multimedia project
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The oasis of Douz
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The oasis of Douz
an interactive musical app for all !!
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By this application Brassery offers a platform to create your own musical story and complete it with your own drawings and pictures. You may add percussion or drums and add your own choice of musical fragments created by Brassery.
The result may be downloaded as your own creation; there is even a possibility for a performance of your creation accompanied by Brassery itself.
included in app :
the musical tale
The oasis of Douz
a cuckoo's story
for brass quintet and narrator
duration: 15 min.
The tale ‘The oasis of Douz, a cuckoo's story’ is about the adventurous trip of a cuckoo to North Africa and the wonderful things and events he sees and experiences.
He gets wounded, slowly starts to regret home and finally decides to return.
While returning he travels with a caravan, crosses the sea to reach Europe on board of a pirate’s ship and travels through Spain and France. Once at home again he decides to return every winter to Africa in order to see and enjoy time and time again these wonderful things. So the cuckoo became a migrant bird.
At each location where our traveler stays the tale is accompanied by music in the typical local style. You will thus hear a caravan in the desert, a Spanish malaguena, a French musette, a wild boat ride and more …
In a lively and goodhumored way ‘The oasis of Douz’ is an illustration of the regions mentioned and their own musical talent and style.
narrator: Richard Wells
brass quintet Brassery
music: Marc Goris
original dutch text: Wim Urgel
translation: Wilfred Goris
text adaptation: Richard Wells
illustrations: Marijke Van den Acker
on bandcamp :
illustrations :
sheet music,
The oasis of Douz
a cuckoo's story
for narrator and 5- part flexible ensemble
duration : 15 min.
available at
Marijke Van den Acker
