Ritual and Memory is not so much a survey of Stephen Pope's music as it is a reframing in an unfolding series of sound and visual dreamscapes. This music invokes the greater self that communicates with us in dreams, as well as the rituals through which we communicate with that greater self. Stephen's music persists at the edge of a self-inventive technology featuring myriad new programming languages and sound synthesizers, but his engineering is a feat of bricolage that never loses its sense of human (and angelic) connection, whether through the voice in speech and song or the body in dance. This package consists of two audio CDs and a DVD of video works. The compositions on the first disc are 'Kombination XI (A Ritual Place for Processed Voice)' (1978-90), 'Bat Out of Hell' (1983), 'Leur Songe de la Paix (Their Dream of Peace) (2001-02), 'Day, An Improvisation' (1968/87), '4: Ballet Music for My Siblings' (1980-82). Disc Two contains 'WAKE: Ten Tangents for Dance' (1979/80), 'Requiem Aeternam Dona Eis' (1984/85), and 'Paragraph 31: All Gates Are Open' (1991-93). Video Collaborations include: 'WAKE', 'Leur Songe de la Paix', 'Eternal Dreams: A Ritual' (2000-02), and 'Tour/Sampler of STP's Music'.

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Kombination XI
Leur Songe de la Paix
WAKE
Requiem Aeternam Dona Eis

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