A Selection of Gérard Pape's Compositions
| Year | Title | Scoring | Duration | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | New Light | live electro-acoustic | indeterminate in its Performance Action version, 44 minutes as a fixed media work | composed and performed as part of the Performance Action NEW LIGHT of performance artist Josef Ka. NEW LIGHT can also be performed in its version as a fixed media work |
| 2026 | Morning | electronic | 36 minutes | |
| 2026 | Wasteland-Windland | electronic | indeterminate in its Performance Action version, 60 minutes as a fixed media work | composed and performed as part of the Performance Action WASTELAND-WINDLAND of performance artist Josef Ka. WASTELAND-WINDLAND can also be performed in its version as a fixed media work |
| 2026 | Death's Last Songs | bass voice, piano | 18 minutes 45 seconds | In Memoriam Richard Strauss. Poems by Hermann Hesse with permission from Suhrkamp Verlag, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff. With permission from Emily Ezust to set her English translation. |
| 2026 | Pensees Profondes | prepared piano 4 hands, 8-track tape | 12 minutes | new version of CRISTAL BLANC (Hommage à Erik Satie) |
| 2026 | Musica per Josef Ka | 8-track tape | 26 minutes | |
| 2026 | For Josef Ka | 1 performer with 3 digital metronomes | ||
| 2025–26 | The Conqueror Worm | soprano, drone | 16 minutes | text by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 2024-25 | Wege zu Harmonie und Chaos | string quartet | 26 minutes | string quartet no. 5 |
| 2024-25 | CRISTAL BLANC (Hommage à Erik Satie) | prepared piano 4 hands | 12 minutes | |
| 2024 | Artaud Variations II | actor's voice, 8-track tape, video | 29 minutes | text by Peter Valente |
| 2024 | Artaud Variations III | actor's voice, 8-track tape, video | 30 minutes | text by Peter Valente |
| 2023–24 | Artaud Variations I | actor's voice, 8-track tape, video | 28 minutes | text by Peter Valente |
| 2023 | In Memoriam Paul Méfano | 5 voices and synthesizers | 10 minutes | |
| 2023 | Sounds of Mystery and Imagination | 8-track tape | 60 minutes | |
| 2022 | Mystere de creation et de fin | reciter, soprano, 8-track tape | 45 minutes | texts taken from Estonian folk songs |
| 2022 | Birds of Light | 2 or more vocalising 'birds' | 5-15 minutes | electronic amplification optional |
| 2021 | Aria di Beatrice | bass flute/contralto voice | 20 minutes | dramatic cantata, text by Dante |
| 2021 | ALP | baritone, viola da gamba | 16 minutes 32 seconds | musical theatre, text by James Joyce |
| 2021 | Invocation | violin and violinist's voice | 2 minutes | |
| 2021 | ANTICHRIST-FRESCO | sixth-tone harmonium, ensemble | 13 minutes | |
| 2021 | Pour Hélène | piano | 6 minutes | |
| 2020–21 | Artaud le Momo | tape | 47 minutes | |
| 2020 | Aglow | guitar, piano, contrabass | 9 minutes | |
| 2020 | Triple Requiem (in Memoriam Paul Méfano) | 16-track tape, light interpreter, smoke and incense interpreter | 62 minutes | funeral ritual based on the requiem masses by Johannes Ockeghem, Pierre de la Rue, and Tomás Luis de Victoria |
| 2020 | L'Enfant et le 4e Monde | 8-track tape, video | 30 minutes | ritual, libretto by the composer after L'Inexistence Divine by Quentin Meillassoux |
| 2020 | Le Purgatoire | 8-track tape and video, light interpreter, smoke and incense interpreter, video, dance | 7 hours 45 minutes | ritual |
| 2019 | The War in Heaven (Angel's Monologue) | bass voice, trombone, gestures, 8-track tape | 51 minutes | chamber opera after the play by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin |
| 2019 | Strange Emergence | viola, 8-track tape | 18 minutes | |
| 2019 | cello, double cello | stereo tape | 8 minutes | |
| 2018–23 | 6 Spectral Etudes | piano | 30 minutes | |
| 2018 | 5 Chants de l'Amour | soprano playing violin, viola, cello | 25 minutes | poetry by François Rannou |
| 2018 | Being Beauteous | coloratura soprano, piano; also version for reciter and glissando flute | 13 minutes 49 seconds | poetry by Rimbaud |
| 2016–23 | WATT (Hommage à Beckett) | tape | 6 minutes | |
| 2016–22 | Textures Turbulentes, Formes Emergentes | amplified string quartet, 8-track tape | 15 minutes | string quartet no. 4 |
| 2016–17 | Vers la lumière II (in Memoriam Ana-Maria Avram) | 8-track tape | 16 minutes | |
| 2016–17 | Vers la lumière III (in Memoriam Frédérick Martin) | 8-track tape | 7 minutes | |
| 2015 | Per Dario | megaplex keyboard, 8-track tape | 8 minutes | |
| 2015 | Granular Etudes 1-15 | video screen with stereo sound | 16 minutes | Etudes in the granulation of sound and image, time and space. Video and sound created simultaneously by the composer. Video and sound together are to be considered as the music for Granular Etudes 1-15. |
| 2014–15 | Gestes du Son et du Pinceau | 2 cellos, live painter | 40 minutes | |
| 2012–24 | Atomes d'Espace et de Temps | narrator, 2 sopranos, 2 baritones, 16 flutists, 4 synthesizers or 8-track tape | 85 minutes | libretto by Jean-Pierre Luminet |
| 2012–14 | Pourquoi des poètes? | soprano voice/viola, bass voice, bass clarinet/bass-baritone voice, trombone/bass-baritone voice, 4 cellos, 4 contrabasses, 8-track tape | 50 minutes | opera after poems and texts by Hölderlin and Heidegger, libretto by the composer |
| 2011–12 | Harmonies of Form and Time | 6 amplified soloists, 6 chamber orchestras | 10 minutes | |
| 2010–12 | Harmonies of Time and Timbre | amplified flute/piccolo, 4 violins, 4 cellos, 8-track tape | 60 minutes | |
| 2009 | Per Luigi | violin or viola, flute | 9 minutes | |
| 2009 | Li | violin, glissando flute | ||
| 2009 | HELL | voice, live electronics, tape | 33 minutes | text by the composer |
| 2008–9 | On court à la catastrophe… | viola, saxophone, piano | 11 minutes | |
| 2008 | Héliophonie II | 8 computers | 50 minutes | |
| 2008 | Licht und Klang (In Memoriam Stockhausen) | bass voice, 8-track tape | 8 minutes | poetry by the composer |
| 2007 | Incantatrix | soprano, ensemble | 12 minutes | text by Clive Barker adapted by Kurt Carpenter |
| 2007 | Noirval | bass voice, 9 bass flutes | 12 minutes | poetry by Gérard de Nerval |
| 2007 | Faux mouvements | stereo tape | 12 minutes | |
| 2006 | Héliophonie | 8-track tape (versions with or without video) | 50 minutes | |
| 2006 | Deux Chimères | narrator, soprano, recorder, flute | 12 minutes | poetry by Gérard de Nerval |
| 2005 | Musique Funèbre (Homage à Mozart) | stereo tape | 10 minutes | |
| 2005 | Lux Fugit (In Memoriam Luc Ferrari) | viola | 17 minutes | |
| 2004 | 3 Quantic Etudes | contrabass | 17 minutes | |
| 2004 | L'Ascension au Purgatoire | percussion, live electronics or tape | 18 minutes | |
| 2003 | For Maurizio | viola | 3 minutes | |
| 2002 | La naissance du son (In Memoriam Iannis Xenakis) | cello | 8 minutes | |
| 2002 | Nuages | 6-track tape | 13 minutes | |
| 2001 | The Ecstasy of St. Theresa (homage to Bernini) | 9 mixed voices | 12 minutes | text by Saint Teresa of Ávila, adaptation by the composer |
| 2000–2005 | Les Cenci | 7 solo singers, 24 flutists, 3 percussionists, mixed choir, live electronics, 8-track tape | 65 minutes | opera in 1 act |
| 2000 | Tantric Transformations 2000 | 8-track tape | 23 minutes | |
| 1999 | Mon Autre Peau (My Other Skin) | 20-track tape | 34 minutes | installation music, texts by Ana Paula Portilla, Parmenides, and the Upanishads |
| 1999 | Solitude | bass voice | 10 minutes | text from the Upanishads |
| 1999 | Aquarelles | basset horn, clarinet, live electronics | 6 minutes | |
| 1998 | Makbénach IV | trombone, 8-track tape, optional live electronics | 10 minutes | |
| 1998 | Funeral Sentences | soprano, mezzo-soprano, percussion | 15 minutes | |
| 1998 | Weaveworld Prologue | bass voice, ensemble | 10 minutes | text by Clive Barker adapted by Kurt Carpenter |
| 1997 | Feu Toujours Vivant | large orchestra, 4 samplers, live electronics | 15 minutes | |
| 1996 | Battle | 4 solo singers, double mixed choir (or 4-track tape) | 8 minutes | text by Clive Barker adapted by Kurt Carpenter |
| 1996 | Makbénach I | saxophone solo, flute, clarinet, bassoon, trombone, percussion, cello, bass, 8-track tape | 12 minutes | |
| 1996 | Makbénach III | saxophone, 8-track tape | 12 minutes | |
| 1995 | Monologue | bass voice, 8-track tape generated by UPIC | 32 minutes | chamber opera, libretto after A Piece of Monologue by Samuel Beckett |
| 1994 | Le Fleuve du Désir I | string quartet | 12 minutes 36 seconds | string quartet no. 3 |
| 1994 | Le Fleuve du Désir II | stereo tape generated by UPIC | 12 minutes 36 seconds | |
| 1994 | Le Fleuve du Désir III | string quartet, stereo tape generated by UPIC | 12 minutes 36 seconds | Le Fleuve du Désir III = Le Fleuve du Désir I + Le Fleuve du Désir II |
| 1994 | Le Fleuve du Désir IV | violin, 8-track tape | 12 minutes 36 seconds | |
| 1994 | Le Fleuve du Désir V | violin, 8-track tape | 12 minutes 36 seconds | |
| 1994 | Le Fleuve du Désir VI | viola, 8-track tape | 12 minutes 36 seconds | |
| 1994 | Le Fleuve du Désir VII | cello, 8-track tape | 12 minutes 36 seconds | |
| 1994 | Le Fleuve du Désir VIII | contrabass, 8-track tape | 12 minutes 36 seconds | |
| 1993 | Two Electro-Acoustic Songs | soprano, flute, stereo tape generated by UPIC | 10 minutes | poems by Dahlia Ravikovitch |
| 1992 | X↔STASIS (Hommage à Xenakis) | flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, 2 violins, viola, bass, stereo tape generated by UPIC | 10 minutes | |
| 1991–92 | Prélude Electronique | stereo tape | 4 minutes | |
| 1991–92 | Variations Varèsiennes | stereo tape generated by UPIC | 11 minutes | |
| 1990 | A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil | stereo tape, collages | 50 minutes | surrealist opera, texts and collages by Max Ernst |
| 1989 | Five Pieces for Saxophone and Piano | saxophone, piano | 15 minutes | |
| 1989 | That Burning Thing | flute, tape | ||
| 1988–89 | Vortex | string quartet | 12 minutes | string quartet no. 2 |
| 1988–89 | Piano Concerto | piano, trumpet, string quintet | 10 minutes | |
| 1988 | Three Faces of Death | flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, bass trombone, percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass | 15 minutes | |
| 1987 | Catechresis | soprano, orchestra | 10 minutes | text taken from the Requiem Mass |
| 1987 | Cerberus | organ, stereo tape | 12 minutes | |
| 1986–87 | Starvoices | 3 sopranos, 3 altos, 3 tenors, 3 basses, light operating conductor | a transmutation of Twelve Voices | |
| 1986 | La Tristesse de la Lune | soprano, stereo tape | 10 minutes | poem by Baudelaire |
| 1986 | Folie à Deux | violin, piano | 10 minutes | |
| 1986 | Exorcism | bass voice, orchestra | 26 minutes | text taken from a Tibetan exorcism ritual |
| 1985 | Cosmos | large orchestra, electronics | 20 minutes | symphony |
| 1984 | Dreamwake | stereo tape | 23 minutes | texts by the composer |
| 1984 | Resonance | stereo tape | 7 minutes | |
| 1984 | Missa | 6 female voices with handbells | 20 minutes | texts by Marquis de Sade and Latin Order of the Mass |
| 1984 | In memoriam: George Cacioppo | 8 trombones, 2 percussionists, stereo tape | 10 minutes | |
| 1984 | Pour un Tombeau d'Anatole | soprano, percussionist, 10 saxophones | 10 minutes | poems by Mallarmé |
| 1984 | Recordare | soprano recorder, tape, live electronics | 8 minutes | |
| 1983–84 | Fire and Ice | string quartet | 10 minutes | string quartet no. 1 |
| 1983–84 | Ivan and Rena | narrator, 3 solo singers, orchestra, stereo tape | 10 minutes | musical drama, libretto by the composer |
| 1983 | Brass, Light, Gesture | horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, gesture interpreter, light interpreter | 10 minutes | transcribed for 5 trombones, gesture interpreter, light interpreter in 2019 and realised as Poly-Sensual Etude No. 2: Brass, Light, Gesture |
| 1982 | Pastimes | piano | 10 minutes | |
| 1981–83 | Chamber Music | soprano, guitar | 10 minutes | poems by James Joyce |
| 1981 | Life-Death Sounds | 4 noise performers, mixed choir | 15 minutes | texts taken from Jewish prayers, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 1981 | Concertino | soprano, flute, clarinet, harp, 2 guitars, viola | 10 minutes | |
| 1981 | Abendphantasie | soprano, flute, guitar | 5 minutes | poem by Hölderlin |
| 1981 | Twelve Voices | 3 sopranos, 3 altos, 3 tenors, 3 basses, light operating conductor | ||
| 1980 | The Stronger | soprano, flute, viola, guitar | 15 minutes | chamber opera, libretto by the composer based on the play by August Strindberg |
| 1979 | Quartet | soprano, flute, viola, guitar | 10 minutes | poems by the composer |
| 1976–77 | Six Piano Pieces | piano |