Hello there! This is the home of Mikrokosmos.
Mikrokosmos is a collaboration between Fuse and twelve composers to create an awesome collection of new music.
Read more about the composers and the project on this website and follow the creation of Mikrokosmos towards it’s release in 2023.
About Fuse
With their bold approach to string music and exciting stage presence, Fuse is one of the most popular instrumental formations coming from The Netherlands. Utilizing their signature line-up (a string quartet with double bass and drums) the Amsterdam-based sextet is able to evolve from their classical and jazz roots, and bring a unique style to the stage. Both written and improvised music are organically part of the band’s technically complex but catching crossover live-sets. Fuse finds it’s origins as trailblazers of an upcoming classical music movement in Amsterdam. A group of like-minded music students decides to organize their own concerts series. For two years they successfully hosted monthly club-nights, which became an important kick-of for the group. In 2015, Fuse was invited to become the house band for a popular Dutch TV-show about classical music and related genres. It marked their breakthrough to the general public and in 2019 they received the Dutch Edison Public Choice Award). Fuse released three albums titled “Studio”, available to listen on all major platforms.
“Fuse has that mysterious ‘extra bit’. The musicians literary fuse when they play together, becoming one musical body. The fun and energy in their performance is infectious. They speak to each other via their instruments. What do they say? You can only guess. They share a secret that draws you in.” – NRC
Mikrokosmos is a collaboration between Fuse, two visual artists and 12 international composers.
The Mikrokosmos composers work together with Fuse to create twelve musical chapters of a human life: we are born, become conscious, learn to interact with others, we get inspired, play, create, fall in love, go through crisis, and dissolve. This approach is a starting point for our creative journey with the composers; a conversation starter about life, creativity and music.
The music evolves
In time we become wiser, more experienced, more mature. The dynamics of these transitions can be described with the four basic elements of Nature: Fire, Earth, Air and Water. In a full life cycle, we go through these four transitions three times.
The cycle complete
This results in 12 phases: Awaken (fire), Ground (Earth), Grow (Air), Animate (Water), Sparkle (Fire), Reflect (Earth), Harmonise (Air) Transform (Water), Expand (Fire), Crystallize (Earth), Liberate (Air), Dissolve (Water).
