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NSO & de Ereprijs feb12
Magogo & Spectra ensemble sep11 Slide Factory mar11 Composer of the week feb11 Modelo62 nov10 Architecture and composition jul10 Iordens Viooldagen update apr10 nieuwBlauw apr10 Hammer Smashed Phase mar10 Iordens Viooldagen 2010 feb10 time dilation nov09 Temps Brisé sep09 Premieres & newsletters aug09 ei jul09 Zenith Festival mar09 Iordens Viooldagen feb09 Syzygy dec08 Sfumato sep09 Sfumato aug08 Branding sep07 finished my bachelor jun07 To evoke... apr07 Punching Judy apr07 Koraal dec06 To evoke... sep06 strngqrtt may06 Portret apr06 Points of departure feb06 Portret feb06 |
World premiere of strngqrttOn may 5th and 6th 2006 my piece for string quartet strngqrtt was played at the Korzo Theatre, The Hague. This piece was part of the project hemelbestormers, organized by Korzo. In this project three composers (besides me Ivana Kis and Zbigniew Wolny) were teamed up with three students from the Royal Art Academy. In pairs we researched Gestalt theory, a field in psychology where relations between objects are formed in the brain. I formed a pair with Melissa Cruz. Together we made a concept and a structure for both our pieces. The idea is that twentyfive short fragments are played by the string quartet - the fragments themselves sometimes are related, sometimes are not - while on a curtain of teabags (we collected really thousands of teabags) a video was projected which had a non-narrative, fragmented structure. Since the music and the video are not synced the audience will make connections between image and sound that sometimes are created on purpose but sometimes are purely coincidental. The human brain works in such a way that whatever information is given we try to connect the dots, even if the dots are not related at all. |