arnoud noordegraaf

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Tod & Wahnsinn

composition for piano and DVD video and super8 film projection

duration: 16 minutes

Ralph van Raat, piano

composition and video: Arnoud Noordegraaf

text “Now” by Dylan Thomas

commissioned by NFPK

premiere: 12 Feb. 2005, Provadja Alkmaar.

Intl. premiere at Warsaw Autumn festival, 2005

 
Ralph van Raat duets, or rather duels his mirror image. In hoqueting style they exchange eerie chords, which are electronically stretched; time comes to a halt. Their struggle grows until they come to a complete halt at the climax. There, a Dylan Thomas text is heard, while an old film projector shows Ralph in a surrealistic animation film.