DCV 311 – Oscar van Dillen: 12 Eludes

personal website at https://www.oscarvandillen.com
label website with albums at https://www.oij-records.com/

Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen (‘s-Hertogenbosch 1958) is composer and performer of music, professor of music at Codarts University for the Arts in Rotterdam, as well as visual artist.

DCV 419 Oscar van Dillen Elements 2: Helium Oscar van Dillen Download Booklet

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DCV 456 Oscar van Dillen Elements 56: Barium

DCV 521 Oscar van Dillen Dronescape 12: The Unbearable Formlessness of Chaos

The title Elude is derived from the verb to elude = to avoid cunningly or adroitly (Penguin Reference 2001), which has as noun the word elusion. However, the composer chose to create for this music the new noun Elude, in assonance to Prelude and words like it, such as Postlude, Interlude etc.

12 Eludes for piano solo by Oscar van Dillen will be performed by Ellyne Wierings.  The title Elude is derived from the verb to elude = to avoid cunningly or adroitly (Penguin Reference 2001), which has as noun the word elusion.

DCV 539 Oscar van Dillen Elements 16: Sulphur

DCV 581 Oscar van Dillen Evolutions 1.1 – Hadean

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.