related works
Two Sides : for alto saxophone, cello and piano / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
sax-a vc pf
13 Epigrams : for orchestra, 2000 / Andreas Kunstein
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 sax 4231 timp 2perc hp pf(toy pf) str
Poème pour un homme bien-aimé : pour orchestre, 1981 / Robert Dispa
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 timp 3perc 2hp pf str
Variaties voor orkest : opus 68 / Louis Toebosch
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2322 2220 timp perc str
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…