related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Albedo II : for bass clarinet, guitar and electronic music (CD), 2000 / Jan Vriend

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Electronics with different instruments; Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring: cl-b g CD

Sambúdar sundurpykkja : for horn, harpsichord and tape, 1981 / Lárus Halldór Grímsson

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players); Electronics with different instruments; Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring: h cemb tape

Oh beminnelijk litteken : voor fluit (altfluit), bandoneon en geluidsband, 1990-1991 / teksten van Lucebert, Caroline Ansink

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players); Electronics with different instruments; Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring: fl(fl-a) bando tape

composition

Pitch Black : for brass quintet with multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis; arr. Steven Verhelst

Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Composer)
Description:
The speech grooves for this piece come from from one of the last interviews with trumpet player Chet Baker, before his tragic death by falling from an Amsterdam hotel room window in 1988.
Baker talks about his past as a drug addict, his life in prison (‘it was pitch black in there you know’) his first audition with Charlie Parker (‘among 40 other trumpet players - no no, I mean 60‘) and
playing without drums (‘more cool’). So speech grooves are the leitmotifs in Pitch Black.