Christina Viola Oorebeek : BOOK of SAMPLES (2021-2023)

An adventure of new sounds and images - layered, repetitive, wavy patterns and color palettes. With BOOK of SAMPLES (2021-2023), composer Christina Viola Oorebeek immerses herself in the integration of her new music with 'experimental imagery' for video. Having fallen in love in with the swatch book of the fabric house, Fortin in Paris, 1825, she explores and creates images and sound transformations of favorite fabric designs from the BOOK of SAMPLES with poetic and associative freedom. There are also two instrumental works, based on these associations and fantasies, each one linked to one of the two music video's. With recordings
of these 'live' works, she created electronic music for each video. Together with still images from the BOOK of SAMPLES, she transformed them, so that movement en layers of transparence came into being. The instrumental pieces are performed by wonderful and creative musicians - Reinier van Houdt, piano, Doris Hochscheid, cello, Michel Marang, clarinets, en Erica Roozendaal, accordion.

About the composer:
Christina Viola Oorebeek is een American-Dutch composer who after two years as a singer in
'Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks' in San Francisco left the VS in '69 to look around in Europe and as singer-songwriter, worked in London before she landed in Amsterdam in 1971. After years having worked as an improvisor for dance, she studied piano with with Willem Brons, CvA,
she found her 'true lover' in composition. At age 50, she studied composition with Klaas de Vries at CodeArts. Graduating in 1999 with the Composition Prize, she has been busy composing ever since. www.christinaoorebeek.com

Experimentele 'Imagery'
In de Bowed Electrons Festivals 2021-2023 vanuit Cape Town University, she started to develop her love for imagery, color and form in making video's for recordings of a number of her existing works.

Reinier van Houdt, piano
Michel Marang, clarinet

ROADRUNNER Trio:
Michel Marang, clarinet
Doris Hochscheid, cello
Erica Roozendaal, accordion

Video: Christina Viola Oorebeek - Streamlines I for amplified violin, fixed media & experimental imagery (2011, REMIX 2021) Jellantsje de Vries, violin:

Video: Christina Viola Oorebeek - Chromotoy I - three sketches (revision 2024) for Toy Grand Piano (37 keys), Toy Piano (25 tines), Soundwheel & Fixed-Media. Anne Veinberg, performer: