Passage
Joe Bendavid, actor
2:15 min. excerpt
Transit
description
Transit combines material from the piano piece Just Before and Van der Aa’s short film Passage.
In Transit the movements of the pianist interact theatrically with the video projection, the focus shifting between the video projections and the virtuosic playing of the pianist. The film footage shows us an old man trapped in his own house, he is fighting against a loneliness verging on insanity.
Transit is performed with DVD. The electronic soundtrack on the DVD combines actual sound from the film-set with prerecorded and edited piano sounds, resulting in close intermingling of live piano and pre-recorded electronic sound.
The world premiere of Transit is planned for 21 November 2009 at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, featuring Sarah Nicolls on piano.
Joe Bendavid. Still from video projection.
instrumentation
for piano and video
2009
piano
video (from DVD)
details
Duration 12'
First performance 21 November 2009, Sarah Nicolls, piano
Commissioned by -
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
video
performances
Last performance:
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23 November 2009
Sarah Nicolls, piano
PATS Studio 1, University of Surrey, Surrey, United Kingdom
Upcoming performances:
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17 September 2010
Benjamin Kobler, piano
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany -
12 October 2010
Emanuele Torquati, piano
Tempo Reale Festival
Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, Florence, Italy -
19 January 2011
musikFabrik
Philharmonie Essen, Essen, Germany
news
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05 December 2009
World premiere 'Transit'
publications
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Press keys, no sound
Abi Bliss, November 2009
