WED 5 NOV | MUZIEKGEBOUW: STRANGE NEWS bit.ly/1q3B2L3 Excited to play once more ‘Strange News’ in Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw aan t IJ next week. A masterpiece by Rolf Wallin and Josse De Pauw about the fate of child soldiers in Central Africa. Rolf Wallin is one of Norway’s most distinctive composers, who describes his many faceted oeuvre as a Cabinet of Curiosities. This is a great piece for three amplified balloons played by the incomparable Kroumata Percussion Ensemble. Rolf Wallin about his ‘Cabinet’: “In a way, I see many of my compositions as cabinets of curiosities. Most of them have been inspired by things outside the world of music: bird song (Das war schön!), psychoanalysis (Id), politics (Concerning King), alchemy (Boyl, Solve et Coagula), waves of ice and stone (Onda di ghaccio and Stonewave), fish shoals (Ning), fractal mathematics (several works) tidal waves (Tides), brain waves and the border between life and non-life (feelings*), the mythical life of the city (Under City Skin), and much more. In fact, one of my works is inspired by – guess what – cabinets of curiosities! Curiosity Cabinet consists of 11 very short pieces for string quartet, lasting only 10 minutes in all.”
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