2019
New Recording: The Loss of Small Objects
30 December 2019
On her new album Debora's Canary, piccoloist Debora Rosti recorded The Loss of Small Objects, together with other works by Italian composers.
You can listen to the piece on Spotify, or you can order a hard copy of the CD at Da Vinci Publishing.
People lose things all the time, often small objects of great value. I was thinking about this when I was composing this work for piccolo—the smallest instrument in the family of flutes.
The piccolo too often plays a limited role: in orchestral music it is the superlative of the highest register; in chamber music, it is almost non-existent. It almost seems like the piccolo got lost underway among the larger instruments.
In The Loss of Small Objects I wanted to hear the piccolo in its lower, archaic register. Not screamingly loud but rather soft; not on roller coaster speed but oddly flowing and lyrical.
Redshift Video Clip
14 December 2019
Each Time We Fall a City Rises
26 September 2019
In Each Time We Fall, A City Rises, Panama Pictures shows a world about to be thrown off balance. Stumbling, falling and flying, the performers look for something to hold on to, if even for a moment. In several tableaux, the performance unravels our desire to create a sense of security as a buffer against all things we are unable to control.
The rhythmic language of acclaimed poet Maria Barnas inspired choreographer Pia Meuthen’s new creation. In a striking setting – sloping surfaces combined with shelters high in the air – the performers succumb to a world that seems utterly unsettled. As they become unbalanced, new perspectives open up.
For Each Time We Fall, A City Rises composer Anthony Fiumara and duo Strijbos & Van Rijswijk enter into a special collaboration: they compose music as in a dialogue. Fiumara’s music which is related to minimal music encounters the electro-acoustic compositions of Strijbos & Van Rijswijk.
The human voice, in all its facets and expressiveness, is central to the joint composition performed live by singer Els Mondelaers. Her vocals provide support, disruption, threat and comfort.