Mimicries

for violin, trombone, electric cymbalum and tape__8'__2014

PROGRAM NOTE

"Mimicries" was composed during the Gaudeamus-Montreal week in April 2014 in collaboration with the members of 7090. The goal of the Leftovers project was to create pieces from participating composers' discarded sketches.

Usually when I brainstorm or explore material for a composition, I like to vocalize and record musical ideas – more so than to sketch directly on paper. Therefore what I had to contribute as "leftovers" were recorded vocal improvisations I had accumulated in the past year. By submitting these audio sketches, I wanted us to approach music through sound, rather than through sight (musical notation).

We selected three short vocal improvisations, and the piece was built from the trio member's attempts to imitate them as closely as they could, mimicking the pitch content, morphology, texture and character of the sound.

PERFORMANCES

October 4, 2014 AMSTERDAM (Netherlands) Splendor Amsterdam / Splendor
7090: Bas Wiegers (violin), Koen Kaptijn (trombone), Nora Mulder (electric cymbalum)

September 11 UTRECHT (Netherlands) Gaudeamus Festival / KuuB EUROPEAN PREMIERE
7090: Bas Wiegers (violin), Koen Kaptijn (trombone), Nora Mulder (electric cymbalum)

April 10, 2014 MONTRÉAL (Canada) Leftovers Project / Édifice Gaston-Miron (CAM) WORLD PREMIERE
7090: Bas Wiegers (violin), Koen Kaptijn (trombone), Nora Mulder (electric cymbalum)

REVIEWS

7090 serveert afvalmuziek, par Jan Nieuwenhuis (in Dutch)

CREDITS

Commissioned by 7090 (Netherlands) and Innovations en concert, as part of the Gaudeamus-Montréal project