Videos, Podcasts & YouTube Mixes
Music comes to life through movement, emotion, and atmosphere. In these videos, Belgian composer Kris De Ruysscher invites you into his musical world — a space where sound shapes storytelling and emotion unfolds naturally.
From intimate piano passages to expansive cinematic textures, Kris’s compositions blend sensitivity with depth, creating soundscapes that resonate beyond the final note. Each video offers a glimpse into his creative voice: expressive, refined, and deeply human.
Whether written for concert performance, visual media, or personal reflection, his music seeks to connect — to linger — and to speak where words fall short.
Discover the sound. Experience the story.
AD INFINITUM: HOW SHORT IS TIME?
BY KRIS DE RUYSSCHER
“How short is time?” That question, borrowed from Dutch poet Hendrik Marsman, became the heartbeat of my new composition, Ad Infinitum. In this work, I explore time not as a measure, but as a sensation — elastic, fragile, and deeply human. I’ve even considered renaming it Ad Libitum. That openness reflects my creative intent: every listener, every musician, experiences time differently. What feels like a brief instant to one may feel like eternity to another.
The piece is built on minimalist, repetitive structures — yet each cycle breathes and transforms. Eight violinists pass fragmented melodic lines to one another, like a living organism in motion. The sound moves through space, shifting between tension and release, silence and vibration. Silence, for me, is as important as the notes themselves. In that space between sounds, time stretches, bends, and reveals its essence. Whether it remains Ad Infinitum or evolves into Ad Libitum, one truth remains: in every repetition lies a question, and in every silence, perhaps, an answer.
MIKAWA - Why I love Japan
BY KRIS DE RUYSSCHER
美川 (Mikawa) (2025) is a slow and meditative chamber work for alto and baritone saxophones with string trio, inspired by an essential and deeply personal visit to Japan.
The title Mikawa, meaning “beautiful river,” evokes both flowing water and the quiet continuity of time — a landscape not only external, but inward. It is dedicated to the small fisherman's village near Kanazawa. This restrained musical language reflects an experience of stillness, attention, and deep listening — qualities often encountered in Japanese aesthetics and in moments of meaningful human connection.
Mikawa is taken from the album “The Opposite Sax”.
ALIEN: ASCENSION
BY KRIS DE RUYSSCHER
On the world once shaped by gods, one human is left behind. Alien: Ascension introduces us to a lone astronaut moving through a barren landscape like a ghost of a failed mission, the last echo of a crew that will never be named. Above him, his ship still circles in the upper sky, slowly spinning in the atmosphere, intact, unreachable, and utterly silent. Salvation reduced to a distant shape, forever beyond grasp. There is no signal, no answer, no promise of rescue. Only the long passage of time and the unbearable weight of knowing that survival has already lost its meaning.
