'Book of Remission' is a dissection of the 'Book of Revelation', the last part of the New Testament. Judgement day is the subject of 'Book of Revelation'. 
However, in 'Book of Remission' the story is interpreted in a different way.

The original 'Book of Revelation' contains positive valuable lessons about forgiveness and resignation; principles that stretch further than just religion.
Interpretation always played a big role in understanding the Bible. Nothing is one-sided, and religion does not form an exception in this.

In 'Book of Remission', you will be guided through different passages of the story which are determined by the filtering of Esoteric systematics. The musical content is inspired by certain Esoterics as well.

The composition could be perceived as consisting of an 'ecclesiastical' sound. Through a mixture of present-day dissonance and the ecclesiastical choir and organ, a musical mirror is put in front of the regarded tome.

You will be listening to the modern capacities of the beautiful Sweelinck organ, played by Arjan van Hees. 
You will also have the pleasure to listen to 'het koor voor de nieuwste muziek', 'NEON', which only performs compositions that have just been finished, led by Fokko Oldenhuis.
The synthesizer and 8-speaker electronics are performed by Remco Gerritsen.

Book Of Remission [2015]

‘Senza volto’ is inspired by the music genre ‘Giallo’. Which emerged in the 60’ and 70’s in Italy. The name of the genre comes from the popular style of artistic films that it lend itself to.These films were heavily based on pulp detective and horror-storries from the 30’s up until the 80’s.This musical genre is defined by it’s eclectic nature. In a sense that it switches between certain tropes from other genres constantly and rapidly (for example psychedelic rock, funk, 
contemporary music and lyrical film music).

‘Senza volto’ is my own take on the genre. The eclectisism of tropes is utilized in an indirect wayso no clear genre is recognizable, and all the tropes are interpreted in my own way. Besides that, taking it out of the context of a film and bringing it to a contemporary stage makes for a very different end result per definition.

Senza volto [2015]

This composition has been written in the period of September 2017 up until the end of December 2017. The general idea of f-stop started out as an exploration of the mechanics behind photography. To translate certain aspects like shutter-speed, exposure and digital gain into music. Whilst this has dictated a couple of important building blocks of the composition, like the harmony, which has been based on the principle of the shifting of focus, which would reveal other details in a photograph. 

It has not become the most important aspect and nature of the composition. Instead the function of the drummer ended up as being the most important, in a couple of different ways. f-stop essentially became a drum concerto, obviously with the drummer as the soloist within the composition. But as an extra touch, I decided that the drummer should be the conductor of the piece as well.

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Conducted by David Kweksilber
Performed by DKKKCBB (David Kweksilber Kon Con Big Band)
Composed & Recorded by Remco Gerritsen

f-stop [2017]

'Mobius' is a composition about time, infinity, memory and the degradation of it. The composition lives in two different time realms, with the version of one minute portraying the realtime.

The second version, appropriately called 'M o b i u s', is a to-be-released time-stretched version of the recording of the minute long composition for orchestra. Utilizing multiple algorithms of time stretching and spatial filterbands in a compositional manner the recording is transformed in a 9 minute electronic music piece.

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Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend
Performed by Residentie Orkest
Composition & recording by Remco Gerritsen

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