Erotique-Lancinante

2018

for flute, Bb clarinet / Bb bass clarinette, violin, cello and piano

(to the members of the Fractals Ensemble)

Compositeur(s)
Numéro
3
Durée
22 minutes
Effectif
for flute, Bb clarinet / Bb bass clarinette, violin, cello and piano
Date de création
Program

Erotique-Lancinante

for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano ( 2018 - 25’)

 

Initially, a haunting [lancinante] sentence that resonates in my memory, a quote from André Breton's L'Amour Fou : « la beauté convulsive sera érotique-voilée, explosante-fixe, magique-circonstancielle, ou ne sera pas  / the convulsive beauty will be erotic-veiled, explosive-fixed, magical-circumstantial, or will not be ».

 

Beautiful words, almost incantatory, that make me definitely dream. But where Breton (later Boulez) definitively falls back on oppositions, I am moved by the necessity of a "between terms". Eroticism is elusive. Why freezing it in categories, as it flies at the whim of desires ? With a sligfht movement of thought, he becomes a dancing caress ; furthermore, an impulse of life and creation. From then on, my music reveals the trace of books by the French philosopher François Jullien. No definitive categories, but a gap between two proposals in which the whispered world can finally fit. Between Inspire and Expire. Between « Me and the other » (maybe also between « me and myself »). Becoming the space between the two terms, an essential procedure in my music, creating points « in Between » between different musical materials.


Three movements punctuate this piece, most often with a great sweetness :

  1. Regarde-moi… (Look  at me...)
  2. Dis-moi… (Tell me …)
  3. Erotique… (Erotic…)

In these movements, the flute plays a central role ; a kind of solist, container of desires like the « Charmeuse de serpent » by Le Douanier Rousseau, fantastic painting considered as a poetic impulse to my work. Imaginary passions, unbridled colours, games of shadows and light. Rousseau imagined his creature in a dream-poem :

« Yadwigha in a beautiful dream

Falling asleep slowly

Heard the sounds of a musette… »

 

I used that visual and poetic landscape as a compositional form, a « in Between » where the many passions can fit in.

The Piece was premiered by its dedicatee (the Fractales Ensemble) at the occasion fo the ReMusic Festival, Saint-Petersburg, May 2018.
Erotique-Lancinante got the financial support from the Contemporary music office / Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.