Creation : 10 February 2007 at Geneva
Duration : 6′
24 Loops is part of a cumulative music cycle, which began in 2006 with a piece for string quartet and which I am currently developing in the context of various projects. The principle of cumulative writing consists in using electronic resources to stack sequences played live. In the pieces that I have composed on this principle, everything that is played by the musicians is progressively frozen in time by a looping system. The music thus created is the result of the stacking of successive elements. In this piece, a scenographic process is added, proposing to the musicians to create a kind of round, each one coming, in turn, to “fill” the sound space. At the end of the 24th cell, an improvisation phase extends the musical space more freely.
Pierre Jodlowski