🎥 Playing Andriessen – Episode 2 with David Dramm is now live on the Louis Andriessen Platform:
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By capturing essential working processes, personal memories and artistic exchanges, the Playing Andriessen series offers rare insights into Louis Andriessen’s work.
The second episode offers a composer’s lens. David Dramm, former student of Louis Andriessen, brings a clear-eyed perspective on the play, discipline, and sonic imagination behind Andriessen’s music.
Playing Andriessen is the result of the work of many hands:
David Dramm, composer
Eric de Clercq, video: camera & editing
Monica Germino, concept & curator
Heleen Hulst, practical & artistic goldmine
with thanks to David Dramm and Evert de Cock
with archival contributions and support from many hands
supported by Société Gavigniès, Boosey & Hawkes
📢 Special thanks to the dedicated panel of viewers for their insights helping to make the series what it is becoming: @kristia.michael , @vonavirazotevs , Max van Platen, Adriana Rio, Leslee Smucker, @celia__swart__ , @veerlewinkelmolen
Behind the scenes of Episode 2 of Playing Andriessen. This oral history series captures insights and practical knowledge from people who worked directly with Louis Andriessen.
David Dramm, composer and former student of Louis Andriessen, reflects:
🖊 “What’s music history anyway? I feel like not being able to hang out with Beethoven's piano tuner or the singers that worked with Purcell is a real bummer. There’s something we’re missing. I hope something like ‘Playing Andriessen’ can fill that gap a bit."
Next week the full David Dramm episode goes live on the Louis Andriessen Platform.
🌐 Read and watch more via: /playingandriessen/57
🎥 Playing Andriessen: Music for Friends
Writing music for friends, spending time with them and with students, and the exchange of ideas about art, philosophy, politics, composition, and music were essential to Louis Andriessen’s life and work.
🖋 In the second episode of Playing Andriessen, David Dramm writes about the series:
“One reason I’m so curious to see the other videos in this series is that all these amazing musicians that Andriessen wrote for were his friends. It wasn’t just rehearse it and then go home: you talked it over in the café, you argued about it, it grew musically through all the chit-chat as well.”
In this clip, we see footage from those moments, including Louis’ students David Dramm, Calliope Tsoupaki, Yannis Kyriakides, Rozalie Hirs, Sam Hayden and more.
🌐 Watch this and more clips on the Louis Andriessen Platform:
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🎥 David Dramm on Playing Andriessen:
“At an Andriessen concert, you see the musicians working. It wasn’t the composer or the players that was important. It was the music itself.”
🌐 Watch additional clips and read more about Episode 2 on the Louis Andriessen Platform:
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Watch this space for the release of the full episode!
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