music theatre
All the parameters for this work were determined and written out by composer Wim Henderickx, in close consultation with Kevin Voets, director of the HERMESensemble.
Wim's musical assistant, Diederik Glorieux, set to work on the material and further developed it according to plan and in the spirit of Wim Henderickx. He also takes charge of the musical direction.
Inner Life is as much a composition as an alchemical formula - or a game. It is a recipe for an artistic experiment in which all possible musical personalities and groups can participate.
Wim Henderickx composed a new score, with a duration of seven times seven minutes, for a basic instrumentation of seven 'initiates'. The score is partly through-composed, partly open-ended. Precisely notated in some places, graphically rendered in others. The piece is 'web-structured': on the one hand, it consists of musical objects - some melodic, some timbral in nature, some concrete, others aleatory. On the other hand, different 'performance strategies' or paths are proposed.
The composition starts from a basic line-up of seven performers, but has several 'gateways': passages to other performance layers, which performers can interpret. A performance of Inner Life is always different. In principle, the work can be played by seven performers. But Inner Life is also suitable for involving many more people in the alchemical crucible, including larger groups of performers. Choirs, brass bands, and musical societies of different levels can participate and collaborate in a living laboratory, experimentally creating a new work of art and experience.
Inner Life at DE SINGEL in Antwerp in September 2024 (©Bea Steylaerts)
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