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
Ouverture alla francese : per orchestra, 1969 / Jos van Amelsvoort
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2332 4331 timp perc cel hp str
Canzoni e rondo : per orchestra, opus 956, 1998 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
1122 2000 str
Anatoloose : for orchestra / Misja Mengelberg
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra; Voice and orchestra; Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring:
2222 2220 timp str (tape and woman's voice ad lib.)
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