Paul Dirmeikis


Paul Dirmeikis is a French-speaking poet, composer, singer, and painter who lives in Brittany, France. He is of Lithuanian ancestry, and a member of the Lithuanian Composers Union.
Dirmeikis was born in Chicago, Illinois. As a writer, in the 1990s he began a large cycle of poems inspired by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's entire musical output.
WWW dirmeikis.org

Works

Compositions (selective list)

Seventy compositions are now listed in his catalogue, including:
  • Message laissé à Pondichéry le 18 novembre 1973, for voice, saxophone, electric bass, vibraphone, crystal glasses, percussion, and piano
  • Papier à musique, for voice and papers
  • Un seul or, for voice, flute, saxophone, electric bass, tampura, and piano
  • J. C., for voice, electric guitar, intratonal carillon, and computer-generated sounds
  • String Quartet No. 1, op. 1
  • Le ciel sous la terre, String Quartet No. 2, op. 10
  • Un unique corps, for overtone singer, flute, tampura, mugaveena, and electric bass
  • Nous, les esprits, nous dansons, for voice, two saxophones, percussion, electric bass, and synthesizer
  • Lame d'orage, for voice, two saxophones, percussion, electric bass, piano, and synthesizer
  • Octa, op. 6, for two pianos in quarter tones
  • Le monde dans notre maison, for voice, flute, saxophone, electric bass, percussion, piano, and synthesizer
  • Le serpent, for voice and computer-generated sounds
  • Visur, for soprano and computer-generated sounds
  • Dienaktis, electronic music for Lithuania
  • *Motina, op. 18
  • *Tevas, op. 19
  • *Krastas, op. 20
  • *Pavasaris, op. 21
  • *Laikas, op. 22
  • *Susisristi, op. 23
  • *Gimimas, op. 24
  • Ausra, String Quartet No. 3, op. 27
  • Karma, op. 67, for string quartet and electronic and concrete music premiered by the Kaunas String Quartet at the "Is Arti" International Contemporary Music Festival in Kaunas
  • Entre Parenthèses, 31 songs on poems by René Guy Cadou, for baritone voice and various instrumental ensembles, op. 68
  • Sukaktuvès, op. 70, for 3 oboes, 3 trumpets, and 3 bassoons, op. 70
  • Aster, op. 71, for wind quintet premiered by the Quintette à vent de Bretagne
Dirmeikis has been working since 2003 on a 22-part cycle, TAROT, for various instruments and/or electronic and concrete music.

Discography

  • Loup Rouge – L'Eveilleur EVE 001
  • Message laissé à Pondichéry le 18 novembre 1973 – L'Eveilleur EVE 002
  • 17 Metacompositions – Electronic and concrete music – L'Eveilleur EVE 003
  • Entre Parenthèses – 31 poèmes de René Guy Cadou – L'Eveilleur EVE 004

Writings

  • Limbres creusées – poems – Editions St Germain
  • La Peur – short stories – Editions Le Cherche-Midi
  • "Three Poems", Perspectives of New Music 36, no. 2 : 41–52.
  • Le Souffle du temps – Editions Telo Martius. This is a conversation book with the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen whom Dirmeikis had known for 30 years.
  • L'Epaule d'Orphée – poetry – Foreword by Salah Stétié – Editions L'Eveilleur
  • Gwerz – poetry – Editions L'Eveilleur
  • Les Belles Choses – poetry – Editions L'Eveilleur
  • Je te réunirai'' – novel – Editions L'Eveilleur

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