composer
Joey Roukens (b. 1982) is an Amsterdam-based composer of contemporary classical music. He studied classical composition at Codarts University of the Arts and psychology at Leiden University. Since graduating in ...
related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Sinfonia : for chamber orchestra, 1985 / John Borstlap
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2333 2000 str
Ballet suite Spleen : for orchestra, 1960, revision 1994 / Hans Kox
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
0110 1320 timp 2perc str
Koranfragment : voor orkest / Wilbert Bulsink
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob ca 2cl bcl 2fg cfg 4hn 3trp 2trb btrb tba 4perc hp pf cel 14vl1 12vl2 10vla 8vlc 6cb
composition
365 : for orchestra, 2006 / Joey Roukens
Description:
365 can be listened to as a continuous musical stream, which – over the course of exactly 365 measures – takes on very different guises, eventually ending exactly at the point where the piece started (not unlike a year cycle of 365 days). In the piece I have tried to connect highly diverse stilistic references and gestures within a single quasi-symphonic architecture as organically as possible: from ethereal, impressionist-like textures to an almost Mahlerian rhetoric to minimalist passages with references to pop and jazz. In doing so, the music is sometimes consciously taken to the edge of kitsch and syrupy tonal harmonies and (what the old avant-garde considers) banal means of expression are not avoided.