related works
Du dehors-du dedans : for mezzo soprano, orchestra and soundtrack / Will Eisma; text by Paul Eluard
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m 2221 2200 perc hp str(4.2.2.1.) soundtrack (electronics ad lib.)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
voice tpt pf (offstage)
Bilder (aus dem Novecento) : for soprano and ensemble, 1994 / [text by Arno Schmidt], Eric Verbugt
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr fl(pic) cl trb perc pf vl vla vc
Urban songs : soprano, large ensemble, computers / Klas Torstensson
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr(synth) 2pic(fl) ob eh cl-b cl-cb fg(cfg) 2sax h 2trp trb tb 2perc g-b pf keyboard 2vl vla vc cb computers
composition
Le gibet : for baritone, instruments and live-electronic / words by Aloysius Bertrand, Will Eisma
Author(s):
Bertrand, Aloysius
(Text writer/Librettist)
Eisma, Will
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The compositions Le Gibet and Le Cheval Mort were set to surrealistic poems by Aloysius Bertrand from his collection: Gaspard de la nuit, septième livre, Pièces détachées. The wonderful ambience derived from the poems inspired me to set some of these to music. The text of the poems expresses the dramatic environment of a battlefield and a graveyard. This lends itself easily to natural nocturnal sounds, bloodcurdling whistling and cracking noises. This is, however, something I wanted to avoid. I have tried to create an unreal atmosphere in my music. The live electronics in Le Gibet were consciously set to the background. But there is one moment in which the electronic sounds predominate: shortly before the end is a burst of instrumental resonance. - WILL EISMA