related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Little John's morning after : (1970) / Dirk Dekker
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s); Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m fl pf vc tape
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Speaking voice and instrument(s); Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
recit vc electronics
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
GK4 soundtracks
composition
Van grote en kleine vogels : for soprano and soundtrack / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Lucebert
(Text writer/Librettist)
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
Contains:
De staat van eendracht
Doodlopende weg
Van grote en kleine vogels
Description:
The sampler made its debut in music at the end of the eighties. In 1987 - especially for this commission - I became the proud owner of the Akai S900. Lucebert's whimsically expressive poetry required a large palette of timbres and I sampled everything that made noise: wine glasses, pots and pans, a leaking gutter, a dripping drainpipe and voices of my girlfriend Kristien and others. Also I owned the PPG2 in addition to Yamaha's renowned DX7. The soundtrack was mixed to a Revox mastering machine from a Fostex eight-track, very advanced at the time.
I still had to write the score by hand though, computers were still too limited. Djoke sang it many times in museums, at exhibition openings, live on the radio in Ton Hartsuiker's Musica Nova, and I usually did the sound engineering myself.
I added a literal English translation to make the music more accessible internationally.