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Final exam Joep Verheijen - Composition for Film and Theatre

Final exam Joep Verheijen - Composition for Film and Theatre

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Arnhem
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Finals
Music
SPACES   Joep Verheijen presents SPACES.  A film exploring atmosphere through music and architecture, premiered on June 25th at Focus film theatre in Arnhem.   In SPACES monumental buildings are accompanied by an impressive musical score to properly capture the essence of their atmospheres.    Joep Verheijen is a Dutch composer with a focus in composition for orchestral music and music for various ensembles. His style combines influences from baroque to contemporary classical music with influences from film music.   He creates atmospheres through music by exploring the depth and richness of color of musical instruments, always pushing the limits to find the most powerful way to tell a story.  In SPACES Joep captures the atmospheres of exceptional architecture like Beeld & Geluid in Hilversum and the Wassenhove Villa near Ghent. Through music, Joep transports the audience into these buildings, letting them experience their atmospheres  the way he experienced them and opening them up to an entirely new way of looking at architecture.   Through a variety of instruments, ranging from full orchestra, to the Matangi string quartet, and the Walcker organ in Doesburg, Joep portrays the atmospheres of these buildings with much detail and the depth that can be found in the versatility of these ensembles and instruments.   Four buildings are the subject of this project. These buildings are all vastly different but also share similar aspects. Their atmospheres are comparable yet completely different. This contrast is showcased both through image and music, through which Joep reflects his subjective experience of each of the atmospheres onto the audience, passing through the spaces the way he sensed them.