Recommended Concert Programs with Music and Video

by Stephen Travis Pope

Any of these programs can be interspersed with any of all of the movements from Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder (a feature-length visual-music film).

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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