gerelateerde werken

Athena Keramitis : for contrabass flute and bass clarinet, 1985 / Jan Vriend

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Houtblazersensemble (2-12 spelers)
Bezetting: fl-cb cl-b

At the Aegean shores : for orchestra / Saskia Venegas

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 3tpt 2trb trb-b tb timp 3perc str

Passacaglia : voor orkest, (1943) / Wouter Paap

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2222 4331 timp perc hp str

Quatre mouvements symphoniques : (1949) / Guillaume Landré

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3333 4331 timp perc str

compositie

Hexameron : 'Phagocitosis' : for orchestra / Jan Vriend

Overige auteurs:
Vriend, Jan (Componist)
Toelichting:
(Première: 8 november 2008 - Muziekgebouw aan het IJ - Radio Filharmonisch Orkest o.l.v. Micha Hamel). The title 'Phagocitosis' indicates that the 'cell' of three notes (Pam-pa-Pam) acts more or less like phagocyte, a cell which engulfs foreign material in an organism or consumes debris and foreign bodies for destruction or expulsion. That is more or less what it does in my composition, with the difference that it is also ushers in several well known musical references which contain the cell (in their DNA!). In fact, the world of music is so full of tunes which contain the bug, that associations are almost inevitable. I didn't want to fight the invitations and, instead, let the floodgates open to see if an organism could be created out of the contamination process. So here is the ambiguity: destruction as a metabolism for construction - decomposition as a catalyst for composition. I leave it to my audiences to identify the various references - with apologies to the authors whose works I contaminated. - JAN VRIEND