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Le gibet : for baritone, instruments and live-electronic / words by Aloysius Bertrand, Will Eisma

Publisher: Amsterdam: Donemus, cop. 1972
Publisher's number: 03421
Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s); Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring: bar fl(pic) ob(eh) cl(cl-b) perc pf vl vc electronics
Remarks: Instr. bez.: fluit (tevens piccolo), hobo (tevens althobo), klarinet (tevens basklarinet), viool, cello, piano en slagwerker. - Franse tekst. - Op verzoek van Edu Verhulst. - Jaar van comp.: 1971. - Tijdsduur: ca. 10'
Duration: 10'00"
Number of players: 8
Year of composition: 1971
Status: fully digitized (real-time delivery)

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

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