Time is how you spend your love

Time is how you spend your love

Percussionist DOMNIQ, composer Samuel Adams, and the Marmen Quartet explore how time and space find their place within a concert for string quartet and percussion.

PREMIERED 30TH JANUARY 2026

STRING QUARTET | PERCUSSION | ELECTRONICS

Our lives are shaped by time, but how much of it do we truly devote to the things we love? In Time is how you spend your love, DOMNIQ joins composer Samuel Adams and the Marmen Quartet to explore how time and space influence our passions. The program offers a wide-ranging journey through music, from core repertoire for string quartet and solo percussion to unexpected collaborations between the two.

At the heart of Time is how you spend your love lies Adams’ Sundial, a work that paints a dreamlike landscape, enriched by dynamic lighting design and the spatial placement of sound. And when Beethoven repeats the same tiny motif no fewer than 48 times in the Scherzo of his Sixteenth String Quartet, it becomes clear that he, too, was a master of playing with time.

Facts & Figures

Practical Info

  • Performers on stage: 5

  • Technicians: 1 light

  • Premiere: January 2026 at String Quartet Biënnale

  • Available for single bookings

  • Duration: different versions possible, original version is 150 minutes (with/without lighting design also possible)

  • small/middle size venue or festivals

  • Tech summary requiered: full range PA, optional lights, floor space min. ± 4x6 m. (more details later)

Cast & Crew

  • DOMNIQ - Percussion & Electronics

  • Marmen Quartet - String Quartet

  • Samuel Adams - Composer

  • Light design - Floriaan Ganzevoort

  • Music by: Joseph Haydn, Casandra Miller, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gity Razaz, Morton Feldman, Samuel Adams

Bookings

Confirmed touring

String Quartet Biënnale Amsterdam - Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ - January 2026
Muziekgebouw Eindhoven - March 2027
Parkstad Limburg Theaters - Heerlen - March 2027
Het Concertgebouw - Amsterdam - March 2027

photos by Rob van Dam

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