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Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin
Scoring: vl

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Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello); Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s); String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello) with multimedia
Scoring: 2vl vla vc (tape ad lib.)

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Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello) with multimedia
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Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello); Electronics with different instruments; String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello) with multimedia
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composition

The Body of your Dreams : version for string quartet & soundtrack with concertvideo ad lib. / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis; arr. by José Oliver Riojas

Publisher's number: 23772
Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello) with multimedia
Scoring: sax-s sax-a sax-t sax-b soundtrack
Remarks: Commissioned by Deutschlandfunk and composed in December 2002. First performance and radio recording March 15 2003 at Forum neuer Musik! during a live performance by Kees Wieringa at DLF in Cologne, Germany. The score was revised in 2004. In 
September 2005 it was recorded by the American pianist Andrew Russo on: 
JacobTV - Shining City, Basta Records 3091742 A version for guitar duo was made by the Groningen Guitar Duo and released on their last album: The Body of your Dreams, Basta Records 3091922 In 2020, the Argentinian guitarist Emmanuel Graglia revised that version and recorded it his 3d EP dedicated to the music of JacobTV. Other versions, for resp. sax quartet and string quartet, were arranged by the late José Oliver Riojas. JacobTV created a concert video to the piece in 2015.
In 2018, Myles Thatcher created a ballet on the original piano version for Joffrey Ballet in Chicago.
Duration: 8'35"
Number of players: 4
Year of composition: 2002/rev.2004
Status: fully digitized (real-time delivery)

Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Composer)
Description:
The Body of your Dreams is based on the speech grooves. Jacob TV turned once again to American television, using a cheesy advertisement for a weight- loss product. The presenters enthusiastically demonstrate an electronic slimming belt, a device whose fine-turned wave transmissions will vibrate fat away: no sweat, no workout! ‘It’s one of the easiest ways ever to get your body in the shape you want it. It helps to tone and tighten your upper abs, lower abs, arms and legs with no sweat at all!. It's one of the simplest, smallest and most comfortable toning devices ever. You can use it while watching television, doing the dishes, mowing the lawn.....you decide! It also works great as an abdominal toning device while you are working out on your elliptical trainer or your treadmill; or while you are out for your daily walk. It's easy and effective. And no sweat!
‘It's most unlikely that the slim Dutchman Jacob TV has ever tried out the slimming belt himself. But he has discovered the musical potential of the endlessly-repeated commercial: the kick of feeling good, the joyful cries over pounds lost, and the faked excitement of endorsements. Jacob TV has forged the words together into an artistic polyphony of consumer terror, which he lets blare from a boombox. The pianist is the first victim: bar-pianist, sports-star and keyboard-machine in one, he has to follow the staccato of the speech, fitting his chords and minimalistic rhythms in between’ , Michael Struck-Schloen wrote for Deutschlandradio, 17-March-'03.

Sheet Music
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