related works

Vivarium Nocturnalis : for two violins and chamber ensemble / Peter Kerkelov

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: 2vn fl cl/cl-b vla vc pf

Wild Cat on a Honky Train : for ensemble / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl1 fl2 fg pf vl

Stretto : for flute, clarinet, guitar and violoncello, 1998 / Hanna Kulenty

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl cl g vc

Race to the bottom : for wind ensemble and band / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)

composition

Attempt at Screaming : for chamber ensemble / Peter Kerkelov

Author(s):
Kerkelov, Peter (Composer)
Description:
Written for ASKO/Schoenberg Ensemble within 9x7 project.
Everyone has had at least once this strong thirst to scream. I mean these inner screams which can bring a certain level of purification but for many reasons they never become a real, actual scream. It’s like a very big massive explosion which nobody hears. The screaming for me stays as a symbol of the strong will to reach outer spaces in ourselves. However, this idealistic notion is only a utopia as the human mind is not capable of even touching universes, only imagination is. Therefor I feel that we are inescapably trapped in this inter-space continuum where time is only a memory of the real world and our longing to overcome it, no matter how strong and insane it is, is staying endlessly an attempt - an attempt at screaming – feeling – knowing – living –

Peter Kerkelov