related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord; Electronics with different instruments; Harpsichord with multimedia
Scoring:
cemb(synth) tape
Super - straight is coming down : for trombone and tape, 1984 / Tom Willems
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Trombone; Electronics with different instruments
Scoring:
trb tape
Het leven van Rosa Luxemburg : 1971 / Gilius van Bergeyk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Variable instrumentation; Electronics with different instruments; Electronic music
Scoring:
4melody-instr pf(cel) 3tapes / 5tapes
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.