Le ginkgo
Werner Lambersy, Annette Vande Gorne
Programme notes
To my mother, in memoriam
A man journeys to the encounter with himself…
The Poet takes us on an interior voyage, that of a lifetime, in which each of us can imagine himself, can recognize himself, can identify with the narrator. The tale, linear and structured, seems to be the ideal form for this progression of the self. And so I excerpted key phrases from the original story representing each stage of the voyage and, to conserve the linear format, took the part of the simple reading, monochord at the beginning and becoming more animated as it goes on.
The musical form is derived from the words and the structure of the text along three axes
Le ginkgo [The Ginkgo Tree] was realized from sound material for the most part vocal in origin, manipulated on a SYTER at the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille (GMEM, France). The work was realized in February and March 1994 at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches in Ohain (Belgium) and was presented on April 26, 1994 in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) during the L’Année nouvelle festival. Narrator
Premiere
- April 26, 1994, Concert, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
- Writer(s): Werner Lambersy
- Composer(s): Annette Vande Gorne
- Year of composition: 1994
- Duration: 14:43
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: L’Année nouvelle (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), Vincent Engel
- ISRC: CAD509511270
