This is my first experiment with music and images. I use projections of my own photographs combined with concrete sounds and a live clarinet. The first performance was on October 11, 2009, at De Pont in Tilburg.
The piece is dedicated to Michel Marang.
Duration: 11′
A piece for bass clarinet and piano, written for Michel Marang and Reinier van Houdt in 2007. The title comes from a fragment by Sappho:
And their feet move
Rhythmically, as tender
feet of Cretan girls
danced once around an
altar of love, crushing
a circle in the soft
smooth flowering grass
(Translation: Mary Barnard)
Duration: 13′
‘For in that sleep of death what dreams may come‘. This is the only text in this piece for two spatially separated mixed choirs a cappella. The text is from the famous monologue in Hamlet, starting with ‘to be or not to be‘. The choirs sing the phrase slowly, word by word, with emphasis on the sound of the words.
Duration: 11′30″
I wrote two pieces called Monochrome, on request of November Music, for the 2006 edition of the festival. The first is written for two piano’s, the second for carillon. Both compositions use the same musical material but there is a world of difference between them: one is an intimate chamber music piece, the other is a composition for bells in open air. They can be played independently as individual pieces, or simultaneously.
This work is dedicated to Daan Manneke.
Monochrome I for two pianos. Duration: 15′
Monochrome II for carillon. Duration: 5′
This solo for Viola was written as a study for the Trio for 2 Violas and Piano. After finishing it I concluded that the piece could live a life of its own. Furthermore I decided that its material has the potential to serve as a starting point for my second string quartet.
The architecture is simple. There is a continuous calm legato movement, soft and chromatic, without rests. Sometimes it changes from monophonic to polyphonic and back, but the overall impression stays the same. Gradually the tempo increases slightly, and the melody seems to climb a little, without ever changing dramatically. In the second half the piece reverses these changes, the tempo decreases again, and the melody slowly returns home.
Viola. Duration: 6′