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About Oscar van Dillen
Oscar van Dillen is composer and professor of music at Codarts University for the Arts, Rotterdam.
My work is strongly inspired by World music. My melodic treatment is highly influenced by Indian classical music, as is my treatment of musical time in the broadest sense. My rhythmic treatment is both additive and divisive in nature, and can be traced to many rhythmic traditions especially in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Balkans. My harmonic treatment, refined by studies ranging from Medieval music to Wagner, from Pygmy music to the works of John Coltrane, ever originating in concentrated listening to overtones in intervals, voices or instruments, is a synthesis of free chromaticism with an expanded intuitive modality. I am always looking for special timbres created by simultaneous sounds, as can be seen in my scores, which contain many subtle playing instructions. My form treatment is free yet clear: awareness of form is created purely by memory, and I deliberately use many silences as well. To create music, especially as a composer, one needs to let go of all thinking in "fixed systems", whether known or new - and rather control such matters as discipline, method and attitude instead, as these are inwardly-directed parameters. I consider music to be primarily a real time-art as well as a real-time art, intended to allow listeners to participate live in the creation, as co-perceivers, satisfying three basic human "instincts": wonder, inquisitiveness and a sense of delight. Music could perhaps be the only human "language" which explains itself immediately in the very process of listening...
Upcoming and recent events
2 Cameras @ Sea
2 Cameras @ Sea is a new film by Clive Holden, original music and soundscape by Oscar van Dillen, music performed live by the Continuum Ensemble (afl, bcl, vi, vc, pi, pc).
The music and soundscape for 2 Cameras @ Sea were developed and composed after a careful study of the movements of water and the sounds it produced. The obvious common element in music and water is the wave, and in both cases these waves can simultaneously happen on a completely different scale. In fact, I started treating individual tones as drops, phrases as waves, parts as tides, as it were working from the atoms themselves upwards...
NEW: Documentary
- Canadian multidisciplinary artist Vera Frenkel made a video documentary of the Opening Gala of the 22nd Images Festival of Film, Video and New Media, also featuring 2 Cameras @ Sea. For more information see www.verafrenkel.com.
Latest screenings
- MFDF Jihlava October 2009 in Jihlava, Czech Republic.
- Images Festival 2 April 2009 at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto ON, Canada. (with live music and soundscape)
- Shift Festival 21 November 2008, in the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (with live music and soundscape)
Utopia Suite Disco
Utopia Suite Disco is a looping video installation by Clive Holden with original music and surround soundscape (2.1 track duration 74 minutes, full track version double loop, twice 2.1: one loop 60, another 74 minutes) by Oscar van Dillen.
This project's musical style was chosen reflects the disco-music of the 1970's, which I intertwined with odd world-music rhythms and Indian melodic structures and instruments. Together with the soundscape using both electronics and tuned samples I created a new kind of “Varèsian consonance”.
So here we are (De Stad)
Conny Janssen Danst toured the Netherlands March through May 2009 with SO HERE WE ARE, with a choreography to a.o. the music of de Stad parts 5 and 6 performed live by ensemble Original Winds, conducted by Carlo Balemans.
mm2
World premiere of mm2 for two toy pianos by one player, was performed by Bernd Wiesemann in the Düsseldorfer Tonhalle on 13 May 2009.
Works
- Scores
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- for sheet music see: Scores
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- Wikipedia on Oscar van Dillen see: articles in various languages
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