Trapdoor City Command

Created on April 27, 1986 in the multipurpose hall of the Lycée by the teachers of the conservatory (François Feuillette & Véronique Bourgue, violins – Yves Pruvot, viola – Marie-Madeleine Mille, cello).

Duration: approx 12'. Unedited.

Since the 18th century, the string quartet has been the typical " de chambre " formation, ideal one might say, for any composer trying his hand at "_cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_musique pure ”, i.e. detached from all external models (poetry, painting, etc.) This tradition, still very much alive in the 20th century, produced masterpieces by Bartok, Boulez, Ligeti, Berio, etc. to name only the best known or the most fashionable...

The point of writing for this group is to push the consequences of one's own writing to their furthest limits, either by working on it ever more in detail, or by purifying it to the extreme.

My 1st quartet falls more within this 2nd perspective. What interested me here is not to try to exploit all the sound and technical possibilities of the instruments present, but rather to make a limited choice of sounds that I like and find typical of this formation.

This choice constitutes the 7 parts of the work. These “ fragments sonores ” therefore each have a well-defined character and follow one another without interruption.