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BAUDOUIN DE JAER 7 Titles


Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #

DE JAER, BAUDOUIN	Five Traces: Geomungo Compositions Vol. III	2CD	SUB ROSA	SR 560CD
$18.00 IN STOCK Five Traces is a wordless opera in three acts. Its sound includes words and images. The notes must speak: "This wordless opera is certainly my most daring experiment with text in sound. Over the ten years I spent discovering the majestic Geomungo, the six-string Korean bass zither played with a suldae plectrum, working on Héros de la pensée gave soft, poetic, melodious and appeasing sounds. Some of my studies continued the reduction process I had started for the piano and the violin (and then for the Gayageum), in the compositions I wrote between 1986 and 2023, attempts at extreme reducing and simplifying down to lines, music stated on one and single note (with exceptions). Lines allows the interpreter to express themselves within the scope of rhythm, nuance, vibratos, stresses and attacks, and to show the many unheard orchestral possibilities at the root of this unique instrument. In stark contrast, Chanson Cubique (Vol II) or Trace III include moments with an excessive variety of notes driving the instrument into a corner. With the warm timbres of the recordings featuring on the first two CD volumes, the listener is an accomplice to the interpreter, standing in the wings while they rub strings on fret, prepare their fingers and release the strings, tune the instrument while playing, etc. On the other hand, 'Traces' (once every five of them have been listened to) offers a more panoramic view, a look at the geometric structures of the compositions. Vol I was my doorway to the geomungo, while the compositions gathered in Vol II were explorations (experiments, studies) with a more technical aspect, in preparation for the writing of Five Traces." --Baudouin De Jaer

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DE JAER, BAUDOUIN	4 Geomungo Sanjo Vol II	CD	SUB ROSA	SR 470CD
$15.50 IN STOCK New compositions for ancient Korean instrument: the Geomungo. Follow-up to Baudouin de Jaer's highly-acclaimed Compositions for Geomungo and Gayageum (SR 373CD, 2012). Baudouin de Jaer tells... his large hands stir the air, drawing soft and assured lines, they connect distant planets and micro-particles in a space that does not exist yet. There is the encounter with the Geomungo. a traditional Korean instrument, the geomungo is an ancient table zither, an improbable association of wood and tense strings, with sounds in turn soft, brutal, limpid, rough, mute, and light. It is the voice that imposes itself and guides us through the worlds. Baudouin de Jaer takes you irresistibly, back and forth, from the deepest of oneself to the universality of life. Four-panel digipack with 16-page booklet. Baudouin de Jaer is a composer and violinist. Baudouin de Jaer studied composition with Philippe Boesmans, Henri Pousseur, Frederic Rzewski and at McGill University (Montréal) with Bruce Mather. He composes for the Korean instruments Daegeum, Haegeum, Gayageum, and Geomungo, and for orchestras of Korean traditional instruments. In 2010 he resolved the enigmatic music system of Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli and released a CD called The Heavenly Ladder on Sub Rosa (SR 312CD, 2011). In 2010, Baudouin de Jaer was awarded a prize from the National Gugak Center for his Gayageum compositions.

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DE JAER, BAUDOUIN	Lucy / Back To Normal	2CD	SUB ROSA	SR 441CD
$15.50 IN STOCK This double CD release brings together two founding pieces from Baudouin de Jaer: the first volcanic concert of Back To Normal in 1991, and the first concerto of Baudouin de Jaer, "Lucy", performed in 1993. Back To Normal was a collective of visual artists, musicians, and non-musicians. "Lucy" is played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège. In 1993, Baudouin de Jaer wrote his first concerto for violin and orchestra. "Lucy" was premiered by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège under the direction of Georges-Elie Octors. Equipped with two dictaphones, Jaer steps in the dreams of half-sleeps and awakenings. Nestled in a cutting of 15 sections, the recorded ideas then slips the whole in a telescopic sound structure that the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège propels the evening of the first in space time. Coordinated by Baudouin de Jaer, the movement Back To Normal (born in Liège, Belgium) gathered, between 1991 and 1996, a dozen artists, painters, sculptors, ironworkers, and some musicians of the Royal Conservatory of Liège. Everyone transmitted their knowledge to others, composed their pieces and directed them. Touring France, Poland, and Switzerland, 80 people participated. The recording here features: Pierre-Etienne Fourré, Slavek Kwi, Jean-Yves Evrard, Eric Sleichim, Yves Kimplaire, Patrick Tillie, Collective Composition, and Eric Sleichim. Baudouin de Jaer studied composition with Philippe Boesmans, Henri Pousseur, and Frederic Rzewski, and at McGill University (Montréal) with Bruce Mather. His works have performed by the following ensembles: Synonymes, Besides, Arditti, Quadro, Stream, Ear Unit, Musiques Nouvelles, Orchestre de Mulhouse, National Korean Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Timf Seoul Ensemble, Korean Project, Ensemble 21, Ensemble 88. In 2010, he resolved the enigmatic music system of Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli and released a CD called The Heavenly Ladder on Sub Rosa (SR 312CD). In 2010, Baudouin de Jaer was awarded a prize from the National Gugak Center for his gayageum compositions (SR 373CD, 2013). Comes in a six-panel digipak; Includes 20-page booklet.

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DE JAER, BAUDOUIN	Eclerectic Attracta	CD	SUB ROSA	SR 433CD
$15.50 IN STOCK Surrounded by Quatuor Tana, the unpredictable Baudouin De Jaer presents four new pieces that push the boundaries of contemporary composition. Composer and violinist Baudouin De Jaer studied composition with Philippe Boesmans, Henri Pousseur, Frederic Rzewski and with Bruce Mather at McGill University in Montréal. His works have been performed by the following ensembles: Synonymes, Besides, Arditti, Quadro, Stream, Ear Unit, Musiques Nouvelles, Orchestre De Mulhouse, National Korean Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique De Liège, Timf Seoul Ensemble, Korean Project, Ensemble 21, and Ensemble 88. In 2010, Baudouin De Jaer was awarded a prize from the National Gugak Center for his Gayageum compositions. In 2011, he resolved the enigmatic music system of Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli and released a CD called The Heavenly Ladder on Sub Rosa (SR 312CD). Since 2011, Quatuor Tana has been the only European ensemble to be playing on electronic equipment with the Airturn Electronic Scoring System, which makes them an ideal partner for research neither calculated nor premeditated. Quatuor Tana's singularity rests on its undeniably unique and fiercely contemporary repertoire. Its musicians impose, in a single voice, four wills and four energies that, while attached to the quartet tradition, have firmly decided to expand the framework and find individual expression in contemporary creations. Their insatiable music curiosity pushes them to explore the multiple facets, styles and riches of scores created by living composers. Quatuor Tana has performed in major halls and festivals around the world. Eclerectic Attracta comes as a six-page digipak CD and comes with a 16-page booklet.

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DE JAER, BAUDOUIN	Crocus	CD	SUB ROSA	SR 386CD
$15.50 IN STOCK Performed by pianist Fabian Fiorini."Five 'Crocuses' have been selected for this CD. From 2004 to 2007, I reduced the music I wrote between 1979 and 1994 to monophonic strands, sonic DNA, although some of the chords survived. Some of these strands went into sonates curieuses for muted violin, while others turned into 10 crocuses with sustained notes. 'Crocus' is notated in a classical fashion with bars; it is visual music, each musical element a picture. Interpretation is cold, neutral, geometrical, staccato; no crescendo, decrescendo, accelerando or ralentendo." Composer/violinist Baudouin de Jaer studied composition with Philippe Boesmans, Henri Pousseur, and Frederic Rzewski and with Bruce Mather at McGill University (Montréal). He composes for the Korean instruments daegeum, haegeum, gayageum and geomungo, and for orchestras of Korean traditional instruments. In 2010 he resolved the enigmatic music system of Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli and released a CD called The Heavenly Ladder on Sub Rosa. In 2010, Baudouin de Jaer was awarded a prize from the National Gugak Center for his gayageum compositions.

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DE JAER, BAUDOUIN	Compositions for Geomungo and Gayageum	2CD	SUB ROSA	SR 373CD
$17.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL Sub Rosa reissues Belgian composer/violinist Baudouin de Jaer's Gayageum Sanjo (SR 347CD), with a complete new design and an additional CD of new compositions for another ancient Korean instrument: the geomungo ("black zither"). "Baudouin de Jaer chose a highly delicate musical instrument, the geomungo, and has drawn from it a marvelous creation; I can only congratulate him with all my heart for such an accomplishment, and for the release of this beautiful CD. I hope he will continue to make great works like this one and to contribute in such a committed way to the development of korean music." --Mr. Kim Yong-Jae Holder of Intangible Cultural Treasure #16. Performed by Lee Jung-A, Kim Hyunchae and Lee Hwa-Young.

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DE JAER, BAUDOUIN	Gayageum Sanjo	CD	SUB ROSA	SR 347CD
$15.50 IN STOCK Sub Rosa presents a release by composer/violinist Baudouin de Jaer. Gayageum Sanjo: compositions for 12-string gayagrum, Prelude, 5 sanjo and 10 studies. According to legend and to recent archeological digs, the gayageum is a millennial zither-like instrument featured in all Korean traditional repertoires. "Sanjo" is usually translated as "scattered melodies." This style of music was informed by southwestern shamanic music (Sinawi) and the great epic songs (Pansori) from the same region. Melodies were improvised at first, then codified in the mid-19th century. Since then, they have evolved through lines of transmission (Ryu) from masters to pupils. "Each and every 34 pieces carries its own unique musical color sparking brightly with its distinctive luster just like a precious jewel. I think his Gayageum CD is something like a set of 34 pieces of jewels threaded onto a string. His Gayageum music opens up an unprecedented world of Gayageum music to us and each piece is as much attractive and musically tasty as other pieces. I could not help but want more music listening to the 34th track, the last piece of this CD." --Mr. Hwang Byungki, Gayageum Composer and Performer Artistic director of the The National Orchestra of Korea.