related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Sonate : pour clarinette basse, piano et bande magnétique, 1981 / Luctor Ponse

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Clarinet and keyboard instrument; Electronics with different instruments; Clarinet and keyboard instrument with multimedia
Scoring: cl-b pf tape

Hoe hard is hout : for soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, computer and sound generators, 1989 - 1992 / Geurt Grosfeld, Henri Broeren

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone; Electronics with different instruments; Saxophone with multimedia
Scoring: 4sax computer electronics

Toccare for soundtracks and harpsichord : 1988 / Ton Bruynèl

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Harpsichord; Electronics with different instruments; Harpsichord with multimedia
Scoring: cemb tape

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.