Creation : 27 August 2005, Abbaye de Royaumont, France
Commissioner : Percussions de Strasbourg
Musicians : 6 percussions and audio-video equipment
Duration : 30’
Time Ballet brings the percussionists’ sextet into dialogue with a virtual set of imaginary instruments, created and broadcast by computer. Obsessive rhythms, repeated motifs and homorhythmic encounters articulate this musical dialogue. This relationship allows me to explore a certain number of particular musical situations: the multiplied instrumental gesture and its sound consequences; games of disruption with the codes of visual perception; superimposed musical beats. Divided into three distinct movements, the piece evolves in a disordered, dreamlike temporal space composed of separate layers that continually move away, come closer and collide.
Alexandros Markéas, juin 2005