Composers and Musicians of the Netherlands

The Janco Verduin Podcast (1)

‘Every piece I compose, I regard as a strange microcosm, with its own laws of nature ant its own inhabitants,’ says composer Janco Veruin. His compositions are inspired by a wide range of fields, including software development, neuroscience, psychology, physics and biology, as well as nature itself. Janco has ben researching bats for several years, and his research also feeds into his musical work, particularly the development of the system underlying each composition.

Playlist

1. 1. CD The Six String Quartets
      Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 5, I: Allegro
      Takács Quartet
      2’18”
   2. Own SoundCloud recording
      Janco Verduin: Mirovoi
      Nieuw Amsterdams Peil (Heleen Hulst, violin; Gerard Bouwhuis, piano; Mick Sterling, cello)
      6’49”
   3. CD Waves
      Peter Adriaansz: Wave 7
      Ensemble Klang
      7’43”
   4. CD Crippled Symmetry
      Morton Feldman: Crippled Symmetry 1 (excerpt)
      Eberhard Blum, Nils Vigeland, Jan Williams
      7’02”
   5. CD For Philip Guston
      Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston (opening)
      Julia Breuer, Matthias Engler, Elmar Schrammel
      9’42”

      Muziekmakers der Nederlanden is a podcast by New Music Now and the Concertzender. It presents portraits of composers, musicians and other music-makers in the Netherlands through their ‘desert island discs’ – the pieces of music they would most like to share with the world and that have played an important role in their work and lives.