Ocean and Orchestra...
There are strings and streams, crickets and clarinets, frogs and flutes and flamingos, porpoise and piccolos, humpbacks and harps and hippo's and horns, bassons and belugas, a steam-boat and a snare-drum, and lots of other beautiful "instruments and singers" here.
Natural sounds, treated as instruments, and the symphony orchestra, mixing in a new way in this piece... oceans life music...
... waving at each other...
... sometimes the nature sounds dominate, then the symphony orchestra does. Sometimes in balance, weaved in with each other.
Like a love meeting... then the one, then the other... and both want to hear and to comfort and to stimulate the other.
Or shapeshifting... first it's a sealion, then it's a saxophone... an ocean but then an oboe... then an orca but yet later an orchestra...
A few words on the background
Credits
Lots of friends helped and contributed...
- Marine life photo's by Marion Haarsma
- Soundscape, based on a mix of own recordings and FX-CD's, recorded and mixed by Jos van Woudenberg and Anders
- Photo of Anders by Heleen van den Hombergh
- Special thnx to Guy Livingston for being my creative sparring-partner as the music emerged, changed, developed and matured.
Impulse
Among the musicians whose work has been my stimulation, notably…
- Edgard Varèse defined that “music is organised sound” (= an early impulse of mine to make this soundscape as a piece of music)
- Gustav Mahler inspired the compositional form of this piece
- I studied with Iannis Xenakis and Pierre Boulez at the time I first started composing this music
Motivation
Most importantly this music is...
- Inspired by one of the main sources of life on planet earth, the waters, and by its inhabitants
- Created in awe thereof
- Expressing, in music, our dependency on the waters
- Dedicated to Cousteau, Attenborough, Greenpeace, Sea Shepherds and to everyone making a contribution to the preservation of earth's waters
