A setting of R.M. Rilkes poem:

Contrée ancienne, aux tours qui insistent
tant que les carillons se souviennent -,
aux regards qui, sans être tristes,
tristement montrent leurs ombres anciennes.

Vignes où tant de forces s'épuisent
lorsqu'un soleil terrible les dore ...
Et, au loin, ces espaces qui luisent
comme des avenirs qu'on ignore.

— Rainer Maria Rilke,
Les quatrains valaisans

Singing by Alice Grey

Contrée ancienne (R.M. Rilke)

Setting of R.M. Rilkes untitled poem:

Starker Stern, der nicht den Beistand braucht,
Den die Nacht den andern mag gewähren,
Die erst dunkeln muß, daß sie sich klären.
Stern, der schon vollendet, untertaucht,
 
Wenn Gestirne ihren Gang beginnen
Durch die langsam aufgetane Nacht.
Großer Stern der Liebespriesterinnen,
Der, von eignem Gefühl entfacht,
 
Bis zuletzt verklärt und nie verkohlend,
Niedersinkt, wohin die Sonne sank:
Tausendfachen Aufgang überholend
Mit dem reinen Untergang.

Soprano by Isabel Delemarre:
https://soundcloud.com/isabeldelemarre

Starker Stern (R.M. Rilke)

Trace

A setting of the poem "Marine" by Arthur Rimbaud, for solo voice (without any accompaniment). 

The score as available here:
https://arthvr.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/?cat=9909

Singing by Mariana Leon Salazar
https://www.youtube.com/@marianaleon5252/videos

Poem text:

Les chars d'argent et de cuivre —
Les proues d'acier et d'argent —
Battent l'écume, —
Soulèvent les souches des ronces —
Les courants de la lande,
Et les ornières immenses du reflux,
Filent circulairement vers l'est,
Vers les piliers de la forêt, —
Vers les fûts de la jetée,
Dont l'angle est heurté par des tourbillons de lumière.

Marine (poem by Arthur Rimbaud)

"...Die Nacht ist schön..."
                Friedrich Nietzsche, Der Wanderer

Video:
https://vimeo.com/150179619

Nocturne

Nachtstück

Georg Trakl - Der Schlaf

Verflucht ihr dunklen Gifte,
Weißer Schlaf!
Dieser höchst seltsame Garten
Dämmernder Bäume
Erfüllt von Schlangen, Nachtfaltern,
Spinnen, Fledermäusen.
Fremdling! Dein verlorner Schatten
Im Abendrot,
Ein finsterer Korsar
Im salzigen Meer der Trübsal.
Aufflammten weiße Vögel am Nachtsaum
Über stürzenden Städten
Von Stahl.

Georg Trakl - Sleep 

Not your dark poisons again, 
White sleep!
This fantastically strange garden 
Of trees in deepening twilight 
Fills up with serpents, nightmoths, 
Spiders, bats. 
Approaching stranger! 
Your abandoned shadow 
In the red of evening
Is a dark pirate ship 
Of the salty oceans of confusion.
White birds from the outskirts of the night 
Flutter out over the shuddering cities
Of steel. 


Über stürzenden Städten

...über stürzenden Städten…(nach G. Trakl)

Etude Nr. 13

"In terms of matter I suppose the thing...would be called a gas, but this gas obeyed the laws that are not of our cosmos. This was no fruit of such worlds and suns as shine on the telescopes and photographic plates of our observatories. This was no breath from the skies whose motions and dimensions our astronomers measure or deem too vast to measure. It was just a colour out of space - a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra- cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes." 

H.P. Lovecraft  "The Colour Out of Space"

Paris, 26.10.17 - performance at EN CHAIR ET EN SON (Edition 3), with butoh dancer: 
https://youtu.be/5t3MCXdny-g?si=RKg9mCImjO1FpbSa
https://www.infradanse.com/wendy

Lovecraft in Space

The Colour

The Colour (after H.P. Lovecraft)

Sonaria (for keyboard)

H.P. Lovecrafts poem "Sunset" for solo voice, without accompaniment.

The score is available here:
https://arthvr.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/?cat=9874

Mezzo-soprano singer Alice Grey

Poem Text:

The cloudless day is richer at its close;
A golden glory settles on the lea;
Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool repose
To mellowing landscape, and to calming sea.

And in that nobler, gentler, lovelier light,
The soul to sweeter, loftier bliss inclines;
Freed form the noonday glare, the favour’d sight
Increasing grace in earth and sky divines.

But ere the purest radiance crowns the green,
Or fairest lustre fills th’ expectant grove,
The twilight thickens, and the fleeting scene
Leaves but a hallow’d memory of love!

Sunset

Sunset (H.P. Lovecraft)

Composer and visual artist
https://arthvr.darkroom.com

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