related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Kielwater : for alto saxophone, violoncello and soundtracks, 1996 / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind and string instrument(s); Electronics with different instruments; Wind and string instrument(s) with multimedia
Scoring: sax-a vc tape

Sparkle : for bass clarinet and tape, 1989 / Takayuki Rai

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

Back to the beginning again? : for bassoon and tape, 1984 / Lárus Halldór Grímsson

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Bassoon; Electronics with different instruments; Bassoon with multimedia
Scoring: 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.