Farben #1
A song for the color black, was called “nuances of blue” in its first title, because some aspects of those musical pages made the beginning of a gradient of the primary color blue appear.
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The Form is an A-B-A, which is the romantic nocturne form, and thereby do not reveal a great imaginative prowess at this level, but I wanted the formal articulation to be as simple as possible to effectively seek a concentration on what defined for me the desired color. In this case black.
The “A” part of the form, is a reworked recording of cicadas that I recorded on the Island Moorea , which is in front of the island Tahiti in the South Pacific. I recorded these songs one night in October 2015, then I reworked the recording to extract a transposed version with enhanced low frequencies. This is a fixed electronic media and not the result of a real time electronic device.
The “B” part of the form is a set of gestures, in which the performer is sliding on the strings by altering the pressure of the bow. The sound timbre is mainly obtained by a play in harmonics. The writing is non-graphical and is intended to represent as accurately as possible the corresponding gesture and sound.
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This is the recording of the premiere on the 26th of november 2015 by the Trio Hors du Cadre. Julien Blondel – violoncello, Stefan Scheib – Contrabass and Monika Bagdonaite – Viola.