About me myself with my to myself and myself and my own
Een programme by Arnold Marinissen for film, percussion, dance and electronics
Arnold Marinissen is a percussionist in the first place, but in his concerts there's room for a variety of other elements. He works with percussion and other instruments such as the musical saw, he sings, uses electronics, visual aspects and theatre. His concerts tend to consist of a variety of styles, sometimes with works of his own. He often collaborates with other artists.
Two years ago he developed a film programme, Beauty Unrealized, for which he invited composer and filmmakers to collaborate, and which was performed in The Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and in Russia. Now he's working on a programme which will incorporate new films, percussion, dance, electronics and guest performers. For all the films there's a live component, and the interaction between the screen and the stage is essential.
With About me myself with my to myself and myself and my own the dutch composer Jan van Putte once wrote a full-scale work for a lonesome percussionist with one kettledrum. This title now slightly discomfortingly frames Marinissen's new solo programme. Each of the performed works offers a view of an internal world; the audience gets drawn into a picture.
In BLINK, a choreography by Ederson Rodrigues Xavier, a dancer, stalked by a huge white eye, is kept in motion and surrounded by Marinissen's tape music. In Kyriakides' Lab Fly Dreams a tiny fly in a laboratory is not allowed to fall asleep... Noordegraaf’s new work SOLOIST features a percussionist and his alter ego on the screen, who try to liberate themselves from each other and from their frame. Prepared Forest and Prepared Surface by the brothers Rob and Arnold Marinissen respectively show a man in a forest and a young girl who dances on the surface of the water. A sense of isolation and alienation go hand in hand with an extreme degree of visual refinement. Larry Lynch meets a pony by David Prior and Arnold Marinissen show a silent encounter between a man and a pony.
Finally, in Framed and Live the discomfort of being alone is cut short, and performers on screen and on stage are united in a strange game of hearing and not hearing…
programma:
* David Prior & Arnold Marinissen - Larry Lynch meets a pony
* Rob & Arnold Marinissen - Prepared Forest & Prepared Surface
* Arnoud Noordegraaf - SOLOIST
* Ederson Rodrigues Xavier & Arnold Marinissen - BLINK
* H.C Gilje & Yannis Kyriakides – Lab Fly Dreams
* Rob & Arnold Marinissen - Framed & Live
Raven
Drie vrije vogels op rooftocht door de vroegbarok
Raaf Hekkema, sopraansaxofoon
Wiek Hijmans, elektrische gitaar
Arnold Marinissen, slagwerk, zingende zaag
De virtuozen Hekkema, Hijmans en Marinissen, gezichtsbepalende instrumentalisten in de Nederlandse hedendaagse muziekpraktijk, bundelen hun krachten in wat hun gedeelde passie blijkt: de vroegbarok.
Een madrigaal van Claudio Monteverdi, John Dowland’s ‘flow my tears’, muziek van William Byrd, Johann Hermann Schein of Jan Pietersz. Sweelinck krijgen een frisse, kleurrijke en overrompelende interpretatie. Raven geeft een geheel eigen antwoord op de authentieke uitvoeringspraktijk. Een uitbundig programma met een melancholieke toets.
SANG LOVE SONGS
Margriet van Reisen - mezzo-sopraan
Arnold Marinissen - slagwerk & stem
Sang Love Songs: een duoprogramma van mezzosopraan Margriet van Reisen en slagwerker Arnold Marinissen. Beiden zingen, en het podium is overladen met slagwerk en andere instrumenten. Centraal staat het lied; bezongen wordt vooral de liefde, in allerlei gedaantes, in vocaal en instrumentaal werk uit de afgelopen tweehonderd jaar.
programme:
* Anthony Fiumara - Fall # 3 (A Note for James Tenney)
* Sofia Gubaidulina - Aria uit Perception
* Piet Jan van Rossum - 18 proeven met kleine tertsen
* Mirjana Zivkovic - Incantation
* Margriet van Reisen & Arnold Marinissen - Circle
* Dugal McKinnon - Sang Love Songs
* Benjamin Britten - My heart
* Alexander Aljabev - Als het leven je bedriegt
* Igor Stravinsky - Les canards, les cygnes, les oies & Tilim-Bom
Beauty Unrealized
A performance with seven films and seven percussion pieces
Arnold Marinissen - percussion
A performance around seven films and seven works for percussion, electronics, musical saw and two feet... Most of the material was realized especially for "Beauty Unrealized".
programme:
* Ester Eva Damen & Arnold Marinissen - Miniatuur VII
* Michel van der Aa - Wake for a percussionist and film
* Rob & Arnold Marinissen - Prepared Forest
* Ester Eva Damen & Christina Viola Oorebeek - Edges
* Roberto Musci & Massimo Mariani - A Windy Place
* Gerhard Staebler - FootPrints and MundStücke from Performances für Liebhaber
* HC Gilje & Yannis Kyriakides - Lab Fly Dreams
Mlekusch & Marinissen
a double recital
Lars Mlekusch - saxophones
Arnold Marinissen - percussion
In July 2005 the swiss saxophone player Lars Mlekusch and Arnold Marinissen premiered in Wellington (New Zealand) a brandnew work by Dugal McKinnon. Now there's a complete programme! Amongst others a commissioned piece by Anthony Fiumara, the european première of McKinnon's work, plus compositions by Marthinsen, Hegaard, Brophy en Matsuda.
programme:
* Niels Marthinsen - Burst for saxophone and percussion
* Anthony Fiumara - new work for saxophone and percussion
* Chris Gendall - Dita for percussion
* Lars Hegaard - Map of the human heart for saxophone and percussion
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* Gerard Brophy - we bOp for saxophone and vibraphone
* Masakzu Natsuda - West Of Evening Song In Autumn for saxophone and percussion
* Luciano Berio - Sequenza VIIb for saxophone
* Dugal McKinnon - Untitled (Counterfeit Readymade #1) for saxophone and percussion
Percussionist Songs
a solo recital for percussion and voice
Percussion can sing - that's proved by Christian Wolff's Percussionist Songs and Claude Vivier's Cinq Chansons pour Percussion, two very special but rarely played pieces. But can a percussionist sing...?
programme:
* Kees van Kooten - Festival (1969)
* Arnold Marinissen - Miniatuur I (2004)
* Ross Harris - new work for voice and percussion (2006)
* Arnold Marinissen - Miniatuur II (2004)
* Claude Vivier - Cinq Chansons pour Percussion (1982)
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* Stuart Smith - Songs I-IX (1980-82)
* Arnold Marinissen - Miniatuur III (2004)
* Dugal McKinnon - new work for voice and marimba (2006)
* Arnold Marinissen - Miniatuur IV (2004)
* Kurt Schwitters - Ursonate (1922-32)
Traces of Cultures
for solo percussion
Maracas and electroacoustic sounds, variations on the Big Ben motive, a zarb, African slit drums, Latin-American cowbells, Chinese toms, Thai gongs and castanets, a South African phrase, Asian gongs and bells.
A collection of works for solo percussion in which traces can be found from various cultures; five compositions connected with their "home countries" in various ways. Sometimes the link can be found in the musical material, sometimes in the instruments that are used, sometimes it is the listener who makes the connection.
programme:
* Javier Alvarez - Temazcal (8') for maracas and tape
* Gunter Lege - Oh Clock (11') for vibraphone
* Claude Vivier - Cinq Chansons pour Percussion (22') for percussion
* Christopher Fox - Phogrammatische Inventionen (17') for percussion
* Kevin Volans - She who sleeps with a small blanket (16') for percussion
Layered Rhythms
for solo percussion
Eight works for solo percussion, in which densities fluctuate between extremes... Brian Ferneyhough's Bone Alphabet is probably the ultimate example of complexity, whereas Margriet Hoenderdos' January '94 is on the other side of the scale. Iannis Xenakis' "percussion classic" Rebonds, Willem Boogman's brand new Genieting II for extended vibraphone and a selection from Elliott Carter's Eight Pieces for Four Timpani complete the picture.
programme:
* Margriet Hoenderdos - January '94 (8')
* Elliott Carter - Recitative (from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani; 3')
* Elliott Carter - March (from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani; 3')
* Iannis Xenakis - Rebonds (17')
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* Willem Boogman - Genieting II for extended vibraphone (9')
* Elliott Carter - Improvisation (from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani; 3')
* Elliott Carter - Canaries (from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani; 3')
* Brian Ferneyhough - Bone Alphabet (12')