Rumiko (Japan, hoofdvak klarinet) heeft een verklanking van ‘De Schreeuw’ van Munch gemaakt Ze vertelt dat het schilderij erg populair in haar land is. Ook geeft ze een boeiende uitleg over de figuren op de achtergrond. Bijzonder…..omdat je aandacht juist naar de ‘schreeuwmond’ wordt getrokken. De muziek van Rumiko is opmerkelijk vrolijk….juist vanwege de hoopgevende figuren op de achtergrond in het schilderij.

Rumiko (feedback) 

what's your general opinion about the assignment?

I think it is a good opportunity to try to imagine how composers create their music and where ideas come from. We instrument players follow notes hardly on a music, but we tend to   forget to imagine why a composer put these notes and articulations. This time I got a experience of an opposite thinking way  about music which I do normally. It was very interesting.

what did you learn from it?

I learned which kind of leaps, notes, articulations and phrases would be reminded by a picture. I also learned which points a composer could focus on to express about a subject; this time, it was a picture.

I will use these kinds of points of views when I read a music and I will be able to not only focus on mentioned notes and articulations but also why composer of it chose these. It will help to analyse pieces.

how was the feedback (from teacher and the other students)?

I played my composition with the clarinet by myself.

The feedbacks were interesting.

Especially, I put on a impression of two guys in a picture who didn't care about screaming by main character on the picture. The teacher asked me why I put this moment in my composition. At this time I recognized that each one would have each point of view at a picture. It was very interesting.

give also short introduction about your painting choice.

I composed a music about The Scream by Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter. He painted it with oil in 1893.  In the painting, we can see a guy/lady who is screaming on a bridge. We also can see two people behind the screaming one but these two people don't care the unhappy screaming person. I got inspirations and wanted to express these things; if you are sad deeply and you feel it is a kind of end of the world, on the other hand, on one care of you.

anything what is important to write down

This time, I focused on not melody line but movement of each notes to express the picture. I also tried to express curved lines in the picture because these were specific feature of the paint. I think they are important that which points I want to express especially or I want to make someone's attentions with a music.           

Best regards, Rumiko Asahara/浅原ルミ子