Electronic piece Limit Aspect (2025) is an immense sonic swirl like the weather on a gas giant. The work was created as part of a series of explorations of complex harmony and polyphonic density edging on pure noise, rigorously structured and created using an original C++ software program. At any given point, an average of […]
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This work is proof of concept for a thousand different melodic modes –scales of melodic formulas – of varying complexity, each in a different mood, each in Just Intonation (no limit specified) centered around D, and using simple sine wave sounds, generated on October 15, 2024. Each of these could be the basis of a
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Het Orgelpark is tijdens de coronacrisis gesloten voor het publiek. Maar componisten en musici kunnen er gratis terecht voor repetities. Bovendien kregen tien componisten de opdracht om gezamenlijk één groot stuk te schrijven voor de orgels van het Orgelpark. De bijdrages van de componisten worden aaneengeregen tot een estafettestuk. De laatste maten van elke compositie
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A composition by Maya Felixbrodt (composer and musician), Aurélie Lierman (radio artist, vocalist, and composer) and Samuel Vriezen (composer and writer) as part of the second performative conference of Propositions #2: Assemblism. 25.11.2017, BAK, Utrecht (NL). Propositions #2: Assemblism is a day-long gathering that addresses the current rise of the new authoritarian world order, and
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Peter Gizzi’s great poem Vincent, Homesick for the Land of Pictures from his collection The Outernationale was set to music as a long song, written for the extended Trio Scordatura. It was premiered by Alfrun Schmid, Bob Gilmore (keyboard), Elisabeth Smalt (viola) and Lucas van Helsdingen (bass clarinet) at Poetry International in Rotterdam in 2014,
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Four performers each bring three books for the other three performers to read from. During performance, they all read to themselves, reading certain words, sentences, or passages out loud during one-minute time brackets as given by the score. The time logic intersects clock time with elements of musical improvisation (since often, the words or phrases
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