13/05/2004 - Tarbes, Le Parvis - Orchestre de Pau-Pays de Béarn, Fayçal Karoui (direction)
Commissioned for the Orchestre de Pau-Pays de Béarn by the "Parvis", national theatre of Tarbes, this piece was inspired by a Joseph Conrad short story, The Shadow Line, an impressive description of waiting for a storm on board a becalmed ship (to use the maritime terminology).
The whole point of this new piece lies in the dimension given to the wait and to the particular amount of time ensuing from it.
Therefore, here I worked especially on this relation to time and this singular intensity that the sound events take on in a context of immobility.
I also paid particular attention to the choice of tempi, the overall progression of the work going from a slow to a very fast tempo characterising the ?nal explosion, whilst making room for the unmeasured elements escaping the ascendancy of the time signature.
Similarly, at the centre of the piece, this character of "suddenness" intervenes, provoking an extreme contraction of the elements alternating with silence.
Edith Canat de Chizy
2(picc).2.2(clB).2 / 2.2.2.0 / hp / 2perc / 10.8.6.5.4
