Paul Dirmeikis

Paul Dirmeikis (born 1954) is a French-speaking poet, composer, singer, and painter who lives in Brittany, France. He is of Lithuanian ancestry, and a member of the Lithuanian Composers Union. Dirmeikis was born in Chicago, Illinois. As a writer, in the 1990s he began a large cycle of poems inspired by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen’s entire musical output. Works Compositions (selective list) Seventy compositions are now listed in his catalogue, including: *Message laissé à Pondichéry le 18 novembre 1973 (Message Left in Pondicherry on 18 November 1973), for voice, saxophone, electric bass, vibraphone, crystal glasses, percussion, and piano *Papier à musique (Music Paper), for voice and papers (4 performers) *Un seul or, for voice, flute, saxophone, electric bass, tampura, and piano *J. C., for voice, electric guitar, intratonal carillon, and computer-generated sounds (1983) *String Quartet No. 1, op. 1 (1984) *Le ciel sous la terre (Heaven in the Earth), String Quartet No. 2, op. 10 (1985) *Un unique corps (A Unique Body), for overtone singer, flute, tampura, mugaveena, and electric bass *Nous, les esprits, nous dansons (We, the Spirits, We Dance), for voice, two saxoph