composer
Bram Kortekaas was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1989. He studied composition with Willem Jeths and Wim Henderickx at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, and political science at the University ...
related works
Made in Holland 17 New Dutch Blues : for piano / Elizabeth Gaskill
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Clair de lune : for soprano and orchestra / Alphons Diepenbrock; on words by Paul Verlaine
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 3fl(picc) 3ob 2cl cl-b 2fg 2h str
Coplas : (1935), (instrumentatie dec: 1942) / Henk Badings
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 2222 2200 timp perc str
De visitatie : voor alt en kamerorkest, 1936 / tekst: Gerard Wijdeveld, Fré Focke
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 1111 2100 timp perc 2vl vla vc cb
composition
Notenkrakers' notulen : for soprano and orchestra / Bram Kortekaas; text by Lex Bohlmeijer
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