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Composer:
Fabian Svensson
Text:
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Instrumentation:
Low male voice, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, trombone, percussion, electric guitar, piano
Year of composition:
2009
Duration:
3'
Program note:
In 2009, I was invited by Ensemble Klang to participate in a project exploring how non-Dutch people hear the Dutch language. 10 composers of different nationalities were commissioned to write a short piece each, all based on the same text, a poem by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer. I decided to focus on what in my ears is the most prominent feature of the Dutch language, the velar fricative sounds (as in the words dag or nacht). I extracted all occurrences of such sounds from the text and discarded the rest of it.
Since the number 88 (achtentachtig) is featured very prominently in the text, I saw a connection to the 88 keys of the piano, that seemed worth exploiting. The piano, therefore, plays a sequence of 88 notes during the piece, every piano key being used once.
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