related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Toccare : for soundtracks and piano / visualized by Paul van Reeuwijk, by Ton Bruynèl

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano; Electronics with different instruments; Piano with multimedia
Scoring: pf tape

De sonate nr. 1 : voor 1 tot 5 spelers en elektronische klanken, 1969/83 / Victor Wentink

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Variable instrumentation; Electronics with different instruments; Variable instrumentation with multimedia
Scoring: 1-5 instr. electronics

Split country : for violin, bass clarinet and tape, 1992 / Gerda Geertens

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind and string instrument(s); Electronics with different instruments; Wind and string instrument(s) with multimedia
Scoring: vl cl-b 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.