Wim Mertens - Qua (37CDs, 2009)
Wim Mertens - Qua (37CDs, 2009)
Contemporary, Minimalism | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 4.51 GB
Label: Usura Music / EMI Classics | Release Year: 2009
Contemporary, Minimalism | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 4.51 GB
Label: Usura Music / EMI Classics | Release Year: 2009
Wim Mertens is a Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist.
Mertens studied social and political science at the University of Leuven (graduating in 1975) and musicology at Ghent University; he also studied music theory and piano at the Royal Conservatories of Gent and Brussels.
In 1978, he became a producer at the then BRT (Belgian Radio and Television). For Radio 2 (Radio Brabant) he produced concerts by Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Meredith Monk, Urban Sax, and others, and hosted a program called Funky Town together with Gust De Meyer (with whom he recorded the experimental CD For Amusement Only).
Known primarily as a composer since the late 1970s, Mertens is best known for his opus "Struggle for Pleasure". He is also well known for his piece "Maximizing the Audience", which was composed for Jan Fabre's play The Power of Theatrical Madness, which premiered in 1984 in Venice, Italy.
Mertens' style, while continually evolving during the course of his prolific output, touches veins of minimalist, ambient and avant-garde, usually, however, preserving a melodic fundament to the forays that he makes into the worlds that he is exploring.
Mertens' music was used in the 1987 Peter Greenaway film The Belly of an Architect, along with that of Glenn Branca.
Mertens also recorded under the name "Soft Verdict", and is the author of American Minimal Music, which looks at the school of American repetitive music.
Wim Mertens - Qua (37CDs, 2009)
Tracklist:
CD01-CD07 - Alle Dinghe (1991) (7CD)
1. Sources Of Sleepnessness
2. Vita Brevis
3. Alle Dinghe
CD08-CD17 - Gave Van Niets (1994) (10CD)
1. You'll Never Be Me
2. Divided Loyalties
3. Gave Van Diets
4. Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter
CD18-CD24 - Kere Weerom (1999) (7CD)
1. Poèma
2. Kere Weerom
3. Decorum
CD25-CD37 - Aren Lezen (2001) (13CD)
1. If Five Is A Part Of Ten
2. Aren Lezen
3. Kaosmos
4. aRe
Wim Mertens - Qua (37CDs, 2009)
Disc: 1
1. Geschuifel
2. Lenige Spieren
3. Katachtig Op Hun Gemak
4. Kronkelende Armen
5. Kruislings
6. Gerekt Geding
7. Fore-Hatch
8. Feline-Leisure
9. Pad-Foot
10. Lithe Sinews
11. Twisted Arms
12. Cross-Hold
13. Seafoam
Disc: 2
1. So That
2. Limes
3. The Ship
4. Tiresias
5. Verses
6. To Be Done
7. Later Life
8. Song And Story
Disc: 3
1. Part I
2. Part II
3. Part III
4. Part IV
5. Part V
Disc: 4
1. Part VI
2. Part VII
Disc: 5
1. Zo
2. Of
3. Ook
4. Al
5. Et
Disc: 6
1. Tot
2. En
3. Met
Disc: 7
1. De
2. Te
Disc: 8
1. No-Men
2. Wo-Men
3. Chasms
Disc: 9
1. Leaps
2. Laidback
Disc: 10
1. It Serves You Right
2. What's Mine Is Yours
3. Letter Of Intent
4. Quotable Lines
Disc: 11
1. How About It
2. How About What ?
3. Now You See It, Now You Don t
Disc: 12
1. De Blik Omhoog
2. Ofwel Daar, Ofwel Hier
3. Van Wie Je Alles Verwacht
4. De Komst Van Een Ander
5. Buiten Het Oog
Disc: 13
1. Zie Niet
2. Hoor Niet
3. Wees Niet
4. Altijd Haast
Disc: 14
1. Waar Ik Heers
2. Schillen
3. Schorsen
4. Alles Gisteren
5. Het Lied
6. Retorica
Disc: 15
1. Plus Grandes Les Parts De Mort
2. Plus Grandes Les Parts De Vie
Disc: 16
1. Trouver Le Repos / Les Saisons Qui Apportent Tout
2. Ce Qui Arrive
3. Ce Qui Se Produit
4. Ce Qui A Lieu
Disc: 17
1. Le Vrai
2. Le Héros
3. Le Cas
4. Le Propos
5. La Mesure
Disc: 18
1. As A Rule
2. Blank Verses
3. Leap In The Dark
4. Relatively Spoken
5. In Line With
6. Desert Love
Disc: 19
1. Under The Trees
2. In Terms Of
3. White Boats
4. To Stand For
5. No Darkness
6. Their Writings
7. As A Golden Eye
Disc: 20
1. 'T Is Tijd
2. O Weerzien!
3. Van Hot Naar Haar
4. Dat Schelden
5. Wederom Verdwenen
6. Zij Zingt En Wenkt
7. Overal, Altijd
8. Waar Wij Niet Zijn
9. Een Eigen Dagindeling
10. Amper Beschut
Disc: 21
1. Zoet Licht
2. Wat Zegt Het?
3. De Enige Troost
4. Elke Belofte
5. De Afmatting
6. Achter Me Niets
7. Wat Ik Doe
8. Het Oude Deuntje
9. De Dwarreling
10. Onderlinge Onmin
11. Tenslotte…
12. Wat Ik Zeg
13. Voor Me Niets
14. Waarheen ?
15. De Krater
16. Nooit Genoeg
17. In U
Disc: 22
1. Tijd Winnen
2. Dit Zegt Alles Mij
3. Van Eeeee
4. Olie Op Het Vuur
5. Zo Was Het
6. Een Hoger Doel
7. Tel Je Polsslagen!
8. Met Natte Schoenen
9. Men Schommelt
10. Een Stomme Streek
11. Later Het Vervolg
12. Als Muze
13. Gretig Vuur
14. Nieuwe Dwalingen
15. Zo Gaat Het Voort
16. Het Kortstondige
17. En Aaaaa
18. Dronkeemansliedjes
19. De Wil Van Eén
20. Weinig Meeleven
21. Heimelijke Bijeenkomsten
22. Maak Dat De Kat Wijs
23. Egels
Disc: 23
1. Anéantir
2. Bienvenir
3. Cadastrer
4. Dépasser
5. Empêcher
6. Fatiguer
7. Galoper
8. Honorer
9. In Situ
Disc: 24
1. Jubiler
2. Kss! Kss!
3. Laudes
4. Monter
5. Nier
6. Orémus
7. Posséder
8. Questionner
Disc: 25
1. If And Only If
2. Which Connects Them All
3. Smooth Manifolds
4. Twice Falsified
5. Possible Width
6. Benevolent Murmuring
7. Unlimited Returns
8. As Bait
9. Red Heat
10. Diagrammic Traits
11. Nous Sommes À Venir
12. Secret Of The Stammerer
13. Whimsical Curiosity
14. The One And The Many
15. Still Unbroken
Disc: 26
1. Comme Une Sonde
2. Uneven Halfs
3. Answerless Riddles
4. Obedience Into Command
5. Urdoxa
6. The Throw Of The Dice
7. Level Of The Membrane
8. More Grandiose
9. One Before Two
10. Incompossible Worlds
11. The Breaking Of The Shell
12. With Zones Of Clarity
13. Series Of Hungers
14. From The Whole To The Parts
Disc: 27
1. Two Before Three
2. With Sensibilia
3. From Within
4. Logical Shell
5. And Yet To Come
6. Een Verlegenheidsnaam
7. Âme - Chair
8. Against All Deaths
9. This Lustful Note
10. In Its Hardness
11. Subtle Schematism
12. Large Too Small
13. At Arm's Length
14. A World Of Born
15. SouFFrance
16. With All His Might
17. Through Self-Sameness
18. With Outstretched Wings
19. Hitherto
20. The Mildest Of All
21. With A Ploughshare
Disc: 28
1. Trouvaille
2. Obsessional Paths
3. In The Meanderings
4. Pious Intentions
5. Four Before Five
6. Withdrawn Voices
7. Diurnal Rêverie
8. Incerto Tempore
9. Just As The Swerve
10. Of Theft And Gift
11. Silent Imaginings
Disc: 29
1. Of Animal Habit
2. What It Can Grasp
3. Xerophyte
4. School Of Tought
5. Perpetuum Quietum
6. And Holding A Sheaf
7. Weight Of The Heights
8. Whole Bundles
9. Wandelende Pijpen
10. In The Swarm
11. Reaped In Silence
12. Greath Health
13. Een Last Over De Grond Trekken
Disc: 30
1. As Expansive Fluidum
2. Taille De La Vie
3. Seafaring
4. Interweaving
5. Angular Momentum
6. Happy Harvest
7. Useful To Us
8. The Goose For The Fox
9. Irrational Rhythms
10. At First Glance
11. As In Wooden Wedges
12. As In A Mould
13. Over Het Water Glijden
Disc: 31
1. Water Into Vapor
2. Selective Pressure
3. Within A Larger Ring
4. Truth On Its Side
5. Artificial Instruments
6. Returned To Its Giver
7. Like Inner Commands
8. The Stag And The Wolf
9. Working Backwards
10. As Sole Begetter
11. The Undoing
12. In Packs
13. Absolute Heteron
Disc: 32
1. Primordial Fire
2. Called Caloric
3. As Place Holder
4. Phenomenae Of Heat
5. Motor - Habits
6. Quite The Reverse
7. Rapid Impact
8. Quivering Timpani
9. In The Midst
10. Always Already
11. Ideals Of Quietism
12. As A Lack
13. Gensters Slaan
Disc: 33
1. As Inmixing
2. First Things
3. At All Costs
4. Monstrous Couplings
5. Chains Of Phenomena
6. Ongoing, Within Us
7. Theory Of Everyhing
8. But Must Be Made
9. The Grain Of The Membrane
10. Pure Whimsicality
11. Undulating Wheat
12. Canons Of Taste And Habit
13. Its Media Infantilism
Disc: 34
1. Initial Enthusiasm
2. Nature As Music
3. Qualitas Occultas
4. Aether Proofs
5. By Penetrating It
6. Originarie Expansiva
7. Room For Faith
8. Per Spontaneitatem
9. Innocent Enough
Disc: 35
1. Its Machinewesen
2. Its Long Sought Principle
3. As Instrumentum
4. Cumbrous Notations
5. Random Groping
6. The Whole Of The Past
7. Such A Transition
8. Par Chance, Sans Effort
9. Apatride
10. This Necessary Willkür
11. Without Example
12. Unless The Hand Obeys
13. Stolen Legacy
Disc: 36
1. Next Nearest
2. Various Alphabets
3. For The Ausführbarkeit
4. At Every Instant
5. Method Of Intuition
6. Sine Missione
7. Benen Bol
8. Alongside And Successively
9. Arranged, Simplified
10. You Northerners
11. Fewer Refrains
12. Most Untamed
13. In Fits And Starts
14. Luxta Et Post
15. As A Fabulated Giant
16. Bodies Into Planes
17. Periods Of Fasting
18. Far Enough
19. Within A Wider Cartography
20. Most Secure Bastion
21. Into A Bundle
Disc: 37
1. Eerst Aanzet
2. Den Enkelte
3. Your Northern Mists
4. All Desirability
5. In Fluvia
6. Begerige Deel
7. In The Caesura
8. What You See Is What You Hear
9. Membrane States
10. Connections Of Possibility
11. Silent Echoes
12. Feartherless Biped
13. The Gorged Tick
14. Of Hand And Fingers
15. Clinamen
16. In Close Embrace
17. Of Niet
18. Third Kinds
19. Essences Of Modes
20. Then, And Only Then
1. Geschuifel
2. Lenige Spieren
3. Katachtig Op Hun Gemak
4. Kronkelende Armen
5. Kruislings
6. Gerekt Geding
7. Fore-Hatch
8. Feline-Leisure
9. Pad-Foot
10. Lithe Sinews
11. Twisted Arms
12. Cross-Hold
13. Seafoam
Disc: 2
1. So That
2. Limes
3. The Ship
4. Tiresias
5. Verses
6. To Be Done
7. Later Life
8. Song And Story
Disc: 3
1. Part I
2. Part II
3. Part III
4. Part IV
5. Part V
Disc: 4
1. Part VI
2. Part VII
Disc: 5
1. Zo
2. Of
3. Ook
4. Al
5. Et
Disc: 6
1. Tot
2. En
3. Met
Disc: 7
1. De
2. Te
Disc: 8
1. No-Men
2. Wo-Men
3. Chasms
Disc: 9
1. Leaps
2. Laidback
Disc: 10
1. It Serves You Right
2. What's Mine Is Yours
3. Letter Of Intent
4. Quotable Lines
Disc: 11
1. How About It
2. How About What ?
3. Now You See It, Now You Don t
Disc: 12
1. De Blik Omhoog
2. Ofwel Daar, Ofwel Hier
3. Van Wie Je Alles Verwacht
4. De Komst Van Een Ander
5. Buiten Het Oog
Disc: 13
1. Zie Niet
2. Hoor Niet
3. Wees Niet
4. Altijd Haast
Disc: 14
1. Waar Ik Heers
2. Schillen
3. Schorsen
4. Alles Gisteren
5. Het Lied
6. Retorica
Disc: 15
1. Plus Grandes Les Parts De Mort
2. Plus Grandes Les Parts De Vie
Disc: 16
1. Trouver Le Repos / Les Saisons Qui Apportent Tout
2. Ce Qui Arrive
3. Ce Qui Se Produit
4. Ce Qui A Lieu
Disc: 17
1. Le Vrai
2. Le Héros
3. Le Cas
4. Le Propos
5. La Mesure
Disc: 18
1. As A Rule
2. Blank Verses
3. Leap In The Dark
4. Relatively Spoken
5. In Line With
6. Desert Love
Disc: 19
1. Under The Trees
2. In Terms Of
3. White Boats
4. To Stand For
5. No Darkness
6. Their Writings
7. As A Golden Eye
Disc: 20
1. 'T Is Tijd
2. O Weerzien!
3. Van Hot Naar Haar
4. Dat Schelden
5. Wederom Verdwenen
6. Zij Zingt En Wenkt
7. Overal, Altijd
8. Waar Wij Niet Zijn
9. Een Eigen Dagindeling
10. Amper Beschut
Disc: 21
1. Zoet Licht
2. Wat Zegt Het?
3. De Enige Troost
4. Elke Belofte
5. De Afmatting
6. Achter Me Niets
7. Wat Ik Doe
8. Het Oude Deuntje
9. De Dwarreling
10. Onderlinge Onmin
11. Tenslotte…
12. Wat Ik Zeg
13. Voor Me Niets
14. Waarheen ?
15. De Krater
16. Nooit Genoeg
17. In U
Disc: 22
1. Tijd Winnen
2. Dit Zegt Alles Mij
3. Van Eeeee
4. Olie Op Het Vuur
5. Zo Was Het
6. Een Hoger Doel
7. Tel Je Polsslagen!
8. Met Natte Schoenen
9. Men Schommelt
10. Een Stomme Streek
11. Later Het Vervolg
12. Als Muze
13. Gretig Vuur
14. Nieuwe Dwalingen
15. Zo Gaat Het Voort
16. Het Kortstondige
17. En Aaaaa
18. Dronkeemansliedjes
19. De Wil Van Eén
20. Weinig Meeleven
21. Heimelijke Bijeenkomsten
22. Maak Dat De Kat Wijs
23. Egels
Disc: 23
1. Anéantir
2. Bienvenir
3. Cadastrer
4. Dépasser
5. Empêcher
6. Fatiguer
7. Galoper
8. Honorer
9. In Situ
Disc: 24
1. Jubiler
2. Kss! Kss!
3. Laudes
4. Monter
5. Nier
6. Orémus
7. Posséder
8. Questionner
Disc: 25
1. If And Only If
2. Which Connects Them All
3. Smooth Manifolds
4. Twice Falsified
5. Possible Width
6. Benevolent Murmuring
7. Unlimited Returns
8. As Bait
9. Red Heat
10. Diagrammic Traits
11. Nous Sommes À Venir
12. Secret Of The Stammerer
13. Whimsical Curiosity
14. The One And The Many
15. Still Unbroken
Disc: 26
1. Comme Une Sonde
2. Uneven Halfs
3. Answerless Riddles
4. Obedience Into Command
5. Urdoxa
6. The Throw Of The Dice
7. Level Of The Membrane
8. More Grandiose
9. One Before Two
10. Incompossible Worlds
11. The Breaking Of The Shell
12. With Zones Of Clarity
13. Series Of Hungers
14. From The Whole To The Parts
Disc: 27
1. Two Before Three
2. With Sensibilia
3. From Within
4. Logical Shell
5. And Yet To Come
6. Een Verlegenheidsnaam
7. Âme - Chair
8. Against All Deaths
9. This Lustful Note
10. In Its Hardness
11. Subtle Schematism
12. Large Too Small
13. At Arm's Length
14. A World Of Born
15. SouFFrance
16. With All His Might
17. Through Self-Sameness
18. With Outstretched Wings
19. Hitherto
20. The Mildest Of All
21. With A Ploughshare
Disc: 28
1. Trouvaille
2. Obsessional Paths
3. In The Meanderings
4. Pious Intentions
5. Four Before Five
6. Withdrawn Voices
7. Diurnal Rêverie
8. Incerto Tempore
9. Just As The Swerve
10. Of Theft And Gift
11. Silent Imaginings
Disc: 29
1. Of Animal Habit
2. What It Can Grasp
3. Xerophyte
4. School Of Tought
5. Perpetuum Quietum
6. And Holding A Sheaf
7. Weight Of The Heights
8. Whole Bundles
9. Wandelende Pijpen
10. In The Swarm
11. Reaped In Silence
12. Greath Health
13. Een Last Over De Grond Trekken
Disc: 30
1. As Expansive Fluidum
2. Taille De La Vie
3. Seafaring
4. Interweaving
5. Angular Momentum
6. Happy Harvest
7. Useful To Us
8. The Goose For The Fox
9. Irrational Rhythms
10. At First Glance
11. As In Wooden Wedges
12. As In A Mould
13. Over Het Water Glijden
Disc: 31
1. Water Into Vapor
2. Selective Pressure
3. Within A Larger Ring
4. Truth On Its Side
5. Artificial Instruments
6. Returned To Its Giver
7. Like Inner Commands
8. The Stag And The Wolf
9. Working Backwards
10. As Sole Begetter
11. The Undoing
12. In Packs
13. Absolute Heteron
Disc: 32
1. Primordial Fire
2. Called Caloric
3. As Place Holder
4. Phenomenae Of Heat
5. Motor - Habits
6. Quite The Reverse
7. Rapid Impact
8. Quivering Timpani
9. In The Midst
10. Always Already
11. Ideals Of Quietism
12. As A Lack
13. Gensters Slaan
Disc: 33
1. As Inmixing
2. First Things
3. At All Costs
4. Monstrous Couplings
5. Chains Of Phenomena
6. Ongoing, Within Us
7. Theory Of Everyhing
8. But Must Be Made
9. The Grain Of The Membrane
10. Pure Whimsicality
11. Undulating Wheat
12. Canons Of Taste And Habit
13. Its Media Infantilism
Disc: 34
1. Initial Enthusiasm
2. Nature As Music
3. Qualitas Occultas
4. Aether Proofs
5. By Penetrating It
6. Originarie Expansiva
7. Room For Faith
8. Per Spontaneitatem
9. Innocent Enough
Disc: 35
1. Its Machinewesen
2. Its Long Sought Principle
3. As Instrumentum
4. Cumbrous Notations
5. Random Groping
6. The Whole Of The Past
7. Such A Transition
8. Par Chance, Sans Effort
9. Apatride
10. This Necessary Willkür
11. Without Example
12. Unless The Hand Obeys
13. Stolen Legacy
Disc: 36
1. Next Nearest
2. Various Alphabets
3. For The Ausführbarkeit
4. At Every Instant
5. Method Of Intuition
6. Sine Missione
7. Benen Bol
8. Alongside And Successively
9. Arranged, Simplified
10. You Northerners
11. Fewer Refrains
12. Most Untamed
13. In Fits And Starts
14. Luxta Et Post
15. As A Fabulated Giant
16. Bodies Into Planes
17. Periods Of Fasting
18. Far Enough
19. Within A Wider Cartography
20. Most Secure Bastion
21. Into A Bundle
Disc: 37
1. Eerst Aanzet
2. Den Enkelte
3. Your Northern Mists
4. All Desirability
5. In Fluvia
6. Begerige Deel
7. In The Caesura
8. What You See Is What You Hear
9. Membrane States
10. Connections Of Possibility
11. Silent Echoes
12. Feartherless Biped
13. The Gorged Tick
14. Of Hand And Fingers
15. Clinamen
16. In Close Embrace
17. Of Niet
18. Third Kinds
19. Essences Of Modes
20. Then, And Only Then