Inner Life is as much a composition as it is an alchemical formula – or a game. It is a recipe for an artistic experiment in which all possible musical personalities and groups can participate.
Wim Henderickx composes a new score, with a duration of seven times seven minutes, for a basic instrumentation of seven ‘initiates’. The score is partly through-composed, partly open-ended. Precisely notated in some places, graphically rendered in others. The piece is ‘web-structured’: on the one hand, it consists of musical objects – some melodic, some timbrel in nature, some concrete, others aleatory. On the other hand, different ‘performance strategies’ or paths are proposed.
The composition starts from a basic line-up of seven performers, but has several ‘gateways’: passages to other performance layers, which performers can interpret. A performance of Inner Life is always different. In principle, the work can be played by seven performers. But Inner Life is also suitable for involving many more people in the alchemical crucible, including larger groups of performers. Choirs, brass bands, and musical societies of different levels can participate and collaborate in a living laboratory, experimentally creating a new work of art and experience.
