related works
Helena is coming later : string quartet, ARP-synthesizer / Will Eisma
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players); String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello); Electronics with different instruments; String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello) with multimedia
Scoring:
2vl vla vc arp-synthesizer
La dernière pavane : for mixed choir and soundtracks, 1989 / Ton Bruynèl
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
GK7 soundtracks
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
m-sopr sax-a pf
The Dim Room Rocks : for mezzo soprano, alto saxophone and piano / Erik Lotichius
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
m-sopr sax-a pf
composition
Le gibet : for baritone, instruments and live-electronic / words by Aloysius Bertrand, Will Eisma
Other authors:
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