first of a set of pieces for organ and trumpet written in 1989,
played by Davo van Peursen and Erwin Schippers in 1993.

arena 1

live performance at Piet van Meintjeshoeve, Heukelom
Maya Fridman, Jennifer van der Hart, Doriene Marselje, Naomi Sato

air & sarabande

collage of recordings from Tokyo 2016,
sketch for 3 hour theatre music

first impression and sketch for 'de optocht' (2016)

2004 electronic fantasy, based on Charles Ives' Concord Sonata, 4th part

aeolian harp

aki ga kuru (midi)

first performance at Nieuwe Kerk, Delft
by Matthijs Koene, panpipes
and Geerten van de Wetering, organ

aarde (soil)

"Annette [1954]" with me at the pianos and the Alpha Quartet, 2002.
"Annette [1954]" was the second piece in the Giacometti-cycle.
this is the first mix tot the memory of composer Paul Termos.

Annette [1954] (2002) (Paul Termos Mix)

"Annette dans l'atelier" (1998), first piece of the Giacometti cycle.
live by the Ives ensemble 16 december 2005.

Annette dans l'atelier 161205

theatre music based on Satie's sketches for 'fils des étoiles', act 1,
2005

Satie/van Rossum - aantekeningen van een zoogdier akte 1

achterna gedragen akte 2 scene 5

achterna gedragen akte 2 scene 7

achterna gedragen akte 3 scene 1

music to '3 portraits' by Sarah van Lamsweerde.
2015, slight revisions made in 2023.

the music is important and not important. Since I made it fast using a lot of material I already had, instrumental als well as electronic music, it could be considered an inbetween piece: it was the first time I stopped meticulously composing my tapes and instead turning to rough mixes of all kinds of materials, sometimes carefully composed, sometimes random recordings. It was the moment I started to build upon the ruins of my own works, a thought coming from both my experiences from Japan, where old buildings are easily torn down to create a duplicate or a new thing, and my more dystopian view on western culture, feeling the careless way we treat our heritage, and feeling this, realizing the futility of my composition in the 21st century. So, quickly made, 'accompagnement' became the study for my next theatre music, 'de optocht', where I definitely tear up everything that created our Western egotistic society and after that work I return to silence and the origin of things.

accompagnement

partly midi version of the 3d act of 'de optocht'.
It was played by the Ives Ensemble, but never well recorded.
Voices on this version: Toon Tellegen and Piet-Jan van Rossum

"de optocht" akte 3 - 2016

Written 2015-16 on a 3 hour poem by Toon Tellegen.
commissioned by November Music,
performed by Ives ensemble.
Voices on this version: Toon Tellegen and Piet-Jan van Rossum

"de optocht" akte 2 - 2016

"de optocht" akte 1 - 2016

'nokori mono' means something like 'the unimportant are as valuable as the important'. I decided to make a stream of works like Banksy, in my own way at unwanted spots, crumbs of sound, important and not important. Made while realizing people are way to hasty to listen to it.
Almost a 100 years ago Virginia Woolf wrote about this in her 'a room of one's own', chapter 6, masterly. Haste and a full head are not a new thing.
Made may 23 with I-phone recordings from over 3 years. The scraps of my life. Hardly touched, just as they are.

'nokori mono'

kakogan is the second of a set of seven stones or boulders, pieces of rock. A way to break with my old way of composing and make something that's not music, but I don't know yet what else.

kakogan (graniet)

"calm sea" is a study for a bigger project about the sea and possibly about the ship that sank recently close to the Greek coast with 200 refugees in it's hold, women and children (the men were sleeping on deck). 
And about the unshakable calm sea on top of them.
The photo shows me looking at this part of the sea.
An intolerable graveyard.
The calm sea.

odayakanaumi (calm sea)

small work for harmonium and hammerklavier. 
Jan Hage and Ralph van Raat.

Arvo Part in Santiago de Compostela

live at Orgelpark:
Ralph van Raat at the piano
Jan Hage at the organ
Piet-Jan van Rossum as organ grinder at the barrel organ

anything honest in what short time?

Ralph van Raat, piano
Radio Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Otto Tausk
Recording by NTR, november 1st 2014, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.

"a young woman came up to me" part 2: "all that rises will meet"

"a young woman came up to me" part 1: "group photo at Gimmelwald"

played by Ralph van Raat, 2014, Orgelpark, piece from the set 'achterland'.

homme fort et faible (1994 2014)

sad but true

gigue

theater 8 - according to 3ACH - 2016

pianopart from the theatreplay 'achterna gedragen' written in 2011.
can be played individually.

'8' for piano (2000)

20 'acqua, vive!' (1993) beginning

titlesong of the songbook.
singing and instruments by me around 2002.

2003 'a way to remain silent'

22 'aan/uit' (1993) for trumpet

played by Jennifer van der Hart, Fanny Alofs & Lunatree

"le ciel est gris-blue
quand j'arrive à Bruxelles-Central.."

"Gare Central", part 1 of 'au pigeon soldat'

Adelwarths Schmetterlingsfanger

hommage à Maurice Ravel

april 23d 2009
ASKO-Schönberg-ensemble/Clark Rundell
Jennifer Claire van der Hart, soprano
Ernestine Stoop, Godelieve Schrama, harp
Proms, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam

à la Cour des Lilas

Reinier van Houdt, piano
Ere Lievonen, celesta
Jan Hage & Piet-Jan van Rossum, organ
Mei-Yi Lee & Ron Colbers, percussion
Manuel Peitzker & Rianne Schoemaker, trumpet

all's well, live at Orgelpark

a Hanso-bo un corbeau apparait et regarde

I studied composition with a.o. Louis Andriessen and Jan Boerman.
I look upon myself as a storyteller, as a member of an ancient tribe of shy and wild people who through stories sometimes succeed in creating another way to experience time.
My work comprises life as i live it: a piece of wood full of splinters, parts of beauty and the fracturing or missing of it: lots of waiting, silences.  
This explains my fascination with scratched movies,  squinting people, 
a broken voice,  old grammophone-records, growing old in general.
It’s all about looking for a novel beauty in the corrosion of an old (sound)world.

With some artists i built a special relationship, people who are devoted to quality and adventure; visual artist Petra van der Schoot, pianist Reinier van Houdt, percussionist Arnold Marinissen, soprano Jennifer van der Hart, the Ives ensemble and the ensemble MAE.

e-mail is buromono@planet.nl
website www.buromono.nl

bye

Piet-Jan van Rossum

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