Experimental Rock Composer Maarten Rischen Releases 8-Minute Avant-Garde Opus
Experimental Rock Musician and Composer Maarten Rischen takes a headstrong deep dive into the unknown on his chaotic and deeply affecting avant-garde single “Serenity?”, launched June 23, 2023 by way of The And Scene Data. Maarten, who creates his extraordinary music from The Netherlands, is really the personification of “man with no plan”, except the plan could be to do a totally totally different factor each different day.
Maarten Rischen’s musical method is wholly distinctive and effortlessly difficult, freely drawing from the avant-garde, various, emo, ambient, various and experimental rock sounds. “Serenity?” is a singularly sprawling 8-minute opus that calls for one’s full consideration.
Along with his “Serenity?” launch, he regards the highly effective accompanying music video as important viewing. In truth, it’s impeccable that followers watch the video in full to imbibe the complete impact of the piece. Filmed in Koh Phangan, Thailand with the accompaniment of the fascinating actions of dancer Alina Spittan, the “Serenity?” music video is an epic, must-see.
“Serenity?” begins out as a meandering wistful ambient piano piece, however takes a dramatic flip for just about each human emotion there may be – or at least those I’m personally able to. However at the least equally essential to the music is the accompanying video, because the music is half written and produced within the studio, half written/composed and performed through the shoot of the video.
I’ve a really sturdy damaging stance on music movies by which the artist is pretending to play their instrument or lip syncing, because it takes away any and all threat and creativity that an precise recording or dwell efficiency has – leaving both an empty or overly exaggerated ‘efficiency’, and none of it’s what I regard as making artwork.
So in lots of my movies I need to solely be seen with an instrument for those who truly hear that instrument, within the case of “Serenity?” it’s the Rhodes / piano components. Furthermore, none of those components have been written prematurely, and fully improvised on the spot as quickly because the digital camera began recording. The identical goes for dancer Alina Spittan, who the truth is heard nothing of the tune earlier than we shot the one-take video, and had no thought of the large shifts that might happen halfway, or the chaotic ending. Her dance is subsequently possibly the purest type of expression-in-the-moment I’ve ever had the pleasure witnessing, and her interpretation and interplay with me on digital camera dictated strongly the path by which might personal improvisation flowed. Equally huge components have been performed by the fully impromptu digital camera choices of In Between Uncooked Frames, and the bipolar climate patterns of Koh Phangan within the background.” – Maarten Rischen
