composer | director
Interim
composition for ensemble, mezzo soprano and video
texts taken from a novel by Georges Perec.
mezzo, fl. cl. trb. vl. pf. cb. e.guitar, perc. samples, video
Kristina Fuchs, mezzo soprano.
Otto Tausk, conductor.
written for ensemble-MAE
composition and video: Arnoud Noordegraaf
commissioned by FST, AFK.
premiere: 27 Feb. 2007, Paradiso, Amsterdam.
In Interim I wanted to start working from Species of Spaces by Georges Perec, a novel that deals in many ways with space. Perec takes a very intuitive journey through the realms of his memories, concepts and thoughts and meanders through his universe showing us a vast number of perspectives on the concept of space.
Musically I created a stand-still: chords try to progress, but freeze in time, each instrument freezing into it’s own tiny loop. The lengths of these loops vary, slowly generating patterns that seem to create a new space within the music. A new space in which the soprano finds her way, just as the instruments start creating their own solo spaces.
Sparsely there are images of a generic room, a simple space in which gravity keeps changing, changing the space dramatically even though it remains the same space all along.
