composer

Boogman, Willem

Willem Boogman was born in 1955 and grew up near the river IJssel (Netherlands). He studied Philosophy at the University of Utrecht for a year (1974-1975). Then he went to ...

related works

Album : for piccolo (solo and various instruments) / W. Boogman, V. Lann, N. McGowan, P-J. van Rossum, C. Rumondor, A. Segall, B. Spaan; Initiated and edited by Ilonka Kolthof

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Instruments: picc / picc elec / picc pf / picc mar

At the party : for percussion quartet, 1990 / Srđan Dedić

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Percussion
Instruments: 4perc

Mallets : for 4 marimbas and vibraphone (4 players), 1994 / 1996 / Martin Lo-A-Njoe

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Percussion
Instruments: 3mar mar(vibr)

The fifth sun : for percussion quartet, opus 20, 2001 / Marijn Simons

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Percussion
Instruments: 4perc

composition

Genieting II : for extended vibraphone, 2002 / Willem Boogman

Description:
Program note (English): Fourteen of the 37 bars of the vibraphone are to be prepared in such a way that the original timbre of the note is distorted. In order to draw the listener yet further away from the vibraphone's sound, the player is required to choose 12 additional percussion instruments (at specific designated pitches) in the 'colours' wood, metal, glass and stone. Of the many possibilities, I consider the timbre of the cymbal the furthest removed from that of the vibraphone. One excellent extension is the Glockenspiel, whereby one extends the range of the vibraphone by five notes at the high end of the register.
'Genieting' is the translation of the term 'jouisssance' (enjoyment), as used by the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. - WILLEM BOOGMAN