related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Dwaallicht : voor fluit en tape, 1995 / op tekst van Hans Faverey, Willem Jeths
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Flute; Electronics with different instruments; Flute with multimedia
Scoring:
fl tape
Fantasia IV : de aarde, voor basklarinet en klanksporen, 1988 / Hans van Eck
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Clarinet; Electronics with different instruments; Clarinet with multimedia
Scoring:
cl-b tape
Border-Lines : for tuba and taped synthesizer, 1990 / David Little
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Tuba; Electronics with different instruments
Scoring:
tb tape
composition
Les Soupirs de Rameau : for harpsichord & soundtrack with video ad lib. / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
Description:
The composition was inspired by ‘Les Soupirs’ from the Suite no.2, Pièces de Clavecin, 1724 by Jean Philippe Rameau. The work contains typical baroque characteristics, like symmetry, ornamentation, fugato structures, arpeggios, a basso continuo and a passacaglia. The harpsichord itself is subject of the work. The instrument was sampled in every possible way, by microphone and camera. The centrifugal music gradually transforms the small sound of the harpsichord into a mechanical monster that threatens to explode, whereas the images are much more centripetal, still and intimate, focalising.