zaterdag 20 september 2008

the Onyfad

Parallel to what is fairly normal in liturature or film, namely splitting up a story in scenes/episodes, leading to a coda where it all comes together, I tried to do the same thing with a composition for MAE:
-violin 
-double bass 
-clarinet
-recorder
-trombone
-piano
-electric guitar
-percussion
-voice
-myself on electronics

First I made the coda, isolated certain elements out of it and made specific compositions for those. Then I split up those pieces and mixed them all up (but the order remains chronological).
The story is about the Onyfad, a partly mythical, partly historical being.

From Wikipedia: Onyfad was a species of giant monkey that lived mainly in the southern tip of South America, the Antarctic and Tasmania, Australia. untill roughtly 5,000 years ago..........

To be performed at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam Oktober 30