related works
Affairs III : for oboe, clarinet and bassoon / Will Eisma
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Woodwind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
ob cl fg
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
bar cl-b trb vc pf perc
Stay O Sweet : Version for soprano, oboe and piano / Elena Langer; Lyrics John Donne
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
zang ob pf
Drempel : voor fluit, percussie, violoncello, bariton, piano en basklarinet, 1995 / Eric Verbugt
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
bar fl cl-b perc pf vc
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