When Morris wrote his first notes for Mikrokosmos it was april 2020, in the middle of the first Covid-19 lockdown. There we where, all tight to our houses. We came together on zoom on the day that we would have presented the first notes of the project in the BIMhuis. When you look back at the recording of that conversation you see a bunch of people who did not have a clue of what was going to happen. Both the project and the pandemic would evolve in ways we did not expect back than.
Morris was the first composer to start writing for Mikrokosmos. His notes were our first steps into the cold water. Playing his notes for the first time felt very scary and weird because we were very insecure about what Mikrokosmos was going to be like. What did we get ourselves into?
And actually that is also what the music feels like. It is the second movement that comes right after the big bang. So is has that feeling: where are we? With whom? Can we find a place to stand, so we can start this journey from there?
When Morris wrote his first notes for Mikrokosmos it was april 2020, in the middle of the first Covid-19 lockdown. There we where, all tight to our houses. We came together on zoom on the day that we would have presented the first notes of the project in the BIMhuis. When you look back at the recording of that conversation you see a bunch of people who did not have a clue of what was going to happen. Both the project and the pandemic would evolve in ways we did not expect back than.
Morris was the first composer to start writing for Mikrokosmos. His notes were our first steps into the cold water. Playing his notes for the first time felt very scary and weird because we were very insecure about what Mikrokosmos was going to be like. What did we get ourselves into?
And actually that is also what the music feels like. It is the second movement that comes right after the big bang. So is has that feeling: where are we? With whom? Can we find a place to stand, so we can start this journey from there?
