1/ " Extended Games " : For cello and computer ( 2008-09)
performed by Jean-Michel Moulin : Violoncellist Solist
(National symphony Orchestra - Lille (France)
2/ " Le serpent d'or " (Cello Counterpoint - 1994)
performed by Jean Michel Moulin
More about Orchestre National de Lille
" Muziek voor 2 Klarinetten en Computer " ( 2009 )
Clarinet in Eb
Performed by Jacques Merrer (National symphony Orchestra - Lille - France)
As a pianist, I try to pass on the magic of the piano by playing contemporary classical music, especially minimalist music.
Veronique Vankoucke performs Orpheon de Jade by Patrick Dorobisz
(Excerpt - Rehearsal : Nov 2009) Soon complete Full length video
Listen to an excerpt : Orpheon de Jade, written by Patrick Dorobisz
in 1985 at the Ghent Institute for psychoacoustics and Electronic Music -
Orpheon de Jade [sacem : ISWC : T-003.351.872.7]
1st production at the Ghent Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM) – 1985
In 1973, Patrick Dorobisz begins to compose his first repetitive works using electronic music recorded on magnetic tape.
To play back the work, Patrick Dorobisz used several tape players which he did not synchronise, in order to obtain rhythmic shifts and an unstable harmony with every listen.
With the emergence of computers in 1983, Patrick Dorobisz returned to this concept and developed it, writing short units of melody on each of the computer’s tracks, but with a different time signature each time.
While the tape players let a different harmony be heard, the computer definitively fixed this out-of-step harmony and the rigour of its interpretation made new melody lines appear that were not written down or clearly defined rhythmically.
Paradoxically, it would therefore be the absolute precision of the computer that would fix the randomness of the harmony and would let a new form of musical architecture be heard: moving architecture.
Orpheon de jade is composed along this principle and this version, composed in 1984, is a follow-up to a first version composed in 1982 on magnetic tape.
In the Second Version, (for chamber orchestra - 2003) the computer version is enhanced by the interplay of instruments. Each instrumentalist must play their theme in isolation from the other musicians, to amplify this concept of moving harmonic architecture, which also allows another western perception of time to appear.
In The third version for four pianos performed by Veronique Vanhoucke, (2009) I open the form and I asked to Veronique to be creative.
And as a creative pianist she introduces prepared piano, clusters, picking and microtonality with a great playing.
