Gérard Pape

Gerard Pape was created in Brooklyn, NY, in 1955. He graduated using a B.A. in Mindset from Columbia School in 1976, while concurrently beginning private structure lessons with David Winkler. He attained a Ph.D. in Clinical Mindset in 1982 in the School of Michigan while participating in private structure lessons with George Cacioppo and William Albright. Pape examined digital music with George Wilson in the analog and digital studios from the School of Michigan. Pape provides composed a lot more than 50 functions for orchestra, chamber music, and digital compositions for equipment, tone of voice, and/or tape. His music continues to be performed in various celebrations in the U.S., Canada, THE UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Austria, Greece, Romania, Sweden, Australia, Mexico, Hong Kong, and Japan, and was provided in the International Pc Music Meeting (ICMC) in Tokyo in 1993 and in Hong Kong in 1996. He continues to be granted ASCAP regular awards every year from 1992 through 2002. Among his most significant compositions may be the function Feu Toujours Vivant for huge orchestra and four sampler keyboards, commissioned with the digital ensemble Artwork Zoyd as well as the Country wide Orchestra of Lille, executed by Jean-Claude Casadesus. Following its globe premiere in Lille, the task was replayed double even more, including in Paris. Pape provides written many musical and psychoanalytic content articles. A publication of his literary functions, including short tales, performs, and poetry, was released by Sinewave Studios in 1984. Recently, he has released content articles on musical difficulty, and on the music of Luigi Nono (released in Modern Music Review). He offers created and lectured thoroughly about “Composing in the Continuum.” He released articles, “Iannis Xenakis and the true of Musical Structure,” in the Pc Music Journal. His discography includes a monographic disk released in 1992 by Setting, including functions played from the Arditti Quartet, the Prism Orchestra of NY, and William Albright. In Sept 1998, Setting released another disk of Pape’s function, performed by Arditti Quartet, Outfit 2E2M, Outfit Vox Nova, saxophonist Daniel Kientzy, vocalist Nicholas Isherwood, Janet Pape, and flutist Cécile Daroux. Setting released a double-CD anthology known as CCMIX Paris: Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum which has Pape’s Le Fleuve du Desir III for string quartet and tape, as performed from the Arditti Quartet. Another monographic CD within the label Release Modern arrives out in early 2003. Pape is definitely focusing on an operatic task predicated on Antonin Artaud’s play The Cenci, that involves a cooperation with acting professional/movie director Michel de Maulne and his theatre, Maison de la Poésie, situated in Paris. In cooperation with composer/pc programmer Sinan Bokesoy, he is rolling out a new pc music program known as “Stochos,” with which he constructed the tape function Clouds. Among various other recent functions, he has constructed The Ecstasy of St. Theresa (Hommage to Bernini) for nine performers and live consumer electronics, commissioned with the Donaueschingen Festival was premiered in Oct 2002, aswell as Le Fleuve du Desir IV for violin and tape, premiered by Irvine Arditti, and La Naissance du Boy for cello, premiered by Rohan de Saram, both commissioned from the Movie theater Texas “Attention and Hearing” event and performed in monographic concert that included his three quartets performed from the Arditti Quartet in Sept 2002. Pape offers aimed Les Ateliers UPIC, renamed CCMIX in 2000 (Middle for the Structure of Music Iannis Xenakis), since 1991. This corporation is a pc music center situated in Paris that’s funded from the French Ministry of Tradition.