Compositions Irma Bilbao
INSTRUMENTALOUD, VIOLA AND CONTRABASS
PIANO, VIOLIN AND CELLO
PIANO
FOUR HANDS
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INSTRUMENTAL WITH VOICE
- Stand up for Theremin : 2015 composed for the ICU 2015 International Congress of Ultrasonics at Georgia Tech Lorraine (video).
- Covid 19-Coronasong: 2020 for voice and piano (acoustic version) (video).
- World Choir Games-song (sing-along song): 2020
- ICVT-song (sing-along song): 2017 First performance ICVT (International Congress of Voice Teachers Stockholm 2017. (Video).
- Pevoc-song (sing-along song): 2017
- Spirto 5: 2017 for soprano, ISFV® voice, oceandrum, tape, robots and inhaling singing ISFV® choir & tape
- Spirto 4: 2014 dedicated to Dominica Eyckman for Voice, piano, viola, percussion (bongo or ocean drum or...) and torch
First performance in 2014 at Logos Tetraeder, Bomastraat 24-26-28, 9000 GHENT.
Performers: Dominica Eyckmans & Françoise Vanhecke (video).
- Evta-song for Belgium (sing-along song) 2014, written for voice(s) and piano by Irma Bilbao.
- Little but... : 2013. T"M: Irma Bilbao. Including the first notations made especially for ISFV, Inhaling Singing by Françoise for voice (ISFV), Mini Dan Trung (bamboo xylophone), piano or + ad libitum strings such as cello, contrabass, basson, (bass)clarinet, bass-flute or robot (f.e. Klar, Horni, Fa, Heli, Bono) and laughtersack. First performance by Françoise Vanhecke and Katrijn Friant in December 2013. Click here for the music score.
- Flexavoice for voice and flexatone: 2013 (including ISFV, Inhaling Singing by Françoise Vanhecke). First performance by Françoise Vanhecke at Ghent Logosfoundation in 2013 (Video).
- Lascia ch'io pianga (Händel/Bilbao): 2006 for voice and piano.
- Rencontre (mélodie): 2007 First Performance / France, for voice and piano.
- Joyeux Anniversaire (mélodie): 2007 for voice, piano and bongo (or small percussion): First Performance / France.
- 'Jong Bloed': 1995 / Text: Guido Gezelle for voice, piano and bongo. First Performance Radio Klara.
- Ku Soko: 2003 for a solo performance. Text: Swahili. First Performance in Belgium, USA, Italy, Germany. Jacqueline Fontyn/Irma Bilbao, for voice, piano and bongo (or little percussion) (audio).
- Spirto: 2005 (dedicated to Karmella Tsepkolenko), text: 'the Tyger' from William Blake & Irma Bilbao. First Performance for the 11th International Festival of Modern Art, April, 22-24, 2005, Odessa, Ukraine / 2D2N 'Two Days and Two Nights of New Music'. Performed by Françoise Vanhecke. For voice, bongo (or little percussion) and torch.
- Smek: 2008 (dedicated to Stephan Vermeersch in memoriam Karlheinz Stockhausen) (audio), (video: Duo Phoenix performing Smek). First Performance at Logos Foundation/Gent/Belgium. Performed in Ukraine (International festival 2D2N Odessa), the Netherlands, Bulgary (13th International Festival of Contemporary Music/Bulgarian National Radio Concert Studio in Sofia, Lithuanya. For voice, Clarinet Sib, bongo (or little percussion) and torch.
- Spirto 2: 2010 (dedicated to Milen Panayotov and Stephan Vermeersch) First Performance at the 13th International Festival of Contemporary music/Bulgarian National Radio Concert Studio in Sofia. For voice, piano, Clarinet Sib, bongo (or little percussion) and torch (audio).
- Souterliedekens: 2011. An assignment as composer to re-invent the 150 'Souterliedekens' from Clemens non Papa, respecting the original cantus firmus and the Dutch language. (See also the website.) (Audio sample with voice); (instrumental audio fragment).
VOICE(S)
- Bird song: 2014 for ISFV® voice. Subtittle 1 minute piece /subtittle De Dode vogel implemented in the song De Dode vogel by Steef Verwée (CD”Oudenaarde”, een Hymne (2014) (audio)
- 2V2P (2 Voices, 2 Persons and 2 fingerwalking puppets: 2010 (for Moniek Darge & Françoise Vanhecke). First Performance, Logos Foundation Gent 2010. You Tube videos: poppentheater FraMon, Voice and hand puppets (Françoise Vanhecke & Katrijn Friant).
- Roll Up (for 3 voices/performers): first performance at Performedia Festival 2011/Ponte Nossa in Italy.
- Bossa Bama: voice poetry for 2 voice performers. Creation at the Audio Art Festival in Krakow 2012, in collaboration with Moniek Darge.
CHOIR MUSIC
- Covid 19 - Coronasong (Spirto 7) for mixed choir: 2020
- Spirto 6: 2020 for mixed choir (dedicated to the 2de Adem & Maarten Van Ingelgem): : "including extended vocal techniques & soundpainting”.
- Patchwork: 2017 for ISFV® voice. Recording included in Spirto 5 (2017) Creation 21/06/17- Logos Foundation Ghent.
- Kritsa - First performance: 2008 for SATB.
THEATRE MUSIC
- Smile: 2014 / 8’48” for inhaling singing and viola by Françoise Vanhecke and dedicated to Dominica Eyckmans. IST-multiphonics are used in rhythmic imitation of the actions of the viola player, who simultaneously destroys the yellow colour with her bare feet. In the second section, the singer uses a new strategy: IST-pure sounds are used, to imitate the violist on the long A5 note. In the third section, the singer copies the musical line of the viola player, who once again destroys the colour. In section D, the viola uses glissandi, which the singer continues to imitate in a melancholic manner. At the fifth section the letters of the word smile are used, separately: the s like the hiss of a snake; the m in a reflective mood, inwardly laughing; the ‘i’ as a pained sound; the l with the tongue sticking out and quickly being drawn back into the mouth, like a snake, and the e as an elongated ‘e’ sound, as if the composite word had become ‘smiley’. The viola also performs this section. Then the word ‘SMILE’ is used rhythmically again, as the singer uses a long IST-vocal electronic. This is finally stopped with the action of the viola player putting a foot stamp on the forehead of the singer, on the last note of this rhythmic section. By this action, the singer lays flat on the ground (Figure 33). At this point, the song ‘The bigger the better’ (track 12 on the ‘Bossy’ CD (2007) begins, as the singer takes over the A5 tone of the CD, using IST-pure sounds. The song is used as a metaphor, as a reminder of the importance of celebrating life. A coda is added, in which ‘smile’ is sung using inhaling singing. This is a very sad part of the piece, expressing grief, like a mother mourning her child. Now considering the actuality of the political situation in the world and its fundamentalist absurdity, each inhaling-singing style suggests a sound and expression, such as the deepest emotions provoked by the loss of one’s beloved, uttered with crying that seems to persist endlessly and exhausts physically.
- Basta Diva: 2011 in collaboration with Lieven Debrauwer.
- Club Medea 2005, theatre music for object theatre for soprano, voice and seadrum/Oceandrum. First Performance at the Internationaal Poppentheaterfestival in Belgium and the Netherlands, Germany, Indonesia and Austria. You Tube: Club Medea.
POETRY
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SOUNDSCAPE
- East Crete, Mother Goddess (composed by Françoise Vanhecke/Moniek Darge): 2008-2009. First Performance was played at The Experimental Intermedia Foundation NYC. They (duo Framon) did a live performance at the International festival Colour out of Space in Brighton, Sallis Benney Theatre 2009/England (+ on CD 'Crete Soundies' Moniek Darge, edited by Kye, New York). First Performance in Belgium at Logos Foundation / Gent in 2010.
- Gallop (a composition by Françoise Vanhecke and Moniek Darge) : 2011 First Performance on the occasion of the Concert at "ISSUE Project Room" in Brooklyn / New York, November 2011. Performance at the Audio Art Festival in Krakow / Poland (2012).
IMPROVISATIONS
- IMPRO MPAA: 2009 Auditorium Saint-Germain des Pres/ Paris/ France. Improvisations including ISFV.
- Free Breeze: 2007 (together with Etienne Rolin) and many others used for contemporary performings and CD's.
ELECTRO POP
- Dona Nobis: all songs on AppleMusic
- Dona Nobis: complete album on Spotify
- Dona Nobis CD (text & music project) together with Peter Clasen (MySpace Dona Nobis).
- Dona Nobis - Live in concert - Compilation (video on You Tube)
ELECTRO & VOICE
A Journey Into The Universe.
Music composed and arranged (score) by Pascal Coppé.
Vocals and improvisations by Soprano Dr. Françoise Vanhecke.
**Co-composed vocals and *vocal arrangements by Irma Bilbao.
(Video).
Music composed and arranged (score) by Pascal Coppé.
Vocals and improvisations by Soprano Dr. Françoise Vanhecke.
**Co-composed vocals and *vocal arrangements by Irma Bilbao.
(Video).
| Part I Our Solar System |
Part II Deep Space Exploration |
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| 1. The Sun* (watch video) | 1. Voyager I* |
| 2. Mercury* | 2. Exoplanets * |
| 3. Venus* (ISFV® Inhaling Singing by Françoise Vanhecke). (watch video) | 3. Giant Stars* |
| 4. Earth** – The moon | 4. Galactic Centre* |
| 5. Mars* (watch video) | 5. Black Hole** (ISFV® Inhaling Singing by Françoise Vanhecke) (watch video) |
| 6. Jupiter-IO-Europa** | 6. The Milky Way Galaxy** |
| 7. Saturn – Titan* | 7. Nebulas* |
| 8. Uranus* (watch video) | 8. Galaxies* |
| 9. Neptune* | 9. Hubble Space Telescope* |
| 10. Pluto* | 10. End Credits* |
FILM / ANIMATION FILM MUSIC
- 'OUT OF OUD FOR THE LAST SUPPER’: composition by Irma Bilbao for an Animation film. "THE LAST SUPPER” by Leo Reijnders. This is an animation film / International digital artproject - Muhka (Museum voor hedendaagse kunst van Antwerpen)
- Music / soundtrack: Out of Oud for "The Last Supper" by Irma Bilbao (video).
NEW PUBLICATION
In conversation with composers from Flanders by Simon De Rijcke (2022) about Irma Bilbao ( Interview on pages 330-344).
More information: Matrix (Centre for new music).
More information: Matrix (Centre for new music).
