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24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
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
Rookery Hill : for ensemble, 1998 / Diderik Wagenaar
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Electronics with different instruments
Scoring:
fl wx sax-a sax-t perc g g-b 2key vl vc
Entanglements : for one recorder player and magnetic tape, 1987, revision 1992 / Roderik de Man
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Recorder; Electronics with different instruments; Recorder with multimedia
Scoring:
rec 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.