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MUSIC COMPOSITION
Composition is a long thread that unwinds from a skein, ever faster. This rotation of the skein translates a musicality marked by the incessant rhythm that progresses and perpetually becomes more complex. Similarities bring it closer to the construction of a house with the framework, the skeleton of a theme in its most elementary expression. Then come materials for consolidation, making, and then ornamentation. The final touch is that of color with its varied nuances and hues. It also resembles the making of a garment with the initial sketch of a new pattern, the choice of fabric, the design of the pieces, their cutting, assembly, and sewing. Patterns, texture, and reliefs are essential. In music, sewing is the transition, just as in a text in words, from one paragraph to the next. It allows one to slide easily from one idea or one picture to the next, as on a well-polished piece of wood. Or it must mark an interjection, an exclamation in the narrative. This is what musical creation could look like as the emergence of an interior process of gestation. The beginning of a composition is a line placed on a sheet of paper. This line, in charcoal, pastel, or pencil, is most elementary. It is an embryo. It is formless. It represents a kind of framework that will gradually support a series of graphite or charcoal strokes. Each new line defines and confirms the form that is emerging. Similarly, on a staff, the notes, adding to one another, imprint a movement that gradually asserts itself and becomes more complex. Everything is music. Life is fugue and litany. Human activity naturally generates a myriad of melodies and rhythms. One only has to listen to the ambient sounds that surround us. It is an inexhaustible pool, just like the village fountain that flows generously and uninterruptedly. Raw material can certainly be transformed, and sometimes only slightly, given the often moving intrinsic poetry that emerges from our surrounding sound world. Thus, the composer is above all a contemplative being who translates reality into imagination.
Un pas de deux. Unpublished composition for acoustic grand piano, 2019 (7,36 minutes).
Quelques pas de danse. Unpublished composition for acoustic grand piano, 2019 (2,05 minutes).
Suite anecdotique un. Unpublished composition for acoustic grand piano, 2019 (6,19 minutes).
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