Recommended Concert Programs with Music and Video

by Stephen Travis Pope

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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