componist

Vriend, Jan

Jan Vriend is van meet af aan een muzikale alles-eter die een uitgesproken modernistische benadering combineert met een open oor en oog voor het belang en de noden van een ...

gerelateerde werken

Corona Concerto : for piano and orchestra / Jan Vriend

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Piano en orkest
Bezetting: 3fl/picc 2ob eh 2cl cl-b cl-cb afg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb trb-b tb 8perc str

Pestkop : for orchestra, 1991 / Maurice Horsthuis

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 0021 2211 hp g str

Symphonie 01 : for amplified orchestra, 2001 / David Dramm

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2100 5sax 2440 3perc drums hp 2el.g el.g-b pf(keyb) str

Summer rites at noon : for two orchestras facing each other, 1971, 1984-87 / orchestrated and edited by Jan van Vlijmen, Rudolf Escher

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3455 2sax 4555 12perc 3pf 2hp str(16.16.12.10.16.)

compositie

Hexameron : 'Phagocitosis' : for orchestra / Jan Vriend, 2006/2007

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