related works
Vanitas vanitatum : Three duos for violin and viola after David Bailly / Bram Kortekaas
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
vn vla
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bas-bar 1111 1111 timp 3perc hp pf str
Les errants : pour chant et orchestre / musique de Theo v.d. Bijl, poème de Emile Verhaeren
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
medium/low 2222 4000 cel hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
high 2130 2100 timp perc cel hp str
composition
Notenkrakers' notulen : for soprano and orchestra / Bram Kortekaas; text by Lex Bohlmeijer
Other authors:
Kortekaas, Bram
(Composer)
Description:
Noisemakers were used to disturb the performance of the Concertgebouworkest on the 17th of November 1969. They consisted of metal bug clickers and, according to some sources, a small number of rattles and flutes.
In this composition, the events of that evening are recreated with Noisemakers by all players in the orchestra, except the strings. The noise should grow organically and randomly in bar 16 and fade out in the same fashion in bar 18. The players should do no effort to align their noises with their fellow musicians in terms of tempo or rhythm.
Louis Andriessen’s personal noisemaker (in Dutch: knijpkikker) is preserved in the Notenkrakers archive at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam.
Bram Kortekaas