related works

Summer Preludes : for piano / Joey Roukens

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Serenade : for string ensemble and percussion / Maxim Shalygin

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: 4vln vla vc db perc

Pluri-interpretable : for a flute-player and a percussionist, (1972) / Koos Terpstra

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl(pic fl-a) perc

Gestures : (1981), originally written for a low range instrument and a keyboard instrument / arrangement for bass clarinet and accordion ensemble (1986) by Bernard van Beurden, Daan Manneke

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: cl-b 8acc 2acc-b

composition

In Transit : for string quartet and percussion / Joey Roukens

Other authors:
Roukens, Joey (Composer)
Description:
In Transit is a 15-minute piece for string quartet and percussion, in which the music sounds as if it is continually in flux, like a kind of endless search for stability, which is not reached until the last five minutes of the piece. The first ten minutes are highly energetic, vibrant and with a strong rhythmic element, full of syncopations that may evoke the sound of rock and electronic dance music. Because of the music’s persistent forward momentum, the listener feels as if he is in transit on a journey and doesn’t know what his destination will be. Sometimes the music becomes more threatening and dark, other times it sounds more uplifting and groovy. Also, sometimes the music takes a ‘wrong turn’ (such as the short slow intermezzo, after which the energy of before is quickly restored and the old road retaken). After 9 or so minutes the music gets more and more intense and finally explodes into a ferocious, plaintive climax. It is only after the climax has faded away that the piece reaches its destination in its last five minutes, where the restless energy gives way to a slow, expressive chorale-like conclusion.