Electroacoustic Chamber Works (mode67), by Gerard Pape

Electroacoustic Chamber Works (mode67)

by Gerard Pape

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	1.	Two Electro-Acoustic Songs 10:50
	2.	Le Fleuve Du Désir 12:38
	3.	Monologue 32:16
	4.	Battle 08:16
	5.	Makbénach 10:20

about

Composed between 1993-97, this second volume of works by Gerard Pape on Mode continues his richly darkly dramatic style with new compositional turns. Born in Brooklyn, now living in Paris, Pape is the director of the Atelier UPIC - an electronic music studio utilizing the unique UPIC computer developed by Iannis Xenakis - since 1991. While a resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan he ran Sinewave Studios, a state of the art New Music and Electronic Music studio and organized of the annual TWICE Festival of New Music, featuring composers such as Berio, Cage, Crumb and Xenakis.

The performers on this disc are a veritable who's-who of European New Music specialists. Pape sites these compositions as influenced by Xenakis, Giacinto Scesli and Julio Estrada. Indeed, they combine the power of Xenakis with the microtonal explorations of Scelsi. All works, with the exception of Le Fleuve, interact the performers with vivid use of electronics and/or tape, many composed on the UPIC computer.

The evocative texts range from Samuel Beckett to Clive Barker. Battle is a scene from Pape's upcoming opera based on Barker's Weaveworld, to be premiered in France in 1999.

credits

released February 6, 1998

1 Two Electro-Acoustic Songs
Flute – Cécile Daroux
Soprano Vocals – Janet Pape
Tape, Mixed By [Sound Projection] – Gerard Pape*
10:50

2 Le Fleuve Du Désir
Strings – The Arditti Quartet*
Tape – Gerard Pape*
12:39

3 Monologue
Bass Vocals – Nicholas Isherwood
Tape, Mixed By [Sound Projection] – Gerard Pape*
32:16

4 Battle
Chorus – Vox Nova*
Tape – Gerard Pape*
8:17

5 Makbénach
Conductor – Paul Mefano*
Orchestra – Ensemble 2e2m
Saxophone – Daniel Kientzy
Tape, Mixed By [Sound Projection] – Gerard Pape*
10:20