related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Lucent aquarelle : 2001 / Takayuki Rai

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Electronics with different instruments

Fancy : for recorder quartet and soundtracks, 1997 / Wim de Ruiter

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Recorder and keyboard instrument; Electronics with different instruments; Recorder with multimedia
Scoring: 4rec tape

Blind boy Fuller : no. 1 (1966), revision (1968), for recorder (alto), piano, voice (facultative), a recording of "Thousand women blues" sung by Blind boy Fuller and recorded in Chicago 1940 / Jacques Bank

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Recorder and keyboard instrument; Electronics with different instruments; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s); Recorder and keyboard instrument with multimedia
Scoring: (voice ad lib.) rec-a pf 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.