trace - écart [2017] • for harp, electric guitar, cymbalum, double bass & electronics

audible / inaudible pulse, that transits continuously from the surface to the depths, leaving always a trace in our listening. increase and accentuation of an implicit / explicit pulse give form to complex rhythms and poly-rhythms, creating diverse and overlapped cycles within. An underground force, a “ruissellement continu” , in which musical objects and rhythmic organizations emerge, taken the ephemeral form of an instant, within the infinite possibilities of this stream.

The four instruments sculpt and delimit this continuous space through their play, mostly characterized by plucking the strings. Electronics amplify, creating rhythmical networks, echoing or capturing and deploying the instrumental resonances, increasing the duration of sound’s sustains and decays. As a wandering, contrasting sections, succeeding one another in a non-directional voyage, following a trace that leads nowhere. In French the word trace is the palindrome of the word écart, meaning gap…