related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
For Morty Feldman, II : for tuba solo and pre-recorded tape, 1991 / James Fulkerson
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Tuba; Electronics with different instruments
Scoring:
tb tape
Berg : for clavichord and tape, 1986 / Hans Poort
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord; Electronics with different instruments; Harpsichord with multimedia
Scoring:
clav tape
Antiphonie : voor blaaskwintet en vier klanksporen / Ton de Leeuw
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet; Electronics with different instruments; Wind quintet with multimedia
Scoring:
fl ob cl h fg 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.