Kelder

Kelder is a piece that was written almost entirely in the basement where I practiced (Kelder = basement in Dutch), I wrote / improvised the sketches between rehearsals and practices and then organized, erased, re-wrote and gave shape and structure back home (upstairs).

What I wanted to express was the idea of the basement as the root of what happens upstairs, in view of all.

The bass clef with a changing ostinato (the root) suggests the melodies that sound in the treble clef, these also changing melodies try to escape to other keys but without forgetting their root, sometimes the keys come together and form a single theme, but soon the treble clef again seeks to escape … it achieves it for a brief moment (measure 73 – 76) but the root remains present … by the end both clefs reaches their furthest point, but still sounding together, the root, always present.