to Irvine ARDITTI - Editions Salabert (Paris)
violin and piano - duration : 13'30"
premiere : July 19th, 2012, France, La Grave, Festival Olivier Messiaen au pays de la Meije
Da-min KIM (violin), Antoine ALERINI (piano)
Programme note
This work tries to solve, in a general and very meditative climate, a cultural duality between two musical traditions that are nearly antinomic : the Western one and the Far Eastern one.
The piano, with its harmonic texture and its completely chromatized material, represents the first one. Almost all its part is written in an uninterrupted way in a two intertwine voices counterpoint, sometimes a third and a fourth voices have been added. The proposed notation (with undulated horizontal bars) asks the musician to find his own rhythmical phrasing.
On the contrary, the violin, very linear and modal, a bit inspired by the « Shakuhachi » flute of Zen Buddhist music, evokes the Far Eastern culture. Its main role is to give, in a musical Time much more stretched, another dimension to the musical phrase, this one being the privileged place of tensions and relaxing musically expressed by increasing and decreasing melismatic movements, anacrouses and very elongated endings, a developed accentuation...
Towards the three quarters of the work, and in a progressive way, these two musical worlds will join in a very intense culminating apex to form a unique musical material, like the ogival keystones of Gothic cathedrals.
3A
Poem
Suite à la vie où tend chaque être, renversons l’esprit de fuite aux sources de la connaissance.
Saut fragile sur les larges sphères érosives de l’imaginaire.
Appel en sève
Eclat condensé
Ici les vagues ivres de la mémoire grattent obstinément. Dissidence ouverte sur le champ
vierge auréolé. Luxure du temps où les rênes intimes se livrent.
Effort très lent – Migration intense
→ Poem Ogive, p.27 in L'attente... L'absolu, Allain Gaussin, Editions d’écarts, Paris, 2013.
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Press article
Michèle TOSI, ResMusica.com, Un festival Messiaen résolument contemporain, 21 Juillet 2012
"…Autre pianiste, autre vedette en la personne d’Antoine Alerini dans le dernier concert des jeunes talents qui complétait la liste déjà longue des compositeurs invités: très sollicité lui-aussi… avec Da-Min Kim au violon, il interprétait en création mondiale Ogive d’Allain Gaussin dont il souligne avec autorité le cerne de la trajectoire formelle, le violon, dans un temps très étiré, venant s’inscrire sur la partie conductrice du piano au deuxième tiers de l’œuvre… "
