related works
Faomar : La Poursuite, for wind quintet, 1999 / Will Eisma
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
fl ob cl fg h
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr(perc) fl
Interlude : voor sopraan en 11 instrumenten / Daan Manneke; tekst James Joyce
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr fl ob cl fg h pf 2vl vla vc cb
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
voice cl 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