creation : 18.09.1984, Festival Musica (Strasbourg, France)
musicians : 6 percussionists
duration : 40′
publishing : Salabert
The new acoustics highlight how close the low-frequency rhythm is to the high-frequency sound, as if the latter were part of the harmonics, while the former would be the fundamental. Eolo’oonlin is an adventure in time that excludes rhythmic formulas and harmonic divisions of duration to allow for a continuous design: the rhythm is then represented in the form of curves, in which the low-frequency is constantly transformed, as if it were an underground melody, in a space of duration that obeys the speed of change. As far as the performance is concerned, the instruments in this work are generally portable, to allow movement around the periphery and radii of a pentagon: the audience can be placed inside or outside this stage. Eolo’oonlin was designed for the interpretative qualities of the Percussions de Strasbourg.