Chi-pa-boo
Elsa Justel
Programme notes
Three syllables, three sounds, three characters. A stroll with unexpected nooks, unusual encounters, disjointed liaisons. An assortment made of blackbird and paper-mâché, a frisky suction cup, a messy pair of backwards scissors. An incoming tide that brings with it the scattered remains of its own body… chaperoned by the belches of obsessional fears, the fruit of a limpid mélange of the introduction and the catastrophic arrival of a young saucepan…
Premiere
- April 4, 2001, Concert, Texas (USA)
- Composer(s): Elsa Justel
- Year of composition: 1996
- Duration: 3:00
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: empreintes DIGITALes
- ISRC: CAD509813180
