Creation : 08 April 2008 at Arsenal de Metz
Musique et conception : Raphaël Cendo
On stage : 6 percussionnists and electronic
Duration : 10′
Edition : Billaudot
Program Note Refontes – Raphaël Cendo
Essentially based on metallic sounds, Refontes (“Recastings”) continuously develops a mate¬rial, dense and saturated. The primary rhythms governing the principal axes of the form gradually diminish, giving way to colliding masses of different sonorities in which a complex sonorous volume surges, in close relation to the electronic processing.
In effect, rhythm is here envisaged as an ultimate consequence of the developments of saturated sounds invading the sonorous space. The primary task of composition consisted in discovering solutions for timbral fusion between the different percussion instruments, and in defining the complex electronic sonorities that exist in permanent relation to the instruments. Gestures and dynamics—closely linked in this score—proceed by conjunct movement to the interior of a musical discourse that never ceases intensifying. Refontes attempts to affirm a form of direct composition in which the instrumental gesture and its physical implication become the principal parameters of musical execution. Refontes is dedicated to Les Percussions de Strasbourg.
Raphaël Cendo (trans. Rebekah Ahrendt)