related works
Forty to the Dozen : for two percussionists and piano à quatre mains / Bram Kortekaas
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2perc pf4h
Chapter three : Stage 1, for orchestra, 1997 / Enrique Raxach
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4441 timp 4perc 2hp pf str
Epiloog : for orchestra / Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3322 4231 timp perc hp str
Erinnerung / voor kamerorkest bewerkt door Hendrik Andriessen [in] 1977, Anton Bruckner
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2220 0000 hp str
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