7 short attempts to write a piece for violin   2000

a stage performance
for violin, actor and candle wax;
made for FortLux Festival, IJmuiden NL
written and acted by  Mendel Hardeman



  "...like a baby that hasn't yet developed sufficient vocabulary to say what he wants to say, so finally the only way out is to start crying ..."       > read more



> see still pictures of the performance


> hear the music     ( 10'24",  9.5 MB )
7 short attempts - cover picture

◊ A Man with a Cross

◊ Kyrie Eleison

◊ EXODUS

◊ Caress

◊ a Tree for Glenn Gould

◊ Via Crucis

◊ The Cup

◊ Epilogue to Orpheus

◊ Harpsichorpheus

◊ Sysif's Song

◊ Dark Blue Horizon

◊ Times and Tides

◊ Unholy Vessels

◊ INDICTUS

◊ HAP

◊ 7 short attempts to
    write a piece for violin

◊ Reveal thyself Alighieri

◊ Last days of a cross

◊ A Última Quimera

research
◊ the Singing Camera

collaborations
◊ Het Dierenparadijs

◊ Tattooed Tongues

◊ Slowly turning narrative

◊ Planecrash

◊ A View on Beauty
Mendel Hardeman archive 1999-2006
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