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Tatatata : for cello and soundtrack with concert video ad lib. / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Publisher's number: 23999
Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Cello with multimedia
Scoring: vc soundtrack and video ad lib.
Remarks: Tatatata for cello and soundtrack was written in 1998 for René Berman with financial support from the Dutch Performing Arts Fund. First performances: March 19, 1998 Elzenhof Brussels on VRT radio and April 6, 1998 at Plantage Studio Amsterdam, during a live tv broadcast VPRO Han Reiziger, presenting a portret of Jacob Ter Veldhuis. Scordatura: The F# major speech groove needs the cello to be tuned down a minor second.
 In 2006 Tatatata Duo, a duo version was arranged for tenor sax and baritone sax, recorded by By Johan van der Linden & Willem van Merwijk, also on JacobTV - Shining City Basta 3091742 In 2002 a 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 2018, I added a concert video using footage from World War I, showing the madness of war.
Duration: 5'10"
Number of players: 1
Year of composition: 1998
Status: fully digitized (real-time delivery)

Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Composer)
Description:
In the mid nineties, I discovered a recording of an old man who met the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire when he was a little boy, during the First World War. Apollinaire sang a military tune, it went like: ‘tatatata’ according to the old man. I was moved by indirect little audio sample from the past. I was just experimenting with my new Akai sampler, a CD3000. I expanded and compressed the sound fragment by means of a new technique at the time, called time stretching. I could easily manipulate that little sound byte and result appeared to contain unexpected musical qualities, blending very well with the sound of the cello. 

During the apotheosis, Apollinaire himself, reproduced by a creaking old phonograph, recites one of his famous lines: ‘vienne la nuit, sonne l’heure’.

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