creation : 04/10/1995 au Festival Musica (Strasbourg, France)
duration : 14′
publishing : Billaudot
The title explains the idea of composition: the birth of sound, the search for pitches and rhythmic cells, elementary at the beginning, which become more and more complicated. Simultaneously with the development and deformation of rhythmic structures, the sound space is enlarged by the introduction of new timbres and changes of pitch. Metal percussion (campania, rattlesnakes, cowbells) appears for the first time in the central part and gradually replaces skin percussion. In the last section, the structures of two instrumental groups are synthesised by crossings of colours and rhythms.