Hidden Landscapes – Wim Dijkgraaf (reviewed by Dave Franklin Aug. 12th, 2017) I have to confess that harmonica led jazz is not my normal area of expertise, but that’s fine, it just means that I get to drop my bag of well-worn indie clichés and pop puns and approach the music like the wide-eyed music lover that I have always been. And there is a lot to love here. The album is nothing if not...
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Peter Schat has been an important influence for the way I work as a composer with melodies and harmonies. It brought me to the idea to create a webbased tool to give more meaning to pitches and groups of pitches. That idea came from Peter Schat’s ideas around the tone-clock. From 1974 until 1983 Schat taught composition at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague; thereafter he supported...
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The great thing about having concerts abroad is, besides the pleasure to play, get to know new places and meet new people, to be together with old friends. One of them will definitely be the fantastic piano player and composer Kiko Continentino. We met for the first time in Belo Horizonte for the recording sessions of the Dumee & Dijkgraaf Quinteto in which Kiko is the piano player. That was...
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Since a couple of years, I’ve been heavily experimenting with a computer assisted composition approach, known as parametric composition. And I must say, I’m immensely surprised with the results so far. For someone like me who doesn’t have the luxury of being able to compose continuously (meaning I’ve to compose a day, 2 days off, 1 day, 2 weeks off etc.) it’s...
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Performance of “La Ballata dei piedi volanti” from the album with the same title. With: Fulvia di Domenico – voice Marijn van der Linden – guitar & cavaquinho Tie Pereira – double bass Matthias Haffner –...
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