composer
Testimony:
__recording one-arm bandits in Las Vegas for “and god invented dice”
__developing new instruments like the soundwheel, plexiphone, the wind-twirler
__making a sound painting of of Tesla plasma lamps in slow motion ...
related works
Afterwalk (après promenade) : for partially prepared piano / Christina Viola Oorebeek
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Sonate : for piano / Fania Chapiro
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
3 Sonatines : (No 45, 46, 47), voor piano, opus 962, opus 970, opus 974, 1999 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Muziek voor Frans : suite voor piano 4-handig, 1979 / Simon Pluister
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano 4 hands; Piano
Scoring:
pf4h
composition
Afterwalk (après promenade) : for partially prepared piano / Christina Viola Oorebeek
Description:
Afterwalk is an imagining of the reminiscences that Modest Mussorgsky might have had after his promenade through the exhibition of his dear friend Thomas Hartmann's works in 1874 in St. Petersburg, which he described in his monumental and famous composition, Pictures at an Exhibition.
In the A section, series of big chords sound in a sometimes unexpected order - perhaps musical images of great pillars in the museum space.
The melody of the Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition is quoted in free form, threading through the B-sections. It is fragmented and hesitating, played against deep bass tones with harmonic colors produced by a prepared device on the strings of those pitches.
The coda brings the melody of the Promenade back in a high register with an added 'prepared piano' effect, caused by chains laid on the strings of the piano.