Recommended Concert Programs with Music and Video
by Stephen Travis Pope
Except as noted below, these pieces are contained on the Ritual and Memory triple-disc
set from HeavenEverywhere and the Electronic Music Foundation. Several
potential concert programs are given.
Diverse, Accessible Music/Video Sampler (~90 minutes)
- Day, An Improvisation 10:40.
Algorithmic improvisation meta-instrument for small
synthesizers. Palo Alto, 1986/87
- Tour/Sampler of STP’s Music
15:00. Excerpts from
9 pieces with a video collage of the scores, software tools and a
diskography, 2005
- 4: Ballet Music for My Siblings
22:42. Minimalist ballet based on a series of children’s dances.
Paris/Salzburg, 1980-82
- Requiem Aeternam Dona Eis
13:20. Requiem for bells; 3 images and 3 variations.
Salzburg/Munich, 1984/85
- Eternal Dream: A Ritual
26:20. Affirmative
symphonic pandemonium for voices and drums Santa Barbara/Berlin/Havana,
2000-02, Video by S. T. Pope based on sources by Erik Pauser and Johan
Söderberg. Santa Barbara, 2003-05
Text/Sound Extravaganza (~70 minutes)
- Leur Songe de la Paix
13.34. Video by R. Lane
Clark. Santa Barbara, 2004
- Kombination XI (A Ritual Place
for Processed Voices) 14:25. Slow quiet ritual music for
processing
one’s grief, based on a text by Helmut Heissenbüttel. Vienna/Palo
Alto, 1978-90
- Sensing/Speaking Space
9:06. Sounds from a contemplative space. Computer-processed voices,
bells, and natural sounds. Santa Barbara/Havana, 2001-02 (from the
Disc0 CD or by special order from HeavenEverywhere)
- Paragraph 31: All Gates Are Open
30:02. A national anthem in an invented language.
Amsterdam/Stockholm, 1991-93
Video Evening (~76 minutes)
- Tour/Sampler of STP’s Music
15:00. Excerpts from
9 pieces with a video collage of the scores, software tools and a
diskography, 2005
- Leur Songe de la Paix - 3
chapters, 13.34. Video by R. Lane
Clark. Santa Barbara, 2004
- WAKE 19:30. Animated
score by STP.
Toronto/Vienna, 1979/80
- Eternal Dream: A Ritual
26:20. Affirmative
symphonic pandemonium for voices and drums Santa Barbara/Berlin/Havana,
2000-02, Video by S. T. Pope based on sources by Erik Pauser and Johan
Söderberg. Santa Barbara, 2003-05
Music for Dance (~76 minutes)
- Bat out of Hell - Stories for
Dance 5:20. Ballet divertimento for microtonal percussion.
Salzburg, 1983
- Day, An Improvisation 10:40.
Algorithmic improvisation meta-instrument for small
synthesizers. Palo Alto, 1986/87
- 4: Ballet Music for My Siblings
22:42. Minimalist ballet based on a series of children’s dances.
Paris/Salzburg, 1980-82
- WAKE: Ten Tangents for Dance
17:09. Quiet hymns for slow movement, originally for organ solo.
Toronto/Vienna, 1979/80
- Ora penso
invece
che il mondo... 10:00, Three
Quick
Snapshots of a Really Beautiful Enigma for String Quartet
and Two Pianos; Santa Barbara, 2006 (special order from
HeavenEverywhere)
Spiritual Music: Masses for the 21st Century (~84 minutes)
- Requiem Aeternam Dona Eis
13:20. Requiem for bells; 3 images and 3 variations.
Salzburg/Munich, 1984/85
- Kombination XI (A Ritual Place
for Processed Voices) 14:25. Slow quiet ritual music for
processing
one’s grief, based on a text by Helmut Heissenbüttel. Vienna/Palo
Alto, 1978-90
- Jerusalem's
Secrets 19:40 Music
in 5 movements for samples from "Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae" and "My
Life in the Bush of Ghosts" Santa Barbara, 2006 (special order
from HeavenEverywhere)
- Ora penso
invece
che il mondo... 10:00, Three
Quick
Snapshots of a Really Beautiful Enigma for String Quartet
and Two Pianos; Santa Barbara, 2006 (special order from
HeavenEverywhere)
- Eternal Dream: A Ritual
26:20. Affirmative
symphonic pandemonium for voices and drums Santa Barbara/Berlin/Havana,
2000-02, Video by S. T. Pope based on sources by Erik Pauser and Johan
Söderberg. Santa Barbara, 2003-05
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