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1 - Le commencement - Temps d'Eiréné 03:29
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2 - Rite de fécondité 03:06
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3 - Temps d'Eunomie (offrandes) 06:22
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4 - Duel - Temps de Dicé 03:34
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5 - L'étérnel commencement 07:49
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6 - Les pleureuses (Temps d'Eunomie) 04:29
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The percussion is a field that appeals to my curiosity as a composer. After the first works undertaken with the pieces Fenêtrages 2 and Zapping 2, I wanted to deepen in this piece in 6 movements (The Beginning - Rite of Fertility - Offerings - Duel - The Eternal Beginning - The Mourners) the process of changing the sound material. A change of temporality, when the ensemble reappropriates the musical element of the soloist, creates two sound planes, two temporalities: that of the soloist, present, immediate, and that of the ensemble, stretched, imprecise.
Then a change of state, from the passage from the harmonic to the inharmonic, from noise to sound. Each movement will have its own instrumental colouring.

The writing of the solo part was marked by work on elements or raw materials: water with the use of submerged tubular bells; rough metals with African bells made from sheet metal; cowhide drums, goat's hooves or Tibetan bowls. To this mineral panel will be added more conventional percussion instruments: marimba, vibraphone. Depending on the Hours invoked, the orchestration will be in turn thick (Eirené - Peace), harmonic and complex (Dicé - Justice) or rough (Eunomie - Good Order). The decision to combine the world of percussion with that of wind instruments has allowed me to obtain a powerful and original sound material.

This concerto, commissioned by the Ensemble 2e2m and the Salabert Foundation, seeks to exploit the different facets of percussion, a strong instrument, as much by its personality as by its presence and historical plasticity. These ancient or contemporary worlds where percussion plays an essential role can have different uses and traditions. In some, percussion can be part of a celebration, an offering, a meditation, a lament... Percussion then fully assumes its mission of gathering and invocation.

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released April 28, 2020

Guillaume Bourgogne (Conductor)
Quentin Dubreuil (Solo)

Ensemble 2e2m
Jean-Philippe Grometto flute • Véronique Fèvre clarinet • Philippe Caillot saxophone • Cédric Bonnet french cor • Laurent Bômont trumpet • Lucas Ounissi trombone • Clément Delmas percusions • Tanguy Menez doublebass

Sound Engineer : Thomas Vingtrinier
Photo credits : Alexis Savelief

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Tomas Bordalejo Paris, France

Far from musical academicisms, Tomas Bordalejo learns not only from the sounds of the world he lives in but also from the interaction with instrumentalists to build an abstract but also living and personal type of music.
His work is marked by a constant dialog with other arts, architecture along with urbanism or philosophy.
Each piece is witness to the scenic application of the sound. ... more

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