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In Chinese philosophy, before the beginning of matter, there is just nothingness - such emptiness that for a human being it is not possible to imagine it. From emptiness, borders are created (Xing) to make a form for a perceivable emptiness (Wu). Some of the other meanings of Xing are: "new beginning", "to wake up", "to conduct".
The form of the piece was inspired by the physical string theory in which collisions of gigantic string-shaped structures give birth to the new universes operating with different dimensions and physical rules. In the piece, conductors deciding tempi of separate structures causes their meetings and beginnings of new small soundscapes...
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Latest editions
- Verstomde stilte : for guitar / Bob Wander
- Ricochet : Version for bass clarinet and percussion / Ned McGowan
- 10 pieces of 10 : for solo instruments or voice (Edition for B flat instruments) / Maarten Ornstein
- That All Changes : for guitar / Jan-Peter de Graff
- The Paralyzed : for mixed (amateur) choir / Marijn Simons
- Lullaby : Version for violin, alto saxophone and piano / Nimrod Borenstein
- Detune : for piano / David Mastikosa
- Nocturne : for piano / Daniel Ruyneman
- zouhetfijnvindenalsjeietsvanjeliethoren : for female speakers, piano and ensemble / Piet-Jan van Rossum
- and somewhere in between : for soprano, tenor trombone, piano, violin, double bass and loudspeakers / Piet-Jan van Rossum
Popular works
- Études opus 66 : for piano / Nimrod Borenstein
- Canto Ostinato : voor toetsinstrumenten, 1976-79 / Simeon ten Holt
- Lullaby : Version for piano / Nimrod Borenstein
- Xing : for 2 conductors and ensemble / Adam Łukawski
- Afterwalk (après promenade) : for partially prepared piano / Christina Viola Oorebeek
- Acqua Alta : for mixed choir and ensemble / Valery Voronov; text by J. Brodsky, F. Petrarca, W. Shakespeare, F. Tyutchev, F. Nietzsche, E. Dickinson, B. Ryzhy, D. Strotsev
- 10 pieces of 10 : for solo instruments or voice / Maarten Ornstein
- Symphony Nº 10 (Unfinished) : Chronological Transcriptions of the Sketches, Short Scores and Orchestral Drafts / Gustav Mahler; Frans Bouwman, editor
- .., e poi c’era… : Symphony Nº 1 / Luc Brewaeys
- L' indifférent : pour quatuor à cordes / Hendrik Andriessen