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Carnaval, pour un comédien, trois chœurs et bande magnétique (1969)
Texte de Roger Marty
Pierre Rousseau, comédien
Ensemble Vocal Stéphane Caillat et Choristes des Chorales "A coeur joie" de Paris
Boris De Vinogradow, Rainer Boesch, Stéphane Caillat, chefs de choeurs
Reibel, an accomplished technician, of creative imagination, making full use of modern electroacoustics, reaches in his compositions a harmonious fusion of lively thought and boundless means. While striving with an unerring instinct to follow the line, the inner pulse of sound matter, though he seeks to preserve the union with the basic essential functions of musical media, he has nonetheless succeeded in cutting out for himself from the jungle of contemporary sounds a path of exceptional clarity. However rich in meaning, however plentiful and compact are his works, they are above all admirably written, and, when read, astonish and delight, coming as they do at a time when so many others fall apart owing to saturation.
"Carnival", composed for three amateur choirs, an actor, and a stereo magnetic tape, is a game, a meeting, a pantomine, an explosion of life, a vast chassé-croisé of diverse musical dramatic and sonorous situations where words, syllables and sounds are scattered in a confusion of mime, jumps, gestures and shrieks, where continuity is effected through crowd displacements and general movement. In this jungle of phonetics an irresistible elementary force, a proliferous abundant effervescence stand out and display themselves as being none other than natural micro or macroscopic phenomena. The fundamental asymetrical laws of nature reign over this music though it is governed by an irresistible logic. Not by any means the constrictive arbitrary logic of some pre-established form but the profound unpredictable yet unerring logic of moving matter. Thus Reibel, through his elaborately planned compositions, rejoins the sacral spring, the theatrical efficacy of the Balinese "ketchak". [STU 70599]
Art by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (attributed)
Carnaval, pour un comédien, trois chœurs et bande magnétique (1969)
Texte de Roger Marty
Pierre Rousseau, comédien
Ensemble Vocal Stéphane Caillat et Choristes des Chorales "A coeur joie" de Paris
Boris De Vinogradow, Rainer Boesch, Stéphane Caillat, chefs de choeurs
Reibel, an accomplished technician, of creative imagination, making full use of modern electroacoustics, reaches in his compositions a harmonious fusion of lively thought and boundless means. While striving with an unerring instinct to follow the line, the inner pulse of sound matter, though he seeks to preserve the union with the basic essential functions of musical media, he has nonetheless succeeded in cutting out for himself from the jungle of contemporary sounds a path of exceptional clarity. However rich in meaning, however plentiful and compact are his works, they are above all admirably written, and, when read, astonish and delight, coming as they do at a time when so many others fall apart owing to saturation.
"Carnival", composed for three amateur choirs, an actor, and a stereo magnetic tape, is a game, a meeting, a pantomine, an explosion of life, a vast chassé-croisé of diverse musical dramatic and sonorous situations where words, syllables and sounds are scattered in a confusion of mime, jumps, gestures and shrieks, where continuity is effected through crowd displacements and general movement. In this jungle of phonetics an irresistible elementary force, a proliferous abundant effervescence stand out and display themselves as being none other than natural micro or macroscopic phenomena. The fundamental asymetrical laws of nature reign over this music though it is governed by an irresistible logic. Not by any means the constrictive arbitrary logic of some pre-established form but the profound unpredictable yet unerring logic of moving matter. Thus Reibel, through his elaborately planned compositions, rejoins the sacral spring, the theatrical efficacy of the Balinese "ketchak". [STU 70599]
Art by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (attributed)
