Met De Kromming Mee
for ensemble

Duration: 11 minutes
Commissioned by: Pynarello

By playing independently in time, the musicians create spaces for personal expression while causing a collective sound mass. At the center of the piece is the Hammond Organ, playing long tones with shifting harmonics, shaped by gradually moving the instrument’s drawbars. These changing colours form a foundation — a kind of curve — to which the other instruments ground and relate.

Instrumentation:
Bass Clarinet
Contrabassoon
Trombone
Tuba
Hammond Organ
Percussion — Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Tuned Cowbells (F4, B♭4, C5, E♭5, A♭5)
2 Violins
Viola
Cello
Contrabass

Presented by Pynarello at: De Doelen, Rotterdam (NL)
Nieuwe Badkapel, The Hague (NL)
Vondelkerk, Amsterdam (NL)
Cenakel, Tilburg (NL)
TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht (NL)

Musicians:
Jesse Faber – Bass Clarinet
Gordon Laing – Contrabassoon
Sebastiaan Kemner – Trombone
Arne Visser  – Tuba
Tony Roe – Hammond Organ
Ramon Lormans – Percussion
Lonneke van Straalen – Violin
Hadewijch Hofland – Violin
Liselot Blomaard – Viola
Geneviève Verhage – Cello
Alberto Monge Mansilla – Contrabass

Photo by Melle Meivogel