Windensemble and Percussion,
Orchestra of the Theatre of Halberstadt, November 2013
In this piece you hear the orchestration of ships of the harbour of Hamburg, especially the Queen Mary 2. The idea was to orchestrate a YouTube Clip that you can find hear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfnZRm4SGzg
The idea was basically the following: How could a music create basically from a YouTube Clip and the Analysis of the Pitch-Structure, with Audiosculpt, Spear and Open Music. In my Opinion you can hear the idea very clear, especially in the Ending of the piece. In a way it is comparable to Peter Ablingers Piece "Deus cantando" for speaking Piano. So in this way, the music is not a Music with "Melodies" and "Harmonies" and traditional rythmical Stucture, but more a orchestrated Soundscape, like a orchestrated Raymond Murray Schafer Idea. The general musical Structure is a Soundscape, not a traditional, music Idea.
There are also some "theatralic ideas" based on the persons, which conduct the ship to the harbour. The title is based on idea that modern Cruising Ships are Gambling Halls for rich people, but they don't have the traditional meaning of big ships, transporting people for example over the Atlantic, like the old Atlantic-Liners from Bremen, Le Havre or Southhampton. So it's in a way a kind of maritim Soundscape Composition based on Youtube.
Caspar de Gelmini, 2013
