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Product number: ED 13676
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Description

The title No people. comes from the surrealist Raymond Roussel. In 1932 he published a long poem called New Impressions of Africa. For this he commissioned 59 drawings to illustrate the text. The commission was given to the artist through a detective agency so he never knew who the commissioner was or saw the text he was supposed to illustrate. All he got was instructions for each drawing and he had to make the drawings accordingly. A typical instruction might be

Nocturnal landscape. Very starry sky with a thin crescent of moon.  (No people.)

or

A rambler, arm raised and fingers outspread, dropping a pebble (still visible) down a well and seemingly straining to hear the sound of its splash.   (No other people.)

When Roussel put the drawings and text together, the ordinary everyday drawings took on a strangeness they might otherwise not have had if the artist had drawn with the text in front of him.  It's the juxtaposition of both unknowns - text/drawings - that gives the final work its strange quality.

© Gerald Barry (2013)

Orchestral Cast

cl.bsn-2hns-str(1.1.1.1.1)

More Information

Title:
No people.
for nonet
Edition:
Study score
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
2013
Duration:
18 ′
World Premiere:
May 18, 2013 · Huddersfield (UK)
St. Paul's Hall
Conductor: James Weeks · Ensemble 7Bridges

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Ensemble 7Bridges
Series:
Title:
No people.
for nonet
Edition:
Study score
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2013
Duration:
18 ′
World Premiere:
May 18, 2013 · Huddersfield (UK)
St. Paul's Hall
Conductor: James Weeks · Ensemble 7Bridges

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Ensemble 7Bridges
Series:
Title:
No people.
for nonet
Edition:
Study score
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2013
Duration:
18 ′
World Premiere:
May 18, 2013 · Huddersfield (UK)
St. Paul's Hall
Conductor: James Weeks · Ensemble 7Bridges

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Ensemble 7Bridges
Series:

Technical Details

Product number:
ED 13676
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3480-7
Product number:
ED 13676
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3480-7
UPC:
841886022447
Weight:
0,13 kg
Pages:
32
Format:
21cm x 29.7cm
Binding:
Saddle-wire stitching
Product number:
ED 13676 Q20914
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3480-7
Pages:
32
File format:
(PDF / 3,70 MB)

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    Conductor: James Weeks
    Orchestra: Ensemble 7Bridges
    May 18, 2013 | Huddersfield (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , St. Paul's Hall — World Premiere
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