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HEXAMERON - phagocitosis (2006/07) was commissioned by the Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation NPS and is based on a 'theme' provided by them. As the title suggests, five more composers were given a similar commission to show off their talent and challenge them into writing something on almost nothing but three notes: Pam-pa-Pam, a punctuated signal familiar of fanfares and hunting horns (dominant-dominant-tonic). Its subtitle 'Phagocitosis' was chosen not only to distinguish my contribution from my team-mates, but also to indicate that this 'cell' more or less acts like a phagocyte, a cell which engulfs foreign material in an organism or consumes debris and foreign bodies for destruction or expulsion. That is more or less what it does in my composition, with the difference that it also ushers in several well known musical references which contain the cell (in their DNA). In fact, the world of music is so full of tunes which contain the bug, that associations are almost inevitable. I didn't want to fight the invitations and, instead, let the floodgates open to see if an organism could be created out of the contamination process. So here is the ambiguity: destruction as metabolism for construction - decomposition as catalyst for composition. I leave it to my audiences to identify the various references - with apologies to the authors whose works I contaminated. |
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