- Title: Capriccios of the world
- Instrumentation: clarinet and electronics
- Year: 2020 – 2023
- Duration: —
- Commissioner: Michel Marang with the financial support of Fonds Podiumkunsten and New Music NOW Files
- Premiere: 21st November 2020, Uilenburgersjoel, Amsterdam, NL
- First performer: Michel Marang
- Buy Score: work in progress
PROGRAM NOTE
The musical cycle “Capriccios of the world” is a cycle for clarinet and electronics. It is part of the “Shifting Images” project started many years ago by Michel Marang. A programme in which new music is performed together with Marang’s photographic sequences.
“Capriccios of the world” is composed of 2 books and 9 parts, each linked to the musical traditions of a particular country, making a kind of journey around the world.
The nine countries are: Sudan, England, Georgia, Ukraine, Japan, Spain, China, India and Purgatory. Each part combines a lot of instrumental samples, voices and other elements of folklore, which are distorted in a bizarre way, creating a peculiar version of modern folklore. The musical material comes from traditional features, but it is not an imitation. The composer transforms semantic images to a new level, creating unusual combinations of sounds, rhythms and melodies.