Creation : 19/01/2002, Strasbourg, La Laiterie,
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Percussions de Strasbourg, by the Percussions de Strasbourg
Musicians : 6 percussionists
Duration: 4′
Publishing : Lemoine, Paris, nº 27724
“This piece, dedicated to the Percussions de Strasbourg on the occasion of the anniversary of this group which marked the years of Contemporary Music, is organised around the Tic-Tac d’une horloge. This Tic-Tac, which sings the succession of moments, is expressed by a giant rattle that slowly turns its crenellation. Each jerk caused by the movement of the axis of the rattle is prolonged by a series of echoes caused by maracas and a wide variety of white noises. This “orchestration” of “striated time” is accompanied by the maniacal sound of the drawer of a cash register and the pendulum of a “cracked bell”. “Michaël Levinas