SCHWEBE, VERLÖSCHEND
2000/01

for
flute, percussion (and speaker ad lib.)
 
 
 

Taking fragments from Stéphane Mallarmés Un Coup de Dés “SCHWEBE, VERLÖSCHEND” attempts to create structures to formulate a specific sound-world for the work through an abstract interpretation of the fragments.
The percussion instruments and the techniques used to play them were chosen in such a way as to enable the percussion sounds to blend into the sound of the flute but also to be able to contrast with it. The amount of closeness and distance created abstractly corresponds to the relationship between musical structure and the fragments of the text.
 

                                 UNE CONSTELLATION

                                                                        froide d’oubli et de désuétude
                                                                                                              pas tant
                                                                                                      quelle n’énumère
                                                                          sur quelque surface vacante et supérieure
                                                                                                   le heurt successif
                                                                                                                              sidéralement
                                                                            d’un compte total en formation

                      veillant
                                                doutant
                                                                     roulant
                                                                                      brillant et méditant

                                                                                                 avant de s’arrêter
                                                                                            à quelque point dernier qui le sacre

                                                                                      Toute Pensée émet un Coup des Dés