Paul Dirmeikis is a Francophone

Francophone

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 poet, composer, singer, and painter who lives in Brittany

Brittany

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. He is of Lithuanian ancestry (Kazlauskaitė 2003, 13), and a member of the Lithuanian Composers Union.

Compositions (selective list)

Seventy compositions are now listed in his catalogue, including:

• Message laissé à Pondichéry le 18 novembre 1973 (Message Left in Pondicherry on 18 November 1973), for voice, saxophone, electric bass, vibraphone, crystal glasses, percussion, and piano
• Papier à musique (Music Paper), for voice and papers (4 performers)
• Un seul or, for voice, flute, saxophone, electric bass, tampura, and piano
• J. C., for voice, electric guitar, intratonal carillon, and computer-generated sounds (1983)
• String Quartet No. 1, op. 1 (1984)
• Le ciel sous la terre (Heaven in the Earth), String Quartet No. 2, op. 10 (1985)
• Un unique corps (A Unique Body), for overtone singer, flute, tampura, mugaveena, and electric bass
• Nous, les esprits, nous dansons (We, the Spirits, We Dance), for voice, two saxophones, percussion, electric bass, and synthesizer
• Lame d'orage (Storm Blade), for voice, two saxophones, percussion, electric bass, piano, and synthesizer
• Octa, op. 6, for two pianos in quarter tones (1984)
• Le monde dans notre maison (The World in Our House), for voice, flute, saxophone, electric bass, percussion, piano, and synthesizer
• Le serpent, for voice and computer-generated sounds
• Visur (Everywhere), for soprano and computer-generated sounds
• Dienaktis, electronic music for Lithuania (1988)
  • Motina (Mother), op. 18
  • Tevas (Father), op. 19
  • Krastas (Country), op. 20
  • Pavasaris (Spring), op. 21
  • Laikas (Time), op. 22
  • Susisristi (Links), op. 23
  • Gimimas (Birth), op. 24
• Ausra (Dawn), String Quartet No. 3, op. 27 (1996)
• Karma, op. 67, for string quartet and electronic and concrete music (2004) 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 (2005–2007)
• Sukaktuvès (Celebration), op. 70, for 3 oboes, 3 trumpets, and 3 bassoons, op. 70 (2007)
• Aster (Star), op. 71, for wind quintet (2010) premiered by the Quintette à vent de Bretagne

Paul Dirmeikis has been working since 2003 on a 22-part cycle, TAROT, for various instruments and/or electronic and concrete music.

Discography

• Loup Rouge (LP - 1984) - L'Eveilleur EVE 001
• Message laissé à Pondichéry le 18 novembre 1973 (CD - 1988) - L'Eveilleur EVE 002
• 17 Metacompositions - Electronic and concrete music (Audio DVD - 2002) - L'Eveilleur EVE 003
• Entre Parenthèses - 31 poèmes de René Guy Cadou (2-CD set – 2009) – L'Eveilleur EVE 004

Writings

• Limbres creusées - Editions St Germain (1975)
• La Peur - Editions Le Cherche-Midi (1978)
• "Three Poems", Perspectives of New Music 36, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 41–52.
• Le Souffle du temps (Quodlibet pour Karlheinz Stockhausen) - Editions Telo Martius (1999). This is a conversation book with the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...
  
  whom Dirmeikis had known for 30 years.

Sources

• Anon. 2009. "Rencontre à Binic: Paul Dirmeikis et René Guy Cadou". Au fil de l'eau - Binic, no. 3 (Winter): 13.
• Kazlauskaitė, Ramunė. 2003. "Kompozitorių sąjungos perklausa: kronika". 7MD (Septynios Meno Dienos), no. 556 (21 February).

External links

• Official website