componist

Bus, Jan

Jan Bus is geboren op 20 februari 1961 te Laren (NH). Opleiding Hij studeerde korte tijd economie aan de Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam en van 1980 tot 1986 klassiek gitaar aan de ...

gerelateerde werken

Happy days forever : for cello octet, 2000 / Jan Bus

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Cello
Bezetting: 8vc

Trasformazioni : for four marimbas, 1990 / Kees Schoonenbeek

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Slagwerk
Bezetting: 4mar

Prelude : for six percussionists, 1974, (revision: 1980) / Theo Loevendie

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Slagwerk
Bezetting: 6conga

Drie inventies : for small percussion, 1974 / Henk de Vlieger

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Slagwerk
Bezetting: 3perc

compositie

Torso : for 6 percussion players, 1989 / Jan Bus

Toelichting:
Program note (English): Torso is a part of a percussion opus which is yet to be completed. The title speaks for itself. Every new piece within a composer's 'oeuvre' is a sort of 'torso'. My starting point in this work was the creation of a compact, independent, closed musical space; a space in which continuously changing melodic and rhythmic structures would play diverse roles as they add onto, blend in and/or answer another. Thus the piece has a defined inertia although all its components are related to its tempo. At a certain moment, the patterns rupture. It's as if you poke a hole in an egg, setting free material which has waited for this chance to escape: rhythmic motion makes room for pure melody. - JAN BUS