Body  

Music for the National Ballet, Holland Festival 2004

This piece developed organically: sounds emerged, gradually forming melodies and condensing into slow grooves. In collaboration with choreographer Ted Brandsen I wrote a script describing, in an abstract manner, the movement of consciousness during different life stages.  Growth, struggle, blossoming, wisdom, insight, decline and dissolution can all be perfectly expressed in music.

The music, or if you wish the sound, is not structured, i.e. with well-defined elements and recurring themes, but is constantly evolving. Over and over something new emerges. In subtle and obvious ways new sounds spring up, as if the music, rather than being composed, is giving birth to itself.

PART I

PART II

PART III