related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Oog : for violoncello and tape / Michel van der Aa
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello; Electronics with different instruments; Cello with multimedia
Scoring:
vc tape
Black Rock Unfolding : for violoncello and live-electronics / Luc Brewaeys
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello with multimedia
Scoring:
vc elec
Believer : version for cello and multimedia with video ad lib. / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello with multimedia
Scoring:
vc soundtrack
composition
Tatatata : for cello and soundtrack with concert video ad lib. / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
Description:
The cello has to be tuned down a minor second to match the F# major speech groove (scordatura).
In 2002 a Tatatata version for low wind ensemble was arranged for the Dutch Wind Ensemble.
CD recording: NBE live EW0276 NBE CD009.
In 2004, a viola version was arranged for both Esther Apituley and Caleb Burhans.
In 2006 Tatatata Duo, a duo version for tenor sax and baritone sax was arranged, recorded by By Johan van der Linden & Willem van Merwijk. JacobTV - Shining City Basta 3091742
In 2018, JacobTV added concert video on footage from World War I, showing the madness of war.
Tatatata is based on a recording of an old man who met French poet Guillaume Apollinaire during World War I. Apollinaire sang a military tune to the boy, it went like: tata tata’, a sample from the past… It was during the mid nineties and I was experimenting in my studio with a brand new sampler, the Akai CD3000. For the first time I was able to expand and compress audio by time stretching, a new technique at the time. The results contained unexpected musical qualities, so I decided to compose an entire piece with this technique and the archaic audio blended well with the sound of the cello. In the apotheosis, the voice of Apollinaire himself is reproduced by a creaking old phonograph, reciting one of his famous lines: ‘vienne la nuit, sonne l’heure’.