No people. for nonet 白瑞．傑拉德 九重奏 總譜 朔特版

o people. "這個標題來自超現實主義作家雷蒙德-魯塞爾（Raymond Roussel）。1932 年，他出版了長詩《非洲新印象》。他為此創作了 59 幅插圖。委託是通過一家偵探社交給藝術家的，因此他從不知道委託人是誰，也從未見過他要繪製的插圖。他得到的只是每幅畫的說明，他必須據此作畫。典型的指示可能是夜間風景。繁星滿天，月牙稀疏。 (沒有人物。)或者一個漫步者，舉起手臂，張開手指，將一塊鵝卵石（仍然可見）扔進井裡，似乎在努力傾聽它濺起的水花聲。 (沒有其他人。)當羅塞爾把這些圖畫和文字放在一起時，這些普通的日常圖畫就有了一種奇怪的感覺，如果藝術家在畫畫時把文字放在前面，這些圖畫可能就不會有這種感覺。 正是這兩種未知的並置--文字/圖畫--賦予了最終作品奇特的品質。© 吉羅德-巴里（2013 年）

作曲家: Barry, Gerald
樂器: nonet
出版社: Schott Music
原文簡介:
The title No people. comes from the surrealist Raymond Roussel. In 1932 he published a long poem called New Impressions of Africa. For this he commissioned 59 drawings to illustrate the text. The commission was given to the artist through a detective agency so he never knew who the commissioner was or saw the text he was supposed to illustrate. All he got was instructions for each drawing and he had to make the drawings accordingly. A typical instruction might beNocturnal landscape. Very starry sky with a thin crescent of moon. (No people.)orA rambler, arm raised and fingers outspread, dropping a pebble (still visible) down a well and seemingly straining to hear the sound of its splash. (No other people.)When Roussel put the drawings and text together, the ordinary everyday drawings took on a strangeness they might otherwise not have had if the artist had drawn with the text in front of him. It's the juxtaposition of both unknowns - text/drawings - that gives the final work its strange quality.© Gerald Barry (2013)