related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Malpaís con campanas : for large orchestra, 1997-2000, revision 2005 / Gustavo A. Trujillo
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4341 3perc cel(pf) pf str
Fast lane woodpecker : for orchestra, 2001 / Giel Vleggaar
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4231 3perc hp str
Frithjof's Meerfahrt : concertstuk voor orkest, opus 5 / Johan Wagenaar
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl fl(pic) 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp 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…