related works
In Unison : Concerto for two pianos and orchestra / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Scoring:
2pf-solo picc 2fl 3ob 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 3trb timp 3perc cel str
Symphonie : (a minor), for orchestra, 1931 / ed. by John Smit, Julius Röntgen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3232 4230 timp hp str
Zes symfonische epigrammen : = (Six symphonic epigrams), for orchestra, 1928 / Willem Pijper
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3fl fl(pic) 3ob eh 3cl cl-b 3fg cfg 4h 4trp 4trb tb timp 3perc cel str
Cybernetic object / Cybernetisch object : for orchestra / David Porcelijn
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
core group: 1011 sax-t 0001 3perc hp(ampl.) pf el.cemb free groups: 4442 2220 2vl-2vla-2vc-2cb-ampl.
composition
Out of control : for orchestra / Joey Roukens
Other authors:
Roukens, Joey
(Composer)
Description:
Out of Control is an orchestral work in which the material takes the most unforeseen directions, seemingly uncontrolled (or 'out of control'). Usually, when writing a piece, a composer tries to keep full control of his material. Notes often want to go in a certain direction by themselves, but sometimes as a composer you disagree with that direction (“no, this is too kitschy”) and then you exercise control to prevent the music from going in that direction. In this piece I wanted to see to what extent I could relinquish control and let the material take its own course.
The result is a piece that has something unbridled and spontaneous, but at the same time it is based on a carefully constructed ABABA structure (to avoid formlessness): the A sections consist of slow, reveling music - which may have both associations and evokes ambient-like music like Gustav Mahler's adagios -, while both B-sections consist of very energetic and rhythmic passages culminating in a climactic moment. In these B-sections, the unforeseen turns of the material are also most clearly audible: in the first B-section, for example, a grotesque fairground waltz suddenly appears, while in the second B-section the music gradually moves towards wild, pounding pop rhythms…