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Oceans Life Music

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In awe of the oceans...

Overview

Oceans Life Music

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In awe of the oceans...

Overview

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...

"I am so happy to know about your music! A breath of fresh air."

Maestro Suzanne Rome, Virginia (U.S.A.) conductor, quoted in 2022 

A few words on the background

Credits

Lots of friends helped and contributed... 

  • Marine life photo's by Marion Haarsma
  • Soundscape recorded and mixed by Jos van Woudenberg and Anders
  • Photo of Anders by Reinier Bergsma
  • 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

So, there you have it... the...

Symphony for the Waters...

Listen some? 

Music

Symphony and microcosm

Here's a few thoughts around the Symphony, on musical aspects as well as the thematical / marine-life viewpoint. 

Thoughts on the microcosm which the Symphony is, if you will. 

Feel free to read and make contact if you have questions or comments. 

I can give a lecture, live or via the screen, to elaborate and explain in more detail. 

Symphony for the Waters and Microcosm, February 2023 (pdf)

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Symphonie et microcosme (traduction par Nadia Capitaine)

 

Voici quelques réflexions autour de la Symphonie, tant sur les aspects musicaux que sur le point de vue thématique / vie marine.

Réflexions sur le microcosme qu'est la Symphonie, si vous le voulez.

N'hésitez pas à lire et à prendre contact si vous avez des questions ou des commentaires.

Je peux donner une conférence, en direct ou en visio, pour élaborer et expliquer plus en détail.

Traduit de l’anglais par Nadia Capitaine.

Symphonie pour les Eaux et Microcosme, mars 2023 (pdf)

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