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About Oscar van Dillen
Oscar van Dillen is composer and professor of music at Codarts University for the Arts, Rotterdam.
I am a member of Componisten 96. My musical studies include North Indian Classical music, Jazz, Medieval, Renaissance and Classical music and composition. Personally I have a strong link in general to the actual performance of music, not solely because I have performed myself both as a flutist and conductor, but especially since in my opinion the performer is the ultimate person to create the reality of what music is: a real-time art. My own musical scores bear witness to this, see for this also what Ulrich Dibelius' wrote about De Stad in his article “Komponisten im Sog des Globalen. Zu einigen Veränderungen” (MusikTexte Nr. 117, 2008).
Upcoming events
2 Cameras @ Sea
(between Europe and Canada)
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 screening with live music and soundscape upcoming
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- Images Festival 2 April 2009 in Toronto, Canada (including the composer attending, working on the live performance at the technical consoles): 8:00pm - 9:00pm at the Isabel Bader Theatre - Notes on Composing: 5 Collaborations in Film and Music.
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”.
New exhibition
Oscar van Dillen will personally attend the opening reception on March 28 of Utopia Suite Disco in Chatham, Ontario:
- Exhibition March 28 to April 26, 2009, Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, ON. Including Artist's Lecture, Utopian Conversation, Opening reception and Big Disco Party.
So here we are (De Stad)
Conny Janssen Danst tours 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.
Playlist upcoming performances
Maart 2009: do 05-03 | Roosendaal try-out | De Kring -- za 14-03 | Rotterdam try-out | Schouwburg -- zo 15-03 | Rotterdam première | Schouwburg -- do 19-03 | Capelle | Isala Theater -- zo 22-03 | Eindhoven | Parktheater -- wo 25-03 | Breda | Chassé -- vr 27-03 | Emmeloord | 't Voorhuys -- za 28-03 | Amersfoort | Theater de Flint -- di 31-03 | Utrecht | Stadsschouwburg
April 2009: wo 08-04 | Zoetermeer | Stadstheater -- do 09-04 | Amsterdam | Stadsschouwburg -- za 11-04 | Dordrecht | Kunstmin -- di 14-04 | Bergen op Zoom | De Maagd -- wo 15-04 | Delft | Theater de Veste -- do 16-04 | Zaandam | Zaantheater -- za 18-04 | Den Helder | Schouwburg De Kampanje -- di 21-04 | Haarlem | Toneelschuur -- wo 22-04 | Alkmaar | Theater de Vest -- za 25-04 | Den Haag | Lucent -- di 28-04 | Maastricht | Theater a/h Vrijthof
Mei 2009: vr 01-05 | Wageningen | Junushoff -- za 02-05 | Hengelo | Rabotheater -- di 05-05 | Weert | Munttheater -- wo 06-05 | Apeldoorn | Schouwburg Orpheus -- do 07-05 | Purmerend | De Purmaryn -- wo 13-05 | Groningen | Stadsschouwburg -- di 19-05 | Rotterdam | Rotterdamse Schouwburg
mm2
World premiere of mm2 for two toy pianos by one player, performed by Bernd Wiesemann in the Düsseldorfer Tonhalle is postponed until May! (was originally planned 4 March 2009)
New premiere date: 13 May 2009 20:00
Works
- Scores
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- for sheet music see: Scores
Miscellaneous
- Wikipedia on Oscar van Dillen: en, nl, de, tr, sr, he
- LinkedIn profile
- Creative Commons
- Free Software Foundation
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