composer | director
Soloist
percussion solo, samples, video
composed and directed by Arnoud Noordegraaf
written for Arnold Marinissen
commissioned by NFPK+ and AFK
premiered dec. 2008, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam.
tour: ’09/’10 Arnold Marinissen solo programme.
Soloist is a portrait of the percussionist and a stranger, played on video by Yahya Gaier. The two are bound by their mutual presence, and by the fact that their instruments and sound are switched: the live percussionist has many instruments, that produce real and live sounds, but none of them is a traditional percussion instrument. And the video percussionist is trapped in a surrealistic painting, with all the percussion instruments you can imagine, but producing only abstract sounds.
Together they have to reinvent language in order to communicate. Arnold plays three sets of instruments, divided on the stage. The video is centred on stage on a relatively small screen, close to the live player.
video excerpt and “making of” feature here
percussion:
Arnold Marinissen
actor:
Yahya Gaier
composition and video:
Arnoud Noordegraaf
videoproduction:
inexcelsisvideo.nl
camera:
Lennert Hillege
film set design:
Anthony Sgard
concert production:
Frank van der Weij