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
Stadium : for two pianos, 1981 / Diderik Wagenaar
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
2pf
Deliberatio / Factio : for piano solo, 1996 / Ludwig Otten
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Sérénade de Printemps : voor piano / Jan Nieland
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
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.