Paul Dirmeikis

• Illustration — 2019

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 saxophones, percussion, electric bass, and synthesizer • Lame d'orage (Storm Blade), for voice, two saxophones, percussion, electric bass, piano, and synthesizer • Octa, op. 6, for two pianos in quarter tones (1984) • Le monde dans notre maison (The World in Our House), for voice, flute, saxophone, electric bass, percussion, piano, and synthesizer • Le serpent, for voice and computer-generated sounds • Visur (Everywhere), for soprano and computer-generated sounds • Dienaktis, electronic music for Lithuania (1988) • Motina (Mother), op. 18 • Tevas (Father), op. 19 • Krastas (Country), op. 20 • Pavasaris (Spring), op. 21 • Laikas (Time), op. 22 • Susisristi (Links), op. 23 • Gimimas (Birth), op. 24 • Ausra (Dawn), String Quartet No. 3, op. 27 (1996) • Karma, op. 67, for string quartet and electronic and concrete music (2004) premiered by the Kaunas String Quartet at the "Is Arti" International Contemporary Music Festival in Kaunas • Entre Parenthèses, 31 songs on poems by René Guy Cadou, for baritone voice and various instrumental ensembles, op. 68 (2005–2007) • Sukaktuvès (Celebration), op. 70, for 3 oboes, 3 trumpets, and 3 bassoons, op. 70 (2007) • Aster (Star), op. 71, for wind quintet (2010) premiered by the Quintette à vent de Bretagne Dirmeikis has been working since 2003 on a 22-part cycle, TAROT, for various instruments and/or electronic and concrete music.

• Limbres creusées – poems – Editions St Germain (1975) • La Peur – short stories – Editions Le Cherche-Midi (1978) • "Three Poems", Perspectives of New Music 36, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 41–52. • Le Souffle du temps (Quodlibet pour Karlheinz Stockhausen) – Editions Telo Martius (1999). This is a conversation book with the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen whom Dirmeikis had known for 30 years. • L'Epaule d'Orphée – poetry – Foreword by Salah Stétié – Editions L'Eveilleur (2012) • Gwerz – poetry – Editions L'Eveilleur (2013) • Les Belles Choses – poetry – Editions L'Eveilleur (2014) • Je te réunirai – novel – Editions L'Eveilleur (2015)

• Loup Rouge (LP – 1984) – L'Eveilleur EVE 001 • Message laissé à Pondichéry le 18 novembre 1973 (CD – 1988) – L'Eveilleur EVE 002 • 17 Metacompositions – Electronic and concrete music (Audio DVD – 2002) – L'Eveilleur EVE 003 • Entre Parenthèses – 31 poèmes de René Guy Cadou (2-CD set – 2009) – L'Eveilleur EVE 004