componist
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
Solitude : for marimba and three wood blocks, 1988 / Jan Bus
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Slagwerk
Bezetting:
mar(woodblocks)
The Phaeacians : for 4 percussionists (Scene XIII of the Ballet Odysseus) / Maxim Shalygin
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Slagwerk
Bezetting:
4perc
One Noon : for six percussionists / Willem Boogman
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Slagwerk
Bezetting:
6perc
Urban Turban : Version for two marimbas / Ned McGowan
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Slagwerk
Bezetting:
2mar
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