The Regarding Room
This piece is a tribute to a well lived in and loved room that is a source of comfort, focus and solitude, imprisonment, exhaustion, concentration, productivity, idleness, leisure, illness, recovery, pracitcality, resourcefulness, boredom, lonliness, discovery, elasticicity, texture, space, confinement. It is white. Not Bright but even. It is grey. Light and calm. Vertical Lines. White. Strange orange. Bright line of sunlight spilling to the floor. White. Grey lines. Light and calm. Blue shadows. Bright colours. Orange and pink. Diagonal sprawl reaching into the far umber. Dark where no soul stirs but a creak in the floor. Still there are vertical lines. The ones that always were. The corners are inky. Blue like the night sky. The shadows are burnt as though singed in a fire. The sound of a door dovetails the sirens and engines that race in a world outside, so far removed. The room that breathes. Friend. One that must always be left and returned to.
- 15 Feb 2008
Performances
- 11 Mar 2014, De Link, Tilburg
- 17 Feb 2008, De Gigant, Apeldoorn
- 16 Feb 2008, Korzo, The Hague
- 15 feb 2008, Theater Kikker, Utrecht
Kate Moore
Kate Moore (b. 1979) is an Australian-Dutch musician and composer of new music. In 2001 she was awarded B.Mus Cum Laude with the University Medal from The Australian National University majoring in composition and electroacoustic music. Having obtained a masters degree from The Royal Conservatory of The Hague she has been based in the Netherlands since 2002 and in 2013 she was awarded a Ph.D. from The University of Sydney. In 2017 she was the recipient of the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize, the most prestigious Dutch prize for composers, for her work The Dam commissioned for The Canberra International Festival. Her major work Sacred Environment was premiered by The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and choir with soloists Alex Oomens and Lies Beijerinck, taking place at The Holland Festival Proms in The Concertgebouw followed by a commission to write the 2018 Bosch Requiem Lux Aeterna for choir and large Ensemble. In 2018 she is the ‘Zielsverwanten’ artist in residence at The Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in Amsterdam featuring her own group Herz Ensemble; and she is composer in focus at November Music festival in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Her works have been released on major labels including Grammy and Eddison nominated album Dances and Canons, released on ECM New Series and Cantaloupe release Stories for Ocean Shells. Active on the international scene, Moore has had works performed by acclaimed ensembles including ASKO|Schönberg, Alarm Will Sound, The Bang On A Can All-Stars and Icebreaker. Her works have been performed in venues including The Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall and The Sydney Opera House and at major festivals including The Holland Festival, ISCM World Music Days and MATA.
Kate Moore, ©Marco Giugliarelli for the Civitella Ranieri Foundation