creation : 08.09.2007, Abbaye de Royaumont (France)
musicians : 6 percussionists
dedicated to : Les Percussions de Strasbourg
The piece is inspired by different African and Asian rituals. Each percussionist has two groups of percussion instruments: a set of 5 skins and a set of metallophones or a keyboard. The beginning of the piece develops around metallic and resonant sounds. Gradually, these tones will transform into a predominantly “wood” sound with the wood-blocks and then the marimba. At the end of Recitation, the sound evolves towards the skins. This “interpolation” will also provoke a loss of the feeling of pitch, and the harmonic world of the beginning will progressively dilute into the world of rhythm at the end. This score is dedicated to the Percussions de Strasbourg.
Marc André Dalbavie