No people. for nonet 白瑞．杰拉德 九重奏 总谱 朔特版

o people. "这个标题来自超现实主义作家雷蒙德-鲁塞尔（Raymond Roussel）。1932 年，他出版了长诗《非洲新印象》。他为此创作了 59 幅插图。委托是通过一家侦探社交给艺术家的，因此他从不知道委托人是谁，也从未见过他要绘制的插图。他得到的只是每幅画的说明，他必须据此作画。典型的指示可能是夜间风景。繁星满天，月牙稀疏。 (没有人物。)或者一个漫步者，举起手臂，张开手指，将一块鹅卵石（仍然可见）扔进井里，似乎在努力倾听它溅起的水花声。 (没有其他人。)当罗塞尔把这些图画和文字放在一起时，这些普通的日常图画就有了一种奇怪的感觉，如果艺术家在画画时把文字放在前面，这些图画可能就不会有这种感觉。 正是这两种未知的并置--文字/图画--赋予了最终作品奇特的质量。© 杰拉尔德-巴里（2013 年）

作曲家: Barry, Gerald
乐器: nonet
出版社: Schott Music
原文简介:
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)