Georges Aperghis

Georges Aperghis is a Greek Compositeur born with Athens in 1945 in a family of artists, his/her father is sculptor and his mother painter.

He settles in Paris in 1963, initiates with the Sérialisme Musical Field, with the concrete music of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, in the searches of Iannis Xenakis (which he takes as a starting point in his first works), then in 1970, he decides to look further into a freer language and more personnel.

He explores the sound of the word in an original way. Interested particularly by the musical Theater (its first part, It tragic history of the necromancian Hiéronimo and its mirror , date of 1971); works like Of the nature of water , Jacque the fatalist or Histoire of wolf “accumulated traps and double-direction, and arranged malicieusement labyrinths of superimposed speeches and simultaneous actions, in order to drive out the rational obviousness, to scramble the codes or to divert the attention” (Daniel Durney).

As from 1976, it creates the ATEM (Workshop of theater and music) of Bagnolet, devoted to the musical theater where it renews its practice of type-setter completely: it calls upon musicians as well as with actors, just in its parts all the ingredients vocal, instrumental, gestural, scenic, by treating them in an identical way. It also composes of the parts for instruments alone, of works of Chamber music, vocal, for orchestra, and of the operas.

It is besides in the opera that it carries out the synthesis of its work: here the text is the federator element and determinant, the voice, the principle vector of the expression. It composed seven lyric works. Its work is thus summarized by Georges Aperghis itself: “to make music of all”.

He writes, amongst other things, Récitations in 1978 (for Martine Viard) and Machinations in 2000. These vocal works, very emblematic in its manner, are pressed primarily on a combinative virtuoso of Phonème S. the writing is characterized by an high speed, repetitions and accumulations, a rhythmic high pressure. They request the creative participation of the interpreter and put up well with a great fickleness of vocal modes. An imaginary language is invented there, ambiguous and often funny, which evokes an origin of the language, a kind of énonciative fury preliminary to the direction.

(Note: some of its partitions are downloadable starting from its Internet site: http://www.aperghis.com)

Works

Machinations , Label Agreement, 2000. Cat. No - 4729162. (10 titles, 51:37 mn. Recording: IRCAM - Center Pompidou, Paris, France, June 2000. With: Sylvie Levesque, Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Sylvie Sacoun, Genevieve Strosser (voice), Olivier Pasquet (computer).)

"tingel tangel/jactations" , Procuction ACPC, French Music of today, (24 titles, 57:36 mn. Recording: Theater of manufacture, at the time of the 20em festival Music action, Nancy, Vandœuvre-the-Nancy, 2003. With: Frederic Daverio (accordion), Francoise Rivalland (Percussions), Valerie Filipino (soprano), Lionel Painter (baritone).
It gigante golia (1975/1990) for voice and orchestra
History of wolves (1976) Opera
Recitations (1977 - 1978) for voice alone
Five Verses (1988) for voice and low clarinet
square Triangle (1989) for 3 percussionists and string quartet
Show (1991 - 1995) series of 4 parts for voice and small chamber orchestra
Sextet (1992) Opera for 5 votes of woman and violoncello
Die Hamletmaschine-oratorios (2000) for chorus and orchestra
Opinion of storm (2005) Opera, together of room and electronic

External bonds

official site

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