componist
Wim Laman is als componist grotendeels autodidact. Tijdens zijn universiteitsstudie voeren studentenorkesten zijn eerste composities uit. Hierna wordt zijn werk opgemerkt door de professionele muziekwereld. Laman componeert voor o.a. het ...
gerelateerde werken
Oresteia : opera in 3 acts, 1996, Act 1, Agamemnon / libretto after Aeschylos' Oresteia, Wim Laman
Genre:
Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre:
Opera
Bezetting:
sopr sopr-m ten bar bas MK4 2333 2sax 4231 4perc pf(synth) str(12.12.8.8.6.) tape
Katja S. : for large ensemble, 2000 / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
2222 sax-a 1110 perc 2vl vla vc cb
Eight metal strings : for mandolin and ensemble / Martijn Padding, 2007-2009
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
fl(pic) ob cl(cl-b) fg trp man g pf perc vl vla vc cb
On wings of wind, flying over the world : for large ensemble / Kuzma Bodrov
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
ocarina bagpipe bandoneon domra pipa gtr ud balalayka pf pf str
compositie
Pancabana : for twelve players, (1983/86) / Wim Laman
Toelichting:
Program note (English): In various cultures, past and present, numerology has an important place in thinking: it lends a pretence of rationality to the inexplicable. The classic example is of course Pythagoras: the cosmic harmony; all things, in their mutual relations, can be reduced to numeric proportions.
In Pancabana the figure 5 plays a central role, but by no means with the intention to make the music more mysterious than it is by magic tricks or secretiveness: music is and will remain a metaphor for what is going on in the world of human emotion and thought (unless that is a myth..). Directly connected with the figure 5 is a geometrical figure, a five-pointed star that can be drawn in one streak: the pentagram. This figure represents numerous symbolic meanings, and especially that of the Golden Section. The latter aspect has been of importance in Pancabana's set-up.
The work consists of 5 movements - the first and second merging into one another without interruption, and the same applies to the fourth and fifth. So for the ear it is a matter of a three-part work. In parts 1 + 2 and parts 4 + 5 the piano dominates; in the slow third part the harmonium acts as an axis of harmonies characterized by fourths.
Point of departure is 5 five-tone chords (each of these used freely within the bounds of its possibilities of inversion and transposition); 5 rhythmic figures and their mirror image; 5 melodic types.. in short, enough to suggest a straightjacket scheme. Nothing of the sort, however.
Systematism is relativized by compositorial irony - as the stern geometrical figure can be related to the human shape. An intuitive (this does not mean: irrational) handling, therefore, of self-formulated rules of play, in order to create dynamic music that may be associated, if desired, with the love-god Kâmadeva's surname - in the Bengalese 'Gitagovinda' epic -: Pancabana (= 'the Five-arrowed'), but this is neither necessity nor condition.. - WIM LAMAN