creation : 15.08.1990, Festival Musica Nova, São Paulo, Brésil, by Thierry Miroglio : percussion
musicians : 1 percussionist
publishing : Salabert
dedicaced to Thierry Miroglio
Programme note
More than that: to go beyond, to force the Columns of Hercules.
Disregarding the professions of humility and impotence that encumber centuries of ancient wisdom, Bacon takes the side of the foolish. Extending the limits of human empire, affirming the creative efficiency of technology, changing the world order rather than making virtue out of necessity, this is the motto of a Modern. In these disenchanted times, the work exalts the spirit of inventions, the wandering of research. Is the sound discovery a secret stolen from Nature or the fruit of a happy foreboding, of a subtle disposition of mind? Beyond the inventory of unusual sonorities, I wanted, in writing for percussion, to bring out the Promethean gesture of the percussionist, who is attached to dance and statuary.
Hugues Dufourt, éditions Lemoine