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Oscar van Dillen |
Working hard on several long-term projects:
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| Outline of basic music theory An online learning book by Oscar van Dillen, offering a concise and complete overview of basic music theory.  ....We can now summarize this structure and knowledge in the circle of fifths. The image of the circle of fifths summarizes and visually represents the observations on major and minor scales and keys and the key signatures with number and order of sharps and flats, but it also allows a further geometrical look into the intervals, and their place within this representation. |
Vox Populi Vox Dei (In Dutch) Wekelijkse column op www.artofpop.nl:  ....Tot aan de wijde verbreiding van de voorlopers van de langspeelplaten vonden musici nog volop emplooi in de radiostudio’s: uitzendingen werden live gespeeld. Deze belangrijke bron van inkomsten is na 1950 goeddeels verdwenen, en voor uitgezonden werk dient er genoegen te worden genomen met de in gedetailleerde wetten en regels vastgestelde partitionering, die tevens een financieel waardeoordeel velt over het genre... |
Eristische dialektiek
(In Dutch) Een beknopte puntsgewijze samenvatting van Schopenhauer's gelijknamige boekje in eigen tripletten, waarbij titels de plaats van nummers innemen en de schrijfstijl bewust de herinnering oproept aan oude Chinese orakelboeken:  Cirkelredenering Eerst opzettelijk inexacte herformuleringen als uitgangspunt nemen, |
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| All Art Creates Content Recently published article: Alle kunst schept inhoud (December 2010, Dutch)  ....Kunst is in staat om, via de waarneming en de voorstelling, grotere samenhangen ervaarbaar, voelbaar te maken, mits wij haar begrijpen. Mits wij haar begrijpen willen (zien we het belang ervan in?). Mits wij haar begrijpen kunnen (beschikken de kunstenaar en ik over een voldoende ontwikkelde noodzakelijke gemeenschappelijke waarnemingstaal?). De stap van vorm naar inhoud is in de kunsten ten dele individueel gecodificeerd; er bestaan vele, deels gemeenschappelijke, symbooltalen waarmee men op zeer beknopte wijze complexe zaken kan vormgeven, visueel, auditief en anderszins.... |
Olduvai Ensemble The Olduvai Ensemble was founded in 2011 by Oscar van Dillen, who is also its artistic director.  Named after the Olduvai gorge in Africa, historic cradle of Mankind, the artistic mission of the Olduvai Ensemble is to develop and present a new music repertoire, connecting globally to people, ages and civilizations, as a reminder to the fact that as humans we will always share more than we differ. Music is a common language everywhere, in its essence, and therefore regardless of style, still primal enough to be understood with a deeper and older part of our being. Derwish (live) by the Olduvai Ensemble:
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2 Cameras @ Sea 2 Cameras @ Sea is a 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).
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| Memos for a New Millennium An original composition by Oscar van Dillen, for disklavier and pianist (MIDI file for performances is available through the composer) Live premiere by Maarten van Veen. In this composition a balance and cooperation between man and machine is the central theme. The parts of the piece are: |
Music for a Sculpture This composition is the result of a close collaboration between sculptor Harmen Brethouwer and composer Oscar van Dillen.
A kind of Avant-Garde Worldmusic? Associations with Zen and African additive rhythms, but also with minimalism and a sonological approach, formally almost in the form of the performance of a North-Indian raga (alap, jor, jhala). The setting being composed as part of the fully notated score leads to a new kind of hieroglyph, in motion, now apparently searching, then synchronized, then exactly symmetrical again: intended for both ears and eyes. |
De Beweging A composition for large orchestra by Oscar van Dillen, nominated for the Young Composer's Prize in 2001. Live premiere by Holland Symfonia conducted by Peter Rundel, recorded by VPRO radio. The instrumentation is a full symphony orchestra, contrasting polyphony and rhythm. The composition can be considered to be a tribute to all peaceful movements fighting for an open society that truly respects human rights and cultural differences. |
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| DUDE A short film by Oscar van Dillen Michael Jackson's Moonwalk revisited Music: Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin - Five Preludes, Op 74: No 3: Allegro drammatico - performed by Piers Lane, piano |
Full Moon in Perigee
A short film by Oscar van Dillen One shot movie of the Full Moon in Perigee, the closest point of its orbit around the Earth. Music: GuZheng, a traditional Chinese composition titled "Moonlit night of spring river"
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Shores
A short film by Oscar van Dillen Isolde Venrooy's canvas "Where do I pick up my last minute" (2011) has such a unique scope of scale that it is almost impossible to capture it in a photograph, so I decided to film it. Music: Stefan Micus playing the Sho (Ocean Part IV, 1986) |
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| Utopia Disco A looping video installation by Clive Holden with original music and surround soundscape by Oscar van Dillen. A very different musical style was chosen than was used in the earlier parts of Utopia Suite, this time reflecting the disco-music of the 1970's, which I intertwined with odd world music rhythms and Indian melodic structures and instruments.
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Various works and projects
de Stad see here
for sheet music see: Scores |
Miscellaneous Oscar van Dillen - Wikibox userpage Componisten 96 |
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| As this website is being expanded continually, you are invited to revisit as often as you like and enjoy the latest additions. | Wikibox If you are new here, you might want to start with the Community portal. www.oscarvandillen.com is a Wikibox using special extensions among which are: Semantic MediaWiki, Lilypond and WikiForum. |
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