List of works by Gerard Pape

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Contents

2024

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Artaud Variations II actor's voice, 8-track tape, video 29 minutes text by Peter Valente
2 Artaud Variations III actor's voice, 8-track tape, video 30 minutes text by Peter Valente

2023-24

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Artaud Variations I actor's voice, 8-track tape, video 28 minutes text by Peter Valente

2023

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 In Memoriam Paul Méfano 5 voices and synthesizers 10 minutes
2 Sounds of Mystery and Imagination 8-track tape 60 minutes

2022-23

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Vers la lumière I soprano, glissando flute, 15 flutists 16 minutes poetry by Hölderlin

2022

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Mystere de creation et de fin reciter, soprano, 8-track tape 45 minutes texts taken from Estonian folk songs
2 Birds of Light 2 or more vocalising 'birds' 5-15 minutes electronic amplification optional

2021

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Aria di Beatrice bass flute/contralto voice 20 minutes dramatic cantata, text by Dante
2 ALP baritone, viola da gamba 16 minutes 32 seconds musical theatre, text by James Joyce
3 Invocation violin and violinist's voice 2 minutes
4 ANTICHRIST-FRESCO sixth-tone harmonium, ensemble 13 minutes
5 Pour Hélène piano 6 minutes

2020-21

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Artaud le Momo tape 47 minutes

2020

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Aglow guitar, piano, contrabass 9 minutes
2 Triple Requiem (in Memoriam Paul Méfano) 16-track tape, light interpreter, smoke and incense interpreter 62 minutes funeral ritual based on the requiem masses by Johannes Ockeghem, Pierre de la Rue, and Tomás Luis de Victoria
3 L'Enfant et le 4e Monde 8-track tape, video 30 minutes ritual, libretto by the composer after L'Inexistence Divine by Quentin Meillassoux
4 Le Purgatoire 8-track tape and video, light interpreter, smoke and incense interpreter, video, dance 7 hours 45 minutes ritual

2019

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 The War in Heaven (Angel's Monologue) bass voice, trombone, gestures, 8-track tape 51 minutes chamber opera after the play by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin
2 Strange Emergence viola, 8-track tape 18 minutes
3 cello, double cello stereo tape 8 minutes

2018-23

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 6 Spectral Etudes piano 30 minutes

2018

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 5 Chants de l'Amour soprano playing violin, viola, cello 25 minutes poetry by François Rannou
2 Being Beauteous coloratura soprano, piano; also version for reciter and glissando flute 13 minutes 49 seconds poetry by Rimbaud

2016-23

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 WATT (Hommage à Beckett) tape 6 minutes

2016-22

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Textures Turbulentes, Formes Emergentes amplified string quartet, 8-track tape 15 minutes string quartet no. 4

2016-17

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Vers la lumière II (in Memoriam Ana-Maria Avram) 8-track tape 16 minutes
2 Vers la lumière III (in Memoriam Frédérick Martin) 8-track tape 7 minutes

2015

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Per Dario megaplex keyboard, 8-track tape 8 minutes
2 Granular Etudes 1-15 video screen with stereo sound 16 minutes Etudes in the granulation of sound and image, time and space. Video and sound created simultaneously by the composer. Video and sound together are to be considered as the music for Granular Etudes 1-15.

2014-15

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Gestes du Son et du Pinceau 2 cellos, live painter 40 minutes

2012-24

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Atomes d'Espace et de Temps narrator, 2 sopranos, 2 baritones, 16 flutists, 4 synthesizers or 8-track tape 85 minutes libretto by Jean-Pierre Luminet

2012-14

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Pourquoi des poètes? soprano voice/viola, bass voice, bass clarinet/bass-baritone voice, trombone/bass-baritone voice, 4 cellos, 4 contrabasses, 8-track tape 50 minutes opera after poems and texts by Hölderlin and Heidegger, libretto by the composer

2011-12

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Harmonies of Form and Time 6 amplified soloists, 6 chamber orchestras 10 minutes

2010-12

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Harmonies of Time and Timbre amplified flute/piccolo, 4 violins, 4 cellos, 8-track tape 60 minutes

2009

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Per Luigi violin or viola, flute 9 minutes
2 Li violin, glissando flute
3 HELL voice, live electronics, tape 33 minutes text by the composer

2008-9

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 On court à la catastrophe… viola, saxophone, piano 11 minutes

2008

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Héliophonie II 8 computers 50 minutes
2 Licht und Klang (In Memoriam Stockhausen) bass voice, 8-track tape 8 minutes poetry by the composer

2007

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Incantatrix soprano, ensemble 12 minutes text by Clive Barker adapted by Kurt Carpenter
2 Noirval bass voice, 9 bass flutes 12 minutes poetry by Gérard de Nerval
3 Faux mouvements stereo tape 12 minutes

2006

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Héliophonie 8-track tape (versions with or without video) 50 minutes
2 Deux Chimères narrator, soprano, recorder, flute 12 minutes poetry by Gérard de Nerval

2005

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Musique Funèbre (Homage à Mozart) stereo tape 10 minutes
2 Lux Fugit (In Memoriam Luc Ferrari) viola 17 minutes

2004

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 3 Quantic Etudes contrabass 17 minutes
2 L'Ascension au Purgatoire percussion, live electronics or tape 18 minutes

2003

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 For Maurizio viola 3 minutes

2002

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 La naissance du son (In Memoriam Iannis Xenakis) cello 8 minutes
2 Nuages 6-track tape 13 minutes

2001

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 The Ecstasy of St. Theresa (homage to Bernini) 9 mixed voices 12 minutes text by Saint Teresa of Ávila, adaptation by the composer

2000-2005

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Les Cenci 7 solo singers, 24 flutists, 3 percussionists, mixed choir, live electronics, 8-track tape 65 minutes opera in 1 act

2000

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Tantric Transformations 2000 8-track tape 23 minutes

1999

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Mon Autre Peau (My Other Skin) 20-track tape 34 minutes installation music, texts by Ana Paula Portilla, Parmenides, and the Upanishads
2 Solitude bass voice 10 minutes text from the Upanishads
3 Aquarelles basset horn, clarinet, live electronics 6 minutes

1998

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Makbénach IV trombone, 8-track tape, optional live electronics 10 minutes
2 Funeral Sentences soprano, mezzo-soprano, percussion 15 minutes
3 Weaveworld Prologue bass voice, ensemble 10 minutes text by Clive Barker adapted by Kurt Carpenter

1997

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Feu Toujours Vivant large orchestra, 4 samplers, live electronics 15 minutes

1996

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Battle 4 solo singers, double mixed choir (or 4-track tape) 8 minutes text by Clive Barker adapted by Kurt Carpenter
2 Makbénach I saxophone solo, flute, clarinet, bassoon, trombone, percussion, cello, bass, 8-track tape 12 minutes
3 Makbénach III saxophone, 8-track tape 12 minutes

1995

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Monologue bass voice, 8-track tape generated by UPIC 32 minutes chamber opera, libretto after A Piece of Monologue by Samuel Beckett

1994

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Le Fleuve du Désir I string quartet 12 minutes 36 seconds string quartet no. 3
2 Le Fleuve du Désir II stereo tape generated by UPIC 12 minutes 36 seconds
3 Le Fleuve du Désir III string quartet, stereo tape generated by UPIC 12 minutes 36 seconds Le Fleuve du Désir III = Le Fleuve du Désir I + Le Fleuve du Désir II
4 Le Fleuve du Désir IV violin, 8-track tape 12 minutes 36 seconds
5 Le Fleuve du Désir V violin, 8-track tape 12 minutes 36 seconds
6 Le Fleuve du Désir VI viola, 8-track tape 12 minutes 36 seconds
7 Le Fleuve du Désir VII cello, 8-track tape 12 minutes 36 seconds
8 Le Fleuve du Désir VIII contrabass, 8-track tape 12 minutes 36 seconds

1993

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Two Electro-Acoustic Songs soprano, flute, stereo tape generated by UPIC 10 minutes poems by Dahlia Ravikovitch

1992

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 X↔STASIS (Hommage à Xenakis) flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon
horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba
2 violins, viola, bass
stereo tape generated by UPIC 		10 minutes

1991-92

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Prélude Electronique stereo tape 4 minutes
2 Variations Varèsiennes stereo tape generated by UPIC 11 minutes

1990

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil stereo tape, collages 50 minutes surrealist opera, texts and collages by Max Ernst

1989

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Five Pieces for Saxophone and Piano saxophone, piano 15 minutes
2 That Burning Thing flute, tape

1988-89

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Vortex string quartet 12 minutes string quartet no. 2
2 Piano Concerto piano, trumpet, string quintet 10 minutes

1988

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Three Faces of Death flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon
horn, trumpet, bass trombone
percussion
2 violins, viola, cello, bass 		15 minutes

1987

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Catechresis soprano, orchestra 10 minutes text taken from the Requiem Mass
2 Cerberus organ, stereo tape 12 minutes

1986-87

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Starvoices 3 sopranos, 3 altos, 3 tenors, 3 basses, light operating conductor A transmutation of Twelve Voices

1986

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 La Tristesse de la Lune soprano, stereo tape 10 minutes poem by Baudelaire
2 Folie à Deux violin, piano 10 minutes
3 Exorcism bass voice, orchestra 26 minutes text taken from a Tibetan exorcism ritual

1985

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Cosmos large orchestra, electronics 20 minutes symphony

1984

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Dreamwake stereo tape 23 minutes texts by the composer
2 Resonance stereo tape 7 minutes
3 Missa 6 female voices with handbells 20 minutes texts by Marquis de Sade and Latin Order of the Mass
4 In memoriam: George Cacioppo 8 trombones, 2 percussionists, stereo tape 10 minutes
5 Pour un Tombeau d'Anatole soprano, percussionist, 10 saxophones 10 minutes poems by Mallarmé
6 Recordare soprano recorder, tape, live electronics 8 minutes

1983-84

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Fire and Ice string quartet 10 minutes string quartet no. 1
2 Ivan and Rena narrator, 3 solo singers, orchestra, stereo tape 10 minutes musical drama, libretto by the composer

1983

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Brass, Light, Gesture horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, gesture interpreter, light interpreter 10 minutes transcribed for 5 trombones, gesture interpreter, light interpreter in 2019 and realised as Poly-Sensual Etude No. 2: Brass, Light, Gesture

1982

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Pastimes piano 10 minutes

1981-83

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Chamber Music soprano, guitar 10 minutes poems by James Joyce

1981

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Life-Death Sounds 4 noise performers, mixed choir 15 minutes texts taken from Jewish prayers, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and Ulysses by James Joyce
2 Concertino soprano, flute, clarinet, harp, 2 guitars, viola 10 minutes
3 Abendphantasie soprano, flute, guitar 5 minutes poem by Hölderlin
4 Twelve Voices 3 sopranos, 3 altos, 3 tenors, 3 basses, light operating conductor

1980

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 The Stronger soprano, flute, viola, guitar 15 minutes chamber opera, libretto by the composer based on the play by August Strindberg

1979

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Quartet soprano, flute, viola, guitar 10 minutes poems by the composer

1976-77

Title Scoring Duration Notes
1 Six Piano Pieces piano
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