composer
Testimony:
__recording one-arm bandits in Las Vegas for “and god invented dice”
__developing new instruments like the soundwheel, plexiphone, the wind-twirler
__making a sound painting of of Tesla plasma lamps in slow motion ...
related works
Afterwalk (après promenade) : for partially prepared piano / Christina Viola Oorebeek
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Sur place : voor blaasensemble, piano en contrabas, 1990 / Jan Bus
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
1000 3sax 1330 pf cb
Transition states : for chamber ensemble, 2003 / revision 2004 / Ernst Oosterveld
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
fl(pic) ob cl cl-b fg h trp trb tb 2perc hp pf 2vl vla vc cb
Attach : for ensemble and soundtrack, 1999 / Michel van der Aa
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
ob cl cl-b fg trp perc 2vl vla vc cb tape
composition
Una cicala innamorata : il pandemonio in arcadia, for ensemble, 1999 / revision 2000 / Christina Viola Oorebeek
Description:
Program note (English): The musical and visual imagery behind 'una Cicala innamorata' was conceived listening to the sounds in a summer field in Akiyoshidai, Japan. The perfect orchestration of rhythm, tone color and melodic motive was disturbed only by the listener. The soundscape evoked echos of Arcadia, the pastoral paradise of escape and (oft unconsummated) desire, conceived and recreated throughout European history. The god Pan is a central figure in Arcadia, spending his time chasing after nymphs, playing his pipes and lording over shepherds, driving them to bouts of pendemonium from time to time. The instrumentation of the Nieuw Ensemble seemed ideal for music on this subject. The scene is set in a static ambiance, out of which small episodes of interaction follow between various combinations of instruments, using two melodic modes in a free manner. The rhythmic musical material is a translation of insect sounds heard in Akiyoshidai and is based on the numeric relations in symmetrical,
mathematical squares. - CHRISTINA VIOLA OOREBEEK