related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Liwung : for gamelan and tape, 1977 / Will Eisma
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Gamelan; Electronics with different instruments; Gamelan with multimedia
Scoring:
gamelan tape
Ontketening II : voor slagwerk, live electronica en banden, (1984) / Jan Boerman
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Percussion; Electronics with different instruments; Percussion with multimedia
Scoring:
4perc tape electronics
Arc : for organ and four electronic sound-tracks, (1966) / Ton Bruynèl
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ; Electronics with different instruments; Organ with multimedia
Scoring:
org 4soundtracks
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.