related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Gramvousa : for flute, bass clarinet, piano and tape, 1995 / Roderik de Man
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Woodwind ensemble and keyboard instrument; Electronics with different instruments; Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring:
fl cl-b pf tape
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players); Saxophone with multimedia; Electronics with different instruments; Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring:
sax-a tape/sax-a cemb perc
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet; Electronics with different instruments; Wind quintet with multimedia
Scoring:
fl ob cl fg h 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.