{"id":38,"date":"2016-01-14T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:53","slug":"andriessen-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/andriessen-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Andriessen &#8211; Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Louis Andriessen<\/p>\n<p>Life (2009)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1 percussionist<\/p>\n<p>6 players total<\/p>\n<p>Sop. Sax (or clarinet); Perc- Vibraphone, foot Bass Drum, large triangle, sizzle cymbal, gong, almglock or cowbell, 5 metal objects; Piano; guitar; Cello; Double Bass<\/p>\n<p>Approx.. 16\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For more than twenty years I have enjoyed a strong friendship with the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Bang on a Can composers. Since then, the All-Stars have played the pieces of mine that are more or less suited for their instrumentation, and they have done so with brilliance and with so much commitment that I have walked around for at least ten years with the intention to compose especially for them. However, it took a long time to find a solution, because I found the combination of their instruments rather difficult: 19th century strings with contemporary instruments like guitar and percussion. I found a way when I decided to see this instrumentation as an advantage, and I was supported by a plan with the artist Marijke van Warmerdam. We decided to make a kind of contemporary Pictures at an Exhibition: short pieces of music to accompany video clips. This resulted in Life\u2014four short compositions which combine late romantic \u2018European\u2019 music with hip \u2018American\u2019 repetitive music. This combination is stretched by the use of cross-references, parallel with what happens in the four films: every film is completely independent, but contains allusions to the others.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Louis Andriessen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Annotated by Tyler Flynt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Andriessen Life (2009) &nbsp; 1 percussionist 6 players total Sop. Sax (or clarinet); Perc- Vibraphone, foot Bass Drum, large triangle, sizzle cymbal, gong, almglock or cowbell, 5 metal objects; Piano; guitar; Cello; Double Bass Approx.. 16\u2019 For more than twenty years I have enjoyed a strong friendship with the Bang on a Can All-Stars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}