented at the ancient amphitheatre of Epidavros, Greece.