related works
Raas en de basketbal : Versie voor verteller en kamerorkest / Bram Kortekaas; tekst Jibbe Willems
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Speaking voice and orchestra
Scoring:
spreekstem 2fl/picc 2ob 2cl 2fg/cfg 2h 2tpt trb [erc str
Unison : for orchestra, 1994/95 / Tera de Marez Oyens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl fl(pic) ob ob(eh) 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp 3perc hp str(14.12.10.8.6.)
Joodse Rapsodie - Hatikwah : voor orkest / Israel Olman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Aioon : for orchestra, 2001 / Wim Laman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3323 2sax 4231 4perc pf str(14.14.12.10.8.)
composition
Cosmic Cliffs : for chamber orchestra / Bram Kortekaas
Other authors:
Kortekaas, Bram
(Composer)
Description:
In 2015 I wrote a composition inspired by an image from the Hubble Space Telescope: The Pillars of Creation. Recently, NASA published the first images that are made with their new James Webb Space Telescope. It includes a picture of the Cosmic Cliffs: a cosmic landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” at the edge of the Carina Nebula, the birthplace of new stars.
The new image captivated me and seemed to deserve a composition of its own. While composing, I envisioned a visit by the Voyager 1 spacecraft to the Cosmic Cliffs. In my imagination it performs its cosmic concert by playing the Voyager Golden Record, which includes amongst others a recording of the Georgian choral song “Chakrulo”. This choir has infinite space as its concert hall, but, perhaps, no-one to listen to it.
The composition mixes a number of feelings and impressions, like the awe for the beauty of the cosmos and the incomprehensible size of the Cosmic Cliffs with its peaks of seven lightyears tall, the desolateness of space and the lonesome trajectory of the Voyager Spacecraft and its music.
Bram Kortekaas