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Artist:	PAPE, GERARD
Title:	Electroacoustic Chamber Works
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 067CD

"Composed between 1993-97, this second volume of works by Pape on Mode continues his richly dramatic style with new compositional turns. Pape sites these compositions as influenced by Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi 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." "Collection of ensemble/solo pieces (performed by the likes of the Arditti String Quartet, Vox Nova, and Daniel Kientzy) augmented by tapes and sound projection by this VERY post-1950 composer (born in 1955). Pape's more recent projects include 'Feu Toujors Vivant', a piece commissioned by Art Zoyd (!) for 4 samplers and large orchestra, and an opera based on Clive Barker's novel Weaveworld (!!). Extremely pleasant sound-worlds, rife with complex tone-clusters and occasional bursts of ultra-processed sonic-nonsense. Chaotic." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	PAPE, GERARD
Title:	Ascension to Purgatory
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 167CD

"This is Pape's third monographic CD with Mode Records. Whereas his last Mode CD (Electroacoustic Chamber Works, released in 1998) presented his ground breaking works of 1993-1996, this new CD presents a selection of his more recent pieces composed from 1998 to 2004. While Pape continues his fascination with composing with chaotic sound in 'Le Fleuve du Désir IV' and 'Weaveworld Prologue,' it is his new approach to composing with packets of granular time that predominates on this CD. In 'La Naissance du Son,' sound is born from pulsating rhythmic noise that gradually attains discernible timbre and pitch. 'For Maurizio' is the first piece in which Pape explores temporal flow in composition as deriving, not from fixed durations or steady beat, but rather as a consequence of composing continuously speeding up and slowing down scales of tempo pulsations -- regulating the speed of pulsating/oscillating sound elements." As performed by Irvine Arditti, Roland Auzet, Maurizio Barbetti, Rohan de Saram, Nicholas Isherwood, Armelle Orieux and Janet Pape.

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