The score composed and recorded by KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg) for the dance piece ‘The Pyre', written and directed by Gisèle Vienne. A tensed composition haunted by the voice of
Dennis Cooper.
This score created by KTL (Peter Rehberg and Stephen O'Malley) incorporates invisible and absent elements—ghosts, one might say. It proceeds from simulated diegetic sounds (which are part of the action) interwoven with real sounds—a musical creation that makes up an extra-diegetic sound score. This composition dizzyingly sculpts the space on stage and generates an impression of great spatial depth, which activates light-sculptures that in turn evoke the illusion of a tunnel, whose depth also results in a play of reflections.
Through these different media, the aim is to develop and shatter—without looking to resolve—the exceptional intensity that can arise from the dialectical tension between presence and absence, as well as from the characters that are seeking flight.
The music, originally performed on a multichannel spatialisized soundsystem has been distilled to this stereo version for home use, halfspeed mastered and cut by Matt Colton.
This record announces—and is one chapter—in the forthcoming release of the first monograph dedicated to the work of French choreographer Gisèle Vienne and documented by French photographer
Estelle Hanania. This book—is one of
Shelter Press' most ambitious to date—catalog number 100—will be released in Spring 2019.
KTL is the duo musical collaboration of
Peter Rehberg and Stephen O'Malley, initially formed to score and perform in Gisèle Vienne's
theatre piece Kindertotenlieder in 2006. KTL is a living piece of music, where long, flexible and free evolution is important to the character of the sound, and allowing all potential possibility to remain open in the performances.
Gisèle Vienne (born 1976 in Charleville-Mézières, France, lives and works in Paris) is a franco-austrian
choreographer,
director and visual artist. After graduating in Philosophy, she studied at the puppeteering school Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette. She works regularly with, among other, the writer
Dennis Cooper, the musicians
Peter Rehberg and
Stephen O'Malley, and the light designer Patrick Riou.
She directs numerous performances with her company founded in 1999. Since 2005, she has been frequently exhibiting her photographs and installations.
published in December 2018
clear green vinyl LP (printed artwork on innersleeve with matt varnish and outer sleeve with UV varnish)
5 tracks (08'59 / 08'48 / 05'20 / 09'54 / 10'36)
21.00 €
currently out of stock
