Description
Cumulonimbus is a composition for ensemble without electronics.
This composition is part of the Wolkenatlas-project with six other Dutch composers from Zeeland (Christiaan Blaha, Douwe Eisenga, Wiek Hijmans, Dies Le Duc, Daan Manneke).
Based upon David Mitchell's novel "Cloud Atlas".
David Mitchell writes in the cd booklet:
Jorrit Tamminga’s interpretation begins meditatively, though it is tempting to write ‘investigative’: the novella’s narrator, Luisa Rey, is an investigative reporter. A mysterious flute impersonating a violin is joined by a flute-like violin. The ensemble then constructs a musical city-scape, complete with traffic jams and skyscrapers, before hurrying through a frieze of scenes and set-pieces, some dramatic, some elegant. This section of the novel borrows genre-conventions from the airport thriller and is, for me, the ‘bittiest’ in the novel: but Tamminga transforms my textual flaws into his own aural merits. He evokes a sense of rapidly-turning pages: the sweetest sound to a novelist’s ears, however many heads he or she may have. The composition ends as it began, with a ‘ray’ light for Luisa Rey, moving around like a torch in dark places.
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