desert bloom [2022] • for double bass & electronics

Desert bloom is a piece for double bass and electronics, which highlights the natural harmonics of the strings. These sounds, played quickly and rhythmically, create a sonic fabric that is both delicate and virtuoso. A wobbly pulsation frames this music close to caprice or baroque invention, to give it a dreamlike and repetitive, even psychedelic, character.
Double bassist Florentin GINOT, leaning over his instrument, dances with it, brushing against it, touching it delicately but with precision. It is an intimate performance, a close listening, which invites an attention which does not impose a direction, but rather which encourages the abandonment of a search for the consequence. We allow ourselves to sensitively listen to the sound in its present moment, losing the notion of time.

Florentin Ginot • double bass
Pablo Garretón • recording