related works

Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Isolation : for bass clarinet and tape (or 3 bass clarinets), 1980 / Takayuki Rai

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Clarinet; Clarinet with multimedia; Electronics with different instruments
Scoring: cl-b tape / 3cl-b

Fancy : for recorder quartet and soundtracks, 1997 / Wim de Ruiter

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Recorder and keyboard instrument; Electronics with different instruments; Recorder with multimedia
Scoring: 4rec tape

Albedo II : for bass clarinet, guitar and electronic music (CD), 2000 / Jan Vriend

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Electronics with different instruments; Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring: cl-b g CD

composition

Les Soupirs de Rameau : for harpsichord with multimedia / 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.