composer
Will Eisma was born on May 13, 1929 at Sungailiat (Indonesia).
In 1946 Eisma came to The Netherlands. From 1948 to 1953 he studied violin with Jewsey Wulf and Oscar Back ...
related works
Deux personnages : pour marimba et vibraphone, 1985 / révision 2008 / Will Eisma
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Percussion
Scoring:
mar(vibr)
Canto general : opus 24, for mezzo-soprano, violin and piano, (1974) / Peter Schat
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m pf vl
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal Ensemble (2-12) and instrument(s); Electronics and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr ten-c rec mar vladg tape
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m 4sax
composition
Le gibet : for baritone, instruments and live-electronic / words by Aloysius Bertrand, Will Eisma
Other authors:
Bertrand, Aloysius
(librettist)
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