creation : 09.10.1999 – Festival Présences, Radio France (Paris)
music : Marc André
duration : 18′
muscians : 6 percussionists
publisher : Durand
The notion of ’Tempus perfectum’ originated in the new metrical architecture formulated at the end of the thirteenth century in Europe. This must be one of the most beautiful utopian concepts in Western art: the formulation of a ’perfect time’ or perfect meter. The latter would ideally allow the reconnection of the finite with the infinite, and the idea of a beginning with that of an end somewhere else. Such is the goal of ’Tempus perfectum », which was written especially for the soloists of the Percussions de Strasbourg. The works is also dedicated to Odile and Gilbert Charvet.