WED 5 NOV | MUZIEKGEBOUW: STRANGE NEWS bit.ly/1q3B2L3 Working hard for next week’s concert with ‘Strange News’ in Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw aan t IJ. It’s a theatrical piece by the composer Rolf Wallin and writer/director Josse De Pauw about child soldiers in Central Africa. Rolf Wallin is one of Norway’s most distinctive composers, who describes his many faceted oeuvre as a Cabinet of Curiosities. This is an early piece: Mandala. Rolf Wallin: ”Although Mandala is an early piece of mine, it embraces many of the ideas that still fascinate me as a composer today. This can be found, for example, in the ebb and flow of energy throughout the piece. By juxtaposing the precision of mathematics with the freedom of guided improvisation, the piece moves with its own internal logic, through differing and contrasting energy levels. A Mandala is a symmetric geometric picture used in Buddhism and Hinduism as a means for meditation, most often a square design around a centre. The five sections of this piece constitute a journey through a mandala in which the long silence (the focal point of the piece) in the third section represents the centre of the figure. The piece is symmetrical in shape, but the music is changed by travelling through the quiet middle point.”
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