creation : 17.01.2002 – Hall des Chars, Strasbourg (France)
commission : Les Percussions de Strasbourg
musicians: 6 percussionists
duration : 15′
publishing : Chelter Music LTD
Ritual music for six percussionists.
Which ritual is it? I couldn’t say… By the title, one could refer to Balinese music and to the mutliplicity of nuances that the term Ritual takes on in such a context: at once spiritual, festive and theatrical… Gamelan evokes to my ears an almost exclusive colour of metal. Thus my choice was made from the outset to use almost exclusively metal instruments, and to dig musically into the constraint of monochrome. But here the monochrome is sculpted by four different temporalities, possible from the inside of this unique bronze colour.
Other exotic references point to the horizon: polyrhythm… isochromy… and the intrusion of unusual instruments further blurs the lines…