"le temps bouge mais n'avance pas" - for orchestra and electronics
treats time perception through the circular and finite motion of spinning tops. A cumulative set of variations evoking the sound of this object and its perception even without its sound.

Composition&electronics: Gemma Ragués Pujol
Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn 
Kaspar Zehnder, conducting
Concert: 21. Mai 2021, Kongresshaus Biel 
World Premiere as part of "Musikforum Biel/Bienne 2021" 
Musikregie: Ueli Würth

Eigenproduktion SRG

le temps bouge mais n'avance pas (2021)

"desynchronies chromatiques" propose un déplacement temporel et spatial du Prélude de la IVème Suite de J. S. Bach pour violoncelle seul.
Un univers tendu entre l’originel et la rupture de sa temporalité constante crée à partir du dialogue entre les deux quatuors et la variation de l’intonation et chromatisme.

Musicienxs: NEC&Castel Camerata
Composition: Gemma Ragués Pujol basée sur la IVème Suite de J. S. Bach pour violoncelle seul et inspiré de Sciarrino 'Quaderno di Strada' 

Concert: 26 June 2021, Théâtre du Concert (Neuchâtel)

desynchronies chromatiques - BACH revisited (2020)

For symphony orchestra and text performer
Commission and performance by Basel Sinfonietta conducted by Titus Engel
Live recording by Danish Radio (DR P2)
Sound engineer: Peter Bo Nielsen. Sound producer: Gorm Larsen

Score*, script, text performance: Gemma Ragués
*with a quote from James Horner and inspirations from Ondřej Adámek, Inti Figgis-Vizueta and Marina Herlop

Premiered at Klang Copenhagen on June 7th 2024 by Basel Sinfonietta, Titus Engel and Gemma Ragués. 

Enabled by the support of the Fondation Nicati-de Luze and the Swiss Cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia.

13'

TRUST ME
a frenetic narration where text and music melt together in a feverish stream of trust, humor, absurdity and some deepest fears in someone’s mind.

TRUST ME (2024)

KMH Vokalensemble
Conductors, Tove Åhrman&Marc Díaz
Music, Gemma Ragués
Poems by Roger Fjellström&Enric Casasses

PÅ SIN HÖJD - Roger Fjellström

1.
Vinterhimmel -
Mildaste molnen
Rosiga drar de åter
solen ner under täckelsen

2.
Ljusbuk! stryker sakta, försynt
hopkrupna urbergets päls
Purpurpust, irissky
Himmelsvinter -


AL PRINCIPI ERA EL VENT - Enric Casasses

Al principi era el vent  fent 
fressa entre les branques

i ens posem a cantar

i en ser la cançó ordida 
el silenci descobríem

i vam saber que som  
de l’esperit 
de les cançons 
del vent d’entre les branques

i amb prou feines ser-hi ara 
és més que viure i morir

(c) by the poets

April 2018. Stockholm

Al principi era el vent - Enric Casasses

KMH Vokalensemble
Conductors, Tove Åhrman&Marc Díaz
Music, Gemma Ragués
Poems by Roger Fjellström&Enric Casasses
liverecording

PÅ SIN HÖJD - Roger Fjellström

1.
Vinterhimmel -
Mildaste molnen
Rosiga drar de åter
solen ner under täckelsen

2.
Ljusbuk! stryker sakta, försynt
hopkrupna urbergets päls
Purpurpust, irissky
Himmelsvinter -


AL PRINCIPI ERA EL VENT - Enric Casasses

Al principi era el vent  fent 
fressa entre les branques

i ens posem a cantar

i en ser la cançó ordida 
el silenci descobríem

i vam saber que som  
de l’esperit 
de les cançons 
del vent d’entre les branques

i amb prou feines ser-hi ara 
és més que viure i morir

April 2018. Stockholm

På sin höjd - Roger Fjellström

Helena Otero - alto saxophone
Miquel Vich - percussion

Recording&Master, Adrià Serrano
Music, Gemma Ragués

Gemma Ragués

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