related works
Boundless (Homage to L.B.) : for string orchestra, harp, keyboards and percussion / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
timp 5perc hp synth/cel str
Symphony I : for orchestra, 1953-1954 / version 1991, made by Willem Boogman, Rudolf Escher
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4444 sax 4431 2timp perc cel 2hp str(14.14.12.10.8.)
Het aggregaat / Michael Fahres
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Anion : symfonische schets, (1950) / Karel Mengelberg
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 timp perc cel 1-2hp str
composition
365 : for orchestra, 2006 / Joey Roukens
Other authors:
Roukens, Joey
(Composer)
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.