related works
Allarme enigmatico : for string quartet / Bram Kortekaas
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vn vla vc
Persephone : for brass orchestra / Kees Olthuis
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
5trp 3bug (trp) sax-s sax-a sax-t sax-b 4h 3tb-t 3trb 2bas timp 3perc
Epilogue X-II : voor orkest / Hans Lachman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3fl 3ob 2cl 3bn 4h 3tr 3trb 3tb 1 timp perc str
Wintergezicht : for orchestra, 1994-1995 / Micha Hamel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4231 4perc cel hp pf str
composition
Cosmic Cliffs : for chamber orchestra / Bram Kortekaas
Author(s):
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