Creation: 2012
Duration: 10′
Musicians: 3 percussionists (marimba and dancer)
Stop Making Senseis the piece that helped me redefine my work as a composer and sound artist. It was written on the initiative of percussionist Galdric Subirana who was looking for a piece that would join dance and music in a novel way, a piece where dance and music would become one while each conserving their distinct identities. Around a modified marimba filled with nothing more than D flats, a percussionist strikes a note. Its resonance is then cut off by the dancer. What follows is a game of didactics where the dancer forces the percussionist to modify his approach to the instrument by taking over the physical space of said instrument. Stop wants to tell a story, that of two people living in independent worlds yet bound by a common physical reality, a reality that both enables and challenges communication.
Dedicated to Galdric Subirana, Robert Pascal and Véronique Béland