Blokken Graphic

To continue in graphic manner - one of the pieces contained in "Souvenirs d'enfance" (1966) is Blokken whose peculiar score suggests edgy sound.

Rosa, the Death of a Composer Drawings

In 2000 the group of Belgrade based artists and theorists founded Walking Theory. Our first theory performance looked like series of theatricaly performed fragments of lectures. Mine was partly based on concept of the death of the author, and theorization of Andriessen's and Peter Greenaway's horse drama "Rosa". Alleged conspiracy against composers inspired visual artist Sinisa Ilic to make few drawings.

Belgrade Archive 2004

These days I am back to my Belgrade archives. In 2004 Louis Andriessen was in Belgrade together with Gilius van Bergeijk, Bernhard Lang and Jasna Velickovic, where their lectures and pieces were part of Composers in First Person festival. You can see photos from this event here.
I made few more pictures:

Louis Andriessen and pianist Nada Kolundzija talking about performance details of Image de Moreau (2004)

Portrait of Louis Andriessen walking along river Danube in Zemun, Belgrade (2004)

Workers Union in Boston

New Music Festival at Boston Conservatory includes performance of Workers Union (November 15th).
"Only in the case that every player plays with such an intention that his part is an essential one, the work will succeed, just as as in the political work".
Here you can see Bang on a Can All Stars performing this piece.

Rosa Lecture

In 2001 Peter Greenaway gave a lecture on opera, film and death at European Graduate School. He talks about video, films, movies, cinema and opera; continuity, dramaturgy, the differences between musical, opera, theatre, and producing, filming, directing; the death of composers Anton Webern, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and John Lennon. The case study of his lecture is exclusively Rosa, The Death of a Composer, a Horse Drama. The whole lecture is available:

Singing Anatomy

The first anatomical theatre was built at the University of Padua in 1594. I was intrigued by the fact that even music was played live during some of the public dissections performed in such venues. The first opera was believed to be Dafne by Jacopo Peri, created in Florence around 1597 or 1598. Its creation could be interpreted as a kind of public dissection of what was thought to be a Greek tragedy. Theatricality of human body is emphasized by offering drama of its interior, and at late 16th century it was, obviously, tendency in different spheres of life.

It looks like in "Man is for Man, Music, Mozart" Peter Greenaway already had that in mind.

Souvenirs d'enfance Cartoon