creation : 1996
duration : 7′
musicians : 2 percussionists
publishing : Ricordi
“How can the myth of duration, a cellular organisation of a flow obeying other laws, emerge? How to sketch out in conviction and at the edge of silence a rhythmic inscription that is at first indistinguishable and then finally hammered into an archaic form? While composing an image came to me: that of archaeologists discovering a stele and dusting it off until they uncovered a funerary inscription. »
Gérard Grisey, programme of the 4th Italian contemporary music festival, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Thursday 4 April 1996.