Rocailles de l'après-vie... - for large ensemble.
Written by Thomas van Dun in 2023.

Commissioned by the NTR ZaterdagMatinee and Asko|Schönberg, and premiered at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with Bas Wiegers. 

Performed by Asko|Schönberg, conducted by Clark Rundell on the January 25th 2024 at the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ. 

Copyright © 2024 by Thomas van Dun

Rocailles de l'après-vie...

Performed at Radio Belgrade in November 2016 by Nenad Marković and Vladimir Blagojević of Ensemble Studio6 as part of the electroacoustic sextet "close-up"

pauk (2014) for trumpet and accordion

'Unfolding Chamber Piece' is an abstract work characterised by different repetitive sections. Throughout the work, these either move from one to the other or are juxtaposed.

Performed by Kluster 5
Recorded by Oscar Bouwmans

Unfolding Chamber Piece (2018)

It Measures Itself Against The Vertigo Caused By Its Own Abyss (2018) for unconducted ensemble
Commissioned by Dag in de Branding and written for the New European Ensemble.

Performed by the New European Ensemble (@new-european-ensemble)at Korzo Theatre, Den Haag, 06/10 2018, during the 49th edition of Festival Dag in de Branding (@festivaldagindebranding).

It Measures Itself Against The Vertigo Caused By Its Own Abyss (2018)

For five voices (SATBarB), piano and violin. Text by the Dutch Poet Herman Gorter. Commissioned by Festival De Muze van Zuid and performed by singers from het Nederlands Kamerkoor, Laurens de Man (piano) and Eva Stegeman (violin) in Orgelpark, Amsterdam, 2018.

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De stille weg
de maannachtlichte weg -

de boomen
de zoo stil oudgeworden boomen - 
het water
het zachtbespannen tevreeë water.

En daar achter in 't ver de neergezonken hemel 
met 't sterrengefemel.

De stille weg

A thread; sometimes 
audible, sometimes hidden
completely disappeared

little drops are shaking
a house is built and
broken down

until again.. that first thread
floating in the air

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Uitgevoerd door het Herz Ensemble
Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, 20 september 2018

Joe Puglia - viool, Jellantsje De Vries - altviool, Lidy Blijdorp - Cello, Vivian Choi - Piano, Geerten van de Wetering - Hammond Orgel, Sjors van der Mark - Elektrisch Gitaar, Mei-yi Lee - Slagwerk

With special thanks to Kate Moore

The very lightweight thread floats in the moving air

The text for the piece is taken from The Ruin, an Old English poem which depicts a fallen Roman city. The poem is part of the Exeter Book, a large collection of verses and riddles which dates from the 10th century. The only existing copy of the book was damaged in a fire, affecting what survives of The Ruin. In light of this, I only used extracts of the poem from which words have been lost. In a similar way, some of the musical material has been dismantled to reflect this.

A huge thanks to Orkest de Ereprijs, Wim Boerman, Ana Maria Lopes, Carolina Luís, Francisca Branco, Rob Vermeulen, Martijn Padding, Richard Ayres, Ed Bennett, Anna Korsun, Silvia Borzelli, Guus Janssen, Georgia Denham, Ryan Probert, Paul Zaba, Robert Crehan, Robin Morton, Celia Swart, Paolo Griffin, Dani Blanco Albert, Hugo Bell, Sam Milan, Joe Rhodes and Stephen Plummer.

Performed by Orkest de Ereprijs, Ana Maria Lopes, Carolina Luís, and Francisca Branco on the 1st of March 2019

Conducted by Rob Vermeulen

Ruin (2019)

Adriatique @ Signal 2108 for Cercle
Full HD video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQZYzGO8QlM

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COMPOSER

Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Rocailles de l'après-vie...

Thomas van Dun - Composer

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