related works
Gamut : for orchestra / Bram Kortekaas
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2tpt trb-b timp 2perc str
Schopenhauer-cantate : voor een zangstem en orkest, op. 22 / Géza Frid
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
medium 2222 1100 timp perc str
Lyric : alt-mezzo, orkest, 1973-'74 / Jacques Reuland
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt-m 2120 2200 str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
low 2222 2000 timp perc 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