COMPUTER MUSIC 4-TRACK MIDIM8X SONOLOGY UTRECHT
PREMIERE GEERTEKERK UTRECHT 11-10-82 (ASSOCIATIVE MUSIC)
BOURGES FESTIVAL 12-06-83
1. IN MEMORIAM REGINE BRANDT
2. AUTOMNE
3. VERS D'AUTRES JEUX
(Programme-Note,cf.INTERFACE Vol.15 No2-4 p179)
WERNER KAEGI: CONSOLATIONS
Premiered on 11-10-1982 at Utrecht Geertekerk.
Meanwhile presented among others in concerts
Zurich (30-05-83),
Bourges Festival (12-06-83),
Kopenhagen (14-12-83),
Amsterdam (03-03-84),
Genève (13-04-84),
WDR Köln (25-10-84),
Lüneburg (02-12-84),
Utrecht (14-01-86),
Rotterdam (09-11-86),
Utrecht (04-09-88)'
CONSOLATIONS:
Often it will happen to me that I will take note of musical ideas which occur to me in my diary, a habit taught to me about 30 years
ago by Arthur Honegger. Then I threw notes on paper, now I throw them on data files stored on digital tape or floppy disc:
descriptions of sound objects, of typical comportements and so forth, which can quickly be converted into sound and listened to.
'Consolation', created in 1982 and consisting of three pieces: 'In Memoriam', 'Automne' and 'Vers d'autres Jeux', draws its material
from data I put on computertape from 1978 to 1981. The formation of the material took place in 1981/82 by means of my MIDIM-system for digital composition..
IN MEMORIAM is written in memory of my wife Regine Brandt. It is a game of associations which are developed from one single musical idea.
AUTOMNE displays a leading melodic phrase which is repeated during the whole piece as in a chaconne. Around this a game of melodic lines of different lengths develop which sound together in constantly new phase-relationships. The piece is an expression of
a static image of an emotinal state which might be expressed by the following Japanese poem (Kakuren, 1202):
The cries of the insects
are buried at the roots of
the sparse pampas grass-
the end of automne is in
the colour of the last leaves.
VERS D'AUTRES JEUX (toward other games) is based upon a poem by the French inventor of the phonograph Charles Cros. Speech and vocal sounds introduced are exclusively synthetic. The first part exhibits an exponential development of speed and pitch, resulting in a kind of continuously modulating harmony. The epilogue of this very sensual piece quotes among others the composition JEUX of Debussy.
Sensation de Haschisch (Charles Cros):
Tiède et blanc était le sein.
Toute blanche était la chatte.
Le sein soulevait la chatte.
La chatte griffait le sein.
Les oreilles de la chatte
Faisaient ombre sur le sein,
Rose était le bout du sein,
Comme le nez de la chatte.
Un signe noir sur le sein
Intrigua longtemps la chatte.
Puis, vers d'autres jeux, la chatte
Courut, laissant nu le sein.
On 16 March 2024, Werner Kaegi passed away in South of France at the age of 97. His passing leaves a huge gap in the lives of his family and friends, as well as his professional successors. You can react to his death via the contact form.
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Summer 2023 Archivation of Master Tapes
The tape archive of Werner Kaegis works is incorporated in the Sonology Archive in The Hague. The main works will be digitalized from the original master tapes. We hope that most of the electronic works will be published in the next years!! We are very happy that finally this wonderful material can be saved for the future.
VOSIM66 software and Vosim Website by Heinerich Kaegi and Ludger Hurts
Between 2020 and 2026 Heinerich Kaegi and Ludger Hurts developed a new Vosim programm VOSIM66 based on the original ideas of Werner Kaegis Vosim and Midim systems. This programm is created in GNU Octave and runs on Windows, Mac. It's open source and is available via www.vosim.eu
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