Label: Disquiet Media
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917400120
Catalog number: DQM 01
Releasedate: 03-09-10
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917400120
Releasedate: 03-09-10
The three works on this first CD by Disquiet Media, composer, film-maker and director Michel van der Aa’s own multimedia label, together constitute a stylistic cross-section of a genre that, with its refined musical expression of conceptual first principles, has quickly gained ground both nationally and internationally. They demonstrate the scope of a vision of ‘music about music’, in which as an object of study the human being, musician or not, is just as important as musical ideas.
- Upcoming star Van der Aa is a "art omnivore "
- His ability to fuse music, text and visual images into a totally organic whole sets him apart from nearly all his contemporaries
- Composer, film-maker and director Michel van der Aa’ launches his own multimedia label (2010) Disquiet Media
- There are no bounderies for the multi-talented Van der Aa in his art: the ultimate multi-tasker!
- With a cast of international musicians and orchestras
- Contemporary and modern in every way
- Spaces Of Blank is especially written for Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Ed Spanjaard: conductor
Christianne Stotijn: mezzo-soprano
Asko|Schönberg
Otto Tausk: conductor
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Gottfried von der Goltz: violin
“The recurring theme in Van der Aa is identity: of human beings, sounds, instruments, musicians, music communities.”
“And so Spaces of Blank becomes, by playing with the outward show of the opposite, everything that a ‘normal’ song cycle is not.”
“As ‘beautiful’ as it is, the music is clearly the product of an imagination that far surpasses the purely musical.”
Ed Spanjaard: conductor
Christianne Stotijn: mezzo-soprano
Asko|Schönberg
Otto Tausk: conductor
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Gottfried von der Goltz: violin
“The recurring theme in Van der Aa is identity: of human beings, sounds, instruments, musicians, music communities.”
“And so Spaces of Blank becomes, by playing with the outward show of the opposite, everything that a ‘normal’ song cycle is not.”
“As ‘beautiful’ as it is, the music is clearly the product of an imagination that far surpasses the purely musical.”