Éliane Radigue - Trilogie de la mort

Описание: Trilogie de la mort, work in three parts for anologue Arp synthesizer (1993-98)

I. Kyema
II. Kailasha [1:01:22]
III. Koumé [1:57:35]

KYEMA (Intermediate States) ... to my son, Yves Arman
[Inspired by Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, represents the theoretical and literary aspect of this Trilogy.]

Inspired by the texts of the Bardo-Thödol (The Tibetan Book of the Dead), this work evokes the six intermediate states which constitute the "existential continuity" of being: milam (dream), samtem (contemplation, meditation), chikai (death), chönye (clear light), ippai (crossing and return).

Kyema was presented in December 1998 at New Langton Arts in San Francisco.

KAILASHA
[Structured on an imaginary pilgrimage around Mt. Kailash, one of the most sacred mountains in the Himalayas.]

The double source of inspiration of this piece is reminiscent of the paradoxes in certain works by Albers or Escher in which one spatial element becomes an interlock or interface/interphase giving on to another, in a way which is at once logical and paradoxical.

Originally entitled Hereafter, Kailasha is a reference to an experience drawn from real life, being transposed into an imaginary journey around the most sacred of the Himalayan mountains (Mount Kailash) considered as a path to other spheres of existence.

KOUME. "O Death, where is thy victory?" (Corinthians XV)
[This is the expression of the transcendent power of Death in life, of life over death.]

Work of ashes. Ashes of illusion becoming light. Descent to the deepest, where the spark of life is. There, Death is born. Death becomes Birth. Actively re-beginning. Eternity - a perpetual becoming.

1. "Certainly man is walking among only appearances" (Psalms XXXIV, 7)
2. "Qua resurget ex favilla judicandus homo reus" (Requiem Mass)
3. "Have lightning and thunders their fury forgotten" (St. Matthew's Passion)
4. "O Death, where is thy victory" (Corinthians XV)

Koume was realized at Studio CIRM in Nice 1993.

Art by Henry Wallis